Best Off (album)
Best Off[1] (stylised as tism.bestoff.) is a compilation CD by the Australian band TISM which was released on 29 July 2002 on the Genre B. Goode label.[2] It peaked at No. 44 on the ARIA Albums Chart.[3]
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| Released | 29 July 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 1985-2000 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 61:00 | |||
| Label | FMR / Genre B. Goode | |||
| Producer | TISM | |||
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Beat magazine's Bronius Zumeris opined that "Offbeat wit and profanity litter their work" while "Cynics argue that they are a puerile, one joke band trying to flog a dying horse" and the collection "is not a flawless appraisal of their 15 odd years of cultural/musical terror. But it does collate much of the essential TISM for the consumer society."[4]
The disc is a collection of TISM favourites from throughout their career and a few rare tracks which have become live fan favourites, such as "Death, Death, Death". Also on the disc are previously unreleased tracks, "Sid Viscous" and "The Phillip Ruddock Blues" (recorded in the De Rigueurmortis sessions) as well as a remix of "Defecate on My Face" by the Australian band Machine Gun Fellatio.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Originally released on... | Length |
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| 1. | "Defecate on My Face" | Defecate on My Face 7" | 4:50 |
| 2. | "Death, Death, Death" | Defecate on My Face 7" This version from Machines Against the Rage | 3:16 |
| 3. | "Saturday Night Palsy" | Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance | 2:54 |
| 4. | "I'm Interested in Apathy" | Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance | 2:50 |
| 5. | "I Drive a Truck" | Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance | 3:02 |
| 6. | "40 Years - Then Death" | Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance | 3:41 |
| 7. | "The History of Western Civilisation" | Hot Dogma | 3:00 |
| 8. | "I'll 'Ave Ya" | Hot Dogma | 2:14 |
| 9. | "Get Thee to a Nunnery" | The Beasts of Suburban | 2:41 |
| 10. | "Lillee Caught Dilley Bowled Milli Vanilli" | The Beasts of Suburban This version from Machines Against the Rage | 2:54 |
| 11. | "(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River" | Machiavelli and the Four Seasons | 2:24 |
| 12. | "Greg! The Stop Sign!!" | Machiavelli and the Four Seasons | 3:28 |
| 13. | "All Homeboys Are Dickheads" | Machiavelli and the Four Seasons | 3:07 |
| 14. | "Whatareya?" | www.tism.wanker.com | 3:38 |
| 15. | "Five Yards" | De Rigueurmortis | 3:14 |
| 16. | "Sid Viscous" | Previously unreleased | 3:33 |
| 17. | "The Phillip Ruddock Blues" | Previously unreleased | 7:13 |
| 18. | "Defecate on My Face" (MGF Remix, Sydney 2002) | Previously unreleased | 3:33 |
This Is Serious Mum: A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992
| This Is Serious Mum: A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992 | ||||
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| Released | July 29, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | December 1982-1992 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, dark ambient | |||
| Length | 64:22 | |||
| Label | FMR, genre b.goode | |||
| Producer | TISM | |||
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Original pressings of the disc came with a bonus CD titled This is Serious Mum which was, as the title indicated, a collection of bedroom recordings 1982 - 1992. This disc appeals to the hardcore TISM fan because every track on it has been in TISM's possession only and never before available, save for a few heavily edited tracks which appeared on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (1988). Other notable appearances on this disc are two early versions of songs, which gives fans a brief look at how TISM worked with songs in the studio. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Whittle Away My Furniture is noticeably slower than its release on Hot Dogma (1990) and You're Only As Good As Your Fans is a completely different style to the version renamed Play Mistral For Me which was released on Machiavelli and the Four Seasons (1995).
Track list
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Eckermann is Very Silly" | 2:58 |
| 2. | "The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi" | 3:30 |
| 3. | "Yassa Ara-Thin-A-Go-Go" | 4:57 |
| 4. | "I Go to Werribee" | 3:01 |
| 5. | "The Judeo-Christian Ethic" | 2:26 |
| 6. | "Ezra Pound, Axe-King
| 3:21 |
| 7. | "The English-Speaking Peoples" | 0:51 |
| 8. | "Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen" | 2:59 |
| 9. | "I Await the Coming of the Scottish Third Reich" | 2:40 |
| 10. | "A Tale of Two Fæces" | 0:21 |
| 11. | "Almost Blue" (by Ian Curtis) | 2:04 |
| 12. | "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped" | 3:09 |
| 13. | "Jumpin' Jivin' Jimmy "The Ghost" Joyce" | 3:21 |
| 14. | "Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants" | 3:20 |
| 15. | "Life is Fairly Silly, Really" | 1:43 |
| 16. | "Landscape, Seascape, Escape" | 2:27 |
| 17. | "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Whittle Away My Furniture" | 2:26 |
| 18. | "Somewhere in This School..." | 3:46 |
| 19. | "How to End All Suffering" | 2:34 |
| 20. | "Frenzy" | 1:13 |
| 21. | "I'm Gonna Treat Ya to a Neitszche Double Feature" | 2:17 |
| 22. | "You're Only as Good as Your Fans" | 2:18 |
| 23. | "My Geronation" | 2:23 |
| 24. | "This Morning I Had Work to Do" | 2:56 |
| 25. | "Tu e La Tua Razza fa'un Culo" | 1:13 |
References
- "The ARIA Report" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 5 August 2002. pp. 2, 5, 10–12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2002. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- "Best Off by TISM on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- Hung, Steffen. "Discography TISM". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- Zumeris, Bronius (31 July 2002). "TISM Self Storage". Beat. Retrieved 20 July 2016.