TISM (short for This Is Serious, Mum), formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1982, and, after a couple of false starts, became one the most popular underground groups of the Australian music scene with their alternative rock/techno/punk inspired releases.
TISM's first concert was on 6 December 1983. The Get Fucked Concert at the Duncan McKinnon Athletics Reserve in the small suburb of Murrumbeena was considered a complete failure which caused the band to officially split up. They reformed in February 1984 and returned to their recordings. They consider every subsequent performance a "re-union gig".
TISM have what can only be described as a twisted sense of humor. But whereas bands like They Might Be Giants use their humor to write pop songs with quirky lyrics, TISM use theirs to viciously lampoon anyone and anything. Literally nothing is sacred.
A rising tide of interest greeted the band in 1986 following the release of their debut album, Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion. An attempted interview at this time by a well-known music magazine was treated in a typical TISM manner: the journalist stood at the opposite end of a football ground to the band, and shouted questions to them through a megaphone. The answers were then shouted back through another megaphone. To make things even more difficult, a long piece of string ran between the band and the journalist -- the string had to be kept taut or the band wouldn't co-operate. A journalist from Rolling Stone magazine was told he'd need to put on a wetsuit and meet them in an Italian restaurant. He did, and the band only answered him with pre-recorded quotes by John Lennon from a tape recorder. Rolling Stone had nothing nice to say about TISM following this. The band also faired poorly in the USA, as "Kill Americans" was never given much publicity there.
And now here's just a couple songs from the 31 years worth of shit these musical trolls inflicted on us.
members
Root (1986)
Defecate On my Face (80's)
All ordinaries index (stock market) & Let's club it to death (1990)
Defecate On my Face - Redneck Edition
T.S. Elliot (80's)
Thou shalt not Brittany Spears
Garbage (don't recycle)
He'll Never Be An Old Man River (I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix)
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
Whatareya?
TISM are shit
TISM's first concert was on 6 December 1983. The Get Fucked Concert at the Duncan McKinnon Athletics Reserve in the small suburb of Murrumbeena was considered a complete failure which caused the band to officially split up. They reformed in February 1984 and returned to their recordings. They consider every subsequent performance a "re-union gig".
TISM have what can only be described as a twisted sense of humor. But whereas bands like They Might Be Giants use their humor to write pop songs with quirky lyrics, TISM use theirs to viciously lampoon anyone and anything. Literally nothing is sacred.
A rising tide of interest greeted the band in 1986 following the release of their debut album, Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion. An attempted interview at this time by a well-known music magazine was treated in a typical TISM manner: the journalist stood at the opposite end of a football ground to the band, and shouted questions to them through a megaphone. The answers were then shouted back through another megaphone. To make things even more difficult, a long piece of string ran between the band and the journalist -- the string had to be kept taut or the band wouldn't co-operate. A journalist from Rolling Stone magazine was told he'd need to put on a wetsuit and meet them in an Italian restaurant. He did, and the band only answered him with pre-recorded quotes by John Lennon from a tape recorder. Rolling Stone had nothing nice to say about TISM following this. The band also faired poorly in the USA, as "Kill Americans" was never given much publicity there.
And now here's just a couple songs from the 31 years worth of shit these musical trolls inflicted on us.
members
- Ron Hitler-Barassi
- Humphrey B. Flaubert
- Jock Cheese
- Eugene de la Hot-Croix Bun
- Tokin' Blackman
- Jon St. Peenis
- Les Miserables
- Genre B. Goode
- Leek Van Vlalen
Root (1986)
Defecate On my Face (80's)
All ordinaries index (stock market) & Let's club it to death (1990)
Defecate On my Face - Redneck Edition
T.S. Elliot (80's)
Thou shalt not Brittany Spears
Garbage (don't recycle)
He'll Never Be An Old Man River (I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix)
Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
Whatareya?
TISM are shit
