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Hot Dogma, released in 1990, is the second full-length album by anonymous Australian band TISM. It was their major record debut on Phonogram Records. The title comes from a joining of the two phrases Hot Dog, a snack, and Dogma, a specific religious belief.

Acceptance

Due to its large amounts of tracks, recurring themes between tracks and the culmination of TISM's rock period occurring on the album, it's said by some to be the best TISM album although many say their breakthrough 1995 release Machiavelli and the Four Seasons is their best.
Originally released on vinyl in 1990, the later released CD and cassette versions had more tracks than the original LP version. The version released in Collected Recordings 1986-1993 (1995) had fewer tracks than any previous.
The varying track listings is due to TISM not liking the album. Humphrey B. Flaubert stated "No, no, I didn’t like Hot Dogma. I wince when I hear it." continuing that "it did have some of good lyrics on it. I just hated the quintessentially 80s music on it. I’ve always thought that TISM has always been unfashionably – to our own detriment at times – sort of not sounding like anyone else. And sometimes that sort of sheer dagginess... that album... because..." (External Link

) Not finishing the thought, the conclusion was later drawn that guitarist at the time, Leek Van Vlalen, was to blame for the sound of the album as, according to Ron Hitler-Barassi "he was making us look bad".

Cover and liner notes

The cover of the album features what appear to be Chinese Red Guards carrying a large banner with TISM written across it and carrying what, on first look, appears to be Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, but is on closer inspection The TISM Guide To Little Aesthetics, a book by TISM which at the time of the albums release didn't exist. The artwork closely resembled posters of the time of Mao's reign.
   The Chinese on the cover translates into "United under the great red flag of".
   An alternate cover was intended to be used when Phonogram re-released the album on December 13, 1993 however, the original cover was used and the alternate artwork wasn't used for another two years when the album would be re-released again in the Collected Recordings box set.
   The back cover of the album has the track lists in Chinese. Supposedly a batch of the CDs with English track lists were printed by mistake and then shipped to Polygram's Asian markets.
   In one of TISM's many references to AFL football, the liner notes, which chronicle the rise and fall of TISM, their disbanding and their individual exploits around the world, were credited to E.J. Whitten, argued by some to be the greatest AFL player of all time.

After Hot Dogma

Due to TISM's extravagant nature for live show demands and other incidental requests from their label, TISM were fired from PolyGram after Hot Dogma, their only release on the record label, due to amounting thousands of dollars in debt.
TISM signed to Shock Records soon after, who bought and re-released TISM's back catalogue, starting with Gentlemen, Start Your Egos (1991), the cover of which has a picture of E.J. Whitten, the AFL star who was credited with writing the Hot Dogma liner notes.

Track listing

LP Version

"The TISM Boat Hire Offer"
"Existentialtism"
"While My Catarrh Gently Weeps"
"They Shoot Heroin, Don’t They?"
"Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 1"
"Whinge Rock"
"I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Whittle Away My Furniture"
"The TISM Finance Plan Offer"
"Leo’s Toltoy"
"The History Of Western Civilisation"
"Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 2"
"My Generation"
"Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 4"
"Let’s Club It To Death"
"Let's Form a Company"
"Life Kills"
"Pus Of The Dead"
"It’s Novel. It’s Unique. It’s Shithouse"

CD Version

"The TISM Boat Hire Offer"

"Existentialtism"

"While My Catarrh Gently Weeps"

"They Shoot Heroin, Don’t They?"

"Dazed And Confucious"

"Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 1"

"I’ll ’Ave Ya"

"Whinge Rock"

"The TISM Nightsoil Cart And Horse Blues"

"I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Whittle Away My Furniture"

"The TISM Finance Plan Offer"

"Leo’s Toltoy"

"The History Of Western Civilisation"

"Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 2"

"My Generation"

"I Don't Want TISM, I Want A Girlfriend"

"Kevin Borich Expressionism Part 4"

"Get Thee In My Behind, Satan"

"We Are The Champignons"

"Let’s Club It To Death"

"Let's Form a Company"

"Life Kills"

[Unlisted"Life Kills/Pus Of The Dead" segue]

"Pus Of The Dead"

"It’s Novel. It’s Unique. It’s Shithouse."Further Information

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