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BOX OF CHAMELEONS

Sun City Girls

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 1997

Songs / Tracks Listing

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



Line-up / Musicians

Charlie Gocher
Alan Bishop
Rick Bishop
J. Akkari
Eddie Detroit
Barbara Fujikawa
Greg Hynes
Jentella Family
The Ruins
Eyvand Kang
Parapat Mafia
Scott Colburn
Linda Cushma


Releases information

triple CD box set (Abduction: ABDT-009)

At 128 tracks and a playing time of some 3 1/2 hours, this is a vast collection of pieces from the thousands of hours in the Sun City Girls archives. Box of Chameleons spans almost every known sonic purmutation of the band, ranging from 1979 through 1996 with a mixture of 8-channel, 4-track, and DAT recordings and even a few home tapes of teenaged prank phone calls.

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SUN CITY GIRLS Box of Chameleons ratings distribution


2.09
(3 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(0%)
0%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(0%)
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Good, but non-essential (67%)
67%
Collectors/fans only (33%)
33%
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)
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Review by HolyMoly
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Retired Admin
2 stars Box of Chameleons is three CDs filled with 128 total tracks, intended (I guess) as a kind of Sun City Girls audio scrapbook/collage. Very few tracks exceed two minutes, and very few tracks sound like anything other than an excerpt from a rehearsal jam. Rick & Alan Bishop (brothers) and Charles Gocher make a very adventurous team, rarely sticking to any kind of straightforward beat, in favor of impressionistic noise experiments that, at their best, resemble some of Henry Cow's improvised bits. Lots of electric guitars, bass, drums, odd percussion, and free form horn blowing. And LOTS of noise.

Occasional vocals peek in, and there are a few solo piano and solo acoustic guitar pieces that sound somewhat composed, but overall this enormous set of music plays like a sonic portrait of the band experimenting together, complete with all the advantages (invention, excitement, the occasional premeditated composition) and disadvantages (monotony, boredom, forgettableness) that this format provides. I can get into it when I just feel like zoning out and allowing myself to free-associate with the band, but even that kind of goodwill is put to the test over the course of three full-length CDs. I've never made it through more than one in one sitting, but maybe that's not a bad thing. Overall, two stars - not the place to start with these guys, but fans will certainly get off on it - for a little while, anyway.

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