Hot Dogma

* CD, LP and digital
* Cassette
* Promo cassette

***Hot Dogma*** is the second studio album by TISM, recorded between 1989 and 1990 with producers Peter Blyton and Laurence Maddy, and released on vinyl, CD and cassette on 1st October 1990. It was the band's first album to be released on a major label - Phonogram, a subsidiary of PolyGram.

*Hot Dogma* compiles a selection of TISM's "most banal leftover ideas"; largely a number of tracks which originated on their late 1988 demo tapes *Free Nelson Mandella – With Every Record* and *Three Blake and a Dollar's Worth of Chips*. It was released alongside the band's long-awaited book, *The TISM Guide to Little Aesthetics*, which is promoted heavily within the album's cover artwork.

The vinyl edition is the shortest version of the album; the CD, cassette and digital versions contain an additional twenty minutes of material, including the A and B sides of the 1989 single "I Don't Want TISM I Want a Girlfriend".

In 2009 the album was reissued on iTunes, with a slightly re-arranged track listing and five bonus songs from the "*Hot Dogma* Rehearsal Tapes", retitled ***Hot Dogma (Prisoner of Satiety)***. The CD version of the album (albeit with a slightly re-arranged track listing) was reissued to streaming platforms alongside the rest of the band's mainline catalogue in 2020.

## Track listing

### Original vinyl release (1990)

#### Side A (Synopsis: Act One)

1. The TISM Boat Hire Offer (2:53)
2. ExistentialTISM (3:31)
3. While My Catarrh Gently Weeps (5:18)
4. They Shoot Heroin, Don't They? (2:52)
5. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 1 (0:22)
6. Whinge Rock (2:34)
7. (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Furniture (2:11)
8. The TISM Finance Plan Offer (2:29)
9. Leo's Toltoy (4:00)

#### Side B (Synopsis: Act Two)

1. The History of Western Civilisation (3:00)
2. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 2 (0:22)
3. My Generation (3:20)
4. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 4 (0:24)
5. Let's Club It to Death (2:44)
6. Let's Form a Company (4:07)
7. Life Kills (5:52)
8. Pus of the Dead (2:38)
9. It's Novel. It's Unique. It's Shithouse. (1:44)

### CD release (1990)

1. The TISM Boat Hire Offer (2:53)
2. ExistentialTISM (3:31)
3. While My Catarrh Gently Weeps (5:18)
4. They Shoot Heroin, Don't They? (2:49)
5. Dazed and Confuscious (5:30)
6. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 1 (0:22)
7. I'll 'Ave Ya (2:34)
8. Whinge Rock (2:34)
9. The TISM Nightsoil Cart and Horse Blues (2:37)
10. (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Furniture (2:10)
11. The TISM Finance Plan Offer (2:29)
12. Leo's Toltoy (4:04)
13. The History of Western Civilisation (3:00)
14. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 2 (0:22)
15. My Generation (3:20)
16. I Don't Want TISM I Want a Girlfriend (4:06)
17. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 4 (0:24)
18. Get Thee in My Behind, Satan (3:02)
19. We Are the Champignons (2:13)
20. Let's Club It to Death (2:44)
21. Let's Form a Company (4:07)
22. Life Kills (3:35)
23. Untitled (2:15)
24. Pus of the Dead (2:34)
25. It's Novel. It's Unique. It's Shithouse. (1:44)

### *Prisoner of Satiety* iTunes edition (2009)

1. The TISM Boat Hire Offer (2:53)
2. ExistentialTISM (3:30)
3. While My Catarrh Gently Weeps (5:18)
4. They Shoot Heroin, Don't They? (2:49)
5. Dazed and Confucious (5:30)
6. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 1 (0:22)
7. I'll 'Ave Ya (2:15)
8. Whinge Rock (2:34)
9. The TISM Nightsoil Cart and Horse Blues (2:37)
10. (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Furniture (2:10)
11. The TISM Finance Plan Offer (2:29)
12. Leo's Toltoy (4:04)
13. The History of Western Civilisation (3:00)
14. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 2 (0:22)
15. My Generation (3:20)
16. I Don't Want TISM I Want a Girlfriend (4:06)
17. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 4 (0:25)
18. Get Thee in My Behind, Satan (3:02)
19. We Are the Champignons (2:13)
20. Let's Club It to Death (2:46)
21. Let's Form a Company (4:07)
22. Life Kills (5:51)
23. Pus of the Dead (2:34)
24. It's Novel! It's Unique! It's Shithouse! (song) (1:45)
25. The Ball That Doesn't Turn, But Goes Straight On with the Arm (From the *Hot Dogma* Rehearsal Tapes) (1:44)
26. The TISM Finance Plan Offer (From the *Hot Dogma* Rehearsal Tapes) (2:46)
27. Put Your Dog to Sleep (From the *Hot Dogma* Rehearsal Tapes) (3:16)
28. Naked Movie Star (From the *Hot Dogma* Rehearsal Tapes) (2:36)
29. (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Furniture (From the *Hot Dogma* Rehearsal Tapes) (2:10)

### Streaming edition (2020)

1. The TISM Boat Hire Offer (2:54)
2. ExistentialTISM (3:30)
3. While My Catarrh Gently Weeps (5:18)
4. They Shoot Heroin, Don't They? (2:49)
5. Dazed and Confucious (5:31)
6. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 1 (0:22)
7. I'll 'Ave Ya (2:15)
8. Whinge Rock (2:34)
9. The TISM Nightsoil Cart and Horse Blues (2:36)
10. (I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Furniture (2:11)
11. The TISM Finance Plan Offer (2:29)
12. Leo's Toltoy (4:04)
13. The History of Western Civilisation (3:00)
14. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 2 (0:22)
15. Get Thee in My Behind, Satan (3:02)
16. My Generation (3:20)
17. We Are the Champignons (2:13)
18. Let's Club It to Death (2:46)
19. Let's Form a Company (4:07)
20. Life Kills (5:51)
21. Pus of the Dead (2:34)
22. It's Novel. It's Unique. It's Shithouse. (1:45)
23. I Don't Want TISM I Want a Girlfriend (4:06)
24. Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 4 (0:25)

## *Hot Dogma – The Interview Disc*

### Label

Phonogram

Initial copies of *Hot Dogma* also included a promotional white label 7" single titled **"Hot Dogma – The Interview Disc"**; the disc depicts TISM's answers to a set of listed questions, intended for radio interviewers to record themselves asking the band the questions, to create a complete interview for radio.

Both sides of the 7" contain the same set of answers.

### The interview

#### Your new album is on PolyGram, will you change now that you're signed to a major label?

**Humphrey B. Flaubert:** We, uh... we hope so. We feel confident that PolyGram can only benefit from the greater corporate muscle that we can put behind their art. They were a little concerned about some of the military dictatorships that our overseas profits have funded... but once we've cleared that little matter up, I feel we can really break PolyGram big in Australia. We wouldn't have signed them otherwise.

#### How did you guys come to be in a band?

**Ron Hitler-Barassi:** We were all forced into the drug-taking, avant-garde world by our wealthy parents at an early age. I guess being in a rock 'n' roll band is the best way to annoy your parents, and we were all drawn to the, uh... innate conservatism of rock 'n' roll. You know, the usual scenario: spoilt brat arty bohemians, denying their rich upbringing and embracing suburban family life. Black man, black woman, white baby. White man, white woman, black baby.

#### Your live shows have a reputation for being pretty wild affairs. Do you deliberately set out to work up your audience?

**Ron Hitler-Barassi:** We think they should respect their parents.

#### What kind of people come to your shows?

**Humphrey B. Flaubert:** Mainly young girls. I think they find mystery alluring. Could be the live aerobic sexuality of our dance steps, perhaps. Anyway, they come by the truckload. Pretty young girls, scantily-clad young girls. Actually, uh, we keep a floppy disc with names and addresses of our female fans all over the country. When we go to Newtown, we invite the girls there to come to one of our regular seminars on the exploitation of females in rock.

#### Your new album "Hot Dogma" is pretty amazing - over an hour of music, all kinds of different styles; what can you tell us about it?

**Humphrey B. Flaubert:** Well, I guess you could say this album presents a richer, more musical side to the band. A kind of... subtle, textural quality, whilst still maintaining the aggression and iconoclastic vision that we've held firmly since we began. You could say that, but you'd be lying.

#### OK, so you obviously prefer not to give much away in interviews. Why is that?

**Humphrey B. Flaubert:** Well, you are a self-respecting DJ, aren't you?

#### I am a self-respecting DJ...

**Humphrey B. Flaubert:** You'd like to feel you have a certain feel for what's going down?

#### I do think I have a feel for what's going down...

**Humphrey B. Flaubert:** You have a *duty* to your audience, don't you?

#### I do have a certain duty towards my audience...

**Humphrey B. Flaubert:** Does anyone actually listen to your show?

## See also

* *The TISM Guide to Little Aesthetics*
* Hot Dogma tour
* "I Don't Want TISM I Want a Girlfriend"
* "The History of Western Civilisation"
* "Let's Form a Company"
* *Hot Dogma Sing Sing Sessions*

## External links and references

* *Hot Dogma* at Discogs
* "Hot Dogma – The Interview Disc" at Discogs