Music to Strip By

by Half Japanese

Music to Strip By cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: 50 Skidillion Watts
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:33
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing their reign as outsider-art icons, Jad Fair and his ever-rotating ensemble deliver another wildly spontaneous collision of noisy guitars and hyperactive drum loops. The lo-fi recordings maintain a distinctively bizarre, humorous charm, utilizing out-of-tune instrumentation to deconstruct rock conventions completely.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, DIY, bratty, eccentric, covers, noisy, experimental, short

Tracklist

  1. Stripping for Cash (1:20)
  2. Thick and Thin (1:10)
  3. Diary (2:45)
  4. Big Mistake (1:33)
  5. Hot Dog and Hot Damn (0:44)
  6. The Price Was Right but the Door Was Wrong (2:04)
  7. Blue Monday (1:23)
  8. U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums (1:09)
  9. Point / Counterpoint (1:43)
  10. Sex at Your Parent's House (1:26)
  11. The Last Straw (1:20)
  12. Gator Bait (1:17)
  13. La Bamba (1:55)
  14. Colleen (2:31)
  15. Ouija Board Summons Satan (1:00)
  16. You Must Obey Me (2:19)
  17. Salt and Pepper (2:05)
  18. Ancient Life (1:36)
  19. Silver and Katherine (3:12)
  20. Money to Burn (2:03)
  21. Hidden Charms (1:19)
  22. My Sordid Past (1:31)

Credits

  • 1/2 Japanese - primary artist, music by
  • Rob Kennedy - bass
  • Scott Jarvis - drums
  • Steve Johnson - guitar, music by
  • Mark Jickling - guitar, vocals, music by
  • Jad Fair - lyrics by, vocals, guitar
  • Domino & Bartholomew - composed by
  • Willie Dixon - composed by

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