Australia the Lucky Cunt

Australia the Lucky Cunt
Original cover art
EP by TISM
Released	September 1993
Recorded	Metropolis Studios, July 1993 Melbourne Showgrounds, 24 January 1993
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	17:32
Label	Shock Records/genre b.goode
Producer	TISM
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

Australia the Lucky Cunt is an extended play by Australian alternative rock band TISM. It was released on 3 September 1993. The title is a play on the expression "The Lucky Country".

The EP was withdrawn from sale one week after release following legal action being taken by artist and designer Ken Done due to the original cover art, which shows a koala with a syringe in its mouth. Subsequently, Done obtained an injunction order banning the sale of the EP.[1][2] 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. On 28 October 2024, the EP was reissued on vinyl, under its "censored" title and cover art and including five contemporaneous recordings which had previously appeared as bonus tracks on the band's 1995 box set Collected Recordings 1986-1993.

Producer Tony Cohen said he had worked on the EP, "but someone else remixed it. The band said I made them sound too nasty. I thought that was amusing.[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lose Your Delusion 1"	3:48
2.	"Jesus Pots the White Ball"	4:07
3.	"Mr. Ches Baragwanath, State Auditor–General"	3:52
4.	"Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the House of Representatives"	2:41
5.	"Recorded by JJJ, 24-1-'93, Melbourne Showgrounds"	3:04

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Edition	Label	Catalogue
Australia	September 1993	CD Cassette	Original	Shock Records	SHOCKCD7020/SHOCKMC7020
	November 1993		Re-issue

References

1. Scatena, Dino (November 1993). "Random Notes". Rolling Stone Australia. No. 489. Sydney, NSW: Tilmond Pty Ltd. p. 11.
2. Murphy, Kerrie (8 July 2004). "Satire and music in accord". The Australian. News Limited. p. 12. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
3. Tony Cohen with John Olson (2023). Half Deaf, Completely Mad. Black Inc. Books. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-74382-308-8.