TISM
TISM (an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) were a seven-piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group were formed on 30 December 1982 by vocalist/drummer Humphrey B. Flaubert, bassist/vocalist Jock Cheese and keyboardist/vocalist Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun, 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 their 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 with more intellectual ones.
History
Early years
This Is Serious Mum's first concert was on 6 December 1983. 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 split up. They reformed in February 1984 and returned to their recordings, experimenting with dark ambient and industrial music, before returning to their rock style. They consider every subsequent performance a "re-union gig".
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- The White Albun released: 2004
- Best Off released: 2002
- De Rigueurmortis released: 2001
- www.tism.wanker.com released: 1998
- Machiavelli and the Four Seasons released: 1996
- Collected Recordings 1986-1993 released: 1995
- Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance released: 1991
- Gentlemen, Start Your Egos released: 1991
- Hot Dogma released: 1990
The White Albun
Released 2004- Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
- Bone Idol
- Message From a Big Day Out Port-A-Loo
- DJ Trevor
- I Rooted a Girl Who Rooted a Guy Who Rooted a Girl Who Rooted a Guy Who Rooted a Girl Who Rooted Shane Crawford
- The Birth of Uncool
- As Seen on Reality
- The Song of the Quarter-Time Siren (Car Battery)
- Diffident Strokes
- Ken Bruce Has Gone Mad
- Sorted for D 'n M
- Cerebral Knievel
- Tonight Harry's Practice Visits the Home of Charlie "Bird" Parker
- Somebody Start a Fight or Something
- Neck It
- TISM Are Shit
Best Off
Released 2002- Eckermann Is Very Silly
- The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi
- Yassa Arathin-A-Go-Go
- (I Go To) Werribee
- Ladies and Gentlemen - The Judeo-Christian Ethic
- Ezra Pound, Axe-King
- The English-Speaking Peoples
- Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen
- I Await the Coming of the Scottish Third Reich
- A Tale of Two Faeces
- Almost Blue by Ian Curtis
- The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped
- (Jumpin' Jivin') Jimmy "The Ghost" Joyce
- Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants
- Life Is Fairly Silly, Really
- Landscape, Seascape, Escape
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Whittle Away My Furniture
- Untitled
- How To End All Suffering
- Frenzy
- I'm Gonna Treat Ya to a Neitschze Double Feature
- You're Only as Good as Your Fans
- My Gerontation
- (This Morning I Had Work to Do)
- Tu E La Tua Razza Fa'un Culo
De Rigueurmortis
Released 2001- Bullshit
- If You're Not Famous At 14, You're Finished
- Five Yards
- Who the Fuck Blow That Plastic Trumpet
- Ten Points For A Razor Scooter
- Who the Fuck Blow that Plastic Trumpet part 2
- Thou Shalt Not Britney Spear
- Would the Last Person to Leave Please Turn Out the Enlightenment?
- Street Lamp
- Dear Moby
- Schoolies Week
- The Horse, not the Horseshit
- Most of us are Nice!
- Did you Watch or make TV
- Come Back DJ Your Record Is Scratched
- You're a Long Way From Home, Part 1
- Boot Party
- Preening Dumb Tool
- Intermission
- Channel Turd
- Fatboy Slim Dusty
- You're a Long Way From Home Part 2
- Sell Out
- Honk If You Love Fred Durst
- You're a Long Way From Home Part 3
- X-Treme Sports Can Kiss My Arse
- Survey
- Fourteen Years In Rowille
- TISM Album Fails
- Who The Fuck Blow That Plastic Trumpet Part 3
- BFW
www.tism.wanker.com
Released 1998- (There’s Gonna Be) Sex Tonite
- Whatareya?
- Dumb ’n’ Base
- Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
- Been Caught Wankin’
- Denial Works for Me
- The Parable of Glenn McGrath’s Haircut
- I Might Be a Cunt, but I’m Not a Fucking Cunt
- Yob
- Great Expectorations
- A Hard‐Earned Thirst Needs a Big Cold Beer, but I Drink to Get Pissed
- The Men’s Room
Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
Released 1996- All Homeboys are Dickheads
- Death Death Death
- (I'm Interested in) Apathy
- Get Thee to a Nunnery
- Lillee Caught Dilley Bowled Milli Vanilli
- Martin Scorsese is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow
- The History of Western Civilisation
- Saturday Night Palsy
- Aussiemandias
- Root
- I'll 'ave Ya
- Defecate on My Face
- Give Up for Australia
- I Drive a Truck
- Mistah Elliot - He Wanker
Collected Recordings 1986-1993
Released 1995- Mistah Eliot - He Wanker
- A Faceful of Divertamenti
- Kill Yourself Now and Avoid the Rush
- Take Your Love
- Root
- Defecate on My Face (Country version)
- All Ordinaries Index
- I'm Into Led Zep
- The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped
- (I Think I've Got) Mick Jagger Worked Out
- Gas! Gas! an Ecstasy of Fumbling
- Pus
- Babies Bite Back
- Death Death Death
- If You Want the Toilet, You're in It
- The Art/income Dialectic
- Eckermann Is Very Silly
- Lyric for Jack
- Kill Americans
- [untitled]
- [untitled]
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Released 1991- I'm Interested in Apathy
- Saturday Night Palsy
- The Mystery of the Artist Explained
- If You're Creative, Get Stuffed
- 40 Years - Then Death
- Anarchy Means Crossing When It Says 'Don't Walk'
- The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie
- Choose Bad Smack
- The Fosters Car Park Boogie
- Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow
- I Drive a Truck
- Defecate on My Face
- Kill Americans
- Volaire
- The Penis Is Mightier Than the Sword
- Slave to the Economist
- I Shit Me
- Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen
- Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown
- The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi
- And the Ass Said to the Angel: Wanna Play Kick to Kick?
- The Mordialloc Rd. Duplicator
- Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge
- Ezra Pound-Axe King
- Johnny to B. or Not to B. Goode
- Morrison Hostel
- Credits
Gentlemen, Start Your Egos
Released 1991- Mistah Eliot - He Wanker
- A Faceful of Diverta Menti
- Kill Yourself Now and Avoid the Rush
- Take Your Love
- Root
- Defecate on My Face (Country version)
- All Ordinaries Index
- I'm Into Led Zep
- The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped
- (I Think I've Got) Mick Jagger Worked Out
- Gas! Gas! an Ecstasy of Fumbling
- Pus
- Babies Bite Back
- Death Death Death
Hot Dogma
Released 1990- The TISM Boat Hire Offer
- ExistentialTISM
- While My Catarrh Gently Weeps
- They Shoot Heroin, Don't They?
- Dazed and Confucious
- Kevin Borich Expressionism, Part 1
- I'll 'Ave Ya
- Whinge Rock
- The TISM Nightsoil Cart and Horse Blues
- (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And) Whittle Away My Furniture
- The TISM Finance Plan Offer
- Leo's Toltoy
- The History of Western Civilization
- Kevin Borich Expressionism, Part 2
- My Generation
- I Don't Want TISM I Want a Girlfriend
- Kevin Borich Expressionism, Part 4
- Get Thee in My Behind, Satan
- We Are the Champignons
- Let's Club It to Death
- Let's Form a Company
- Life Kills, Part I
- Life Kills, Part II
- Pus of the Dead
- It's Novel. It's Unique. It's Shithouse
The Incredible Shouting Market
ALBUMS
- EP released: 2011
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(There's Gonna Be) Sex Tonite
by: TISMShe slagged Helen Garner, he said "You're right"
He shook his dreadlocks and condemned Wayne Carey
She offered him tofu; both were quite hairy -
There's gonna be sex tonight
Interval at the theatre - they both hit it off
Discussing the meaning of Anton Chekhov;
The director they hated, the actress? - they panned her;
What they acted out later weren't exactly Uncle Vania
On the deck of the boat she pointed out east
Said "A whale is in fact an air breathing beast"
He really liked nature; he was out of the slammer
He had a gram of cocaine and a video camera
He was knocking on doors; she was watchin' television
He said "Money for the kids? I'm collecting for World Vision"
Her heart was full of pity for a world full of grief