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Hut / Bean Song

from No Motive by 3 Teens Kill 4

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    3 Teens Kill 4 was born in the summer of 1980 in the East Village of New York City. They took their name from a New York Post headline. The group consisted of Doug Bressler, Brian Butterick, Julie Hair, Jesse Hultberg, David Wojnarowicz. There was a conscious decision not to have a front person or lead singer. David made cassette tapes with voices and sounds that he held up close to a microphone, fast-forwarding and rewinding. Julie tried different rhythms on a Korg rhythm machine. Brian played a Casio drum machine and Jesse was on bass. Doug joined the group in time to make the debut album. He was a music lover who understood how to avoid covering over the band’s non-musicality.

    Their debut 7-song mini-album “No Motive” was recorded in Fall 1982 and self-released in 1983. Utilizing rhythm boxes, tapes of news reports, odd percussion tools, snatches of song, they chanted political narrative ideas about the modern mess at the time. The album is an amalgam of urban life, a twisted, anti-rhetorical approach to social issues. Songs weave together to create an intelligent, jarring sound. Razor sharp guitar licks and hauntingly ominous bass lines create a tense, oblique abstraction of pain and chaos. For this reissue we’ve added 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Doug says, “These songs are very deliberately an experiment in Postmodernism. Sound bytes were stolen from the airwaves and recorded onto bargain cassette tapes. We were stripping the structure of the popular song to the bone. A sort of sonic Duchamp. And throughout it all, runs a childlike sense of play: the judicious use of toys, the schoolyard chants. All of this was happening during the dark and soul-numbing Age of Reagan, with the AIDS crisis looming on the horizon.”

    All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The jacket features a replica of the original front cover with a black and white photo by Seiji Kakizaki and updated back cover featuring a never before seen collage by David Wojnarowicz. Each copy includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes from each band member, photos, lyrics and press clippings. We’ve also printed a special 12”x24” fold out diptych painting by David Wojnarowicz whom this reissue is dedicated to. “We were representative of our time and place. East village, New York City, 1980s. All-night, after-hour busboy jobs in trendy nightclubs, early morning breakfast at Veselka’s diner. Drugs and no-drugs. Gay and not-gay. New York.” - Jesse Hultberg

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The crack of a whip & a baby crying
Seven common steel nails pounded into the floor
A 357 Magnum fired three times... Hut!

He placed himself in a hole in the corner of the prison yard and covered himself with a patch of dry earth and grass. Meanwhile other inmates in the high security prison placed a dummy he had fashioned from paper maché and human hair onto his bunk and covered it with a blanket. In the early hours before dawn he left his hiding spot and made it over 3 fences; 2 lethal barbed wires and one electrified. Hours later he found himself in a motel on main street standing before a fluorescent lit mirror combing black shoe polish into his hair. When his disappearance was discovered an all-states alarm was issued by the authorities. Some believe he was on his way to Venezuela, others thought he was hiding in Soviet Russia, others thought he was hiding in the mountains of the Northeast. He occasionally called his family long distance.

The Xerox machines in Russia
Are as closely guarded as the missile sites.
Xerox, xerox, xerox, xerox
Russia, Russia Russia, Russia
I thought you said you’d pay for half.
I distinctly remember you saying you’d pay for half.

BEAN SONG

I’ll bet you wish you could shake a can of beans as well as me
I’ll bet you wish you could shake a can of beans as well as me

I like to shake a can of beans
Every now and then I like to take a can of beans and shake it up and down and
Sometimes I like to take a can of beans and shake it around and around and
Every now and then I like to take a can of beans and shake it up and down

We must
We must increase our bust
The bigger the better
The tighter the sweater
You know those boys depend on us

Lies they tell us
Lies they live
What is it that lies can give?
Who will lie the most this year?

Bang bang you’re dead
Brush your teeth and go to bed
Peace or hatred love or fear who will
lie the most this year
Bang bang you’re dead brush your teeth and go to bed
(thank you to Rachel Wolf for words)

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from No Motive, released July 22, 2017

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