Machiavelli and the Four Seasons

Singles from the album were "(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River" (8 weeks in ARIA Singles Chart, peak #23[6]) and "Greg! The Stop Sign!!".

"All Homeboys Are Dickheads" was pressed up and prepared for sale, but for reasons unknown, prior to shipping, TISM ordered that the single be deleted. Copies of the single did make their way into the hands of TISM fans. It was also released as a promo with Machines Against the Rage.

TISM worked on what would become their next album at Metropolis Audio between December 1992 and September 1993 with various producers, including Tony Cohen, Laurence Maddy and Paul McKercher. Tracks known from these sessions include "Jung Talent Time", "Aussiemandias", "Abscess Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" and "State Schools are Great Schools". The group became dissatisfied with the hard rock sound they had cultivated with Cohen and realised after playing alongside Soundgarden on the Big Day Out in January 1994 that they did not want to be associated with grunge, which was at the height of its popularity at the time. The group abandoned work on the album and started recording new demos in a techno-influenced alternative dance style after returning from the Big Day Out. Three months later, their demos were wiped by a computer virus.

During this time, TISM would play under the names "The Frank Vitkovic Jazz Quartet", "Machiavelli and the Four Seasons" and "Late for Breakfast", playing the new alternative dance songs they had written. In September 1994, the group recorded Machiavelli and the Four Seasons at Platinum Studios. The final track list included "Jung Talent Time" and "Aussiemandias" from the September 1993 sessions. "Abscess Makes the Heart Grow Fonder", another song from the 1993 sessions, was released as a B-side to the "(He'll Never Be An) Old Man River" single. "State Schools are Great Schools" was released on the Collected Recordings 1986-1993 boxset in 1995, while a few more songs from the sessions, "The Note Stuck With a Magnet to Kurt Cobain's Fridge" (an alternative version of "Abscess Makes the Heart Grow Fonder"), "Great Expectorations" (the title of which would be reused in 1997 for another song) and "Give Up" (an instrumental jam which formed the basis of "Give Up for Australia") were released when Machiavelli and the Four Seasons was released on iTunes in 2009.

The track "Play Mistral for Me" had existed since 1990; an early demo recording from that year, entitled "You're Only as Good as Your Fans", was included on the bonus disc of unreleased bedroom demos packaged with their 2002 album Best Off.

The chorus to "How Do I Love Thee" is taken from the end of the second movement of "Opium is the Religion of the Masses", a song written by TISM in 1983 and played during the Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance tour in 1988.

A song entitled "Russia" was intended to be the last song on the album, but was removed for legal reasons due to the song's chorus, which was seen to be similar to "Back in the USSR" by The Beatles. It remained unreleased until 2009, when an edited version, retitled "The Last Soviet Star", was released as an iTunes bonus. The original version, however, was uploaded to an old version of the TISM website, appeared on promotional pressings released in late 1994, and is known to have been played during TISM's set at the 1993 Big Day Out, at Melbourne Showgrounds (a diatribe recited at this concert, "The Greatest Victorian Alive", appeared on Australia the Lucky Cunt).

The official track list for the TISM release of Machiavelli and the Four Seasons.

GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! For Australia! - A Bonus Disc
Compilation album by TISM
Released	1996
Recorded	Metropolis Studios December 1992-September 1993 Platinum Studios September 1994
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	42:09
Label	Shock Records/genre b.goode
Producer	TISM
TISM chronology
Australia The Lucky Cunt (1993) GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! For Australia! - A Bonus Disc (1996) Jung Talent Time (1995)

To celebrate Machiavelli going "gold", it was re-released with a bonus disc.[7] The disc featured the B-sides from the River Phoenix and Greg singles, the entire Garbage single, two tracks from the Jung Talent Time remix EP, 4 then-unreleased diatribes and a studio version of the diatribe from Boys in the Hoods.

Machines Against the Rage
Live album by TISM
Released	16 December 1996
Recorded	Collingwood Town Hall 20–21 October 1995
Genre	Rock
Length	49:39
Label	genre b.goode / Shock Records
Producer	TISM
TISM chronology
Jung Talent Time (1995) Machines Against the Rage (1996) www.tism.wanker.com (1998)

Machines Against the Rage is a live CD which was available with the limited edition 1996 re-issues of Machiavelli and the Four Seasons. The title is a re-wording of the protest rock group Rage Against the Machine who were nearing the height of their popularity at the time of this release. It is claimed on the very CD itself that it is a "shameless hollow publicity stunt".

Machines Against the Rage was initially released in promo form as cardboard sleeve with the unofficially released single for All Homeboys Are Dickheads. The recording was made on 21 October 1995 at the Collingwood Town Hall, Melbourne.

• Peter Minack - lead vocals
• James Paull - guitar, backing vocals, vocal arrangements ("Philip Glass's Arse")
• John Holt - bass, backing vocals
• Damian Cowell - drums, lead vocals, backing vocals
• Eugene Cester - keyboards, backing vocals
• Christine Storey - soprano vocals ("Philip Glass's Arse")
• Belinda Gillam - alto vocals ("Philip Glass's Arse")
• Ewan Harwood - tenor vocals ("Philip Glass's Arse")
• Bruce Raggatt - bass vocals ("Philip Glass's Arse")
• Produced by TISM
• Recorded by Laurence Maddy except "Jung Talent Time" and "Aussiemandias" by Paul McKercher

• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

• Song lyrics