The Band That Would Be King is an album released by the Maryland rock group Half Japanese.

[1][7] It was also their third and last studio album released on their label, 50 Skidillion Watts.

[8] Trouser Press wrote that "a lot of the songs are fragmentary, and the music — a sloppy mess of guitars, harmonica and saxophones — sounds largely improvised, but a few tunes ('Some Things Last a Long Time,' 'Postcard from Far Away,' etc.)

"[8] All tracks are written by Jad Fair, Don Fleming, J.

Rice, Rob Kennedy & Scott Jarvis, except where noted(last three only mentioned on label, not on the sleeve) Half Japanese Guest Musicians Production