It's Novel! It's Unique! It's Shithouse! (demo tape)

It's Novel! It's Unique! It's Shithouse! is the fourth home demo tape by This Is Serious Mum, recorded in September and October 1983. It contains twenty-four songs, among them an early version of "Mistah Eliot - He Wanker" (later re-recorded for the mini-album Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion in 1986). 
The tape remains unreleased in its entirety, however a handful of excerpts have seen official release: an excerpt of "Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge" was featured on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance, and five songs from the demo ("I Await the Coming of the Scottish Third Reich", "A Tale of Two Faeces", "Almost Blue by Ian Curtis", "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped" and "(Jumpin' Jivin') Jimmy 'The Ghost' Joyce") were released on the limited edition of the compilation album Best Off in 2002. "Man Was Born Free and Everywhere He Is in Changing Rooms" was released as an unlisted bonus track on the vinyl and CD reissues of the This Is Serious Mum demo in 2021.
The tape's title was later borrowed for a song, "It's Novel! It's Unique!! It's Shithouse!!!", featured on their second album, Hot Dogma, in 1990.
== Track listing ==
# Crime Against the Spirit Oo Poo Pee Doo
# Terese Rowe 13 Brynor Cresent Glen Waverley 6516896
# Man Was Born Free and Everywhere He Is in Changing Rooms (2:59)
# In Times of Trouble, Poetry Gives Me AIDS
# William Blake Was Crackers
# I'm His Because He Gives Good Face
# Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge
# When You're Happy and You Know It, Kill Yourself
# Mistah Eliot - He Wanker
# Great Times in the Reichstag
# Raskolnikov's Dilemma
# I Await the Coming of the Scottish Third Reich (2:40)
# Eyes From Under the Beret
# I'm Style Deaf
# The Penis is Mightier Than the Sword
# Opium is the Religion of the Masses (or Mein Kampf-fire Has Gone Out)
# The War-Wound Between the Legs Controls the Universe of Love
# A Tale of Two Faeces (0:31)
# Almost Blue by Ian Curtis (2:05)
# Eviction Notice
# The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped (3:10)
# (Jumpin' Jivin') Jimmy 'The Ghost' Joyce (3:21)
# Sometimes, But Not Often, and in Fact Now That I Think About It, Never
# Screaming Mongoloid Unbound Acts 1-4
== See also ==
* "Mistah Eliot - He Wanker" (song)
* This Is Serious Mum (demo)
* Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
* Best Off
== External links ==
* It's Novel! It's Unique! It's Shithouse! at Rate Your Music
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