Charmed Life is an album by the punk rock group Half Japanese, released in 1988. It is their second studio album released on their label, 50 Skidillion Watts.
The eighth song, "Bright Lights, Big City," was originally sung and recorded by the American blues musician Jimmy Reed, in 1961.
Critical reception
The Quietus wrote: "Less whiny and needy than Music To Strip By, the lyrics are spouted from a lip with more curl and less pucker ... as accessible as Half Japanese get." Trouser Press called the album "a guileless burst of optimism that mutes the shriller frequencies considerably, replacing them with an unaffected, exuberant guitar/harmonica backdrop played by a band."
Track listing
Personnel Jad Fair – guitar, harmonica, vocals David Fair – guitar, harmonica, vocals Don Fleming – guitar, vocals John Dreyfuss – organ, saxophone Rick Dreyfuss – composer Mark Jickling – bass guitar, guitar John Moremen – guitar Jay Spiegel – drums Don Zientara – engineer, mixing
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