TISM – The White Albun
Genre B. Goode / Madman
-That’s not what motivates me, I’m interested in a DVD
Why just release a new studio album when you can
turn it into a box set packaged with two added DVDs?
As TISM might say of the idea, It’s novel. It’s unique.
It’s shithouse. DVD one is the legendary Save Our TISM
Telethon concert from Melbourne last year. TISM performed
an incredible show in front of a bank of volunteers
working the phones trying to raise a million dollars
or else the band would split up. At the end of the
show it’s announced that they are a dollar short and
the band exits while distraught fans chant TISM are
wankers. DVD two is a compilation of: historic live footage
spanning 1983 to 2002; Ron and Humphrey philosophising
on aspects of their youth; and all of TISM’s
film clips. Combined, this three hours plus of viewing is
as significant a contribution to Australian cultural history
as Shane Warne’s spinning finger is to sport. Then
we have the new album, sorry albun. Musically it’s as
bold as Diorama, its lyrics as insightful as anything Thom
Yorke could pen and it’s humour richer than the Big
Brother prize. Overall it’s more giving than John Howard
in pre-election mode. If you don’t agree, you can always
sing along to TISM Are Shit.
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