Australia the Lucky Cunt

Australia the Lucky Cunt is a five-track extended play released on 3 September 1993 by anonymous Australian alternative rock band, TISM. The title is a play on the expression "The Lucky Country".[1] The album illustrates the heavier rock sound TISM began using on Beasts of Suburban (1992) and was intended to be a promotional single for the band's next album, before that album was scrapped in 1994 and replaced with what became Machiavelli and the Four Seasons (May 1995). Due to controversy over the EP's cover it was re-issued in November as Censored Due to Legal Advice with new artwork.[2]

Australia the Lucky Cunt
Original cover art
EP by
TISM
Released3 September 1993
RecordedMetropolis Studios, July 1993
Melbourne Showgrounds, 24 January 1993
GenreAlternative rock
Length17:32
LabelShock Records/genre b.goode
ProducerTISM
TISM chronology
Beasts of Suburban
(1992)		 Australia the Lucky Cunt
(1993)		 Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
(1995)
Censored Due to Legal Advice
Re-issued in November 1993

Track listing
  1. "Lose Your Delusion 1"
  2. "Jesus Pots the White Ball"
  3. "Mr. Ches Baragwanath, State Auditor–General"
  4. "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the House of Representatives"
  5. "Recorded by JJJ, 24-1-'93, Melbourne Showgrounds"

Track 5 is often misidentified as being from 23 January; in fact the gig took place on the following day. Three other tracks from this gig circulate in the TISM community: "Saturday Night Palsy", "Get Thee to a Nunnery", the intro of which can be heard if you turn up the volume during the fadeout of the diatribe, and "Russia", whose studio version appeared on promo copies of Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, and was later put on an old version of the TISM website. Track 4's chorus is sung to the tune of "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward.

Controversy

The EP was withdrawn from sale one week after release following legal action being taken by artist and designer Ken Done due to the original cover art, which showed a Done-like koala with a syringe in its mouth. Subsequently, Done obtained an injunction order banning the sale of the EP.[3][4]

The EP was subsequently re-released in November 1993 under the title "Censored Due To Legal Advice", with new cover art depicting an incident where Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live (with the image of the Pope being altered to the TISM logo).

The EP was later deleted from the Shock Records catalogue, and its tracks were added to the 1997 reissue of Beasts of Suburban, as they had been in Collected Recordings 1986-1993.

References
  1. discogs retrieved 26 September 2010
  2. "TISM". The Weirdest Band in the World. 4 April 2012. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  3. Scatena, Dino (November 1993). "Random Notes". Rolling Stone Australia. No. 489. Sydney, NSW: Tilmond Pty Ltd. p. 11.
  4. Murphy, Kerrie (8 July 2004). "Satire and music in accord". The Australian. News Limited. p. 12. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
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