This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape
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| This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape | ||
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| Studio album (Demo) by TISM | ||
| Released | 1985 | |
| Recorded | Bedroom | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 33 minutes | |
| Label | Private release | |
| Producer(s) | TISM | |
| TISM chronology | ||
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| n/a | This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape (1985) |
Form and Meaning reach Ultimate Communion (1986) |
This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape is a cassette demo tape from 1985 by anonymous Australian band TISM
TISM's first known public release. It is not listed in their "official" discography in The TISM Guide To Little Aesthetics (1989). It is considered to be a part of their "bedroom recordings" era.
Apparently, only 80 of these exist: the first 30 were given to promoters and media, the other 50 sold to the public. The "Ron Hitler-Barassi’s 3PBS Christmas Message" is unlisted.
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[edit] Trivia
Much of the "bedroom recordings" were released on the bonus disk (sic) of tism.bestoff.. Missing however were much of the contents of this demo recording. The only tracks included in the tism.bestoff. compilation were "Eckermann Is Very Silly", "I Go To Werribee" and "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped". These versions may or may not be the same recordings. The reason for the This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape to be mostly missing from the compilation? Most of the tracks aren't very good.
[edit] "Bedroom Recordings"
TISM's "bedroom recordings" are both a tantalising glimpse of genius and a disgusting perve. Recorded at various TISM member's childhood bedrooms these recordings took place in Melbourne, Australia beetween 1982 and 1985. Here is how the period is described in the Official TISM History:
"It's late 1982. Somewhere, for some reason, This Is Serious Mum (TISM) hatches.
During the next twelve months TISM aimlessly write over 100 songs, which are immediately discarded due to lack of interest. No-one knew or cared. Those were the days. In retrospect, this was TISM's artistic zenith. The material ranged from the bombastic "The Art Income Dialectic" to clear, profound statements found in songs like "Babies Bite Back" and the semi-autobiographical "I'm Style Deaf".
This is the period where TISM most clearly show their roots: paeans to their idols, Chuck Berry "Johnny To B. Or Not To B. Good" and "The Goanna Band Stop The Franklin's Flow".
The final gasp of this creative golden age was the tour de force, "Screaming Mongoloid Unbound". A rock opera in four parts, "Mongoloid" has never been performed live, largely because it isn't very good."
Besides the This Is Serious Mum Demo Tape, glimpses of recordings on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance and the bonus disk (sic) on tism.bestoff. and in the Collected Recordings 1986-1993 nothing else survives or has been offically released.
[edit] Track listing
Side A :
- "The Art-Income Dialectic"
- "Eckermann Is Very Silly"
- "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped"
- "Defecate On My Face"
- "Lyric For Jack"
- "Ron Hitler-Barassi’s 3PBS Christmas Message" [Unlisted]
- Ron Hitler-Barassi’s 3PBS Christmas Message (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- A sample from the Demo Tape — 1040 KB
- Problems listening to the file? See media help.
Side B:
- "I Go To Werribee"
- "Crime Against The Spirit Oo Poo Pee Doo"
- "Pus Of The Dead"
- "Clarse Distinction"
- "The Reserection"
