"Defecate on My Face" | ||||
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Single by TISM | ||||
B-side | Death Death Death" "The Art-Income Dialectic |
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Released | June 1986 | |||
Format | 7" record | |||
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Genre | New wave, synthpop | |||
Length | 4:42 | |||
Label | Elvis | |||
Songwriter(s) | TISM | |||
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"Defecate on My Face" was the first single released by Australian alternative rock band, TISM. It was released in 1986 and became a mainstay of TISM's live show. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, it "explored the sexual interplay between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in Nazi Germany, and it became a dance club favourite."
The single was released on 7" vinyl packaged in a 12" cardboard sleeve sealed on all four sides, so that one side had to be broken to hear the record. The original single has become a collectors' item among fans.
Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, declared that "Defecate on My Face", "explored the sexual interplay between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in Nazi Germany, and it became a dance club favourite." It tells the story of Adolf Hitler and his rise through history as a great dictator. It follows his various successes throughout the Second World War, and in doing so, it reveals that his dramatic rise to power is made possible, or perhaps hampered, by his one weakness: he requires that Eva Braun defecate on his face, presumably as a fetish. When, one day she refuses, his dictatorship goes awry and several misfortunes befall him. The song reveals this to be the cause of the (real-life) failure of his plans to conquer the world, and his demise.
The idea of Hitler's coprophilia was first suggested in The Mind of Adolf Hitler, a psychological analysis prepared in 1943 for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) by psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer. One of the report's conclusions was that Hitler had "coprophagic tendencies or their milder manifestations" in his heterosexual relationships, and masochistically derived "sexual gratification from the act of having a woman urinate or defecate on him."
The chorus contains the lines: "There's trouble brewing in the Warsaw Pact; So hurry up Eva and move your digestive tract". The Warsaw Pact was not established until 1955, several years after Hitler's death. The song was written in D minor.