TISM discography

Australian alternative rock group TISM have released seven studio albums.

Albums

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Studio albums

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Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
AUS
[1][2]
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
  • Released: 26 September 1988
  • Label: Elvis Records (ER 1206)
  • Format: 2×LP, 2×cassette, CD
48
Hot Dogma
  • Released: 1 October 1990
  • Label: Phonogram (846901-1)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD
86
Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
  • Released: 4 May 1995
  • Label: genre b.goode (G002)
  • Format: Cassette, CD
8
www.tism.wanker.com
  • Released: 2 June 1998
  • Label: genre b.goode (G0012)
  • Format: CD
26
De RigueurMortis
  • Released: 29 October 2001
  • Label: genre b.goode (TISM007)
  • Format: CD, download
24
The White Albun
  • Released: 24 June 2004
  • Label: genre b.goode
  • Format: CD, 2×LP, download
[A]
Death to Art
  • Released: 4 October 2024
  • Label: genre b.goode, DRW
  • Format: CD, LP, download
15
[3]

Live albums

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Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
[2][4]
Machines Against the Rage (aka Machiavelli – Live)
  • Released: December 1996
  • Label: genre b.goode (G007)
  • Format: CD, cassette, digital download, 2×LP
  • Recorded live in Melbourne in 1995
  • Originally released as the bonus disc with a special edition of Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
  • Later issued as a standalone digital release in 2009 and a double LP edition in November 2022
87
Live at the Corner Hotel 30 May 1988
  • Released: 10 April 2020[5][6]
  • Label: genre b.goode, Black Box Records/ MGM Distribution
  • Format: CD (limited), DD, streaming
  • Recorded 30 May 1988
On Behalf of TISM, I Would Like to Concede We Have Lost the Election
  • Released: December 2020
  • Label: genre b.goode
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
  • Recorded at the Earthcore Festival, 27 November 2004
Jesus Education Salvation Uniform Squad
  • Released: 5 November 2021
  • Label: N/A
  • Format: Digital download
  • Recorded at the Hi-Fi Bar in Melbourne, 13 November 2004

Compilation albums

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Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
[1][2]
Gentlemen, Start Your Egos
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Shock (SHOCK CD0017)
  • Format: Cassette, CD
Best Off
  • Released: 29 July 2002
  • Label: genre b.goode (TISM010)
  • Format: CD, 2×CD, digital download
44
Collected Remixes
  • Released: 17 September 2021
  • Label: genre b.goode (GBG0017)
  • Format: 2×LP
Collected Versus: The Complete TISM Singles
  • Released: 19 August 2022
  • Label: genre b.goode (GBG0024); Seeland (538; US only)
  • Format: 2×LP, 2×CD
  • Singles compilation; Australian edition contains Collected Remixes on the second disc
  • Also released in the US with an alternative second disc titled Kill Americans – A TISM Primer

Box sets

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Title Details
Collected Recordings 1986–1993
  • Released: December 1995
  • Label: Genre B.Goode (G006)
  • Format: 4×CD
Defecate on My Face
  • Released: August 2022
  • Label: Genre B.Goode (GBG0020)
  • Format: 7" + 12" + CD

Demo albums

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Title Details
This Is Serious Mum
  • Released: 25 November 1984[7]
  • Label: self-released
  • Format: Cassette, CD, LP
  • Released in limited numbers at This Is Serious Mum's second live show at University of Melbourne on 25 November 1984
  • Reissued on vinyl, CD and cassette on 9 July 2021
Punt Road
  • Recorded: 1987
  • Released: 9 July 2021[7]
  • Label: Genre B.Goode
  • Format: CD, LP
  • Recorded during rehearsals for the "40 Years – Then Death" single launch
Hot Dogma (Sing Sing Sessions)
  • Recorded: 17–18 March 1990
  • Released: 18 August 2023
  • Label: Genre B.Goode
  • Format: CD, LP
  • Demos for Hot Dogma
  • Six songs previously released on Collected Recordings 1986-1993

Home demo tapes

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Title Details
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion
  • Recorded: July 1983
  • Twelve song demo tape
  • Unreleased; not to be confused with the later mini-album of the same name
  • Four songs released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
Hooked on Crap
It's Novel! It's Unique! It's Shithouse!
TISM V – Harshness, Reality, That's What It's All About / We Live in Oil
  • Recorded: February 1984
  • Twelve song demo tape
  • Unreleased
  • "Johnny to B. or Not to B. Goode" excerpted on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
  • Edited version of "Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants" released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
  • Full version of "Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants" released as a hidden track on the 2021 CD reissue of This Is Serious Mum demo
If You Want the Toilet, You're in It
  • Recorded: April–November 1984
  • Twenty-six song demo tape
  • Unreleased
  • "If You Want the Toilet, You're in It" released on Collected Recordings 1986-1993
  • "Life is Fairly Silly, Really" released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
Muggy Climates in My Jockettes
  • Recorded: August–September 1985
  • Thirteen song demo tape
  • Unreleased
  • Two songs released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
  • Eight songs released on the 2022 Defecate on My Face box set
There's More Men in Children Than Wisdom Knows
It's a Screaming World and You're Just Another Screamer
  • Recorded: June–August 1986
  • Eleven song demo tape
  • Unreleased
  • Three songs released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
The Vic Hugo Experience – Are You Miserable?
  • Recorded: October 1986
  • Twelve song demo tape
  • Unreleased
Tissongs
  • Recorded: February–September 1987
  • Thirty-nine song demo tape
  • Unreleased
  • "I'm Gonna Treat Ya To A Neitschze Double Feature" released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
Free Nelson Mandella – With Every Record!
  • Recorded: November 1988
  • Twenty-one song demo tape
  • Unreleased
Three Blake and a Dollar's Worth of Chips
  • Recorded: December 1988
  • Twenty-two song demo tape
  • Unreleased
No Penis, No God
  • Recorded: January 1996
  • Fourteen-song demo tape
  • Released April 2024 on limited-edition vinyl
  • Nine songs previously released on the iTunes version of www.tism.wanker.com

Miscellaneous

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Title Details
The TISM Omni-Album
  • Released: 21 December 2020
  • Label: Genre B.Goode
  • Format: Vinyl
  • Around 1 hour and 45 minutes of silence pressed on a transparent vinyl disc
  • An optional second disc was also available separately, the two-disc version is known as The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album

Extended plays

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Title Details Peak chart positions
AUS
[8]
Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Elvis Records
  • Format: 12" mini-LP
Beasts of Suburban
  • Released: July 1992
  • Label: Shock
  • Format: CD, cassette
131
Australia the Lucky Cunt
(Re-issue title: Censored Due to Legal Advice)
  • Released: 3 September 1993
  • Label: Shock
  • Format: CD, cassette
The "C" Word
  • Released: 15 December 2023
  • Label: Genre B. Goode
  • Format: Streaming, digital download, CD, vinyl

Charted singles

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List of singles that had a chart position within a national top 200
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
AUS
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GER
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"The History of Western Civilization" 1990 117 Hot Dogma
"Lose Your Delusion 1" 1993 131 Australia the Lucky Cunt
"Jung Talent Time" 1995 109 Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
"(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River" 23
"Greg! The Stop Sign!!" 59
"Garbage" 1996 118
"Shut Up – The Footy's on the Radio" 1997 90 Non-album single
"Yob" 118 www.tism.wanker.com
"I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt" 1998 90
"Whatareya?" 66
"Honk If You Love Fred Durst" 2001 121 De RigueurMortis
"Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me" 2004 [B] 63 The White Albun

Notes

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  1. ^ The White Albun did not enter the ARIA top 100 album chart, but peaked at number 14 on the DVD Chart.[2]
  2. ^ "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me" was released as a radio promotional single, and was ineligible to chart in Australia in 2004[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ a b Peak positions for albums in Australia:
    • All except noted: "Discography TISM". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 282.
  3. ^ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
  4. ^ a b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 169.
  5. ^ "ARCA Desk Tape Series". Support Act. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Live At the Corner Hotel 30 May 1988 (DD)". Apple Music. 10 April 2020. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  7. ^ a b "NewMusicFriday: P!nk, Olivia Rodrigo, Twenty One Pilots and more out now!". ARIA. 21 May 2021. Archived from the original on 21 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Part of TISM ARIA chart history 1988 to 2022, received from ARIA in 2022". ARIA. Retrieved 2 December 2023 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  9. ^ Additional peaks of songs in Australia:
  10. ^ "TISM – Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (Song)". German Charts. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  11. ^ Sams, Christine (8 October 2006). "ARIA charts the clicks of online music fans". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  12. ^ "The ARIA Report: Issue 866 (Week Commencing 9 October 2006)" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2019.