1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts

by 1/2 Japanese

1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Armageddon
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:13:27
  • Community rating: 3.62/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: David Fair, Bruce Springsteen, Jonathan Richman, Jad FAIR, John Dreyfuss, Norman Whitfield, Rick Dreyfuss, Bob Dylan, Bill Tilghman, Sonny West, Norman Petty, Lou Reed

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Jad and David Fair brothers delivered an absolute monolith of completely unhinged DIY lo-fi with this incredibly raw, 50-track triple LP. Refusing to tune their guitars or play conventional chords, Half Japanese crafted a remarkably humorous, fiercely atonal barrage of manic art-punk and abrasive noise rock that heavily inspired the burgeoning American indie underground.

Genres

Descriptors: atonal, lo-fi, dissonant, noisy, unpolished, DIY, experimental, bizarre, deconstructed

Tracklist

  1. No Direct Line from My Brain to My Heart (2:00)
  2. 10th Ave. Freezeout (1:49)
  3. Ta Sheri ta Ta (4:54)
  4. My Girlfriend Lives Like a Beatnik (1:04)
  5. Her Parents Came Home (0:58)
  6. Shhh / Shhh / Shhh (2:12)
  7. Girls Like That (2:12)
  8. Rrrrrrrrrrrrr (1:26)
  9. No More Beatle Mania (1:52)
  10. Tangled up in Blue (3:44)
  11. Patti Smith (2:22)
  12. School of Love (1:07)
  13. Jodi Foster (2:15)
  14. Shy Around Girls (1:36)
  15. Grrrrrrrrrrrr (2:24)
  16. Bogue Millionaires / Cool Millionaires (2:10)
  17. Tn Tn Tn Tn Ki (3:10)
  18. I Can't Stand It Any More (2:23)
  19. I Love Oriental Girls (1:44)
  20. Dream Date (1:32)
  21. Du Du Du / Du Du Du (7:22)
  22. Ain't Too Proud to Beg (1:10)
  23. Ann Arbor. Mi. (0:32)
  24. I'm Going to the Zoo (1:13)
  25. Shi Yi Yi (0:58)
  26. Rave On (1:42)
  27. I ta Nasi Si Na Mi Eee (1:02)
  28. Till Victory (2:16)
  29. Rip My Shirt to Shreds (0:19)
  30. I Don't Want to Have Mono No More (1:40)
  31. She Cracked (1:57)
  32. Bbbbbbbb / Bbbbbbbb (1:36)
  33. Funky Broadway Medley (4:12)
  34. I'm Sorry (1:36)
  35. T / T / T / T / T / T (6:43)
  36. The Worst I'd Ever Do (0:43)
  37. Live in Baltimore MD (20:16)
  38. Live in Washington DC (18:16)
  39. Battle of the Bands (1:59)
  40. Worst I'd Ever Do (0:42)
  41. Ann Arbor, Mi. - Alt (0:53)
  42. School of Love - Alt (1:31)
  43. Her Parents Came Home - Alt (0:56)
  44. Shy Around Girls - Alt (1:10)
  45. Dream Date - Alt (1:42)
  46. Cool Millionaires / Bogue Millionaires (3:29)
  47. Knock on Wood (1:43)
  48. Top Secret (0:47)
  49. Guitar Solo (0:41)
  50. Calling All Girls (1:04)

Credits

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