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Released
  
February 1995

Length
  
36:29

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Recorded
  
Metropolis Studios, December 1992-September 1993

Label
  
Shock Records/genre b.goode

Jung Talent Time (1995)
  
Machines Against the Rage (1996)

Jung Talent Time is a song by Australian alternative rock band TISM. Originally released as an 8-track remix EP in February 1995, the original mix was released on the group's breakthrough album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons in May.

Contents

The title plays on the name of psychologist Carl Jung, and talent-search style television show Young Talent Time. It and track 11 from the album, "Aussiemandias", are the only songs to survive from the botched sessions from 1992 to 1993 that were originally going to be the album.

Lyrics

The lyrics for the song are very strange, as there is no typical song structure. It is basically a long list of names for the entire song, it is not until the chorus that the meaning behind having all the names becomes clear.

Andy Warhol got it right / Everybody gets the limelight
Andy Warhol got it wrong / Fifteen minutes is too long.

Referencing Andy Warhol's famous statement that "Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes", however TISM believe that fifteen minutes is far too long for some people to be famous, including TISM.

References to people who have worked with TISM or mentioned in their songs

A number of the names mentioned in this song have been mentioned by, or been involved with TISM in some way.

  • Ken Done is the most notable one, who sued TISM in 1993 due to the cover art of Australia The Lucky Cunt being done in the same vein as his works.
  • Michael Jackson was referenced on Beasts of Suburban (1992) notably the track "Michael Jackson's Conveyor Belt".
  • Peter Reith was invited to join TISM to play the triangle early in TISM's career.
  • River Phoenix was famously referenced in the chorus of (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River on the album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons (1995).
  • Jim Morrison was the subject of Morrison Hostel, a diatribe appearing on Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance (1988).
  • John Bonham was mentioned frequently in the track The Ballad Of John Bonham's Coke Roadie off Great Truckin' Songs Of The Renaissance (1988).

    • Track listing

    All tracks were remixed by David Thrussell and Pieter Bourke from Melbourne band Snog; however, none of them have remix titles, leading many fans to refer to them as (#1) - (#8). #7 is an instrumental version of #1.

    1. "Jung Talent Time"
    2. "Jung Talent Time"
    3. "Jung Talent Time"
    4. "Jung Talent Time"
    5. "Jung Talent Time"
    6. "Jung Talent Time"
    7. "Jung Talent Time"
    8. "Jung Talent Time"

    References

    Jung Talent Time Wikipedia
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