Humanity is the debut album from Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 group The Mad Capsule Markets

The Mad Capsule Markets

The Mad Capsule Markets were a Japanese band that formed in 1990 and were active until 2006...

. They later re-released the album in 1996, and This was the only full album that guitarist Minoru Kojima

Minoru Kojima

Minoru Kojima was the original guitarist for Japanese experimental punk band The Mad Capsule Markets. He is also known as Scene or Shin Murohime, which is apparently a conglomeration of characters from the names of different Boøwy members...

 played on. This version features a few of the songs which were censored songs from P.O.P

P.O.P

P.O.P is the second album by The Mad Capsule Markets and their major label debut. It was a faster, thrashier effort than their debut album Humanity, and featured new guitarist Ai Ishigaki. Many lyrics were edited out for content...

Although The original version of San Byoukan no Jisatsu (found on the Insect Noise version) contains an extra line "Tobioriru no sa!" (translates as jump on down, referencing to jumping off a building) This line was xxxxxx-ed on P.O.P and has been totally silenced on the re-release of Humanity and on the Best of 1990-1996 CD.Also, on the insert for the re-release of Humanity the "Jisatsu" (suicide) on the tracklist has been scribbled out.

The original pressing of the album came with a free newspaper clipping, which had information on the band.

Track listing

1. – 2:27
2. – 2:54
3. "Life Game" – 4:06
4. – 2:16
5. – 3:14
6. "Humanity" – 3:19
7. – 2:28
8. – 4:38
9. – 2:15
10. – 2:15
11. – 4:16
12. – 0:20