This is an attempt to create a complete Half Japanese discography. If you know of any other existing release, please contact me.  

 

1979		Half Live (K7 50 Skidillion Watts)	Caroline Says (Lou Reed)/Lisa Says (Lou Reed)/10th Avenue Freezeout (Springsteen)/You're Gonna Miss Me (Roky Erickson)/I'm Gonna Go To The Zoo/Femme Fatale (Lou Reed)/John Jacob Jingleheimer Schimdt/Wake Up Sleepyhead (Jonathan Richman)/She Cracked (Jonathan Richman)/Foggy Notion (Lou Reed)/Farmer John/Fun Time (Iggy Stooge)/No Fun (Iggy Stooge)/Fun Fun Fun (Beach Boys)/Maryland Girls (California Girls) (Beach Boys)/Shakin' Street (MC5)/Battle Of The Bands/Mono/Rip My Shirt To Shreds/Oriental Girls/Her Parents Came Home/Rock And Roll Nurse (Bo Diddley)/My Generation (Pete Townshend)/Rock And Roll Heart (Lou Reed)/Who Do You Love (Bo Diddley)/I'm The Man For You (MC5)/You're Gonna Miss Me (Roky Erickson)/Live With Me (Rolling Stones)/Bogue Millionaires-Cool Millionaires/Tangled Up In Blues (Bob Dylan)/Femme Fatale (Lou Reed)/John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt/I'm Almost Grown (Chuck Berry)/College Psychology On Love (Armand Schaubroeck Steals)/Nadine (Chuck Berry)/A Girl I Care About (Jonathan Richman)/Oriental Girls/I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles)/Teenage Lust (MC5)/Patti Smith/Let's Play House (Arthur Gunter)/Not Too Cool (Foreign Objects)/Little Doll (Iggy Stooge)
1979		Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts (K7 50 Skidillion Watts)	Tn Tn Tn Tn Ki/???? (2 songs?)/Till Victory/????/10th Avenue Freezeout/Patti Smith/???? (2 songs?)/Shhh-Shhh-Shhh/???? (2 songs?)/My Girlfriend Lives Like a Beatnik/????/Hey Laurie/???? (3 songs?)/T-T-T-T-T-T/???? (3 songs?)/Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr/???? (2 songs?)/I Love Oriental Girls/No More Beatlemania/Tangled Up In Blues
1980		Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts (3xLP Armageddon)	No Direct Line From My Brain To My Heart/10th Avenue Freezeout/Ta Sheri Ta Ta/My Girlfriend Lives Like a Beatnik/Her Parents Came Home/Shhh-Shhh-Shhh/Girls Like That/RRRRRRRR/No More Beatlemania // Tangled Up In Blue/Patti Smith/School Of Love/Jodi Foster/Shy Around Girls/Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr/Bogue Millionaires-Cool Millionaires/Tn Tn Tn Tn Ki/I Can't Stand It Any More/I Love Oriental Girls/Dream Date/Du Du Du - Du Du Du/Ain't Too Proud to Beg/Ann Arbor, MI/I'm Going to the Zoo/Shi Yi Yi/Rave On/I Ta Na Si Na Mi Eee/Till Victory/Rip My Shirt to Shreds // I Don't Want to Have Mono No More/She Cracked/BBBBBBBB-BBBBBBBB-BBBBBBBB/Funky Broadway Medley/I'm Sorry/T-T-T-T-T-T/The Worst I'd Ever Do/Live // Live
1981		Loud (Armageddon. Reissued by Drag City 2004)	My Concentration, Oh No/2 Hearts = 1/If My Father Answers, Don't Say Nothing/Scientific Devices/Gift/Dumb Animals/Popular/I Know How It Feels...Bad/Perfume/New Brides Of Frankenstein/Forget You/Loud-Louder-Loudest/Spy/No Danger/Love Lasts Forever (Sometimes)/Nurse/Only Dancing/Bad To Your Best Friend/Baby Wants Music/High School Tonight
1984		Aka 1010 Watts (K7 50 Skidillion Watts)	O Nicole Told Me / Girl Athletes / Night and Day With Angela / Lucky Star / Zombie / T For Texas / No Direct Line / On the One Hand I Do... // Louisiana Man / Route 66 / Electricity Respect / Thing With a Hook / Perfume / Fortunate / Only Dancing / I Walk Through Walls / Rosemary's Baby / Double Trouble
1984		Aka 1010 Watts (K7 Calypso Now)	Rosemary's Baby / Louisiana Man / Route 66 / Electricity Respect / Thing With A Hook / Perfume / Fortunate / Double Trouble / I Walk Through Walls // Nicole Told Me / Girl Athletes / Day and Night With Angela / Lucky Star / Zombie / T For Texas / No Direct Line / On the One Hand
1984		50 Skidillion Watts Live (Calypso Now)
1985		Our Solar System (CD Irisescence. Reissued by Drag City 2000.)	Dance When I Say Dance/Girl Athletes/Because I Love You/Danger Danger Rachel Lang/E.S.P./Classical Music/You're Gonna Miss Me/Little Girls Have To Be Home Early/Too Much Adrenalin/Fire To Burn/Rhonda/Electricity Respect/Knocked Down On The Dancefloor/European Son/There's A Girl/Hall Of The Mountain King-Louie Louie/Young Hearts Break/Did You Miss Me
1985		Sing No Evil (LP Iridescence. Reissued by Drag City 2000.)	Firecracker Firecracker/On The One Hand/Too Bad About Elizabeth/Dearest Darling/Sing No Evil/Double Trouble/Rub Every Muscle/Nicole Told Me/Tell Me I'm Wrong/Acupuncture/I Have A Secret/House Of Voodoo/Ball And Chain
1987		Music To Strip By (LP/CD 50 Skidillion Watts)	Stripping For Cash/Thick And Thin/Diary/Big Mistake/Hot Dog And Hot Damn/Price Was Right/Blue Monday/U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums/Point-Counterpoint/Sex At Your Parents' House/Last Straw/Gator Bait/Labamba/Colleen/Ouija Board Summons Satan/You Must Obey Me/Salt And Pepper/Ancient Life/Silver And Katherine/Money To Burn/Hidden Charms/My Sordid Past
1988		Charmed Life (LP 50 Skidillion Watts)	Said And Done/Penny In The Fountain/Evidence/Vietnam/Roman Candles/Love At First Sight/Snake Line/Bright Lights, Big City/Face Rake/Later In A Magazine/Red Dress/Charmed Life/Day And Night/1,000,000,000,000 Kisses/Terminator/I'll Change My Style/Trouble In The Water/Miracles Happen Every Day/Fortunate/Poetic License/Real Cool Time
1988		Charmed Life (CD 50 Skidillion Watts)	Said And Done/Penny In The Fountain/Evidence/Vietnam/Roman Candles/Love At First Sight/Snake Line/Bright Lights, Big City/Face Rake/Later In A Magazine/Red Dress/Charmed Life/Day And Night/1,000,000,000,000 Kisses/Terminator/I'll Change My Style/Trouble In The Water/Miracles Happen Every Day/Fortunate/Poetic License/Real Cool Time/Charmed Life/Day And Night/1,000,000 Kisses/Madonna Nude/I'll Change My Style/George Steele/How Many More Years?/King Kong Bundy/Something New In The Ring/Terminator
1989		The Band That Would Be King (CD Dutch East India Trading)	Open Your Eyes-Close Your Eyes/Daytona Beach/Lucky Star/Some Things Last A Long Time/My Most Embarrassing Moment/Burried Treasure/Open Book/Little Records/Deadly Alien Spawn/Postcard From Far Away/Ventriloquism/Something In The Wind/Bingo's Not His Name-O/Put Some Sugar On It/What More Can I Do/Brand New Moon/Another World/Every Word Is True/I Live For Love/Werewolf/Ride Ride Ride/Sugarcane/I Whish I May/Ashes On The Ground/Curse Of The Doll People/Horseshoes/Bluebirds/Frankenstein Meets Billy The Kid/My Bucket's Got A Hole In It/Africans Built The Pyramids
1990		We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love (CD TEC Tones)	Every Hour/Elevator Boy/Gloria/Ear/Titanic/Our Eyes/Spin/Up And Down/Run/All Of Me/Hand Without A Body/Going Home/Three Rings/How Did You Know?/Then We Walk/Secret/Best/House I Live In/Shanty Town/Everything Is Right
1993		Fire In The Sky (CD Safe House)	Ufo Expert/Tears Stupid Tears/Always/This Could Be The Night/Possum Head/Frosty/Turn Your Life Around/I Love A Mystery/12 Houses/Hangar 18/Magic Kingdom/It's No Wonder/Fire In The Sky/Good Luck/Gates Of Glory/Everyone Knows/I Heard Her Call My Name/Eye Of The Hurricane/It's A Clear Night (Unlisted Track)
1993		Best Of Half Japanese (CD Timebomb)
1993		Music To Strip By (CD Paperhouse)	Stripping For Cash/Thick And Thin/Diary/Big Mistake/Hot Dog And Hot Damn/Price Was Right/Blue Monday/U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums/Point-Counterpoint/Sex At Your Parents' House/Last Straw/Gator Bait/Labamba/Colleen/Ouija Board Summons Satan/You Must Obey Me/Salt And Pepper/Ancient Life/Silver And Katherine/Money To Burn/Hidden Charms/My Sordid Past/Silver And Katherine/Dusk To Dawn/Everybody Knows/Go Go Go Go Go/Scratch/Every Hour/Hey/Mongolian Stretcher/Colleen/Salt And Pepper/T For Texas/Terminatior/Shiek Of Araby
1994		Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts (2CD Tec Tones)	No Direct Line from My Brain to My Heart / 10th Avenue Freeze Out / Ta Sheri Ta Ta / My Girlfriend Lives Like a Beatnik / Her Parents Came Home / Shhh-Shhh-Shhh / Girls Like That / RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR / No More Beatle Mania / Tangled Up in Blue / Patti Smith / School of Love / Jodie Foster / Shy Around Girls / GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR / Bogue Millionaires-Cool Millionaires / TN TN TN TN Ki / I Can't Stand It Anymore / I Love Oriental Girls / Dream Date / Du du Du - Du du Du / Ain't Too Proud to Beg / Ann Arbor, MI / I'm Going to the Zoo / Shi Yi Yi / Rave On / I Ta Na Si Na Mi Eee / Till Victory / Rip My Shirt to Shreds / I Don't Want to Have Monoo No More / She Cracked / BBBBBBBB-BBBBBBBBB Disc 2: Funky Broadway Melody / I'm Sorry / T-T-T-T-T-T / The Worst I'd Ever Do / Live in Baltimore MD / Live in Washington DC / Battle of the Bands / Worst I'd Ever Do / Ann Arbor, MI / School of Love / Her Parents Came Home / Shy Around Girls / Dream Date / Bogue Millionaires-Cool Millionaires / Knock on Wood / Top Secret / Guitar Solo / Calling All Girls
1994		Boo: Live In Europe 1992 (CD TEC Tones)	Open Your Eyes/Big Mistake/One Million Kisses/Fire To Burn/Mule In The Corn/If He Says He Did/King Kong/Postcard/I'll Change My Style/Cherry Pie/Rrrrrrsssssstttttt/Sex At Your Parent's House/Secret/Said And Done/Charmed Life/Casper/Around And Around/Rocking Chair/Turn Your Life Around/Firecracker/Silver And Katherine/Frankenstein Must Die!/By And By/Fire In The Sky
1995		The Band That Would Be King (CD ???)	Open Your Eyes-Close Your Eyes/Daytona Beach/Lucky Star/Some Things Last A Long Time/My Most Embarrassing Moment/Burried Treasure/Open Book/Little Records/Deadly Alien Spawn/Postcard From Far Away/Ventriloquism/Something In The Wind/Bingo's Not His Name-O/Put Some Sugar On It/What More Can I Do/Brand New Moon/Another World/Every Word Is True/I Live For Love/Werewolf/Ride Ride Ride/Sugarcane/I Whish I May/Ashes On The Ground/Curse Of The Doll People/Horseshoes/Bluebirds/Frankenstein Meets Billy The Kid/My Bucket's Got A Hole In It/Africans Built The Pyramids/Better Than Before/Daytona/Back Home/Mule Skinner Blues/Sugarcane/Jump Up/Postcard From Far Away/Big Wheels/Ordeal/Jump Down/Cowboys/Man Without A Head
1995		Hot (CD Safe House)	Drum Straight/True Believers/Well/Dark Night/Part Of My Plan/Vampire/Lucky Ones/Vast Continent/Guess Again/Black Fruit/Sleep Talk/Smile/Lucky Town
1995		Greatest Hits (50 Skidillion Watts)	Firecracker/Daytona Beach/Said And Done/Dance When I Say Dance/Postcard From Far Away/Worst I'd Ever Do/Horseshoes/Open-Close Your Eyes/This Could Be The Night/Put Some Sugar On It/Calling All Girls/La Bamba/Love At First Sight/Rub Every Muscle/Silver And Katherine/My Sordid Past/Ride, Ride, Ride/Day And Night/Last Straw/Nicole/Miracles Happen Every Day/U.S. Teens/School Of Love/T For Texas/Colleen/Red Dress/Charmed Life/Rosemary's Baby/I Know How It Feels ... Bad/Roman Candles/Dream Date/Movin On Up/No More Beatlemania/How Did You Know?/Penny In The Fountain/King Kong/Secret/B.-C. Millionaires/Amazing Clock/Thick And Thin/1,000.000 Kisses/Big Mistake/Little Records/No Direct Line/House I Live In/UFO Expert/Identical Twins/Double Trouble/Evidence/Stripping For Cash/On The One Hand/Snake Line/Too Much Adrenalin/Trouble In The Water/Ball And Chain/Her Parents Came Home/Deadly Alien Spawn/Ancient Life/Poetic License/Uncertain Feelings/Something New.../Fire To Burn/Acupuncture/Salt And Pepper/Guitar Solo/Little Bit More/Mono/Better Than Before/Everything Is Right
1995		Best Of Half Japanese Vol. 2 (CD Timebomb)
1997		Bone Head (CD Alternative Tentacles)	Monkey Hand/Night Like This/Sometimes/Zombie Eye/Song Of Joy/Oww/Do It/He Walks Among Us/Diamonds And.../Kiss Me Like A Frog/Rhumba/Intergalactic Aliens/Celebration/C'mon Baby/Somehow I Knew/Now I Know/Brand New Sky/Should I?/Song Of Joy/Futuristic Lovers/Movin' On Up
1997		Heaven Sent (CD Emperor Jones/Trance Syndicate)	Good & True & Fine/A Fine Line/Outer Space/Well Worth While/Better Than No/Dynasty/Goldfish & The Trout/This Is Our Night/The Day We Met
2001		Hello (CD Alternative Tentacles)	All The Angels Said Go To Her/Patty/Temptation/The Legend Of Hillbilly John/Mississippi/No Doubt/10:00 AM/Jump Into The Mess/Red Sun/Whatever The Outcome/Best Of The Best/Summer Nights/Our Turn/Starlight/The Good Side/Super-Size It/Happyland
2004		Loud And Horrible (CD Drag City)	My Concentration, Oh No/2 Hearts = 1/If My Father Answers, Don't Say Nothing/Scientific Devices/Gift/Dumb Animals/Popular/I Know How It Feels...Bad/Perfume/New Brides Of Frankenstein/Forget You/Loud-Louder-Loudest/Spy/No Danger/Love Lasts Forever (Sometimes)/Nurse/Only Dancing/Bad To Your Best Friend/Baby Wants Music/High School Tonight/Thing With A Hook/Don't Go To Bed/Rosemary's Baby/Vampire/Walk Through Walls/My Knowledge Was Wrong/I Know How It Feels...Bad/No Danger/Heart

Singles

Compilations