Official Sun City Girls Discography:

Box of Chameleons

Box of Chameleons - front cover
Front cover

Box of Chameleons - booklet art
Booklet art

1997: 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.

The Ruins guest on "Surfing the Cardboard Stretcher", "Girl Trouble", and "The Fog Hotel Swindle" (all recorded live-to-DAT). "Cooking With Satan" and "Rodent with a View" are outtakes from the sessions for Dante's Disneyland Inferno and 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda double CDs from the previous year.

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