This Is Serious Mum (album)
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| Demo album by TISM | ||||
| Released | 1985 | |||
| Recorded | TISM's bedroom, January 1985 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock , industrial | |||
| Length | 33:07 | |||
| Label | Private release | |||
| Producer | TISM | |||
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This Is Serious Mum is a 1985 cassette demo tape by Australian band TISM. Liner notes to their Collected Recordings 1986-1993 boxed set state that only 80 original copies of the demo exist. Thirty were given to promoters and media and the other 50 were sold to the public.
Tracks 2 and 5 were later remastered and re-released on Collected Recordings 1986-1993 in 1995. In 2009, track 3 was remastered and reissued on the iTunes release of Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance, although the track used was taken from a fan-made rip of the cassette.
As well as the 10 tracks listed here, two more tracks, "Take Your Love" and "A Tale of Two Faeces", were recorded, but neither was put on the original tape. "Take Your Love" would later be released on Gentlemen, Start Your Egos in 1991, while "A Tale of Two Faeces" was included as one of two hidden tracks when GSYE was re-released as part of the Collected Recordings 1986-1993 box set in 1995.
Copies circulating on the Internet are 128kbit/s mp3s taken from a third-generation tape.
Track listing
Side B starts with "I Go to Werribee".
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "The Art/Income Dialectic" | 1:22 |
| 2. | "Eckermann is Very Silly" | 2:52 |
| 3. | "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped" | 4:17 |
| 4. | "Defecate on My Face" | 4:39 |
| 5. | "Lyric for Jack" | 4:02 |
| 6. | "I Go to Werribee" | 2:47 |
| 7. | "Crime Against the Spirit Oo Poo Pee Doo" | 3:53 |
| 8. | "Pus of the Dead" | 3:34 |
| 9. | "Clarse Distinction" | 2:11 |
| 10. | "The Reserection" | 3:27 |
Total length: |
33:04 | |
Track 1 was later re-recorded as a B-side to the "Defecate on My Face". Tracks 3 and 4 were re-recorded in May 1987 and used as a B-side to the "40 Years - Then Death" single and on the Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance album, respectively. Track 8 was re-recorded in 1989 for the Hot Dogma album. The demo versions of tracks 2 and 5 were remastered and included on Collected Recordings 1986-1993 in December 1995, while the original versions of tracks 2 and 6 as recorded on 30 December 1982 would surface on the bonus demo disc included with the group's greatest hits album Best Off in 2002. All other songs remain unreleased other than this demo tape.
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