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Doppelgänger is the title of a 1983 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on Alarma! Records.

Doppelganger was a much darker, more haunting album 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" and "New Car" were sharp attacks on televangelists, that actually predate the Jimmy Swaggart/Jim Bakker/Robert Tilton scandals by nearly a decade.

Doppelganger was the second of a four part series of albums by DA entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles, which also included the albums Alarma!, Vox Humana, and Fearful Symmetry. The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens sychronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. 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 3 CDs, over 200 pages of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information in a hardcover book.

Track list

Side One:

  1. "Hollow Man" (Taylor)
  2. "Mall (All Over The World)" (Taylor)
  3. "Real Girls" (Taylor/Chamberlain)
  4. "New Car!" (Taylor)
  5. "Do Big Boys Cry" (Taylor)
  6. "Youth With A Machine" (Taylor)
  7. "The Double" (Taylor)
  8. "Distance and Direction" (Taylor)

Side Two:

  1. "Memory Lane" (Taylor)
  2. "Angels Tuck You In" (Taylor)
  3. "Little Crosses" (Chamberlain)
  4. "Autographs for the Sick" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Chamberlain/Chandler)
  5. "I Didn't Build It For Me" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor/Chamberlain)
  6. "Here I Am" (Taylor)
  7. "Hollow Man (Reprise)" (Taylor)

Personnel

Additional Musicians

Production Notes

Daniel Amos
Terry Scott Taylor | Ed McTaggart | Greg Flesch | Tim Chandler
Marty Dieckmeyer | Mark Cook | Steve Baxter | Jerry Chamberlain | Rob Watson | Alex MacDougall
Production
Al Perkins | Jonathan David Brown | Mike Stone | Gene Eugene
Ojo Taylor | Tom Gulotta | Eric Townsend | Jason Townsend | The Green Room
Discography
Studio albums: Daniel Amos | Shotgun Angel | Horrendous Disc | ¡Alarma!
Doppelgänger | Vox Humana | Fearful Symmetry | Darn Floor - Big Bite
Kalhöun | MotorCycle | BibleLand | Songs of the Heart | Mr. Buechner's Dream
Live Albums: Live Bootleg '82 | Preachers From Outer Space!
Related Articles
Lost Dogs | The Swirling Eddies | Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor | Stunt Records

 


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