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Bush Tetras
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Bush Tetras

Formed 1979United States16 albums

American rock band

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Biography

Bush Tetras are an American post-punk No Wave band from New York City, formed in 1979. They are best known for the 1980 song "Too Many Creeps", which exemplified the band's sound of "jagged rhythms, slicing guitars, and sniping vocals". Although they did not achieve mainstream success, the Bush Tetras were influential and popular in the Manhattan club scene and college radio in the early 1980s. New York's post-punk revival of the 2000s was accompanied by a resurgence of interest in the genre, with the Tetras' influence heard in many of that scene's bands.

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People

Members

Bob Albertson1983–1983Don Christensen1983–1983Cynthia SleyDee Popdrums (drum set)Laura KennedyPat Place

Songs written

  1. Too Many Creepswriter1980 · 18 releases
  2. Snakes Crawlwriter1980 · 1 releases
  3. You Taste Like the Tropicswriter1980 · 1 releases

Songs recorded

  1. Too Many Creeps10 versions
  2. Rituals6 versions
  3. You Taste Like The Tropics6 versions
  4. Cowboys in Africa5 versions
  5. Das Ah Riot5 versions
  6. Snakes Crawl5 versions
  7. Page 184 versions
  8. Things That Go Boom in the Night4 versions
  9. Dum Dum3 versions
  10. Moonlite3 versions
  11. Nails3 versions
  12. Punch Drunk3 versions
  13. Red Heavy3 versions
  14. Stand Up and Fight3 versions
  15. True Blue3 versions
  16. Voodoo3 versions
  17. You Can’t Be Funky3 versions
  18. You Don't Know Me3 versions
  19. Can't Be Funky2 versions
  20. Cold Turkey2 versions
  21. Color Green2 versions
  22. Find a Lie2 versions
  23. Funky (instrumental)2 versions
  24. Heart Attack2 versions
  25. It’s So Weird2 versions
  26. Jaws2 versions
  27. Ocean2 versions
  28. Out Again2 versions
  29. Pretty Thing2 versions
  30. Run Run Run (Live in San Francisco)2 versions
  31. Seven Years2 versions
  32. Stare You Down2 versions
  33. There Is a Hum2 versions
  34. World2 versions
  35. You Can't Be Funky2 versions
  36. "Ballad"
  37. 2020 Vision
  38. A Sucker Is Born
  39. Another Room
  40. Basement Babies
  41. Beauty Lies
  42. Bird on a Wire
  43. Boom
  44. Boom Lakka Lakka
  45. Boom in the Night
  46. Buckets of Blood
  47. Bummer
  48. Can't Be Too Funky
  49. Chinese Afro
  50. Cold Turkey (live in London)
  51. Cutting Floor
  52. Damned
  53. Das Ah Dub
  54. Dewback
  55. Dirty Little Secret
  56. Don’t Stop It
  57. Dub in the Night
  58. Enemies
  59. Fess Up
  60. Funky Dub
  61. Funky Version
  62. Ghosts of People
  63. Guilt
  64. I Am Not a Member
  65. In Mind A Run
  66. Juana la Gusta
  67. Make Sure
  68. Making a Mistake
  69. Makin’ a Mistake
  70. Mental Mishap
  71. Motorhead
  72. Motorhead (live)
  73. Motörhead
  74. Mouse
  75. Mr. Love Song
  76. Mr. Lovesong
  77. Mr. Lovesong (alternate version)
  78. Neverending Hum
  79. Point That Gun
  80. Race for Space
  81. Satan Is a Bummer
  82. Silver Chain
  83. Sister Midnight
  84. Slap
  85. Snakes Crawl (DJ Hell remix)
  86. Snakes Crawl (PK East Village mix)
  87. Snakes Crawl (PK techno mix)
  88. Snakes Crawl (Unsubscribe (Dave Clarke & Mr Jones) remix)
  89. So Strange
  90. Stand Up & Fight
  91. Stare
  92. Submerging Nations
  93. Sucker Is Born
  94. Swamp Song
  95. The End
  96. Theremin
  97. They Live in My Head
  98. Things I Put Together
  99. Tout est meilleur
  100. Trip
  101. Walking Out the Door
  102. Who’s Gonna Pay
  103. Who’s Gonna Pay?
  104. Wild Thing
  105. World (I Really Have to Go Now)
  106. World Dub

Albums

Too Many Creeps
Too Many CreepsBush Tetras · 1980
Rituals
RitualsBush Tetras · 1981
Things That Go Boom in the Night / Das ah Riot
Things That Go Boom in the Night / Das ah RiotBush Tetras · 1981
Wild Things
Wild ThingsBush Tetras · 1983
Better Late Than Never (Original Studio Recordings 1980-1983)
Better Late Than Never (Original Studio Recordings 1980-1983)Bush Tetras · 1989
Boom in the Night
Boom in the NightBush Tetras · 1995
Page 18
Page 18Bush Tetras · 1996
Tetrafied
TetrafiedBush Tetras · 1996
Beauty Lies
Beauty LiesBush Tetras · 1997
Very Very Happy
Very Very HappyBush Tetras · 2007
Happy
HappyBush Tetras · 2012
Snakes Crawl
Snakes CrawlPhil Kieran feat. Bush Tetras · 2012
Take the Fall
Take the FallBush Tetras · 2018
There Is a Hum
There Is a HumBush Tetras · 2019
Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras
Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush TetrasBush Tetras · 2021
They Live in My Head
They Live in My HeadBush Tetras · 2023

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