Greg! The Stop Sign!!

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"Greg! The Stop Sign!!"
"Greg! The Stop Sign!!" cover
Single by TISM
from the album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
B-side(s) Strictly Loungeroom
There's More Men In Children Than Wisdom Knows
Released July 31, 1995
Format CD single
Recorded 1995?
Genre Alternative rock
Length 11:10
Label genre b.goode
Writer(s) TISM
Producer(s) Lawrence Maddy
TISM singles chronology
(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River
(1995)
Greg! The Stop Sign!!
(1995)
Garbage
(1996)

Greg! The Stop Sign!! is a single by Australian alternative rock band TISM. It was the second single from the album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons (1995).

The song, along with its predecesor (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River is one of TISM's most popular tracks, and reached #10 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 1995. It became well known thanks to its "Beach Boys style harmony" in the chorus of the song.

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[edit] Song

The song is based on a series of speeding advertisements released by the TAC (road and safety authorities), who are even mentioned in the song, which featured warnings similar to which occur in the song.

The song itself revolves around high school students learning to drive and the various predicaments they get themselves into, such as choosing a career, and fears of failing exams, all the while struggling with learning to drive. They manage become distracted and "miss the stop sign!!" eventually leading to them, presumably, being killed in the gruesome manner depicted in the TAC commercials.

[edit] Video

The "famous" scene in the video clip of a dog eating vomit.
The "famous" scene in the video clip of a dog eating vomit.

The video for the song, directed by Mark Hartley, begins with TISM in the locker room of the St. Kilda Football Club, eventually having them perform the song in a football field. According to Tim Webster on the Gold! Gold!! Gold!!! (1998) video, this was an effort to "Save the St. Kilda club".

Eventually the song turns into a more regular style video clip, with a group of teenagers partying in a house. The camera moves into the house to see them all drinking and enjoying themselves, as a standard teenage party would expect to be seen. As the camera moves into the back room, a teenage girl is seen vomiting on the floor, overlooked by a member of TISM. The video then turns into a series of disappointing moments, all watched by a member of TISM, such as a woman finding her fresh bread has mould on it and the toilet roll is empty. Back in the house one of the most notorious and well known scenes of the video shows a dog eating the vomit from earlier. Meanwhile, outside a couple argue, once again as a member of TISM watches on.

[edit] Trivia

Some copies came with a "Greg! The Stop Sign!!" bumper sticker.


[edit] Track list

  1. "Greg! The Stop Sign!!"
  2. "Strictly Loungeroom"
  3. "There's More Men In Children Than Wisdom Knows"

[edit] See also

TISM discography
Albums
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance | Hot Dogma | Machiavelli and the Four Seasons | Machines Against the Rage | www.tism.wanker.com | De RigueurMortis | The White Albun
EP's
Form and Meaning reach Ultimate Communion | Gentlemen, Start Your Egos | Beasts of Suburban | Australia The Lucky Cunt | Jung Talent Time
Singles
Defecate On My Face | 40 Years - Then Death | The Ballad Of John Bonham's Coke Roadie | I'm Interested In Apathy | Saturday Night Palsy | Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite A Jovial Fellow | I Don't Want TISM, I Want A Girlfriend | The History Of Western Civilisation | Let's Form A Company | (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River | Greg! The Stop Sign!! | Garbage | Shut Up - The Footy's On The Radio | Yob | I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt | Whatareya? | Thunderbirds Are Coming Out | If You're Not Famous At Fourteen, You're Finished | Honk If You Love Fred Durst | Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
Video & DVD
Shoddy & Poor | TISM Television Primer | Incontinent In Ten Continents | Boys In The Hoods | Gold! Gold!! Gold!!! | The White Albun
Other
This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape | The TISM Guide To Little Aesthetics | genre b.goode | Collected Recordings 1986-1993 | tism.bestoff. | Platter