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This Is Serious Mum - TISM - Greg! The Stop Sign
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"Greg! The Stop Sign" is TISM's parody of the infamous TAC public service advertisement in which in the original advert, moments before the car accident, the female passenger yells out "Darren!". No idea why it was changed to Greg, but then again Greg rears it's fugly head again when almost 15 years later Humphrey B. Flaubert (Damian Cowell) in his new band, ROOT! writes his ode to lead singer of The Beasts of Bourbon/Cruel Sea fame, called "I Wish I Was Tex Perkins". This song as the memorable lyrics of "A thousand girls call him in the night....nobody ever calls him Greg".
Did you ever wondered where that mid break instrumental piece came from?
Well it the band cover of The Shadows instrumental hit single "FBI" from 1961.
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"Greg! The Stop Sign" peaked at #10 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 1995 and it was the second single from the album 'Machiavelli and the Four Seasons', which was TISM's highest charting album. There was a hidden agenda in the music video, as it was supporting the "Save the St Kilda Club" movement. The music video was directed by Mark Hartley.
LYRICS
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The guy who slagged the football team
Those yobs were not for him
He turns into a real estate agent
Who believes in discipline
The guy who's the first to use cocaine
The wild boy breaking free
He'll end up in a court of law
As a prosecuting Q.C.
Remember the school captain?
Success was a matter of time
I can hear her now as she screams
"Greg, you missed the stop sign"
Forget Snoop Doggy Dog
Forget ol' Ice T
The true word out on the streets
Is produced by the T.A.C.
What good's the use of striving?
As life's road in front unravels
We get to do the driving
But don't choose the direction we travel
Do your homework or wag for weeks,
graffiti the Dandedong line
It don't matter much when you hear that scream
"Greg, you missed the stop sign"
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Some time in the next ten thousand years
A comet's gonna wipe out all trace of Man
I'm banking on it coming before
My end of year exam
The rich kid, becomes a junkie
The poor kid, an advertiser
What a tragic waste of potential
Being a junkie's not so good, either
Your folks worked hard for what you've got
You're the fruit of their vine
But who cares what you sow when what you reap is
Greg, you missed the stop sign?
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Bought a car just the other day
Man, could that baby run?
But you know what they always say
There's always a better one
Got a tumor in my brain
It's creeping to my lungs
And I've searched around in vain
Can't find me a better one
Hardwired into everyone's head
Is the person they're gonna be
Growing up is not a matter of choice
It's a matter of wait and see
So kids, yeah, you can do it
You can be the best
Girls can do anything
You can pass the test
I'm okay, you're okay, we're okay, we're fine
I thought I heard a semi-trailer
Greg, you missed the stop sign
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
Greg! the stop sign!
SONGWRITERS: JACK HOLT; EUGENE PAUL MARK CESTER; DAMIAN COWELL; PETER MINACK & JAMES PAULL

[@Laraikha]

I...never thought I would ever see a TISM reaction. Ever.

[@jemxs]

There's actually a few out there!

[@DMSProduktions]

LOVE it!

[@uncle_thulhu]

Hey, I just looked up "reaction to tism". This was literally the only channel that has them.

[@Le-ue7pw]

Greg is dead.

[@Gemsha20]

It’s just giving life.. tism need to be taken seriously again.

[@mauharley]

TISM are re-forming after a 19 year hiatus. I've just booked my ticket. Can't wait.

[@musicointempero2256]

I'll see you there man, best band to come from my postcode.

[@relwalretep]

@@musicointempero2256 Springy Nips?

[@musicointempero2256]

@@relwalretep more spring than a trampoline

[@kenplant8223]

Going to the Brisbane show. Same deal. Can't wait.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@relwalretep Was there this arvo for a Ca phe sua da! (Got some BUN for dinner as it was too hot to cook today! )

[@nathanstrazdins2740]

Well that just flew right over their heads...... Saw TISM tonight, cracking gig, was like being teleporting back to 1999 when I last saw them. Such a fun, unhinged live music experience. Their greatest attribute and weakness was that uniquely Australian satirical humour.

[@christophernicola9293]

This takes me back to the heyday of triple J radio..

[@VoyageOne1]

It's fantastic to see global YTers react to some amazing Aussie music that has fallen on deaf ears for so long 🥰

[@peterwalsh2470]

reminds me of hearing this song on JJJ driving to work in the morning : ) PS the moral of the story according to this song is that your life and everything is pre-determined, and you don't have any actual control over your fate. Just like Greg's fate was sealed when he missed the stop sign, poor Greg.

[@Toobeegort]

A little info on TISM or This Is Serious Mum is a seven-piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group was formed on 30 December 1982 by vocalist/drummer Humphrey B. Flaubert, bassist/vocalist Jock Cheese and keyboardist/vocalist Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun, and enjoyed a large underground/independent following.

[@stellarjuju8788]

And every live tism gig has been a "reunion show" since they broke up after their first live show in 1982.

[@jvodan]

Gee you seemed to miss the point of TISM which is their lyrics with versus like "The rich kid becomes a junkie, The poor kid an advertiser, What a tragic waste of potential, Being a junkie's not so good either,"

[@Laraikha]

I loved that verse. Such great humor.

[@AndyViant]

@@Laraikha loved the bit before it too: "Sometime in the next ten thousand years A comet's gonna wipe out all trace of Man I'm banking on it coming before My end of year exams" They're long odds for sure, but it sure beats studying. :)

[@simonruddock837]

Missed the whole point. Listen to the fucking words. This is philosophy

[@deanmaynard8256]

Here in Oz you can buy stop signs with GREG instead of STOP on it

[@davidnobular9220]

As opposed to the ones in the US that have the words "Hammer time" at the bottom.

[@Gemsha20]

And now you’re doing TISM. Your videos are never ending!! So happy! Xx

[@pcaffin]

The bit in the chorus about "Greg, the stop sign!" is about him not seeing the traffic sign and stopping, so he's t-boned by a car or truck coming through the intersection and dies. All that effort making plans, and you can be gone in an instant.

[@leemccurtayne9489]

You think this is crazy! The track “He will never be an old man river” about River Phoenix’s demise. Outrageous guitar.

[@BeyondDictation]

For people outside of Australia…or even Melbourne for that matter some of the jokes and references will zoom right over your head but their songs all slap

[@davidnobular9220]

Like "But I've never done a right hand turn at Swanston Street" in the song "Get thee in my behind, Satan" I thought this was some reference to the famous Melbourne hook turn, but in retrospect I was wrong.

[@sdev2749]

This song has a special place for me as I also missed a stop sign once with 5 of my mates in the car with me - One of them call out at the last second, "shane! the stop (bang)...sign". Then he said, "never mind" as I slid over it sideways in the rain...was so funny and I copped shiit about it for years after. "Shane, watch out for the....never mind".

[@justinshaw5974]

In answer to the question about the cost of hiring a stadium - the clip was filmed at the old suburban home ground of St Kilda Football Club. Someone connected with the band knew a couple of the footy players and the agreement was made to film the players at training and use the oval.

[@dougieboxell6505]

There's an article online detailing how TISM actually saved the saints. Literally. They headlined a benefit concert that without which, Sainters may have folded due to not enough dollarydoos. It was literally called "Save Our Saints", hence the SOS on the boot shelf in the scene with Humphrey in this vid

[@mixalot2018]

Learn something new every day I though that was the G it was filmed at.

[@wilks6]

Yeah, TISM as a word, not individual letters.

[@jemxs]

Love TISM, yeah you say it as a word not spelled out! Always funny but also musically talented and wild on stage!

[@professornuke7562]

Got to meet a member of TISM the other day in circumstances I can't relate for....reasons.... Despite the fact that I am 55 and had seen them live, he almost seemed embarrassed to say he'd been in the band. He was, as many of the famous musicians I have met, more interested in my band, and what instruments I have. Told him my long boring story about how my ex-wife bought a plastic Christmas tree at a second hand shop in a cardboard box that had "GREG, XMAS TREE" written on it, so we decided that was the tree's actual name. Every Christmas when we set him up I'd sing loudly as I put it together. The TISM member gave me a massive eyeroll and a chuckle.

[@dougieboxell6505]

Sounds like Damian Cowell/Humphrey B. Flaubert

[@lesliedavis2185]

Aah my favourite TISM song..saw them live at a big day out, Just fantastic

[@stevea5388]

TISM are one of the great Aussie bands. Unequalled live, with lyrical humour that only an Australian would get. Definitely an Aussie band for Aussies. Levels of satire and taking the piss out of themselves and others only Aussies do. I’ve seen them many times live and owned every album. A truly great band. Checkout Great trucking songs of the Renaissance, and The beasts of suburban albums fir some earlier, possibly harder hitting songs. “T.I.S.M. are shit.” (Any true tism fan understands this quote)

[@DMSProduktions]

Just LIKE Primus fans say Primus sucks!

[@dougieboxell6505]

TISM are also wankers!

[@dougieboxell6505]

​@@DMSProduktionsI've gotten into Primus in the last few months, very similar. Not that Jock Cheese is Les Claypool's arsehole, but Jock is also an extremely talented bassist.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@dougieboxell6505 Yep.

[@Unotuchable]

That stadium would have been Moorabbin Oval in Moorabbin, a bunch of the members of TISM are fans of the St. Kilda Saints and they probably would have just talked to the club about filming for like half an hour. Doubt it would cost very much if anything.

[@nickmaguire4914]

Oh boy, now you are really going down the wormhole! There's a lot of context to this band that you may struggle with, but they are awesome!

[@StajBrickhead69]

This song was also controversial at the time as it loosely references the death Darren Millane who was a very famous AFL player of the Collingwood Football Club, on the 7th of October 1991 Millane was extremely intoxicated with a blood alcohol reading of 0.332% when the vehicle he was driving clipped the back of a semi trailer and rolled killing him instantly, Millane earlier on in his career was the captain of the Dandenong VFL club.

[@DMSProduktions]

I remember him! The old Dande Red Legs! We don't even HAVE a VFA/VFL team any more! SAD!

[@whosyourdaddy842]

He was actually coming back to South Australia when it happened. I remember in the 80's we lost a few footy legends from S.A coming back home for holidays from playing in the VFL before the comp went national. We still see Peter Motley at some functions.

[@hexley1696]

I hope i speak for every non australian fan of TISM when i say thank you, youre a legend

[@professornuke7562]

From memory he hit a stop sign post and it went right the windscreen and his chest. So he didn't miss it, it got him.

[@dougieboxell6505]

Obsessive TISM fan here - I never knew this!!

[@Lynsey77]

The lead singer here in TISM was an awesome teacher at my high school.

[@DMSProduktions]

Ringy high?

[@Lynsey77]

@@DMSProduktions Coomoora

[@DMSProduktions]

@@Lynsey77 Oh ok!

[@dougieboxell6505]

​@DMSProduktions Ron got around a bit!!! I went to Ringwood for a year, was technically at Mt Lilydale, but did a VET engineering course, and God I wish I knew about TISM then. This was quite decade ago, I was in yr 12

[@richardmarriott2752]

Love that you reacted to this. Also had the classic Defecate on My Face. Filmed at St Kilda Football Club, my team

[@iankearns774]

Saints weren't much chop back when this was released. Had some better days since unlike my mob the Bagger's who hopefully now have turned the corner. Time will tell. Saints need to persevere with Ratts, he will be a good coach eventually, he just needs a decent chance.

[@GenreBGoode]

Those Collingwood bastards did us by a point The day mother died. When they told dad he shook his head and said, "Makes you wanna cry." Winmar, you're a football genius, and, oh, Let me tell you son, Remember my old man 'cos he wasn't Referring to mum.

[@richardmarriott2752]

1995 this was released, so yes a bad year. But made the GF in 97

[@tempsitch5632]

I like footy. He likes footy. They like footy. Kick that footy.

[@DMSProduktions]

That song was shit!

[@johnbenias5090]

Thank you for recognising this beyond iconic band of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia!!! Honestly, from the moment you know this band, is to be slavishly devoted to them for the rest of your life! There is no STOP sign when it comes to TISM ❤️🤩🤩🏆

[@NeeceLoneWolf]

TISM are doing a reunion at a festival this December with Sabaton and Lacuna Coil plus lots of other Aussie bands.

[@AndyFNQ84]

These guys did the best live set I ever saw in my life. PS if you wanted to rent St Kilda's (the team in red black and white in the video) home ground of Moorabbin, a case of beer and a promise not to laugh at their trophy cabinet ought to do it :)

[@dazstuff1875]

This girl is just to cute for words........loving the reactions

[@goatslunch6991]

Greg dont have a rest of his life. He missed the stop sign. One of the best pub bands in history. And they are getting back together this year. 100 great tracks at least.

[@mattmunn71]

If I remember the ad correctly he survives but he killed his best mate

[@billschmidt4581]

@@mattmunn71 It was a semi - no one survived

[@billschmidt4581]

The one were he lkills his mate and survives, opens with him in hosiptial, Played by Steven Hall - Boof.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@billschmidt4581 WRONG Greg! Refs Greg Millane of Dandenong FBC (hence the Dandenong reference) went on to play for Collingwood before his fateful 'accident'! But it WAS a nod TO the TAC ads as well! BOTH Gregs pilloried in this song! Sadly 1 was real!

[@robertbollard5475]

And my favourite (which I've never heard - I just saw the title on a leaflet advertising an EP stuck to a lamp-post): "668 the Neighbour of the Beast".

[@markphillips3186]

Love the song

[@falchoon]

SAINTERS!!! Justin Peckett & Shane Wakelin the more well known of the 4 St Kilda players (AFL)

[@letstalk3265]

These guys were one of the great live shows. They always wore outfits that hid their identities. The rumours were a lot of the band were serious professionals who couldn't risk the dichotomy ie super outrageous shows and songs and careers. The band were accidentally outed, real names not their performance personas, by a intern on a TV appearance in the credits at the end of that show. Things did get serious because that was a part of their performances. Some of the stage costumes were really out there including playing in sumo outfits. Classic and great live. Definitely way better live than on vinyl. Brilliant. Fans flocked to see them to see what they would cook up next. Once outed the impact was gone.

[@theghost6412]

I know one of them was a Highschool Teacher and other such professionals that may lose their jobs if people discovered who they were.

[@KilgoreTrout11235]

They played a gig at my uni with Regurgitator years ago.... There were people outside the venue with beer listening in and the band members decided to open the doors ad let them in. Its the only time Ive seen a band getting into fights with members of the venue security :) It was fucking awesome tho :))))

[@DMSProduktions]

Sadly, you're only EVER 5 yards from a fuck wit!

[@DMSProduktions]

@@theghost6412 Damian Cowell, taught music @ Ringwood SC!

[@johnbenias5090]

Live was definitely the best way to listen to TISM. Amongst the greatest live performances I have ever seen. Not bad for a bunch of guys from outer South East Melbourne!

[@DMSProduktions]

GLAD you discovered TISM!!!! My home town features in the 1st verse, true too graffitied to hell! LOL! Aussie techno punk legends!

[@Brendo2386]

Yeeees TISM

[@Mellyouttaphase]

Aussie here and I still remember having a drinking sesh at my house circa 2004 and this song came on and everyone just stopped what they were doing and sang along wholeheartedly. Such a fun song and my favourite of the band, hands down. That said, I also interpreted it as a warning of not really knowing when to stop partying and grow up a little bit and the opposite also applying: peaking too early in life. Never thought someone from another country would react to this 😂 Ps. Pronounced Tis-m.

[@michaelwebster8389]

You should check out their song "Defecate on my face" - it's a poignant song about the troubles of Hitler in the latter parts of the war. Or even "John Bonhams Coke roadie"...

[@iankearns774]

I had a mate named Greg back in the 80's when this came out. He really regretted being called Greg back then. Made for hours of fun for us but not so much for him. And yeah its pronounced. Tizzum.

[@dougieboxell6505]

Song was released in 95 lol

[@iankearns774]

@@dougieboxell6505 Yeah you are right, I am getting old and my decades got mixed up. I first saw them live in the 1980's so got mixed up. I remember seeing them at the Tote in Collingwood, dont know what year and a few times after that, they were a good night out back then.

[@geetee4459]

We call them 'Tizzum' and we also call adverts 'advert-is-ments' not 'advert-eyes-ments' ;)

[@davidnobular9220]

They call themselves that. Ref: I'm interested in apathy.

[@anterokankaanpaa9627]

Nice ❤️☺️😘

[@leeannbeer8931]

Fuc in love this song

[@AndyViant]

Well he does hear the end of it, because coming through the intersection he missed the stop sign on is a semi trailer (also called a tractor truck or eighteen wheeler over in the USA). The end sort of sounds a bit like screeeeeech crash tinkle tinkle drip drip. With added screaming effects. Dunno that they're alive for the bonus tracks of ambulance and police sirens. And yes it's TISM like tiz-um. TISM are basically an insanely clever Uni band. Their lyrics are awesome. Think of them Like Blink 182 but with far more intellectual scope, more dodgy in jokes, far more existential angst, and deliberately dodgy electronica due to their complete lack of Travis Barker. Hmmm. Imagine TISM with Travis Barker. Intriguing.

[@ChrisAnderson42]

TISM's best songs are Morrison Hostel and Five Yards, well two of their best songs, there's so many hahaha

[@manna6618]

Ooooh you have discovered This Is Serious Mum!!! Classic Aussie band, oh please do (He'll never be an) Ol Man River...you will LOVE it! Or even Everyone else has had more sex than me... another banger, with a great film clip! Us aussies tell the truth if nothing else, haha! More TISM please!!! Oh and it's pronounced Tisszem... :)

[@trenchy1990]

They've already done Ol Man River

[@manna6618]

@@trenchy1990 been subscribed for a couple years now and that never even popped up in my feed! Cheers man, gonna go watch it now!

[@Andrew-df1dr]

No mate, I never call it it an advert. It's an add.

[@leecox7814]

The great thing about TISM is it is a rotating roster of members. No one knows who they are but there are many music teachers, doctors, lawyers etc who just do it for the fun.

[@richardfraser7523]

I dont think they even realise the significance of it being the St Kilda footy team rooms,,,

[@TheSamleigh]

Tis mmmmm - 1 word Tism

[@theubiquejim]

good to see you reacting to a great aussie band. side note: Suzie, did you ever look into AFL for the kids?

[@metallewd3472]

They shoulda filmed this on a Sat arvo in the animal cage during a game. Missed opportunity.

[@samdiego1046]

Seeing anybody not from Australia react to TISM makes me worry for them. There’s really no way for a non-Aussie to understand this delightful nonsense. 😂

[@TheSamleigh]

It’s TIS mmmmm if no one’s answered yet.

[@theotherdogknees]

Australia is still like this, I hope. People paying out on each other and Dogs eating Chunder. Sod the sophistication, this is us. bloody poms.

[@rumirumi9831]

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[@mixalot2018]

Yeah we call them TISM all one word not the abbreviation form T-I-S-M

[@lukemullineux]

I assumed Greg died.

[@andrewfreshwater2948]

I can't believe they don't even understand the actual satire and humour is totally in the lyrics.....

[@AndyViant]

First listen, probably struggling to get past the quirky choreography. And our accents.

[@mauharley]

I can't believe that they didn't notice the dog eating the vomit.

[@regfries8279]

@@AndyViant And the terminology. They probably don't know what 'wagging' is, for instance.

[@DMSProduktions]

TISM is pronounced like JISM but with a T!

[@zaethstheunstableone8425]

T I S M A R E

[@JP8Mate]

Great reaction. BTW it's pronounced Tizem

[@ryanedwards6923]

Greg's dead mate that's the point of the song

[@DMSProduktions]

And it's DANDENONG not Dandedong!

[@dwr4992]

It is pronounced TIZZ-EM....rhymes with jism! 🤣

[@steveparker8579]

Greg's dead dude..

[@uncle_thulhu]

See, the only problem with you guys reacting to TISM is that they are very, very Australian. Many of their lyrics are extremely Australia-centric and genuinely will not make sense to someone who didn't grow up here. In the 80s and 90s. This song, for example, is (kind of) a joke about a certain, specific PSA on Aussie TV. Please note, this is not a criticism at all. There is literally no way for you guys to have known that. Still, it's great music. Of course, having said that, this is literally the only channel I could find that actually has reactions to TISM.

[@ChrisAnderson42]

Haha, so true, I'd like to see them react to "The Mordialloc Road Duplicator. Growing up in that area I can so relate to that song.

[@uncle_thulhu]

@@ChrisAnderson42 They might get away with (He'll Never Be An) Old Man River. That one's a bit more universal, if you know your music history.

[@ChrisAnderson42]

@@uncle_thulhu So Foster's car park Boogie wouldn't get the reaction I had when I first heard it?

[@uncle_thulhu]

@@ChrisAnderson42 I dunno. There's plenty of their stuff that even I don't understand, because I'm from Sydney and they're from Melbourne, and a fair number of their songs are very Melbourne-centric. They were great at Big Day Out 96 though.

[@MarkGoding]

Welp.. that's 10 minutes of my life I won't get back. Really not interested in validation by these bobble heads.

[@natalier7204]

Greg is dead!!!

[@TerminusEst1982]

Dunny rhing is rhey were all members of Australian parliament. Classic.

[@alanburge2725]

We say TISM as in tissum as far as I know here in Australia. We are not too formal here. T. I. S.M. if we underlined every letter of the word the name and spelt it out other Australians would go crazy ha ha. Too formal. Too British sounding. Ad or Advert for advertisement is another example. Abbreviate and shorten words. Oz for Australia. Aussie. So many examples. Or we make up our own words.