Doppelgänger (Daniel Amos album) explained

Doppelgänger
Type:studio
Artist:Daniel Amos
Cover:Doppelgänger (Daniel Amos album).jpg
Released:1983
Recorded:Whitefield Studios, (Santa Ana, California)
Genre:New Wave, Christian alternative rock
Label:Alarma!
Producer:Terry Scott Taylor, Jerry Chamberlain
Prev Title:¡Alarma!
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:Vox Humana
Next Year:1984

Doppelgänger is the fifth studio album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos issued on their own Alarma! Records label in 1983. It is the second album in their ¡Alarma! Chronicles album cycle.

Content

Doppelgänger is much darker than the album that preceded it, ¡Alarma!. The album starts with the eerie backward sounds of "Hollow Man" (inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem, The Hollow Men). Taylor's lyrics to "I Didn't Build it For Me", "Autographs for the Sick", and "New Car" were sharp attacks on televangelists, anticipating the Jimmy Swaggart/Jim Bakker/Robert Tilton scandals of 1987–88.

Doppelgänger is the second of a four-part series of albums by DA entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles, which also includes ¡Alarma!, Vox Humana and Fearful Symmetry. In the tour that followed the release, the band presented a full multimedia event, complete with video screens synchronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any Christian band. The stage presentation even prompted heckling at some shows.[1]

This album, along with the other three albums from the Alarma! Chronicles, was rereleased as part of the Alarma! Chronicles book-set in 2000. The book set included three CDs, over 200 pages of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information in a hardcover book.[2]

Reissue

In 2014, Born Twice Records revisited the album as part of its ongoing deluxe reissue series re-issued the album as a two-CD.[3]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hollow Man" (Taylor) (2:46)
  2. "Mall (All Over the World)" (Taylor) (3:17)
  3. "Real Girls" (Taylor, Chamberlain) (3:01)
  4. "New Car!" (Taylor) (2:01)
  5. "Do Big Boys Cry" (Taylor) (2:07)
  6. "Youth With a Machine" (Taylor) (2:45)
  7. "The Double" (Taylor) (3:56)
  8. "Distance and Direction" (Taylor) (2:55)

Side two

  1. "Memory Lane" (Taylor) (3:51)
  2. "Angels Tuck You In" (Taylor) (2:45)
  3. "Little Crosses" (Chamberlain) (2:40)
  4. "Autographs for the Sick" (words by Taylor, music by Taylor, Chamberlain, Chandler) (1:42)
  5. "I Didn't Build It for Me" (words by Taylor, music by Taylor, Chamberlain) (2:50)
  6. "Here I Am" (Taylor) (3:16)
  7. "Hollow Man (Reprise)" (Taylor) (0:53)

Deluxe edition bonus disc

  1. "Hollow Man" [Alternate]
  2. "Mall (All Over the World)" [Alternate]
  3. Concert Intro
  4. "Real Girls" [Live]
  5. "New Car!" [Live]
  6. "Do Big Boys Cry" [Instrumental]
  7. "Youth with a Machine" [Toy Mix]
  8. "The Double" [Extended Rough]
  9. "Distance and Direction" [Alternate]
  10. "Distance and Direction" [Vocal Mix]
  11. "Memory Lane" [Live]
  12. "Angels Tuck You In" [Rough]
  13. "Little Crosses" [Fragment]
  14. "Autographs for the Sick" [Alternate]
  15. "I Didn’t Build It For Me" [Alternate]
  16. "Here I Am" [Instrumental]
  17. "Hollow Man" (Reprise) [Alternate]

Personnel

Additional musicians
Production notes

Notes and References

  1. Book: Alfonso . Barry . The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music . 2002 . Billboard Books/Watson-Guptill Publications . New York . 0-8230-7718-7 . 151.
  2. Book: Thompson . John Joseph . Raised By Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll . 2000 . ECW Press . 9781550224214 . 115.
  3. Web site: Daniel Amos - Doppelgänger: The "¡Alarma! Chronicles" Volume II. Discogs. 2014 .

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