Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance

Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Studio album by TISM
Released September 1988
Recorded Platinum Studios May 1987, January-March 1988
Trees Studios, Melbourne 3RRR Studios, Electric Leakland Premises
The Venue, St. Kilda 5 February 1988
Trade Union Club, Sydney 11-12 December 1987
Genre Alternative rock
Length 69:48
Label Elvis
Producer TISM
TISM chronology
Form and Meaning reach Ultimate Communion
(1986)		 Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
(1988)		 Hot Dogma (1990)
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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 by Shock Records 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

No. Title Length
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
This Record Isn't As Good As the Other One
No. Title Length
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. Untitled (Unlisted) 1:08

Personnel

Demo tape

Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Demo album by TISM
Released n/a
Recorded Minack residence, 30 December 1982
Genre Alternative rock
Label Private release
TISM chronology
n/a Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
(1982)

In 1982, TISM (consisting then of just three members) recorded a tape of demo songs titled Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance. It is the earliest known recording by the band and has little to do with the album of the same name. It was recorded on 30 December 1982 at the home of Ron Hitler-Barassi. The vocalist on this tape is Humphrey B. Flaubert.

Track list

  1. Eckermann is Very Silly
  2. The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi
  3. Yassa Arathin-a-Go-Go
  4. I Go to Werribee
  5. Pus of the Dead
  6. United He Stands Divided He Is Not United Anymore
  7. Stiff's Luck
  8. Sweetbread Ain't No Honky Carcinogen
  9. Instant Party

Tracks 1-4 were eventually released on Best Off disc 2. Re-recorded versions of tracks 1, 4 and 5 appear on This Is Serious Mum.

Crew

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, Jonathan. "Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance - T.I.S.M.". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
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