Box of Chameleons
Compilation album by
Released1997 (1997)
Recorded1979 (1979)–1996 (1996)
GenreExperimental rock, free improvisation
Length201:25
LabelAbduction
Sun City Girls chronology
330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda
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(1997)
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Box of Chameleons is a three-disc compilation album by American experimental rock band Sun City Girls, released in 1997 by Abduction Records.[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sun City Girls

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Respected for Being Irrespectable"1:12
2."SCG Inc."0:54
3."Vientiene"2:15
4."Priest on the Run"0:38
5."On the Sign"1:11
6."Electrocution"0:07
7."Pinnacle"0:40
8."The Golden Cage"0:59
9."Theme to "Opium Cinema""1:55
10."Criosote Landing"1:03
11."Song for a Dead Breath"1:15
12."Wuthering Corpse"2:02
13."Dogs of Luxor"0:36
14."Entrail – Littered Savannah"1:39
15."Asian Women on the Telephone"1:27
16."Dunderhead"1:17
17."And Once There Was Us"1:00
18."Pitchfork Capitol"1:06
19."Suck-In"1:35
20."The Magic Switch"1:04
21."He's Part-Nickle"0:48
22."A Light-Hearted Comedy"1:08
23."Slash Kick Wrist"0:06
24."Lunar No Sooner"2:23
25."Take a Giant Schmuck"1:02
26."Beauty Rides All Demons"1:14
27."Sun City of Industry"0:55
28."Gayatri"0:50
29."Flippin' the Bird"1:10
30."Neverglades"1:35
31."High Drama Llama"0:50
32."Coffee With Eyelash"1:05
33."You Tell Me"0:35
34."Cuts on Phantom Limbo"1:16
35."Trailor Therapy"2:20
36."Viola Madre"2:20
37."Insect"1:55
38."Interlude"0:53
39."Swindler's Fist"0:59
40."Nova Expression No. 3"2:14
41."Tribute to Sonny Murray"0:46
42."Enough!"0:55
43."The Space Genie Hiss"0:53
44."Clickety-Clack Go the Arterial Tracks"0:58
45."Law of Diminished Returns"1:43
46."It's Ours"1:08
47."We'll Still Be Hovering After You're Gonesville"2:06
48."March on Atlas"1:06
49."Mama's Mild (Too Dry)"1:18
50."Thanks a Lot, Cerebral Man"1:27
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Suncitivity"0:54
2."Prison Quality Food"1:56
3."Wary of It All"1:37
4."Nine Sides of Air"1:46
5."Yellow Fever"3:13
6."Your Amuckness"1:39
7."Impersonal Tragedy"1:03
8."Next to No Way"2:26
9."Kuda Kepang"1:50
10."Bad Housekeeping"0:38
11."Tribute to Liberace"2:49
12."Miss Majestic"1:34
13."Eddie, Is That the Blue Moon?"1:10
14."Surfin' the Cardboard Stretcher"1:07
15."Vomiting Diamonds"0:57
16."Everything Burnt 'Cept the Navel"1:25
17."Ode to Ganesh"1:41
18."Indians, Jacks, and Pines"1:05
19."Bad Daylight"1:39
20."The Brickyard"2:44
21."I Deal a Stick"1:17
22."The Doldrums"0:58
23."They Wanted to Dance – We Gave Em This"1:49
24."Mood Bazaar"3:05
25."Lubricated Forays"0:25
26."Doorknob Journalism"1:22
27."Is It Stroked?"0:15
28."Girl Trouble"0:21
29."Sprinkling the Demon Seed"1:07
30."Neptune Breeze"2:03
31."Indian Graveyard"1:02
32."The Palestine Club Half-Way House Scene"2:18
33."Tobacco Bong Hits"1:06
34."Clown Prince"1:40
35."Amethyst Nightgown"2:49
36."A Random Finale"2:25
37."Plecostamus"2:08
38."Toba Hightop"2:19
39."Lifting the Hemline of the Unknown"2:21
40."A Photogenic Memory"0:59
41."Bobby Sands"1:30
42."The Eleven, Oh Nine in the Refrigerator, South Farmer"1:55
43."The Crowbar of Illusion"2:52
44."The Big Purr"1:02
45."A Throne's Stow"0:19
Disc three
No.TitleLength
1."Sun City Girls From Ipanema"2:14
2."Trust Me?"2:25
3."Zealous Island"2:19
4."Death in Yellowknife"4:19
5."Overseer"2:27
6."Ajax Floodlamp"2:46
7."The Fog Hotel Swindle"2:18
8."Cooking With Satan"1:57
9."I Mean, I'm New to Her School"1:41
10."Three Blind Dice"3:04
11."Powell & Market"2:13
12."Rodent With a View"1:44
13."Ojibway"1:36
14."Brockway Roller Rink"0:41
15."Moonflower Power"3:39
16."Tweakscape"2:40
17."My Daughter"1:59
18."Yemen Dagger Architect"2:26
19."The Third-Eye Mood Ring Medallion"1:26
20."A Blessed Removal"2:39
21."Big Game"1:45
22."I Project Euphemy"1:04
23."Zeke Cambridge"0:23
24."The Apology"1:08
25."5th & Mill"2:36
26."Way Left North Out"2:41
27."I Hear It's the Best"1:22
28."Nights of Orange"1:39
29."Shilton"1:17
30."Theme 5"1:27
31."Broken Circuit of Love"1:12
32."Parade Aglow"2:55
33."Caterpiller"1:50

Personnel

Adapted from the Box of Chameleons liner notes.[3]

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1997 Abduction CD ABDT009

References

  1. McFarlane, Dean. "Box of Chameleons". Allmusic. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  2. Robbins, Ira; Sprague, David (2007). "Sun City Girls". Trouser Press. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  3. Box of Chameleons (booklet). Sun City Girls. Seattle, Washington: Placebo Records. 1997.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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