Bush Tetras - Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras [2CD]

Wharf Cat Records

£24.46

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: WCR118CD
Barcode: 0843563135594
Release Date: 03 Dec 2021
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 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, fuelled 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 30 tracks across 2CDs in a 4- panel digipack / 29 songs across 3LPs pressed onto 180gram vinyl in a rigid lift-off box with lift ribbon, remastered by Carl Saff, plus a 40-page (2CD) / 46-page (3LP) book with neverbefore-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 and more.
 From the band’s earliest recordings to their current, vital-asever incarnation, ‘Rhythm and Paranoia’ - for the first time ever
- showcases their unique, influential and body-shaking meld of rock, punk, funk, reggae and more in one cohesive, immersive and meticulously constructed box set.
 “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 (The History of Feminist Punk in 33 Songs)
 “The Bush Tetras are a national treasure” - VICE
 “Renowned at the dawn of the eighties for pairing the disjoined guitar skronk 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
 “Bush Tetras bridge the gap between the Ramones and Sonic
Youth.” - NY Post

Tracklisting
Too Many Creeps
Snakes Crawl
You Taste Like the Tropics
Punch Drunk
Cold Turkey [Live in London]
Things That Go Boom in the Night
Das Ah Riot
Cowboys in Africa
Rituals
You Can’t Be Funky
Moonlite
Dum Dum
Stand Up and Fight
Page 18
Color Green
Mr. Lovesong [Alternate Version]
World
Motörhead
Pretty Thing
You Don’t Know Me
Heart Attack
Ocean
Nails
True Blue
Red Heavy
Out Again
There Is a Hum
Seven Years
Sucker Is Born
Run Run Run [Live in San Francisco]
Cutting Floor