Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras

by Bush Tetras

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xtrakrispy Too Many Creeps may be the song everyone knows as the BT's signature, but for me, "Nails" is a standout that any fan of Creeps should listen too - to explore the rest of their deep catalogue. Favorite track: Nails.

Blankgen76 The greatest of the post punk bands.

neutrophil250 Reminds me of a simpler time in my (all of our) life, ahhhh music, 7 inch singles, NYC clubs..... Favorite track: Snakes Crawl.

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Pressed on 180 Graham Vinyl / Perfect Bound Book Book with Essays, Exhaustive Track Details and Never Before-Seen Photos

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1.	Too Many Creeps 04:03	buy track
2.	Snakes Crawl 03:35	buy track
3.	You Taste Like the Tropics 01:31	buy track
4.	Punch Drunk 02:58	buy track
5.	Cold Turkey (Live in London) 04:02	buy track
6.	Boom in the Night 04:27	buy track
7.	Das Ah Riot 04:14	buy track
8.	Cowboys in Africa 02:53	buy track
9.	Rituals 03:57	buy track
10.	You Can't Be Funky 02:45	buy track
11.	Moonlite 03:16	buy track
12.	Dum Dum 03:00	buy track
13.	Stand Up and Fight 04:38	buy track
14.	Page 18 03:46	buy track
15.	Color Green 03:20	buy track
16.	Mr. Lovesong 03:45	buy track
17.	World 05:50	buy track
18.	Motörhead 03:46	buy track
19.	Pretty Thing 04:45	buy track
20.	You Don't Know Me 02:53	buy track
21.	Heart Attack 04:15	buy track
22.	Ocean 05:47	buy track
23.	Nails 04:16	buy track
24.	True Blue 03:56	buy track
25.	Red Heavy 03:32	buy track
26.	Out Again 05:03	buy track
27.	Run Run Run (Live in San Francisco) 05:50	buy track
28.	Cutting Floor 03:57	buy track

about

About 'Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras'

Flashes of light rarely burn for long. Bush Tetras exploded into New York in 1979 and flamed out just a few years later. Yet somehow this lightning-quick band have risen from their own ashes again and again for four decades. The spark that ignited Bush Tetras tapped into a deep grid of power, fueled by guitarist Pat Place, singer Cynthia Sley, and drummer Dee Pop.

That chemistry is palpable on 'Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras,' which features 29 songs across 3 LPs pressed onto 180-gram vinyl and remastered by Carl Saff, plus a 46-page book with never-before-seen photos, an original essay on the band by Marc Masters, and micro essays by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, R&B legend Nona Hendryx, The Clash’s Topper Headon, & more.

From the band’s earliest recordings to their current, vital-as-ever incarnation, Rhythm and Paranoia – for the first time ever – show- cases the their unique, influential, and body-shaking meld of rock, punk, funk, reggae, and more in one cohesive, immersive, and meticulously constructed box set.

Box Set Details

VINYL BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:

Rigid Lift-Off Box w/Lift Ribbon
3 x 180 Gram Vinyl LPs
46-Page LP-Sized Perfect Bound Booklet w/Never-BeforeSeen Photos & Orignal Essays
29 Remastered Tracks

CD DIGIPACK SPECIAL FEATURES:

2 x CD / 4-Panel Digipack
40-Page Booklet w/Never-Before-Seen Photos & Orignal Essays
30 Remastered Tracks

SHIPPING INFO

Domestic service for LPs and CDs is UPS 3-Day Select.

For Ex-US, the service is UPS Worldwide Expedited for vinyl and USPS First Class Mail International for USPS. NOTE: Email dh@wharfcatrecords.com for a live shipping quote in case there’s anything we can do to bring down the price. Additionally, Rough Trade UK will be carrying the release.

Tracklist

1. Too Many Creeps !
2. Snakes Crawl !
3. You Taste Like the Tropics !
4. Punch Drunk !
5. Cold Turkey [Live in London] !
6. Things That Go Boom in the Night !
7. Das Ah Riot !
8. Cowboys in Africa !
9. Rituals !
10. You Can’t Be Funky !
11. Moonlite !
12. Dum Dum !
13. Stand Up and Fight !
14. Page 18 !
15. Color Green !#$
16. Mr. Lovesong [Alternate Version] !#$
17. World @
18. Motörhead !
19. Pretty Thing !
20. You Don’t Know Me !
21. Heart Attack !
22. Ocean !
23. Nails !#
24. True Blue
25. Red Heavy
26. Out Again
27. There Is a Hum
28. Seven Years
29. Sucker Is Born
30. Run Run Run [Live in San Francisco] @+
31. Cutting Floor @+

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+ ONLY AVAILABLE DIGITALLY
@ PREVOUSLY UNRELEASED
# PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (VINYL)
$ PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (DIGITAL)

Past Press

Renowned at the dawn of the eighties for waiting the disjoined guitar shronk of the inaccessible No Wave scene with irrepressible, funk-infused rhythms, the Bush Tetras were remarkably influential without ever really receiving their due. - THE NEW YORKER

Coupled with [“Too Many Creeps”] dancey arrangement, Sley’s monotonous tone signaled that within the Tetras’ newly staked safe space, misogyny wasn’t a threat: it was just a boring, predictable damper on the party. Like the rest of their peers, this band was over it. - PITCHFORK

Full of Grit and Spit, harsh angles and noisy squall, tracks like the coiled, gnarly “Red Heavy” and the fleet-footed “Don’t Stop It” reckon with time and space in a way punk offshoots, often obsessed with youth and nostalgia, rarely do… - BANDCAMP DAILY

The Bush Tetras are a national treasure. - VICE

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released November 12, 2021

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Bush Tetras New York, New York

New York City legends the Bush Tetras have been making paranoid, groove-centered post-punk since 1979, when Pat Place left James Chance and The Contortions to found the group with singer Cynthia Sley, bassist Laura Kennedy and drummer Dee Pop. They played to 5000 in Mexico City at the NRMAL festival and toured around the US and EU. They released a box set in 2021 and album of new songs in 2023. ... more

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