The Bush Tetras releasing new Best Of box set (hear unreleased song “Cutting Floor”)

September 29, 2021

Bush Tetras w/ Topper Headon (photo: Bob Gruen)

NYC no wave icons The Bush Tetras are releasing Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras, a 3-LP/2-CD box set that pulls from their entire career. It features remastered versions of their best-known songs, including “Too Many Creeps” and “Things That Go Boom In The Night,” as well as songs that were never released on vinyl, and three previously unreleased songs.

The box set also comes with a 46-page book featuring never-before-seen photos, essays by Thurston Moore, Nona Hendryx, The Clash‘s Topper Headon, Gang of Four‘s Hugo Burnham, Bongwater‘s Ann Magnuson, music journalist Marc Masters, and more. You can check out the full tracklist and packaging below.

You can also check out one of the unreleased songs, “Cutting Floor,” which was produced by Henry Rollins, and watch a remastered version of the “Too Many Creeps” video below.

Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras will be out November 12 via Wharf Cat Records. Preorders are available.

In other news, The Bush Tetras have a new bassist, Dr. RB Korbet, who was sang and played guitar in Even Worse, drums in the first incarnation of King Missile, as well as stints in Big Stick, Missing Foundation, Pussy Galore, the Wharton Tiers Ensemble, and more.

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

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 @+