Half Japanese – The Band That Would Be King – Cassette

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Half Japanese – The Band That Would Be King – Cassette

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal

50,000,000 Watts Records

The mid to late ’80s found the personnel of Half Japanese in regular flux. Jad Fair would guide the ensemble in whatever direction he and his cohorts chose to go. By the time of this 1989 release Don Fleming was still on board, with the Workdogs now called in as the rhythm section, joining organist Mark Kramer and guitarist Mr. J. Rice. The album features guest appearances by Fred Frith and saxophonists John Zorn and George Cartwright.
Recorded at Noise New York (with relatively clean production values), the album boasts whopping thirty songs. There’s the rollicking “Little Records,” with its chugging train of a snare roll and Jad’s delightful yelps. “Put Some Sugar On It” finds Jad playing soul man over a Velvet Underground groove. There are plenty of songs about both love and monsters. “Frankenstein Meets Billy the Kid” is a hybridized imaginary movie that’s pure Jad.

Track Listing
1. Open Your Eyes/Close Your Eyes
2. Daytona Beach
3. Lucky Star – Unknown
4. Some Things Last a Long Time
5. My Most Embarrassing Moment
6. Buried Treasure
7. Open Book
8. Little Records – David Fair
9. Deadly Alien Spawn
10. Postcard from Far Away
11. Ventriloquism
12. Something in the Wind
13. Bingo’s Not His Name-O
14. Put Some Sugar on It
15. What More Can I Do
16. Brand New Moon
17. Another World
18. Every Word Is True
19. I Live for Love
20. Werewolf – David Fair
21. Ride Ride Ride
22. Sugarcane
23. I Whish I May
24. Ashes on the Ground – David Fair
25. Curse of the Doll People
26. Horseshoes
27. Bluebirds
28. Frankenstein Metts Billy the Kid
29. My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It – Hank Williams
30. Africans Built the Pyramids – Mark Jickling
31. Better Than Before
32. Daytona
33. Back Home
34. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) – Jimmie Rodgers
35. Sugarcane
36. Jump Up
37. Postcard from Far Away
38. Big Wheels
39. Ordeal
40. Jump Down
41. Cowboys
42. Man Without a Head

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