TISM

Mick · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 10:09 am

One of the funniest bands of all time.

hilarious bio: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... ffejcqp~T1

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Forming in Melbourne in 1982, the band wrote to Eddie Van Halen and Australian politician Paul Keating offering them the position of lead tamborine in the band. Both declined.

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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.

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TISM performed, but in a move designed to infuriate the show's producers, performed the single with 28 band members, all in full costume.

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The next year, TISM were fired from their record company for being too difficult to work with.

"I'm on the drug, i'm on the drug, i'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix"

Anyone else dig 'em?

no guru · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 10:29 am

I like the album titles, but the songs appear to be about as clever as 10-year olds' underarm farts. Could be wrong.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 10:32 am

wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISM

"Give me a pop-song, mate. Give me a fucking pop-song. Not only is it more fun, it's pretty fuckin' hard to write as well. You can bung in as many out-of-tune oboes as you want, but putting chords together so they sound pleasant isn't as simple as it might appear. It mightn't be the Sistine Chapel, but what is? Ollie fucking Olsen with his stupid feedback and cough mixture? The Jesus and Mary Chain, with their stupid feedback, and their stupid stage show with 800 powerful stupid lights and enough stupid dry ice to enhance their stupid stupidity up its own bullshit crappy teenage pretentious one dimensional dick witted puissant artistic enigma?
So you tell me, Jon, what have you listened to for a good time that isn't, after all, a 'traditional' song? Still playing the Mike Oldfield records, huh? Still whipping Yessongs on for a good time? Wanna count on one hand how many people have fun at a Sonic Youth gig? I'm not supporting The Choirboys, old man, I'm just saying that the day some jumped up over-paid self-important post-modernist cocksucker puts his foot upon his Fairlight computer in the middle of his 47 minute opus The Silent Forgiveness Of The Pig-God and belts out the chords to Johnny B. Goode is the day I'll join you at the footlights of post-modernism.
Besides which, pop songs sell more."

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

fROSTED Wrote:

wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISM

"Give me a pop-song, mate. Give me a fucking pop-song. Not only is it more fun, it's pretty fuckin' hard to write as well. You can bung in as many out-of-tune oboes as you want, but putting chords together so they sound pleasant isn't as simple as it might appear. It mightn't be the Sistine Chapel, but what is? Ollie fucking Olsen with his stupid feedback and cough mixture? The Jesus and Mary Chain, with their stupid feedback, and their stupid stage show with 800 powerful stupid lights and enough stupid dry ice to enhance their stupid stupidity up its own bullshit crappy teenage pretentious one dimensional dick witted puissant artistic enigma?
So you tell me, Jon, what have you listened to for a good time that isn't, after all, a 'traditional' song? Still playing the Mike Oldfield records, huh? Still whipping Yessongs on for a good time? Wanna count on one hand how many people have fun at a Sonic Youth gig? I'm not supporting The Choirboys, old man, I'm just saying that the day some jumped up over-paid self-important post-modernist cocksucker puts his foot upon his Fairlight computer in the middle of his 47 minute opus The Silent Forgiveness Of The Pig-God and belts out the chords to Johnny B. Goode is the day I'll join you at the footlights of post-modernism.
Besides which, pop songs sell more."

People like this should be encouraged.

Mick · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 1:13 pm

they've maintained a similar following to the Residents in terms of their persistant innacessibility and non-compliance. I love it how now matter how hard they try, they (were) still popular.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 1:59 pm

After further reading, I've decided that any band that titles songs things like "Martin Scorsese Is Really Rather A Jovial Fellow" and "I May Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt" deserves deeper investigation.

Also the outlandish theory that they may be The Wiggles amuses me no end, having met those dayglo dudes couple of times.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2006 2:34 pm

That football field interview thing alone makes me want to check them out.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

fROSTED Wrote:

Also the outlandish theory that they may be The Wiggles amuses me no end, having met those dayglo dudes couple of times.

Of all the theories listed, the Painters and Dockers makes most sense, although I don't know how they'd hide the Tasmanian origin.

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