Best Off (album)

Best Off
Compilation album by
TISM
Released29 July 2002 (2002-07-29)
Recorded1985–2000
GenreAlternative rock
Length61:00
Labelgenre b.goode /FMR
ProducerTISM
TISM chronology
De RigueurMortis
(2001) 		Best Off
(2002) 		The White Albun
(2004)

Best Off[1] (stylised as tism.bestoff.) is a compilation album by the Australian alternative rock band TISM, released on 29 July 2002.[2] The album peaked at No. 44 on the ARIA Charts.[3]

Reception

Bronius Zumeris from Beat magazine opined that "Offbeat wit and profanity litter their work" while "Cynics argue that they are a puerile, one joke band trying to flog a dying horse" and the collection "is not a flawless appraisal of their 15 odd years of cultural/musical terror. But it does collate much of the essential TISM for the consumer society."[4]

Track listing

Best Off
No.TitleAlbumLength
1."Defecate on My Face"Defecate on My Face 7"4:50
2."Death, Death, Death"Machines Against the Rage3:16
3."Saturday Night Palsy"Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance2:54
4."I'm Interested in Apathy"Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance2:50
5."I Drive a Truck"Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance3:02
6."40 Years - Then Death"Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance3:41
7."The History of Western Civilisation"Hot Dogma3:00
8."I'll 'Ave Ya"Hot Dogma2:14
9."Get Thee to a Nunnery"The Beasts of Suburban2:41
10."Lillee Caught Dilley Bowled Milli Vanilli"Machines Against the Rage2:54
11."(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River"Machiavelli and the Four Seasons2:24
12."Greg! The Stop Sign!!"Machiavelli and the Four Seasons3:28
13."All Homeboys Are Dickheads"Machiavelli and the Four Seasons3:07
14."Whatareya?"www.tism.wanker.com3:38
15."Five Yards"De Rigueurmortis3:14
16."Sid Viscous"Previously unreleased3:33
17."The Phillip Ruddock Blues"Previously unreleased7:13
18."Defecate on My Face" (MGF Remix, Sydney 2002)Previously unreleased3:33

Bonus disc

Initial copies of the album came with a bonus disc, This Is Serious Mum: A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992, containing 25 unreleased bedroom demos spanning TISM's first ten years.

This Is Serious Mum: A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992
No.TitleLength
1."Eckermann is Very Silly"2:58
2."The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi"3:30
3."Yassa Ara-Thin-A-Go-Go"4:57
4."I Go to Werribee"3:01
5."Ladies and Gentlemen: The Judeo - Christian Ethic"2:26
6."Ezra Pound, Axe-King
  • Part 1: The Ballad of J. Arthur White Australia Policy
  • Part 2: The Petty Bourgeois Revolution
  • Part 3: Art, Religion and the Neo-Classical Dialectic
  • Part 4: The Hairy Diadem"
3:21
7."The English-Speaking Peoples"0:51
8."Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen"2:59
9."I Await the Coming of the Scottish Third Reich"2:40
10."A Tale of Two Faeces"0:21
11."Almost Blue by Ian Curtis"2:04
12."The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped"3:09
13."Jumpin' Jivin' Jimmy "The Ghost" Joyce"3:21
14."Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants"3:20
15."Life is Fairly Silly, Really"1:43
16."Landscape, Seascape, Escape"2:27
17."I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Whittle Away My Furniture"2:26
18.Untitled (titled "(Somewhere in This School...)" on the iTunes release)3:46
19."How to End All Suffering"2:34
20."Frenzy"1:13
21."I'm Gonna Treat Ya to a Neitszche Double Feature"2:17
22."You're Only as Good as Your Fans"2:18
23."My Geronation"2:23
24."This Morning I Had Work to Do"2:56
25."Tu e La Tua Razza fa'un Culo"1:13
  • "The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi" and "Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen" previously appeared in excerpt form on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance.
  • The full version of "Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants" would later appear as a hidden track on the 2021 remastered reissue of This Is Serious Mum, the band's 1984 demo tape.
  • "You're Only as Good as Your Fans", "My Gerontation", "This Morning I Had Work to Do" and "Tu e La Tua Razza fa'un Culo" all reappeared on the 2025 boxset reissue of Australia the Lucky Cunt ("Tu e La Tua Razza..." as a vinyl-exclusive hidden track). The tracks were listed only as being recorded "sometime between 1990-92" on the original release of Best Off, but the boxset placed those recordings in November 1992.
    • The phrase tu e la tua razza vaffanculo, which "Tu e La Tua Razza..." alludes to, was first uttered in October 1991 on a demo recording of "Aussiemandias", which itself was included as a bonus track on the iTunes version of the band's 1992 EP The Beasts of Suburban and the 2023 box set of that album.
    • Lyrics from "My Gerontation" reappeared in the Australia the Lucky Cunt song "Jesus Pots the White Ball".

Charts

Chart (2002) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[5] 44

Release history

Release history and formats for Best Off
Region Date Format(s) Edition Label Catalogue
Australia July 2002 CD Standard genre b.goode TISM010
2×CD Limited edition (with A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992) TISM009
October 2009 Re-issue Digital download —

References

  1. ^ "The ARIA Report" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 5 August 2002. pp. 2, 5, 10–12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2002. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Best Off by TISM on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  3. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discography TISM". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  4. ^ Zumeris, Bronius (31 July 2002). "TISM Self Storage". Beat. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Australiancharts.com – TISM – Best Of". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 Jne 2021.
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