Thunderbirds Are Coming Out

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“Thunderbirds Are Coming Out”
“Thunderbirds Are Coming Out” cover
Single by TISM
from the album www.tism.wanker.com
B-side Untz (Original Version)
I Go Off
Released October 9, 1998
Format CD Single
Recorded  ??, 1998
Genre Alternative rock
Length  ??:??
Label Shock/genre b.goode
Writer(s) TISM/J. Pearson
Producer  ?
TISM singles chronology
Whatareya?
(1998)
Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
(1998)
If You're Not Famous At Fourteen, You're Finished
(2001)

Thunderbirds Are Coming Out is the name of a single by TISM. It was released off www.tism.wanker.com and featured memorable video clip of 30 bands (plus TISM) all playing the song. The bands are shown one at a time by use of a dolly shot and ends just as TISM are on screen.

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[edit] Song

Lyrically, the song deals with a troubled teenager who rebels against his (or her) parents and "sit[s] for hours all alone, without an opinion to call my own". Eventually the teenager sees The Thunderbirds on television and is impressed. The teen is inspired by their appearance, stating "there's less to them than meets the eye" and from there joins various social cliques and adheres to norms of teenage life - in a sense giving up individuality, but yet transcending to the next level of teenage life.

[edit] Video

TISM appear in the Thunderbirds Are Coming Out video.
TISM appear in the Thunderbirds Are Coming Out video.

The video for Thunderbirds are Coming Out was directed by Craig Melville and contained 30 Australian bands - 31 including TISM - performing live, including Klinger, Mach Pelican, Blood Duster and 28 Days. A single, unedited camera tracking shot showed each band performing the song until the very end of the song when TISM appear masked. At this point, the song ends and TISM do not get to play any of the song. Link to Video clip here

[edit] Bands in the clip

Here is a list of all the bands which appeared in the video.

  • Snubrocket
  • The Sex Bombs
  • Piffen Yonnies
  • Dynamo & the Hornosexuals
  • Fee Foe Fum
  • Blood Duster
  • Acetylene
  • Funk X-Plosion
  • Big Marble E-Fect
  • Westgarth
  • Busy Fingers
  • GIT
  • Cyclone Tracey
  • Libido in a Bottle
  • The Shine
  • 28 Days
  • Ringwood Secondary College Choir & Orchestra
  • Webster
  • Where's Bec?
  • Fatty Cramps
  • Klinger
  • Hyperno Way
  • New Waves
  • Ruby Doomsday
  • Zoot Ax
  • Tiltmeter
  • 20 Minutes
  • Phone Sex Radio
  • Guanomite
  • Mach Pelican
  • TISM

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Thunderbirds Are Coming Out (5! 4! 3! 2! 1! Mix)"
  2. "Untz (Original Version)"
  3. "I Go Off"

[edit] External links

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