Www.tism.wanker.com
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www.tism.wanker.com is the name of a 1998 album by Australia
n alternative rock group TISM
(This Is Serious Mum).
The album title references an internet URL
which, at the time of release, was a subdomain (of wanker.com) provided by a friendly person overseas who had registered wanker.com, as TISM were not able to obtain their preferred domain, wanker.com.au, due to Australian domain regulations. However, the web hosting fees were not paid, subsequently it was taken down by the hosting ISP several months after launch and has not been available since.
Early editions of the CD featured a CD-ROM component. The program asks the user whether he or she wants to continue - repeatedly. Eventually, it responds "OK then. Downloading virus." No virus is actually downloaded, and this is another example of the band's warped humour.
Initial pressings of the album were shipped with a bonus disc. The CD in question looks like a blank CDR, with texta writing that reads 'Att: SHOCK RECORDS FAULTY PRESSING DO NOT MANUFACTURE'; thinking it was serious, some retail chains actually returned boxes of the "fake" CDs unopened. In reality, it featured a mixture of songs, poems and low-quality audio recordings of Hitler-Barassi and Flaubert discussing various topics whilst watching the Pamela Anderson
/Tommy Lee
sex tape.
The sleeve contains a choice of seven front covers for the album. Humorously, they are virtually identical, all consisting of a close up photo of an individual, masked, TISM member. Each is labelled with their name and states that they 'think(s) this should be the front cover'.
ing popular culture and engaging in toilet humour. The album also demonstrates a "serious" attempt by the band to divide Australian male culture into two groups - "yobs" (yobbo
s) and "wanker
s". This is best demonstrated in the lyrics of the third single, "Whatareya":
The rest of the song continues in a similar vein, including such distinctions as "The wanker fights class prejudice/The yobbo...just fights." Other targets on the album are nightclub
culture ("Dumb and Base"), Australian cricket
er Glenn McGrath
("The Parable of Glenn McGrath's Haircut") and teenagers ("Thunderbirds Are Coming Out").
". The first video released for the album was for "I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt
", and is a parody of the Mimi Macpherson sex tape. Two other videos, Whatareya?
, featured the band on an Aerobics Oz Style
-style television show and Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
, featured various bands of the day.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n alternative rock group TISM
TISM
TISM was a seven piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group was formed in 1982 and enjoyed a large underground/independent following. Their third album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons reached the Australian national top 10 in 1995...
(This Is Serious Mum).
The album title references an internet URL
Uniform Resource Locator
In computing, a uniform resource locator or universal resource locator is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource....
which, at the time of release, was a subdomain (of wanker.com) provided by a friendly person overseas who had registered wanker.com, as TISM were not able to obtain their preferred domain, wanker.com.au, due to Australian domain regulations. However, the web hosting fees were not paid, subsequently it was taken down by the hosting ISP several months after launch and has not been available since.
Early editions of the CD featured a CD-ROM component. The program asks the user whether he or she wants to continue - repeatedly. Eventually, it responds "OK then. Downloading virus." No virus is actually downloaded, and this is another example of the band's warped humour.
Initial pressings of the album were shipped with a bonus disc. The CD in question looks like a blank CDR, with texta writing that reads 'Att: SHOCK RECORDS FAULTY PRESSING DO NOT MANUFACTURE'; thinking it was serious, some retail chains actually returned boxes of the "fake" CDs unopened. In reality, it featured a mixture of songs, poems and low-quality audio recordings of Hitler-Barassi and Flaubert discussing various topics whilst watching the Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990...
/Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee
Thomas Lee Bass , best known as Tommy Lee, is an American musician and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects...
sex tape.
The sleeve contains a choice of seven front covers for the album. Humorously, they are virtually identical, all consisting of a close up photo of an individual, masked, TISM member. Each is labelled with their name and states that they 'think(s) this should be the front cover'.
Themes
The album consists mainly of standard TISM songs, parodyParody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
ing popular culture and engaging in toilet humour. The album also demonstrates a "serious" attempt by the band to divide Australian male culture into two groups - "yobs" (yobbo
Yobbo
Yobbo or yob is a slang term for an uncouth or thuggish working-class person. The word derives from a back slang reading of the word "boy" .-Britain:Dr. C. T...
s) and "wanker
Wanker
Wanker is a pejorative term of English origin, common in Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth countries, including Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. It initially referred to an onanist but has since become a general insult. It is synonymous with tosser.-Meaning:The term wanker...
s". This is best demonstrated in the lyrics of the third single, "Whatareya":
You're a yob, or you're a wanker
Take your fucking choice
So who is your favourite genius
James HirdJames HirdJames Hird is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the current coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....
or James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
?
The rest of the song continues in a similar vein, including such distinctions as "The wanker fights class prejudice/The yobbo...just fights." Other targets on the album are nightclub
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
culture ("Dumb and Base"), Australian cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er Glenn McGrath
Glenn McGrath
Glenn Donald McGrath AM , nicknamed "Pigeon", is a former Australian cricket player. He is one of the most highly regarded fast-medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to the early 21st century...
("The Parable of Glenn McGrath's Haircut") and teenagers ("Thunderbirds Are Coming Out").
Singles
The first single released for the album was "YobYob (song)
-Song:One of the main themes on the album www.tism.wanker.com is the distinction between the two classes of males, the yobs and the wankers. This song details the "ingredients" which go into making up a yob...
". The first video released for the album was for "I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt
I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt
"I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt" is a song by TISM, released as the second single from their album www.tism.wanker.com in 1998....
", and is a parody of the Mimi Macpherson sex tape. Two other videos, Whatareya?
Whatareya?
Whatareya? is the name of the third single by TISM off their album www.tism.wanker.com .-Song:One of the main themes on the album wanker.com is the differences between the cultures of male society, the Yobs and the Wankers...
, featured the band on an Aerobics Oz Style
Aerobics Oz Style
Aerobics Oz Style was a long-running Australian aerobic exercise instruction television series, shown in Australia on weekends and then weekdays on Network Ten at then and distributed to many other countries. It was cancelled by Channel Ten at the end of 2005...
-style television show and Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
"Thunderbirds Are Coming Out" is the name of a single by TISM. It featured memorable video clip of 30 bands all playing the song. The bands are shown one at a time by use of a dolly shot and ends just as TISM are on screen.-Song:...
, featured various bands of the day.