Best Off (album) explained

Best Off
Type:	compilation
Artist:	TISM
Cover:	Bestoff cover.jpg
Recorded:	1985–2000
Genre:	Alternative rock
Label:	genre b.goode /FMR
Producer:	TISM
Prev Title:	De RigueurMortis
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	The White Albun
Next Year:	2004

Best Off^[1] (stylised as tism.bestoff.) is a compilation album by the Australian alternative rock band TISM, released on 29 July 2002.^[2] The album peaked at No. 44 on the ARIA Charts.^[3]

Reception

Bronius Zumeris from Beat magazine opined that "Offbeat wit and profanity litter their work" while "Cynics argue that they are a puerile, one joke band trying to flog a dying horse" and the collection "is not a flawless appraisal of their 15 odd years of cultural/musical terror. But it does collate much of the essential TISM for the consumer society."^[4]

Track listing

Bonus disc

Initial copies of the album came with a bonus disc, This Is Serious Mum: A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992, containing 25 unreleased bedroom demos spanning TISM's first ten years.

• "The Ballad of the Semitic Nazi" and "Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen" previously appeared in excerpt form on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance.
• The full version of "Unknown, Unacknowledged, Unforgettable, Underpants" would later appear as a hidden track on the 2021 remastered reissue of This Is Serious Mum, the band's 1984 demo tape.
• Lyrics from "My Gerontation" reappeared in the 1993 song "Jesus Pots the White Ball" on the band's EP Australia the Lucky Cunt.
• "Tu e La Tua Razza fa'un Culo" (correct Italian: Tu e la tua razza vaffanculo) was sampled in a demo recording of "Aussiemandias" dating back to October 1991, included on the iTunes version of the band's 1992 EP The Beasts of Suburban and the 2023 box set of that album.

Release history

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Date	Format(s)	Edition	Label	Catalogue
Australia	July 2002	CD	Standard	genre b.goode	TISM010
		2×CD	Limited edition (with A Collection of Bedroom Recordings 1982-1992)		TISM009
	October 2009	Re-issue	Digital download

Notes and References

1. Web site: The ARIA Report. 5 August 2002. Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 2, 5, 10–12. PDF. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020806140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020807-0000/Issue649.pdf. 6 August 2002. 29 June 2015. 649.
2. Web site: Best Off by TISM on Apple Music . . 20 July 2016 .
3. Web site: Discography TISM . Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung) . Hung . Steffen . 20 July 2016 .
4. Web site: TISM Self Storage . Zumeris . Bronius . Beat . 31 July 2002 . 20 July 2016 .