Gentlemen, Start Your Egos
| Gentlemen, Start Your Egos | ||||
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| Studio album by TISM | ||||
| Released | 16 November 1991 | |||
| Recorded |
TISM's bedroom, January 1985 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label |
Shock Records FMR (December 3, 2001 re-release) | |||
| Producer | TISM | |||
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Gentlemen, Start Your Egos is a 1991 album by anonymous Australian band TISM, a compilation of material from TISM's first release, the e.p. Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion (1986), b-sides from singles for the Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (1988) album and a live track from the Incontinent In Ten Continents (1991) video.
The man on the front cover is former Footscray and Australian rules football legend Ted Whitten. Oscar Wilde appears on the back.
Original release
The original release in 1991 had a sepiatone cover and no writing on the front cover, however the title was seen on a sticker affixed to the front of the jewel case. The 1996 reissue had the more widely known grayscale cover, which was carried over when Festival Mushroom Records reissued most of TISM's back catalogue in 2001. As for the tracklisting on the inside of the insert, the background on the 1991 issue was plain white, but the 1996 and 2001 issues had the original Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion artwork as the backdrop, however the original image of T.S. Eliot used on the 1986 EP was replaced by a completely different but similar looking image.
Versions
The version of "Take Your Love" on this album is different from the version on the original EP: the original EP's version was recorded live to VHS tape on 7 September 1986 and had samples of the version of the early track "The Art-Income Dialectic" that was released as a B-side to the "Defecate on My Face" single fading in and out throughout the track. The version included here was recorded in January 1985 during the sessions for their self-titled demo tape and included samples of talk radio. A version of this song with the talk radio samples arranged differently was included as one of two hidden tracks on Collected Recordings 1986-1993, alongside "A Tale of Two Faeces", another outtake from the demo tape sessions.
iTunes
The iTunes release of the original EP has the version from this album in place of the original.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Mistah Eliot - He Wanker" | 3:18 |
| 2. | "A Faceful of Divertamenti" | 2:48 |
| 3. | "Kill Yourself Now and Avoid the Rush" | 3:06 |
| 4. | "Take Your Love" | 2:24 |
| 5. | "Root" | 2:38 |
| 6. | "Defecate on My Face" (Unlisted country version) | 2:09 |
| 7. | "All Ordinaries Index" | 1:51 |
| 8. | "I'm Into Led Zep" | 4:15 |
| 9. | "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped" | 4:25 |
| 10. | "(I think I've got) Mick Jagger Worked Out" | 2:53 |
| 11. | "Gas! GAS!!! -- An Ecstasy of Fumbling" | 2:53 |
| 12. | "Pus" | 2:14 |
| 13. | "Babies Bite Back" | 3:09 |
| 14. | "Death Death Death" (Live at the Old Greek Theatre, 18 May 1991) | 3:44 |
Track 4 is a different version to the one on the original EP. The version appearing here was recorded in 1985 in TISM's bedroom. The version appearing on this release was preferred by TISM due to the tape loops fading out and in throughout the track.
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