TISM discography

Australian alternative rock group TISM have released seven studio albums.

Albums

Studio albums

Title	Details	Peak chart positions	Certifications
Title	Details	AUS ^[1]^[2]	Certifications
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	ARIA: Gold^[2]
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

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
Title	Details	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

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
Title	Details	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

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

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

Title	Details
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance	Recorded: 30 December 1982 Nine song demo tape recorded at Ron Hitler-Barassi's house Unreleased; not to be confused with the later studio album of the same name "The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi" excerpted on the studio album Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance Four songs released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
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	Recorded: July 1983 Thirteen song demo tape Unreleased "The Art/Income Dialectic" released on Collected Recordings 1986-1993 "Kevin Borich Expressionism" excerpted on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
It's Novel! It's Unique! It's Shithouse!	Recorded: September–October 1983 Twenty-four song demo tape Unreleased "Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge" excerpted on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance Five songs released on bonus CD included with limited edition copies of Best Off
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	Recorded: January–March 1986 Twelve song demo tape Unreleased "Slave to the Economist" excerpted on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
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

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

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
Title	Details	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

List of singles that had a chart position within a national top 200
Title	Year	Peak chart positions		Album
Title	Year	AUS ^[4]^[9]	GER ^[10]	Album
"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"	1997	118	—	www.tism.wanker.com
"I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt"	1998	90	—
"Whatareya?"	1998	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

^ The White Albun did not enter the ARIA top 100 album chart, but peaked at number 14 on the DVD Chart.^[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

^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 282.
^ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 169.
^ "ARCA Desk Tape Series". Support Act. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^ "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.
^ ^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.
^ "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.
^
Additional peaks of songs in Australia:
- "The History of Western Civilization": "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.
- "Lose Your Delusion 1", "Jung Talent Time" and "Garbage": "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.
- "Yob" and "Honk If You Love Fred Durst": "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.
^ "TISM – Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (Song)". German Charts. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
^ 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.
^ "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.

[3] The White Albun did not enter the ARIA top 100 album chart, but peaked at number 14 on the DVD Chart.^[2]

[14] "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]

[AUS-1] 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.

[4] All except noted: "Discography TISM". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

[AUS_below_50-2] Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 282.

[4] "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2024.

[ARIA-5] Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 169.

[6] "ARCA Desk Tape Series". Support Act. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.

[7] "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.

[rerelease2021-8] "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.

[aus3a-9] "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.

[10] Additional peaks of songs in Australia:
"The History of Western Civilization": "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.

"Lose Your Delusion 1", "Jung Talent Time" and "Garbage": "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.

"Yob" and "Honk If You Love Fred Durst": "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.

[13] "The History of Western Civilization": "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.

[14] "Lose Your Delusion 1", "Jung Talent Time" and "Garbage": "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.

[15] "Yob" and "Honk If You Love Fred Durst": "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.

[11] "TISM – Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (Song)". German Charts. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.

[12] 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.

[13] "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.

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