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Adelaide Advertiser[1]
The Australian[2]
Herald Sun[3]
Rave (Brisbane)[4]

The White Albun is the sixth studio album by Australian alternative rock band TISM, released on 24 June 2004. The title is a reference to and deliberate misspelling of The White Album, an unofficial name for the album The Beatles. Ron Hitler-Barassi told The Age why the title was chosen "What we're doing here is basically what Jet are doing, which is taking The Beatles ideas and changing them a little bit at the end. If it's worked for Jet, it's going to work for us, that's what we're hoping."[5]

The album was released as part of a larger package containing two DVDs. The first DVD is titled A Film by Antonionioni which is a live concert called Save Our TISM. The concept for the concert was a telethon called "Save Our TISM", in which the band have rejected a merger with Powderfinger and need to raise AU$1 million, otherwise they will split up. At the end of the concert, only AU$999 999 is raised, and TISM split up, with fans throwing $1 coins onto the stage as they walk off.

The second DVD is TISM: A Docunentary (keeping with the 'n' theme) which features interviews with the band, a history of TISM and rare or previously-unreleased footage from TISM concerts, dating as far back as the band's first concert in December 1983.

The album was re-released on 10 November 2004 in a standard DVD case. On 17 September 2021, it was reissued on CD and double vinyl, with the CD including the "Save Our TISM" concert, albeit without the telethon interludes between songs, and the LP containing a bonus 7-inch EP, including four songs from the concert.

Track listings

The White Albun

CD 1: The White Albun
No.TitleLength
1."Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me"3:51
2."Bone Idol"3:16
3."Message from the Big Day Out Port-a-Loo"3:42
4."DJ Trevor"3:25
5."I Rooted a Girl Who Rooted a Guy Who Rooted a Girl Who Rooted a Guy Who Rooted a Girl Who Rooted Shane Crawford"4:13
6."The Birth of Uncool"4:45
7."As Seen on Reality"5:30
8."The Song of the Quarter Time Siren (Car Battery)"2:52
9."Diffident Strokes"3:40
10."Ken Bruce Has Gone Mad"3:22
11."Sorted for D'n'M"2:56
12."Cerebral Knievel"5:15
13."Tonight Harry's Practice Visits the Home of Charlie "Bird" Parker"5:43
14."Somebody Start a Fight or Something"2:49
15."Neck It"2:53
16."TISM Are Shit"3:28
Total length:61:53

A Docunentary

DVD 1: A Film By Antonionioni
No.TitleLength
1."M.C. / Intro"3:23
2."Untitled"3:20
3."Death Death Death Amway Amway Amway"3:14
4."I'm Interested in Apathy"3:11
5."40 Years Then Death"5:16
6."Sid Viscous"3:14
7."Saturday Night Palsy"3:08
8."M.C."2:00
9."5 Yards"3:04
10."Whatareya?"3:39
11."Diatribe"2:59
12."All Home Boys Are Dickheads"3:19
13."Root"3:26
14."Greg! The Stop Sign!!"3:25
15."I'll 'ave Ya'"3:23
16."(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River"2:27
17."TISM Are Shit"3:30
18."M.C."1:31
19."I Drive a Truck"2:12
20."B.F.W."3:30
21."Defecate On My Face"3:49
22."M.C. / End of Concert" (TISM Interviews)2:30
Total length:69:10

A Docunentary

DVD 2: A Docunentary
No.TitleLength
1."The Art-Income Dialectic" 
2."Gerard Manly Hopkins" 
3."Acrid" 
4."Root" 
5."All You Don’t Know and All You Don't Need to Know" 
6."The List of People Who TISM Want to Get Fucked" 
7."Death Death Death Amway Amway Amway" 
8."Death Death Death Amway Amway Amway" 
9."Death Death Death Amway Amway Amway" 
10."The Penis Is Mightier Than the Sword" 
11."I'll 'Ave Ya" 
12."Backstage" 
13."!UOY Sevol Natas" 
14."Give Up for Australia" 
15."Greg! The Stop Sign!!" 
16."All Homeboys Are Dickheads" 
17."Defecate On My Face" 
18."The Caveat Emptour (Won't Get Fooled Again, Again)" 
19."Got a Root Out of It" (Live in Concert for Channel V)3:50
20."Dumb 'n' Base" (Live in Concert for Channel V)4:16
21."Sickie" (Live in Concert for Channel V)3:11
22."TISM Explained" (TISM Interviews)21:32
23."Defecate On My Face" (film clip) 
24."Saturday Night Palsy" (film clip) 
25."Let's Form a Company" (film clip) 
26."Greg! The Stop Sign!!" (film clip) 
27."(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River" (film clip) 
28."I Might Be a Cunt But I'm Not a Fucking Cunt" (film clip) 
29."Whatareya?" (film clip)3:50
30."Thunderbirds" (film clip) 
31."Famous By Fourteen" (film clip)3:50
Total length:57:11

Charts

Chart performance for The White Albun
Chart (2004) Peak
position
Australian DVD Chart (ARIA)[6] 14

Release history

Release history and formats for The White Albun
Region Date Format(s) Edition Label Catalogue
Australia June 2004 CD + 2×DVD Standard Madman Entertainment, genre b.goode MMA2204
2004 Re-issue MMA2269
November 2004 Digital download Genre B.Goode —

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Articles". The Age. 1 July 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2007.
  6. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 282.
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