According to the liner notes from the cassette, the Stranger Than Fiction album Menagerie was recorded in 1987 but no specific dates are mentioned. Page 87 of Torment Saint says it was recorded over a period of three days but without mentioning specific dates. Eddie Brock/Alphabet Town has reported that the basic tracks were recorded during one set of sessions with the backing tracks done a bit later on. This was the fourth Stranger Than Fiction cassette. It was self-released and Elliott is listed as Johnny Panic on this cassette.

​- All songs from the cassette were put on YouTube in 2022.

- According to the cassette liner notes, Stranger Than Fiction was:

        Garrick Duck - bass
         Jason Hornick - keys, voice
         Adam Koval - drums
         Johnny Panic - voice, guitars

- All songs by Duck/Panic except Say I Do by Duck/Hornick and Memorandum and Prom Date by  Fatback (maybe, it's hard to read)/Panic.

- Recorded at Woofbark in 1987. Produced by the band and Tony Lash except for Cypress, The Party, and Asleep engineered by Johnny Panic.

- Prom Date is an early version of Let's Turn the  Record Over.

-  A solo Elliott version of The Real Estate is on the Live From Nowhere Near Here Volume 2 CD.

Thanks to Cam for giving me the artwork for the cassette.


See the  Menagerie page for many more details.