Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
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| Studio album by TISM | ||||
| Released | 2 June 1998 | |||
| Recorded | Kiss Studios, Seed Studios, Sing Sing, Rev. Ian Paisley Park Studios May 1997 – January 1998 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | genre b.goode / Shock FMR (3 December 2001 re-issue) |
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| Producer | TISM | |||
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| Studio album by TISM | ||||
| Released | 2 June 1998 | |||
| Recorded | Kiss Studios, Seed Studios, Sing Sing, Rev. Ian Paisley Park Studios May 1997 – January 1998 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock/Spoken word | |||
| Length | 56:55 | |||
| Label | genre b.goode | |||
| Producer | TISM | |||
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www.tism.wanker.com is the fifth album by Australian alternative rock group TISM (This Is Serious Mum), released in 1998. The album title references an internet URL which, at the time of release, was a subdomain (of wanker.com) provided by a friendly person overseas who had registered wanker.com, as TISM were not able to obtain their preferred domain, wanker.com.au, due to Australian domain regulations. However, the web hosting fees were not paid, subsequently it was taken down by the hosting ISP several months after launch and has not been available since.
Early editions of the CD featured a CD-ROM component. The program asks the user whether he or she wants to continue – repeatedly. Eventually, it responds "OK then. Downloading virus." No virus is actually downloaded, and this is another example of the band's warped humour.
The sleeve contains a choice of seven front covers for the album. Humorously, they are virtually identical, all consisting of a close up photo of an individual, masked, TISM member. Each is labelled with their name and states that they 'think(s) this should be the front cover'. It bears a resemblance to the cover of the album Dark Room by The Angels.
The album consists mainly of standard TISM songs, parodying popular culture and engaging in toilet humour. The album also demonstrates a "serious" attempt by the band to divide Australian male culture into two groups – "yobs" (yobbos) and "wankers". This is best demonstrated in the lyrics of the third single, "Whatareya":
You're a yob, or you're a wanker
Take your fucking choice
So who is your favourite genius
James Hird or James Joyce?
The rest of the song continues in a similar vein, including such distinctions as "The wanker fights class prejudice/The yobbo...just fights." Other targets on the album are nightclub culture ("Dumb and Base"), and teenagers ("Thunderbirds Are Coming Out").
The first single released for the album was "Yob". The first video released for the album was for "I Might Be a Cunt, but I'm Not a Fucking Cunt", and is a parody of the Mimi Macpherson sex tape. Two other videos, "Whatareya?", featured the band on an Aerobics Oz Style-style television show and "Thunderbirds Are Coming Out" featured various bands of the day.
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