Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance

This article is about their debut album. For the private tape, see Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (private tape).

Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Studio album by TISM
Released	1988
Recorded	Platinum Studios January-March 1988 Trees Studios, Melbourne 3RRR Studios, Electric Leakland Premises The Venue, St. Kilda February 5, 1988 Trade Union Club, Sydney December 11-12 1987
Genre	Alternative rock, sound collage, shock rock, punk rock, spoken word
Length	69:48
Label	Musicland/Elvis, Shock, Festival Mushroom
Producer	TISM
TISM chronology
Form and Meaning reach Ultimate Communion (1986) Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (1988) Hot Dogma (1990)

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Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance is the debut album by the Australian band TISM. The album title was suggested by Sean Kelly's good friend, the well-known Australian philosopher Michaelis Michael. Originally released on vinyl as a double album, it was later re-issued as a single compact disc. The vinyl release has a different vocal mix on the track Saturday Night Palsy, including an alternate line of lyrics, with the vinyl release's line "I want to shoot heroin through the eye" replaced with the line "I want to shove a red-hot poker through the eye" on the CD.

The album reached #48 on the ARIA Charts in October 1988.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I'm Interested in Apathy"	2:55
2.	"Saturday Night Palsy"	3:21
3.	"The Mystery of the Artist Explained"	3:09
4.	"If You're Creative, Get Stuffed"	3:01
5.	"40 Years – Then Death"	4:18
6.	"Anarchy Means Crossing When It Says "Don't Walk""	1:31
7.	"The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie"	2:37
8.	"Choose Bad Smack"	3:00
9.	"The Fosters Car Park Boogie"	2:37
10.	"Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow"	3:01
11.	"I Drive a Truck"	2:12
12.	"Defecate on My Face"	4:42
13.	"Kill Americans"	2:16
14.	"Volare"	0:58
15.	"The Penis is Mightier than the Sword"	2:17
16.	"Slave to the Economist"	0:52
17.	"I Shit Me"	2:47
18.	"Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen"	0:55
19.	"Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown"	2:31
20.	"The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi"	0:39
21.	"And the Ass Said to the Angel: "Wanna Play Kick-to-Kick"?"	3:59
22.	"The Mordialloc Road Duplicator"	3:41
23.	"Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge"	1:12
24.	"Ezra Pound-Axe King"	1:35
25.	"Johnny To B. Or Not To B. Goode"	0:26
26.	"Morrison Hostel"	7:48
27.	"The Ted Commandments" (Unlisted)	1:08

iTunes bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
28.	"The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped" (Demo tape version)	4:18
29.	"Get Thee in My Behind, Satan" (Live at the Corner Hotel, 30 May 1988)	3:14
30.	"Babies Bite Back" (ditto)	3:16
31.	"(I think I've got) Mick Jagger Worked Out" (ditto)	3:03
32.	"ExistentialTISM"	3:38
33.	"Opium is the Religion of the Masses"	5:34