Pretty much everyone in australia wants this, I am mystified why they keep sending utterly milquetoast mum pop bores (I'll defend voyager tho, good guys)
Not unique for TISM, controversy surrounded the release of this track. The main lyric I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix enraged a number of people, with Red Hot Chili Peppers Australian-born bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary (a close friend of Phoenix) reportedly left "wanting to kill" TISM. TISM addressed this controversy in 2004: "By the same token, Hitler-Barassi says, "I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix", the line that famously enraged Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, "wasn't about River Phoenix at all. That song was about fame, and the people listed in it weren't even real celebrities." But did he get the opportunity to explain that to Flea? "I had him on the ground and I was just about to break his nose with my forehead and I said, 'You do know, Flea, that satire is a legitimate art form stretching back to ancient Greek drama?' And he said, 'Oh, that's OK then, Ron'. He's a good guy, Flea. He's a mate of ours," he adds unconvincingly.
Saw them in Darwin in the early 90's at Darwin High school, some festival, also Regurgitator played. TISM did a mad conga through the crowd and I got knocked over by them. Proud to be an Aussie that day.
I was at this gig, and about twenty others. TISM gigs were always huge fun. They regularly went into the crowd and had their masks and costumes torn off. After a few trips into the crowd they sometimes performed wearing nothing but a mask. You'd regularly see people leaving a gig wearing a mask they souvenired. Oh, and the camera you see Ron carrying into the crowd at 2:40 was taken off him and torn to pieces.
Looks like more than 20 in that crowd. Saw them many times over the years but the standout was their last show at earthcore in 2004 I think it was. Wild stuff, maybe it was the acid but they really let fucking loose. Miss these ratbags.
@@Hajenko I read the 20 thing the same way too 😂...then I read your comment ...🙌🏻 It's the little things that make life worth it! 👊🏻 And yeah it was 2004. There's a couple of minutes at the end of this video ruclips.net/video/rWABslqDOC4/видео.html
The old needle dance I remember I was like 7 my mum yelling to stop dancing like tism infront of my teachers at school singing what are ya 😹😹 thanks mum.
i vaguely remember some american rapper being interviewed on australian radio, talking about the controversy surrounding some of his lyrics. the hosts then played him this song in full as an example of how we do things in oz. he sounded pretty shaky for the rest of the interview.
It was actually this song that got TISM blacklisted from Big Day Out one year after Anthony Kaleides from The Chilli Peppers heard it and told BDO that they either blacklist TISM or the Chillis would pull out of the tour. Apparently Kaleides was a frind of River Phoenix or something like that. That said, Fleas an Aussie, so he probably thought it was fucking hilarious, being somewhat more used to australian humor.
I've always thought that TISM just wouldn't translate to an international audience lol! They're so bloody Aussie. Nothing is sacred, nothing off limits , but no insult intended, just speaking honestly 😆 Just putting it all out there. Predicted Jackos demise by a decade at least! 😳
tism know their funny... back then this song actually helped me accept what happened to river, by laughing about it! musically, they nailed the rave style... they could do any genre you could throw at them! bring back tism now, we need them!
@FrankCleocuz I believe the story/myth goes that he asked TISM to remove the song since River was a mate and so TISM agreed to do so if the Chilli Peppers beat them in a fist fight, it never went further.
This was an excellent gig. There was a production of "Othello" going on the stage above. I was asked in a vox pop for my feedback. I talked about the Shakespeare.
"SCOMO CAN TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for restructuring the Shape in the Education System Allowing Pride in Work of the National Student Population." - St. Sir HMAJW."
I saw this fucking astounding band at my local back in the mid 90's, they were all dressed in tight white KKK outfits. At the left of the stage an artist took to sheets of corrugated steel with an angle grinder and hammers. TISM have a MASSIVE sound!. Oh!, Flea took TISM to task over their song "You'll Never Be An Old Man River", a song about the death of River Pheonix. Flea simply showed up that he is part of what the Sex Pistols once called the "Conservative Rock Establishment".
I was introduced to this band thru a top weirdest bands video and usually weird can be synonymous with off putting or generally bad but me being very into punk and not knowing alot about Australian music I had to give it a go and bro this shit fucks 🤟
I had Humphrey B Flogart or however he spells his name butt naked except for a ski mask leap onto my shoulders and request I catapault him on to stage. Good times.
At a Big Day Out, they dressed as giant, inflated condoms for the entire set and did a bluegrass version of 'Defecate On My Face' , which was the song that broke them out as a JJJ song of the year.
Too bloody right! I just thought everyone had live music like we had in Melbourne in the 80's & 90's. They didn't. You could easily see 3 or 4 of the best pub bands ever on a good Saturday night. Then early this century we found out that this was an incredible time, unequalled anywhere! One Sat. Night we saw Uncanny Men, Painters & Dockers, and then Prince (yes, the purple one), playing an aprés gig at the place across the road from Luna Park. No hits, just 2 hours of the best improvising & guitar playing I've ever heard. We were so lucky!
"Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatry Hospitals: - restrict Freedom - monitor Patients body language - know subsequent Findings - research Thoughts - Control Beliefs - Sanity APROVED!!" - St. HMAJW."
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Lets face it... TISM would own the Eurovision song contest if we ever put them up as our entrant.
I never thought about them like that, but I agree 100%
They would have wiped the floor in Eurovision.
Pretty much everyone in australia wants this, I am mystified why they keep sending utterly milquetoast mum pop bores (I'll defend voyager tho, good guys)
Hilarious, I have airburst in my veins…
Mein Herz Brennt? Scharfer Sinn!
The psychiatric is incompetent in Sweden
Not unique for TISM, controversy surrounded the release of this track. The main lyric I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix enraged a number of people, with Red Hot Chili Peppers Australian-born bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary (a close friend of Phoenix) reportedly left "wanting to kill" TISM.
TISM addressed this controversy in 2004:
"By the same token, Hitler-Barassi says, "I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix", the line that famously enraged Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, "wasn't about River Phoenix at all. That song was about fame, and the people listed in it weren't even real celebrities."
But did he get the opportunity to explain that to Flea?
"I had him on the ground and I was just about to break his nose with my forehead and I said, 'You do know, Flea, that satire is a legitimate art form stretching back to ancient Greek drama?' And he said, 'Oh, that's OK then, Ron'. He's a good guy, Flea. He's a mate of ours," he adds unconvincingly.
"That song was about fame, and the people listed in it weren't even real celebrities."
My English teacher is in it.............awesome!
same!
Fucking love how that guitar cuts through the song like a knife through hot techno
Like butter drippin off a hot biscuit
Your description is perfect mate!
Saw them in Darwin in the early 90's at Darwin High school, some festival, also Regurgitator played. TISM did a mad conga through the crowd and I got knocked over by them. Proud to be an Aussie that day.
I'm keen as to see them play again!!
Did they play this song at the high school? 😳 🤣
@@hannahbutters7608 they used the high school grounds for the festival, not during school hours. Yeah they did play this song though.
@@justinprestage3021 ooooh i see 🙈🤣🤣
@@cheekywun did you see that regurgitator is there as well?
I still don't understand how this only has 400k views
"Now I'm bored and there's no stopping;
I need another celeb to fill a coffin;
Where'll I get my next drug action?
Odds on it'll be Michael Jackson".
Foreshadowing
An Aussie punk band. Effing great. I am 69 And I love them
They were not Punk, Paul, they were wild Colonial boys.
Nice
Niceu
Punk Banned you're an idiot it's comedy & rock.
@@jasonmorris858 it's punk as fuck
Come back lads.. We miss you and you're more relevant than ever.
2021 and even more
They soooo should
They're back!
They’re back mate!
They are back!
I cannot believe they're back! Can't wait for Good Things in December!!! Today is a good day for Australian music.
Wait what!!!!! Fuck YES
Gonna be sick! Everyone's gotta mosh to this
@@hmwpyro18 but i cant walk so yeah :/
Hope they are rocking their goon bag suits.
It’s gonna be sooooooo siiiiiiiiik
my brother took his own life on monday and i find this song very bloody comforting. Let it R>I>P. baby brother,
I was at this gig, and about twenty others. TISM gigs were always huge fun. They regularly went into the crowd and had their masks and costumes torn off. After a few trips into the crowd they sometimes performed wearing nothing but a mask. You'd regularly see people leaving a gig wearing a mask they souvenired.
Oh, and the camera you see Ron carrying into the crowd at 2:40 was taken off him and torn to pieces.
more info plz
that must have been lit as fuck my dudes
they are teachers from memory.
the masks are there so people don't recognize them
Looks like more than 20 in that crowd. Saw them many times over the years but the standout was their last show at earthcore in 2004 I think it was. Wild stuff, maybe it was the acid but they really let fucking loose. Miss these ratbags.
@@Hajenko I read the 20 thing the same way too 😂...then I read your comment ...🙌🏻
It's the little things that make life worth it! 👊🏻
And yeah it was 2004. There's a couple of minutes at the end of this video ruclips.net/video/rWABslqDOC4/видео.html
I love the line about Michael Jackson... who would have known??? TISM did!!
Oh man, so glad this is on RUclips again. This clip was down for a while.
This Is Serious Mum
I'd forgotten how much of a fvcking banger this song is.
This track still slams hard in 2025
TISM RULES! 2019 HERE, Y'ALL! *2023
seeing TISM at the Collingwood Town Hall is like seeing the Beatles at the Cavern - but good
The old needle dance I remember I was like 7 my mum yelling to stop dancing like tism infront of my teachers at school singing what are ya 😹😹 thanks mum.
I missed the live gigs,, Have the albums, it will never be the same, but i still have these cd's and still they still rock....
i vaguely remember some american rapper being interviewed on australian radio, talking about the controversy surrounding some of his lyrics. the hosts then played him this song in full as an example of how we do things in oz. he sounded pretty shaky for the rest of the interview.
We don't fuck about in Australia ... Ba ha ha ha
Was it Eminem?
Gold
It was actually this song that got TISM blacklisted from Big Day Out one year after Anthony Kaleides from The Chilli Peppers heard it and told BDO that they either blacklist TISM or the Chillis would pull out of the tour. Apparently Kaleides was a frind of River Phoenix or something like that.
That said, Fleas an Aussie, so he probably thought it was fucking hilarious, being somewhat more used to australian humor.
I've always thought that TISM just wouldn't translate to an international audience lol! They're so bloody Aussie. Nothing is sacred, nothing off limits , but no insult intended, just speaking honestly 😆 Just putting it all out there. Predicted Jackos demise by a decade at least! 😳
I miss TISM!!
I'm too old to be jumping around on a stage anymore. glad you enjoyed the vid.
Scoot on your ass like a dog and gum at a frozen apple slice
"This Is Serious Mum: 'I'M ON THE DRUG'."
"Odds on it'll be Michael Jackson."
Now, I know Murray was found guilty, but they hit the nail on the head.
I only got here cos Anton Newcombe of BJM said he liked them. Thanks Anton!
Saw these guys the night Sir Joh lost the election. Brilliant performance
"Religion is HOW a message is RELAYED!!"
- St. Sir HMAJW."
tism know their funny... back then this song actually helped me accept what happened to river, by laughing about it! musically, they nailed the rave style... they could do any genre you could throw at them! bring back tism now, we need them!
Same here mate, Pissed i missed them. This has been my ringtone for couple of years now too. Love this song
Never mix prescription drugs with alcohol, folks. RIP River and Heath.xx
fuck em ! 💉💊☺👎
The stage guy is the hardest working guy and they gave him heaps
Legend has it Flea is still triggered to this day
Now known as "fleabag"
One of the great Aussie bands
I was at that concert....😅
@FrankCleocuz I believe the story/myth goes that he asked TISM to remove the song since River was a mate and so TISM agreed to do so if the Chilli Peppers beat them in a fist fight, it never went further.
Bloody classic!
Tism was the only alternative band of the 90s to say This Is Serious Mum and really slam down the era right
Best live band ever....
This was an excellent gig. There was a production of "Othello" going on the stage above. I was asked in a vox pop for my feedback. I talked about the Shakespeare.
Repeat repeat , since I first heard this lovely jingle
Flee from the red hot chilli peppers loves these guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRING BACK TISM!
This is serious Mum.
Seen em 30+ times. Loved em.
One of the best in ya face.
I heart TISM to the moon and back.
sad I never saw them live, very sad., but they live on in my cd player,,FOREVER!!!!!! WooooHooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!
That made me spit my tea.
Big day out fuck I'm old I'm 36 now I miss my youth
"We are held to Our Body in Our speech!"! ! !
- St. HMAJW."
Live twice bloody AWESome
man i wish i was born a few years earlier to have seen these guys in action.amazing band.
Come to Launceston, Tassie tomorrow!
I love TISM
YESSSSSSSSSSS soooo gooood :0 love the dancing !!!
Come back, boys. All is forgiven.
these guys r freaking nuts
"Better to be Thought a fool than to Open Ones mouth and Remove all Doubt!"! !
- St. HMAJW."
This is my jam
Classic I love this song full on its my ringtone too!!!
homebake/ everey time. miss it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grant Scobie
or me
"Self standing Principles Never let You down."
- St. Trip."
love tism 4 life
Maybe it's the drugs speaking, but this is the best video/song ever.
The opening and closing lines are just fucking hilarious.
0:13 pretty sure Lady Gaga has copied that outfit
Damn. Forgot how fucking wild they were live. I will never have that much fun again.
worth saying twice!
Such great talent !
I was at this gig.. it was peculiar.
TISM rock!!!
Super Crazy!
"SCOMO CAN TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for restructuring the Shape in the Education System Allowing Pride in Work of the National Student Population."
- St. Sir HMAJW."
God we need TISM back more than ever to combat todays crazy times! LOL
"where's my next drug action...odds on it will Michael Jackson".....how right they were
bring back this dancin . oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
OUR FAITHE IN OURSELVES IS PROVEN:
Angels
Noble
Zealously
Advancing
Christ."
- St. HMAJW."
I saw this fucking astounding band at my local back in the mid 90's, they were all dressed in tight white KKK outfits. At the left of the stage an artist took to sheets of corrugated steel with an angle grinder and hammers. TISM have a MASSIVE sound!.
Oh!, Flea took TISM to task over their song "You'll Never Be An Old Man River", a song about the death of River Pheonix. Flea simply showed up that he is part of what the Sex Pistols once called the "Conservative Rock Establishment".
Awesome gig, even if I was off my face.
Aahhhhh, bad flashbacks to low ceiling venues. 😂😂😂
lyrical geniuses
I was introduced to this band thru a top weirdest bands video and usually weird can be synonymous with off putting or generally bad but me being very into punk and not knowing alot about Australian music I had to give it a go and bro this shit fucks 🤟
TISM FOR EUROVISION 2017 OR oceaniavision 2018.
pure genius
Very nice Mugatu Convention.
Their concerts must've been fucking wild.
they were. I was in the pt for this gig and many others, it was always an amazing night. Never was disappointed.
I had Humphrey B Flogart or however he spells his name butt naked except for a ski mask leap onto my shoulders and request I catapault him on to stage. Good times.
At a Big Day Out, they dressed as giant, inflated condoms for the entire set and did a bluegrass version of 'Defecate On My Face' , which was the song that broke them out as a JJJ song of the year.
TISM were a dance group.
I'm so fucking old
Me too
me too - but we had the best music :)
Too bloody right! I just thought everyone had live music like we had in Melbourne in the 80's & 90's. They didn't. You could easily see 3 or 4 of the best pub bands ever on a good Saturday night. Then early this century we found out that this was an incredible time, unequalled anywhere! One Sat. Night we saw Uncanny Men, Painters & Dockers, and then Prince (yes, the purple one), playing an aprés gig at the place across the road from Luna Park. No hits, just 2 hours of the best improvising & guitar playing I've ever heard. We were so lucky!
"You let out your agro you lose your PRIDE."
- St.
Tell
Your
Parents
Everything."
I was there
Veru cool.
This and winonas big brown beaver is my youth 😄 🤣
Fuck Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Besides just being a rocking energetic little ditty, anything that pisses off rhcpis A-OK in my book.
Where will I get my next drug action?
Odds on it'll be Michael Jackson
14 years too early but they were still right
They should come back with the mayan calander reset - surely that's what the predictions are all about, the 2013 album :)
TISM ARE THE BEST LULS
"Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatry Hospitals:
- restrict Freedom
- monitor Patients body language
- know subsequent Findings
- research Thoughts
- Control Beliefs
- Sanity APROVED!!"
- St. HMAJW."
I bet they danced like that to freak out all the people on lsd in the crowd back then
Needed
lol 1:17, security trying to pull him out of the crowd
lol they were tryin to pull his mask off
These days? This song is from almost 2 decades ago.