Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance |
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Studio album by TISM |
Released |
1988 |
Recorded |
Platinum Studios January-March 1988
Trees Studios, Melbourne 3RRR Studios, Electric Leakland Premises
The Venue, St. Kilda February 5, 1988
Trade Union Club, Sydney December 11-12 1987 |
Genre |
Alternative rock, sound collage, shock rock, punk rock, spoken word |
Length |
69:48 |
Label |
Musicland/Elvis, Shock, Festival Mushroom |
Producer |
TISM |
TISM chronology |
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Professional ratings |
Review scores |
Source |
Rating |
Allmusic |
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Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance is the debut album by the Australian band TISM. The album title was suggested by Sean Kelly's good friend, the well-known Australian philosopher Michaelis Michael. Originally released on vinyl as a double album, it was later re-issued as a single compact disc. The vinyl release has a different vocal mix on the track Saturday Night Palsy, including an alternate line of lyrics, with the vinyl release's line "I want to shoot heroin through the eye" replaced with the line "I want to shove a red-hot poker through the eye" on the CD.
The album reached #48 on the ARIA Charts in October 1988.
Track listing
1. |
"I'm Interested in Apathy" |
2:55 |
2. |
"Saturday Night Palsy" |
3:21 |
3. |
"The Mystery of the Artist Explained" |
3:09 |
4. |
"If You're Creative, Get Stuffed" |
3:01 |
5. |
"40 Years – Then Death" |
4:18 |
6. |
"Anarchy Means Crossing When It Says "Don't Walk"" |
1:31 |
7. |
"The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie" |
2:37 |
8. |
"Choose Bad Smack" |
3:00 |
9. |
"The Fosters Car Park Boogie" |
2:37 |
10. |
"Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow" |
3:01 |
11. |
"I Drive a Truck" |
2:12 |
12. |
"Defecate on My Face" |
4:42 |
13. |
"Kill Americans" |
2:16 |
14. |
"Volare" |
0:58 |
15. |
"The Penis is Mightier than the Sword" |
2:17 |
16. |
"Slave to the Economist" |
0:52 |
17. |
"I Shit Me" |
2:47 |
18. |
"Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen" |
0:55 |
19. |
"Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown" |
2:31 |
20. |
"The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi" |
0:39 |
21. |
"And the Ass Said to the Angel: "Wanna Play Kick-to-Kick"?" |
3:59 |
22. |
"The Mordialloc Road Duplicator" |
3:41 |
23. |
"Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge" |
1:12 |
24. |
"Ezra Pound-Axe King" |
1:35 |
25. |
"Johnny To B. Or Not To B. Goode" |
0:26 |
26. |
"Morrison Hostel" |
7:48 |
27. |
"The Ted Commandments" (Unlisted) |
1:08 |
28. |
"The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped" (Demo tape version) |
4:18 |
29. |
"Get Thee in My Behind, Satan" (Live at the Corner Hotel, 30 May 1988) |
3:14 |
30. |
"Babies Bite Back" (ditto) |
3:16 |
31. |
"(I think I've got) Mick Jagger Worked Out" (ditto) |
3:03 |
32. |
"ExistentialTISM" |
3:38 |
33. |
"Opium is the Religion of the Masses" |
5:34 |
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