Cover and Liner Notes
The cover of the album features what appear to be Chinese Red Guards carrying a large banner with TISM written across it and carrying what, on first look, appears to be Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, but is on closer inspection The TISM Guide To Little Aesthetics, a book by TISM which at the time of the albums release did not exist. The artwork closely resembled posters of the time of Mao's reign.
The Chinese on the cover translates into "The unification of the proletariat under the banner of tee sum".
An alternative cover was intended to be used when Phonogram re-released the album on 13 December 1993 however, the original cover was used and the alternate artwork was not used for another two years when the album would be re-released again in the Collected Recordings box set.
The back cover of the album has the track lists in Chinese. Supposedly a batch of the CDs with English track lists were printed by mistake and then shipped to Polygram's Asian markets.
In one of TISM's many references to Australian Football League football, the liner notes, which chronicle the rise, fall and disbanding of TISM, and the band members individual exploits around the world, were credited to E.J. Whitten, argued by some to be the greatest AFL player of all time; a picture of Whitten appeared on the cover of the EP Gentlemen, Start Your Egos (1991).
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