Australia the Lucky Cunt
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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The EP was withdrawn from sale one week after release following legal action being taken by artist and designer Ken Done due to the original cover art, which shows a koala with a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.[3]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This reissue was released by David Roy Williams, as part of his DRW label's ongoing re-release of official and previously unreleased TISM recordings.
On 21 February 2025, the EP was reissued again by DRW, as both an expanded 4LP box set and as a 2CD format.[4]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[5]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". These releases included the original EP, as well as approximately 2 hours of previous unreleased sessions from 1992 and 1993 - the period when the original tracks on Australia the Lucky Cunt were recorded.
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.[6]
Track listing
Charts
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Independent Albums (AIR)[7] | 9 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Edition | Label | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | September 1993 | Template:Flatlist | Original | Shock Records | SHOCKCD7020/SHOCKMC7020 |
| November 1993 | Re-issue |
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