This is actually an aborted album from some years back, but pieces of it seem to keep surfacing every so often so I wanted to collect the various bits of information together (and solicit further info from anyone else that might happen to know more). Most of what I know about it is from
this interview (probably done in 2001) with Chris Murray:
Quote:
Science Fiction Double Feature definitely took the longest time. I was asked several years ago to record the two versions that appear on the album by Bob Timm at ska.about.com for a compilation he was doing of ska and reggae versions of songs from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. What took so long was trying to bring this amazing song, which I had grown up loving and did not want to butcher, smoothly into my own musical realm. It took some time for that process to unfold.
There was quite a while that it looked like the Rocky Horror comp would never get released, for various reasons, but I'm glad to say that it is now expected to come out this fall on Vegas Records. It should be a pretty crazy release. I debated whether to include Science Fiction on 4-Trackaganza! It's the first time I've ever done a cover version of someone else's material on one of my own album projects, either solo or with King Apparatus. I like the way those tracks sounded a lot, and I didn't want them never to get released after working so hard on them. It's a really cool tune. The lyrics are incredible.
In fact, Vegas Records would not actually release anything and the whole project seemed to just kind of go away. And yet, all these ska bands had already recorded tracks for it apparently. These are the tracks I know of specifically:
* Chris Murray - "Science Fiction/Double Feature"
* Regatta 69 - "Dammit Janet"
* Pain - "Time Warp"
* Suburban Legends - "Rose Tint My World"
(through Wild And Untamed Thing)* Chris Murray - "Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)"
Chris Murray released both of his tracks on the "4-Trackaganza" album in 2001. Regatta 69 released theirs on "SKAttered, SMOTHered, COVERed" in December 2000. Suburban Legends (my favorite cover of the bunch) would make their track available online only at MP3.com - and of course
it's here now. Pain, I just found out, will be releasing a DVD soon called "In A Band" that is said to include their Time Warp cover (more info here:
http://www.thepainpage.com). Anyone know of others?