James Paull (Jock as we called him) was a close friend of my parents. He's dearly missed. Such an amazing talent, although you might not pick it here. He was classically trained and just amazing. He was never without his guitar. RIP jock.
You gotta love how TISM was able to take a TAC public service ad campaign, and turn it into a song about fatalism. I wish I had been old enough to understand that nuance at the time the song came out.
It's called life. You and I weren't old enough to get it then. We are *really* starting to appreciate the finer points now... and *that's* why they were brilliant. They managed to capture something absolutely universal and it endures - I'm loving it, gleaning more and more each time I revisit it. I'd give my right testicle to see them do a reunion show. (No mean feat, considering I wasn't actually born with any.. ) Rock on buddy!!
I love this song, its full of pure optimism. Everything is terrible, you could die any minute, nothing in life matters, so why not just go out there and do your fucking best?
As far as I know it was about my now brother in-law, it was not a stop sign it was a major car accident on what was then the South Eastern Freeway just near Punt Rd, going to the AFL/VFL Grand Final where he was working along with a band member. It was around 1990. They changed it for legal reasons but left the correct name, he survived and all is well, now married with 2 gorgeous children.
Grease Monkey Darren Millane. he "couldn't get past the semi". And if you met/knew any these guys in late 80s/early 90's all stuff about Prosecting QC doing blow in 1 of them. Another is a doctor. Is why they wore masks; public careers
This video takes me back to the mid to late nineties and those house parties in Fitzroy and North Melbourne in terrace houses. Every damn house had the hallway that went from the street to the concreted backyard with bedrooms off it.
Greg, the stop sign is about much more than the TAC ad, It's about not doing things that you know are wrong, not doing those stupid things your friends will cheer at but can ruin your life. And yeah, I met them too.
I always thought this song was moreso about the drink driving death of Darren Millane and his girlfriend than the TAC ad. Hence the football connection?
I was very disappointed to learn that the TAC ad which inspired this song did not in fact include the phrase "Greg! The stop sign!!". It was actually the infamous "Darren!" ad. Apparently TISM thought that 'Greg' sounded better when sung Beach Boys-style.
Best ode to the erroneous belief in the invincibility, the immortality, and most of all, the utter stupidity of youth. As GBS said: Youth is wasted on the young.
When I was a boy I got a summer holiday job through the student employment service at Monash working night shifts at this filthy factory in Cochranes Road. I have to be PC I know, but on night shift everyone was from North England or Scotland but me. I spent three months passing bricks up a kiln flue and they trusted me to make up batches of stuff while everyone else fart d around. The cunning buggers tried every phone in this factory until they found a phone that wasn't locked . . . and could ring England. All these likely lads were just so funny. We used to race forklifts . . . I crashed mine. Anyway, they other advice was not to go to the South Side Six in South Road coz even the old bastards wanted to fight. One day I'll recall the night I met Robbie Muir.... Ah St.Kilda at Moorabbin. Not as rough as Windy Hill but you used to stand in the outer with bloke in boiler suits straight from Saturday overtime. They brought huge Eskies with Melbourne Bitter 740ml steel cans and makeshift BBQ. The other thing I remember was inches of liquid wee everywhere coz the toilets where always rooted and the ground and car park just mud. Two champions and sixteen hacks. If you barrack for,the Sainters you must love Richmond because they are the only crapper team than the Saints. Morsi Bromberg, judge, Ajax and St.Kilda player and like anybody famous from Monash, an honorary member of TISM, the greatest south east Melbourne band we never knew, with apologies to,Jet, who,we did know. TISM, so suburban that they had the Melways map with Huntingdale Road on the Album cover, which was great to,look at if you were lost in Clayton while driving your parent's car to,the Ming Wing or the Rotunda.
The video reminds me of all the parties I went to in mid 90s North Melbourne. Dryburgh Street, Lothian Street, Errol Street. I was the guy lying in his own chunder more than once
@imsazcake They're fairly famous through their playing in TISM, but not in the sense of 'famous like Dieter Brummer' - except maybe Eugene de la Hot-Croix Bun, who is the uncle of Nic and Chris from Jet.
Nothing in any of our lives matter in any facet beyond what value we put on it. We do all we can to be successful when a twist of fate such as missing the stop sign can wreck it all in an instant. So since life is so pointless, go make a point out of it. Do your best, pass the test, and live for today.
Glad you like these This Is Serious Mum aka TISM videos! My VIMEO channel now has the missing TISM music videos that RUclips refuse to host. 🐓 TISM - Defecate On My Face vimeo.com/carbiewarbie/TismDefecate TISM - I Might Be A Cunt But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt vimeo.com/carbiewarbie/TismCunt
Way ahead of their time !!! Cult status will only grow stronger , If they where now ???? i didn't quiet fathom who or how good they were, Oz needs a TISM, scary the support they could gather , revolution, lead by TISM? why not.
I think this is kind of cool and funny now, but when I was 15 (when this came out) I thought it was seriously lame. I guess I suspected that they were trying to sell some kind of message, and I wasn't buying.
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Hello future person, yes we are still listening in *[insert date here]* . You have great taste in music too. Have a lovely day!
Only Australia could have a band like TISM. Good on them.
This is quite possibly the most poignant and most accurate song ever written about one's youth.TISM are goddamn philosophers
James Paull (Jock as we called him) was a close friend of my parents. He's dearly missed. Such an amazing talent, although you might not pick it here. He was classically trained and just amazing. He was never without his guitar. RIP jock.
'Genius. An electro-pop dance meditation on life, death, and futility. The best group since Devo.
Almost November 2022. 42yrs old and still listening in good old Sunbury Melbourne 👍❤️
Yes young people, the 90's were that much fun.
The most underrated band of all fucking time.
The Angels say Gday
You gotta love how TISM was able to take a TAC public service ad campaign, and turn it into a song about fatalism.
I wish I had been old enough to understand that nuance at the time the song came out.
+anonymouseketeamster they truly were amazing.
RoasterMcdougalify
Even though they're not together anymore, they _still are_. :D
Care to enlighten me on the background?
D0nCed of what?
It's called life. You and I weren't old enough to get it then. We are *really* starting to appreciate the finer points now... and *that's* why they were brilliant. They managed to capture something absolutely universal and it endures - I'm loving it, gleaning more and more each time I revisit it.
I'd give my right testicle to see them do a reunion show. (No mean feat, considering I wasn't actually born with any.. )
Rock on buddy!!
"Being a Junkie's not so good either..."
S'alright
I love this song, its full of pure optimism. Everything is terrible, you could die any minute, nothing in life matters, so why not just go out there and do your fucking best?
this band is not nearly popular enough
they're incredible
Man, this song is genius.
Love the Shadows parody in the middle of the song.
Best live band ever.
Love it that they filmed in the mighty Saints' locker rooms, but sad that 'your a professional' was written on the wall *facepalm*
As far as I know it was about my now brother in-law, it was not a stop sign it was a major car accident on what was then the South Eastern Freeway just near Punt Rd, going to the AFL/VFL Grand Final where he was working along with a band member. It was around 1990. They changed it for legal reasons but left the correct name, he survived and all is well, now married with 2 gorgeous children.
Grease Monkey Darren Millane. he "couldn't get past the semi". And if you met/knew any these guys in late 80s/early 90's all stuff about Prosecting QC doing blow in 1 of them. Another is a doctor. Is why they wore masks; public careers
one worked with my brother in law in the media, behind the scenes
I still remember the old TAC ad that this song was inspired by!
This video takes me back to the mid to late nineties and those house parties in Fitzroy and North Melbourne in terrace houses. Every damn house had the hallway that went from the street to the concreted backyard with bedrooms off it.
I probably punched cones with you at one such party in the 90’s
"Do your homework or wag for weeks"
ngl, always heard wag as wank
Tasty tune this is 🎸🤟
Was having a terrible few days. Happy to stumble upon this picked me up for some reason
I reckon it's still my favourite rap song ever..... Plus I'm a Saints supporter.... Tim's rocks
fuck i love aussie music...or at least the way it used to be...this shit is genius af..
Saints returning to Moorabbin - I can't stop playing this in my mind
Thank god we're no longer in the era where SOS and such is necessary!
Still here in 2021
How did they write this song many years before my work mate Greg, got pulled up for not stopping at a stop sign? 😅
Still Listening in 2021
This is seriously awesome mum!
I kept waiting for a better band than TISM. Is that too much to ask?
Still waiting ...
i want to form a band like them.
Still waiting...
Greg, the stop sign is about much more than the TAC ad, It's about not doing things that you know are wrong, not doing those stupid things your friends will cheer at but can ruin your life. And yeah, I met them too.
Who saw TISM at The Playroom about 15 times in the 90's?????
orange avocado I used to see TISM at the Palace, St Kilda in the late 80's. Fark they are good.
just the right song for all those final year students
I can't help but think "GENTLEMEN" Every time I see one of their videos.
Just realised how much I like this song. Reminds me of the 90s
The sign reads: "Your a professional keep it simple"
Was that on purpose? You're you are
love TISM. Too fast to furious for the sheeple
i love that you edited it and still fucked it up. you've earned your thumbs up.
this is relevant again 2 years later
The hallowed ground of Moorabbin. I went there just because TISM stood their ground on this very grass. SOS.
I think someone should do a parady, "Greig the stop sign" in memorandum of Tony Greig. Max Willies, feel like singing some tunes?
the next generation need to hear this or it's all down hill.
0:30 always reminds me of a criminal mastermind stating his evil plan.
best song ever
Great that the Saints have finally returned to Moorabbin.
I always thought this song was moreso about the drink driving death of Darren Millane and his girlfriend than the TAC ad. Hence the football connection?
Betting the chorus started as a joke around Hair with "Let the sunshine..."
I bet you're right!
You're a professional.
Zero premierships since this film clip
Brilliant
756 of these viewings are mine
Bullshit,they're mine
I was very disappointed to learn that the TAC ad which inspired this song did not in fact include the phrase "Greg! The stop sign!!". It was actually the infamous "Darren!" ad. Apparently TISM thought that 'Greg' sounded better when sung Beach Boys-style.
Best ode to the erroneous belief in the invincibility, the immortality, and most of all, the utter stupidity of youth.
As GBS said: Youth is wasted on the young.
This is great!! Go the saints!
When I was a boy I got a summer holiday job through the student employment service at Monash working night shifts at this filthy factory in Cochranes Road. I have to be PC I know, but on night shift everyone was from North England or Scotland but me. I spent three months passing bricks up a kiln flue and they trusted me to make up batches of stuff while everyone else fart d around. The cunning buggers tried every phone in this factory until they found a phone that wasn't locked . . . and could ring England.
All these likely lads were just so funny. We used to race forklifts . . . I crashed mine. Anyway, they other advice was not to go to the South Side Six in South Road coz even the old bastards wanted to fight. One day I'll recall the night I met Robbie Muir....
Ah St.Kilda at Moorabbin. Not as rough as Windy Hill but you used to stand in the outer with bloke in boiler suits straight from Saturday overtime. They brought huge Eskies with Melbourne Bitter 740ml steel cans and makeshift BBQ. The other thing I remember was inches of liquid wee everywhere coz the toilets where always rooted and the ground and car park just mud. Two champions and sixteen hacks. If you barrack for,the Sainters you must love Richmond because they are the only crapper team than the Saints. Morsi Bromberg, judge, Ajax and St.Kilda player and like anybody famous from Monash, an honorary member of TISM, the greatest south east Melbourne band we never knew, with apologies to,Jet, who,we did know.
TISM, so suburban that they had the Melways map with Huntingdale Road on the Album cover, which was great to,look at if you were lost in Clayton while driving your parent's car to,the Ming Wing or the Rotunda.
TISM are the best m8
timeless
TISM the most under valued contribution to oz music
before my end of year exams ..... that's the buzz!
They look like the Blues Mascot!
This is my favorite TISM song....... me thinks"
Who a thunk it tism the best band in the world!
If I ever get pulled over a cop in this situation, I'm going to say it. Unfortunately never have.
FUCKING ICONIC MELB CHESTNUT
Does anyone have the original ad and the audio with it?
"There's more men in children than wisdom knows."
I fucking miss tism
ahhh memories :D
best song. i wonder if they would ever reveal who they are. i know that one of them died but still. love this song. GO SWANS!!
The video reminds me of all the parties I went to in mid 90s North Melbourne. Dryburgh Street, Lothian Street, Errol Street. I was the guy lying in his own chunder more than once
Risperdali I grew up in regional Queensland but even in the early 2000s this song would unite any drinking session into an uproarious singalong!
haha! i live there!😄😄😄
I F@#KN LOVE this song
@imsazcake They're fairly famous through their playing in TISM, but not in the sense of 'famous like Dieter Brummer' - except maybe Eugene de la Hot-Croix Bun, who is the uncle of Nic and Chris from Jet.
Nothing in any of our lives matter in any facet beyond what value we put on it. We do all we can to be successful when a twist of fate such as missing the stop sign can wreck it all in an instant. So since life is so pointless, go make a point out of it. Do your best, pass the test, and live for today.
You know way more about this than any sane person needs to know. I suspect you have a touch of the tism too. >_> :P
The three dislikes are TAC officials...
What's with the scores for David and Margaret?
G Rob V1 David & Margaret were film reviewers on The Movie Show
@@Bryce_C. yeah but why are they featured?
My bf's name is Greg and he had never heard this song before. I don't know why he wasn't instantly dumped!
Glad you like these This Is Serious Mum aka TISM videos!
My VIMEO channel now has the missing TISM music videos that RUclips refuse to host. 🐓
TISM - Defecate On My Face
vimeo.com/carbiewarbie/TismDefecate
TISM - I Might Be A Cunt But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt
vimeo.com/carbiewarbie/TismCunt
your're is spelt wrong on the saints locker room wall
+Alan Louis
You're is spelt wrong in you comment...
+Alan Louis This is sadly ironic.
+Alan Louis I see it each time I watch this clip :-)
and also in your comment.
In your comment too, champ
Greg you missed the stop sign
Way ahead of their time !!! Cult status will only grow stronger , If they where now ???? i didn't quiet fathom who or how good they were, Oz needs a TISM, scary the support they could gather , revolution, lead by TISM? why not.
The singing spy chorus..
It was the TAC (Transport Accident Commission).
GO THE SAINTS
In WA currently we have a semi-crisis with young cashed-up mine-workers
who are spending too much of their income on booze and drugs.
@AliceeJanee Did you meet them when they were unmasked?? I heard that the guys in TISM were actually fairly famous guys in disguise, is this true?
At least 2 were high school teachers at the time
@imsazcake Wouldnt surprise me if the guy singing about 2:10 was Rick Astley lol
Wasn't it put out by the TAC?
Does anyone have or know where there’s a clip of the original ad this song is referring to?
Your a professional... keep it simple!
Did anyone else notice this grammatical error in the locker room? Was it deliberate?
@ilikehams Tokin' Blackman (first billed as Tony Coitus) (James Paull): Guitar (1992-2008) died of cancer, so the answer is probably no.
Let the Sunshine in!
I think this is kind of cool and funny now, but when I was 15 (when this came out) I thought it was seriously lame. I guess I suspected that they were trying to sell some kind of message, and I wasn't buying.
I swear I can hear Tony Martin from Martin/Molloy singing.
Did it actually say "YOUR a professional" on the St Kilda wall?
this band is better then the beatles
I thought I heard a semitrailer!!!
which oval? Dons?
I'll go and check on him. He's just lying there
hmmm magic
@AliceeJanee sure you have,,lol
Currently? Always has been the case. Also how much is too much? lol