www.tism.wanker.com
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| Studio album by TISM | |||||
| Released | June 2, 1998 | ||||
| Recorded | Kiss Studios, Seed Studios, Sing Sing, Rev. Ian Paisley Park Studios May 1997 - January 1998 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Label | genre b.goode / Shock FMR (December 3, 2001 re-issue) |
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| Producer | TISM | ||||
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www.tism.wanker.com is the name of a 1998 album by Australian alternative rock group TISM (This Is Serious Mum). The album title references an internet URL which, at the time of release, was a TISM-owned domain name. However, some months after the release of the album the site was apparently hacked. It was taken down and has not been available since.
Early editions of the CD featured a CD-ROM component. The program asks the user whether he or she wants to continue - repeatedly. Eventually, it responds "OK then. Downloading virus." No virus is actually downloaded, and this is another example of the band's warped humour.
Initial pressings of www.tism.wanker.com were shipped with a bonus disc. The CD in question looks like a blank CDR, with texta writing 'Att: SHOCK RECORDS FAULTY PRESSING DO NOT MANUFACTURE'. Thinking it was serious, some retail chains actually returned boxes of the "fake" CD's unopened. [1] In reality, it featured some songs, poems and low-quality audio recordings of Hitler-Barassi and Flaubert discussing various topics whilst watching pornography.
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[edit] Themes
The album consists mainly of standard TISM songs, parodying popular culture and engaging in toilet humour. The album also demonstrates a "serious" attempt by the band to divide Australian male culture into two groups - "yobs" (yobbos) and "wankers". This is best demonstrated in the lyrics of the third single, "Whatareya":
You're a yob, or you're a wanker
Take your fucking choice
So who is your favourite genius
James Hird or James Joyce?
The rest of the song continues in a similar vein, including such distinctions as "The wanker fights class prejudice/The yobbo...just fights." Other targets on the album are nightclub culture ("Dumb and Base"), Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath ("The Parable of Glenn McGrath's Haircut") and teenagers ("Thunderbirds Are Coming Out").
[edit] Singles
The first single released for the album was Yob. It was a radio only single. The first video released for the album was "I Might be a Cunt But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt", which is a parody of the widely-distributed video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's wedding night. Two other videos, Whatareya?, featured the band on an Aerobics Oz Style-style television show and Thunderbirds are Coming Out, featured various bands of the day.
[edit] Controversy
The song, I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt and its accompanying music video were banned by both ABC's rage and the nation wide Triple J radio station. Ron Hitler-Barassi explained the phrase and critical reaction in an interview:
| “ | I actually like the song, the thing that disappoints me about some of the reaction to the song is people's reaction was confined to "oh how naughty, oh those naughty boys TISM have said a naughty word, fuck, and another naughty word, cunt, and oh that's so naughty" and I must admit, I was sort of, and I shouldn't have, I was disappointed with that reaction. The phrase, "I might be a cunt, but I'm not a fucking cunt", I liked it, and we used it in the song, not because of it's naughtiness, but I reckon it says something that we all know about. I haven't said the phrase to anyone who hasn't understood the concept, like it's actually quite a subtle concept. You could be a cunt, the difference between being a cunt and being a fucking cunt, it's something that's very hard to put into words, but it's a difference we all appreciate. That's what I quite like. It's the sort of phrase you here[sic] everyday, it's worth having a song about it. So yeah, I'm disappointed not by the fact it wasn't played on triple J, well, 'cause fucking fair enough, you can't put the word cunt on radio, well, you just gotta live with that, I'm disappointed in terms that people can only see it's naughty schoolboyness. We were attempting to use the common dialect of people in the street, to sum up a term, have a good pisstake. It's more than just naughtiness. That's very profound isn't it?[2] | ” |
Australian RSL head Bruce Ruxton wrote a letter of complaint to Shock Records describing it as "...Dropping [Australia's standards] through the floor into the proverbial sewer."[3] The letter was published on TISM's website at the time.[4]
[edit] Track listing
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- "(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" -- (censored on back cover)
- "Yob"
- "Great Expectorations"
- "A Hard-Earned Thirst Needs a Big Cold Beer, but I Drink to Get Pissed"
- "The Men's Room"
[edit] Att: Shock Records Faulty Pressing Do Not Manufacture
The tracks are all unlisted, however some track titles were released online. The other tracks are TISM talking amongst themselves while watching pornography. Those spoken word tracks never officially had titles assigned to them, the track list, as it is known officially is, as follows:
- "Describe The Worst Head Job I’ve Had? - Fantastic!"
- "The Last Australian Guitar Hero"
- "Kate - Fischer Of Men"
- "My Brilliant Huntington's Chorea"
- "The Apology Of The Thai Drug Runner"
- "Julius Seizure (Act III Scene ii Verses 73-118)"
- "Neighbours - Everybody Loves Good Neighbours"
- "Opposite Day"
- "Rebel Without A Paunch"
- "The Only Thing Stopping Me From Being Happy Is That I’m Not More Depressed"
- "Professor Derrida Deconstructs"
- "Ya Gotta Love That"
[edit] References
- ^ Hurwood, Michael (2001-09-09) "(klf) Band Parallels (A bit OT)." The KLF mailinglist (paragraph 10 in the second post). Retrieved Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ Perrett, Adam (1998). I'm no shining wit, whoa, I'm a whining shit... interview. Adam Perrett and Ron Hitler-Barassi. Archived on 1999-10-04 by the Internet Archive. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ Ruxton, Bruce (1998-05-05). Bruce Ruxton denounces TISM in a letter to Shock Records. letter. Bruce Ruxton. Hosted by tismselfstorage. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ TISM (1998) I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt from the website www.tism.wanker.com. Archived on 1998-11-11 by the Internet Archive. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
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