Half Japanese - Our Solar System [RSD24] (LP)

RSD 2024 sees the release of a 40th anniversary edition of Our Solar System, Jad and David Fair's third studio album as Half Japanese. Originally released in 1984, Our Solar System is a wild and chaotic outsider take on the history of pop music.

“A prime example of lo-fi garage exuberance full of romance, confidence, and verve.” - AllMusic

The record includes their suitably avant-garde renditions of The 13th Floor Elevators’ You’re Gonna Miss Me, The Velvet Underground’s European Son and Buddy Holly’s Because I Love You, which is preceded by their own Girl Athletes powered by a reverbed Bo Diddley rhythm.

Our Solar System is a bravura performance of detuned excitement... 40 minutes of beautiful at times frantic disorder, filled with guitar and sax arm wrestling and bizarre sidesteps including a fuzzy take on Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King, which devolves into the standard Louie Louie plus a jittering version of Bobby Lord’s Did You Miss Me.

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Tracklist:

1. Dance When I Say Dance
2. Girl Athletes
3. Because I Love You
4. Danger Danger Rachel Lang
5. E.S.P.
6. Classical Music
7. You're Gonna Miss Me
8. Little Girls Have to Be Home Early
9. Too Much Adrenalin
10. Fire to Burn
11. Rhonda
12. Electricity Respect
13. Knocked Down on the Dancefloor
14. European Son
15. There's a Girl
16. Hall of the Mountain King/Louie Louie
17. Young Hearts Break
18. Did You Miss Me
19. Thing With a Hook