Box of Chameleons

Box of Chameleons
Compilation album by Sun City Girls
Released	1997 (1997)
Recorded	1979 (1979)–1996 (1996)
Genre	Experimental rock, free improvisation
Length	201:25
Label	Abduction
Sun City Girls chronology
330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda (1996) Box of Chameleons (1997) Dulce (1998)

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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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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]

Sun City Girls Alan Bishop  – bass guitar, vocals Richard Bishop  – guitar, vocals Charles Gocher  – drums, percussion, vocals

Production and additional personnel Scott Colburn – recording, editing Wade Olson – recording Manford Cain – recording Sun City Girls  – musical arrangement, production, recording

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.

External links

• Box of Chameleons at Discogs (list of releases)