TISM

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: TISM albums, TISM songs, TISM video albums, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, The White Albun, Www.tism.wanker.com, Root!, Jung Talent Time, Hot Dogma, De RigueurMortis, I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt, Defecate on My Face, Thunderbirds Are Coming Out, (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River, Whatareya?, Collected Recordings 1986-1993, Greg! The Stop Sign!!, Tism.bestoff., Boys in the Hoods, Let's Form a Company, This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape, Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me, Saturday Night Palsy, If You're Not Famous at Fourteen, You're Finished, Shut Up - The Footy's On The Radio, Platter, Richard Hanley, Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance, Beasts of Suburban, I Don't Want TISM, I Want a Girlfriend, Australia the Lucky Cunt, Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!, I'm Interested in Apathy, The History of Western Civilisation, Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow, Garbage, 40 Years - Then Death, The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie, Yob, Incontinent in Ten Continents, All Homeboys Are Dickheads, Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion, Gentlemen, Start Your Egos, Shoddy & Poor, TISM Television Primer, Genre b.goode. Excerpt: TISM (an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) was a seven piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group was formed in 1982 and enjoyed a large underground/independent following. Their third album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons reached the Australian national top 10 in 1995. TISM were known for its hybrid of dance music and rock'n'roll, high-energy live shows and humorous lyrics. TISM's songs frequently satirised modern culture, celebrities and the entertainment industry, classic literature and art, current affairs, politics and sport. The titles of their songs were often wordplays created by juxtaposing pop culture references and/or more intellectually highbrow identities. In early 1982, at a Melbourne university, the members of TISM formed a band out of "a pure sense of shared mediocrity", and wrote more than 100 songs throughout the year which were "immediately discarded due to lack of interest" and later became known as "The Bedroom Recordings". Ten tracks were recorded to tape and sold as the This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape (1985), a select few were heard on their début album Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (1988), and a collection of twenty-five were released with tism.bestoff. (2002). TISM's first concert was on 6 December 1983, almost 12 months after dismissing their bedroom recordings. The Get Fucked Concert at the Duncan McKinnon Athletics Reserve in the small suburb of Murrumbeena was considered a complete failure which caused the band to officially split up. They reformed the following year and have considered every subsequent performance a "re-union gig". By 1985 the band was playing regularly around Melbourne and soon released their début single, "Defecate On My Face" (1986), a 7" vinyl packaged in a 12" sleeve with all four sides glued shut. This song is also found (but is unlisted) on the EP Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion as a country version. Their next single, "40 Years - Then Death" (1987), was released on