Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance

Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance is the debut studio album by TISM (or This Is Serious Mum), largely recorded between January and March 1988 at Platinum Studios in South Yarra, Victoria, and released 26 September 1988 by Elvis Records on vinyl, cassette and CD. It borrows its title from TISM's first private demo tape, recorded in December 1982, shortly after the band's formation (though none of the material from that tape is featured on the album).
A double album, Great Truckin' Songs contains a selection of songs which had become popular in the band's live sets on the first disc (including the band's previous two singles, "40 Years – Then Death" and "The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie"), while the second, subtitled "This Record is Not as Good as the Other One", features a collage of various material, including selections from the band's bedroom recordings.
The original vinyl release features an alternative mix of the song "Saturday Night Palsy", with the lyric "I want to shoot heroin through the eye" replaced with "I want to shove a red hot poker through the eye" on CD editions. The original lyric has been retained in most live renditions of the song, into the present day.
In 2022, the album was reissued by DRW Entertainment and genre b.goode on vinyl, cassette and an expanded two CD edition, featuring a second disc of mostly unreleased material arranged as a kind of "making of" documentary, titled "This CD is Not as Good as the Other One".
== Track listing ==
=== Original vinyl release (1988) ===
==== Disc One ====
===== Side A =====
# I'm Interested in Apathy (2:55)
# Saturday Night Palsy (3:19)
# The Mystery of the Artist Explained (3:09)
# If You're Creative, Get Stuffed (3:01)
# 40 Years – Then Death (4:18)
# Anarchy Means Crossing When It Says 'Don't Walk' (1:31)
===== Side B =====
# The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie (2:37)
# Choose Bad Smack (3:00)
# The Fosters Car Park Boogie (2:37)
# Martin Scorsese is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow (3:01)
# I Drive a Truck (2:12)
# Defecate on My Face (4:42)
==== Disc Two: This Record is Not as Good as the Other One ====
==== Side C ====
# Kill Americans (2:16)
# Volare (0:58)
# The Penis is Mightier Than the Sword (2:17)
# Slave to the Economist (0:52)
# I Shit Me (2:47)
# Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen (0:55)
# Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown (2:31)
===== Side D =====
# The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi (0:39)
# And the Ass Said to the Angel: Wanna Play Kick to Kick? (3:59)
# The Mordialloc Rd. Duplicator (3:41)
# Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge (1:12)
# Ezra Pound – Axe King (1:52)
# Johnny to B. or Not to B. Goode (0:26)
# Morrison Hostel (7:48)
# Untitled (1:04)
=== iTunes edition (2009) ===
# I'm Interested in Apathy (2:55)
# Saturday Night Palsy (3:21)
# The Mystery of the Artist Explained (3:09)
# If You're Creative, Get Stuffed (3:01)
# 40 Years – Then Death (4:18)
# Anarchy Means Crossing When It Says 'Don't Walk' (1:31)
# The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie (2:37)
# Choose Bad Smack (3:00)
# The Fosters Car Park Boogie (2:38)
# Martin Scorsese is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow (3:01)
# I Drive a Truck (2:12)
# Defecate on My Face (4:42)
# Kill Americans (2:17)
# Volare (0:58)
# The Penis is Mightier Than the Sword (2:17)
# Slave to the Economist (0:52)
# I Shit Me (2:48)
# Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen (0:55)
# Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown (2:32)
# The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi (0:39)
# And the Ass Said to the Angel: Wanna Play Kick to Kick? (3:59)
# The Mordialloc Rd. Duplicator (3:41)
# Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge (1:12)
# Ezra Pound – Axe King (1:53)
# Johnny to B. or Not to B. Goode (0:27)
# Morrison Hostel (7:48)
# The Ted Commandments (1:04)
# The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped (Demo Version) (4:18)
# Get Thee in My Behind, Satan (Live at the Corner Hotel, May 30, 1988) (3:14)
# Babies Bite Back (Live at the Corner Hotel, May 30, 1988) (3:16)
# (I Think I've Got) Mick Jagger Worked Out (Live at the Corner Hotel, May 30, 1988) (3:04)
# ExistentialTISM (Live at the Corner Hotel, May 30, 1988) (3:38)
# Opium is the Religion of the Masses (Live at The Club, June 24, 1988) (5:34)
=== DRW Enterainment CD reissue (2022) ===
==== Disc One ====
# I'm Interested in Apathy (2:55)
# Saturday Night Palsy (3:21)
# The Mystery of the Artist Explained (3:09)
# If You're Creative, Get Stuffed (3:01)
# 40 Years – Then Death (4:18)
# Anarchy Means Crossing When It Says 'Don't Walk' (1:31)
# The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie (2:37)
# Choose Bad Smack (3:00)
# The Fosters Car Park Boogie (2:37)
# Martin Scorsese is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow (3:01)
# I Drive a Truck (2:12)
# Defecate on My Face (4:42)
# Kill Americans (2:16)
# Volare (0:58)
# The Penis is Mightier Than the Sword (2:17)
# Slave to the Economist (0:52)
# I Shit Me (2:47)
# Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen (0:55)
# Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown (2:31)
# The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi (0:39)
# And the Ass Said to the Angel: Wanna Play Kick to Kick? (3:59)
# The Mordialloc Rd. Duplicator (3:41)
# Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge (1:12)
# Ezra Pound – Axe King (1:52)
# Johnny to B. or Not to B. Goode (0:26)
# Morrison Hostel (7:48)
# Untitled (1:04)
==== Disc Two: This CD is Not as Good as the Other One ====
# The Making of Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (42:30)
##The List of People Who TISM Think are Fucked in the Head (1:13)
##Saturday Night Palsy (original LP version) (3:16)
##The B Attitudes (2:13)
##All You Don't Know and All You Don't Need to Know (3:36)
##Ezra Pound – Axe King (1:09)
##Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge (0:38)
##Get Thee in My Behind, Satan (Live) (2:57)
##(I Can't Get No) Ariel Sharon (0:16)
##A Tale of Two Faeces (5:51)
##The List of People Who TISM Want to Get Fucked (2:21)
##Martin Scorsese is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow (Live) (3:12)
##I Drive a Truck (Live) (3:13)
##NAJEE Rock Awards Acceptance Speech (1:09)
##Morrison Hostel (Live) (5:24)
##Johnny To B. or Not To B. Goode (Full Version) (1:03)
##Defecate on My Face (Live) (6:08)
== See also ==
* Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (demo)
* Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance tour
* "40 Years (Then Death)"
* "The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie"
*"I'm Interested in Apathy"
* "Saturday Night Palsy"
* "Martin Scorsese is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow"
== External links and references ==
* Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance at Discogs
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