Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance

Infobox Album | Name = Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Type = Album
Artist = 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 Records
Shock Records (1991 re-release)
Festival Mushroom Records (December 3, 2001 re-release)
Producer = TISM
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifixq80ld6e]
Last album = "Form and Meaning reach Ultimate Communion"
(1986)
This album = "Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance"
(1988)
Next album = "Hot Dogma" (1990) |

"Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance" is the debut album by the Australian band TISM. 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 - the vinyl release's line "I want to shoot heroin through the eye" is 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

# "I'm Interested In Apathy"
# "Saturday Night Palsy"
# "The Mystery Of The Artist Explained"
# "If You're Creative, Get Stuffed
# "40 Years - Then Death"
# "Anarchy Means Crossing When It Says 'Don't Walk'"
# "The Ballad Of John Bonham's Coke Roadie"
# "Choose Bad Smack"
# "The Fosters Car Park Boogie"
# "Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite A Jovial Fellow"
# "I Drive A Truck"
# "Defecate On My Face"
# "Kill Americans"
# "Volare"
# "The Penis Is Mightier Than The Sword"
# "Slave To The Economist"
# "I Shit Me"
# "Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen"
# "Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown"
# "The Ballad Of The Semitic Nazi"
# "And The Ass Said To The Angel: 'Wanna' Play Kick To Kick'"
# "The Mordialloc Rd. Duplicator"
# "Jack Elliot's Turf Whinge"
# "Ezra Pound - Axe King"
# "Johnny To B. Or Not To B. Goode"
# "Morrison Hostel"
# "The Ted Commandments" (Unlisted)