Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion

Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion is a 1986 EP by the anonymous Australian band TISM. It was only ever released as a 12" vinyl record and is very hard to find today. The material was rereleased in 1991 on the album Gentlemen, Start Your Egos.
The first pressings had a blue cover and a poster featuring Jimi Hendrix in a KKK uniform and an excerpt from the then-fictional "TISM Guide to Little Aesthetics", two more of which were featured on the gatefold. When the album was rereleased in 1988, it had a red cover, Musicland stickers on the back and no poster. The quality of the cardboard was noticeably poorer compared to the original pressings. Both pressings were limited to 2000 copies.
The album rose to Number 1 on the Australian Alternative Charts.
Side 1 was intended to be a single for "Mistah Eliot - He Wanker", while side 2 originates from an impromptu recording session held by the band at one of the members' houses in Richmond on 7 September 1986, which was recorded live to VHS tape. The track "I'm Into Led Zep" was written at this session.
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Demo tape
In July 1983, TISM recorded a third demo tape, also entitled Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion. This tape has little in common with the album other than the name and was recorded in July 1983. By then, Ron Hitler-Barassi had become a full member of the band, who had also acquired guitarist Leek Van Vlalen.
# Ladies and Gentlemen - The Judeo-Christian Ethic
# Ezra Pound, Axe-King
## The Ballad of J. Arthur White Australia Policy
## The Petty Bourgeois Revolution
## Art, Religion and the Neo-Classical Dialectic
## The Hairy Diadem
# Love Amongst the Gas Ovens
# The Art-Income Dialectic
# Stop the Franklin's Flow
# Alliteration Arules, A.K.?
# Minimalism
# The Existentialist Dilemma (or The Linesman of the Lord Almighty Has His Flag Up)
# The English-Speaking Peoples (or The Hitler Diaries)
# Richard Minack, the Wild Man
# Kill Americans
# Doug Parkinson Sings Christie Allen
Tracks 1, 2, 9 and 12 were released on the bonus disc of demos packaged with Best Off in 2002. An excerpt of track 12 had previously appeared on the band's debut album Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance' in 1988.

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