Doppelgänger (Daniel Amos album)

Doppelgänger
Studio album by Daniel Amos
Released	1983
Recorded	Whitefield Studios, (Santa Ana, California)
Genre	Rock, new wave
Label	Alarma!
Producer	Terry Scott Taylor, Jerry Chamberlain
Daniel Amos chronology
¡Alarma! (1981) Doppelgänger (1983) Vox Humana (1984)

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

Doppelgänger is 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", "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 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.

In 2014, Stunt Records revisited the album as part of its ongoing deluxe reissue series re-issued the album as a two-CD and a three-panel digipak, in September.

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

• Terry Scott Taylor – rhythm guitars and lead vocals.
• Jerry Chamberlain – lead guitars, vocals, lead vocal on "Little Crosses", spoken lead vocal on "Autographs For The Sick".
• Tim Chandler – bass guitar.
• Ed McTaggart – drums.

Additional musicians

• Tom Howard – keyboards, background vocals
• Mark Cook – keyboards, background vocals
• Marty Dieckmeyer – keyboards
• Jeff Lams – keyboards
• Rob Watson – keyboards
• Bill Colton – saxophone
• Alex MacDougall – percussion
• Randy Stonehill – background vocals
• Derri Daugherty – background vocals
• Janet McTaggart – background vocals
• Dori Howard – background vocals
• The Three Women from Istanbul – background vocals
• Emilia Emulator – background vocals

Production notes

• Thom Roy – engineering
• Derri Daugherty – second engineer
• Recorded and mixed at Whitefield Studios, Santa Ana, California
• Steve Hall - mastering (at MCA Whitney)
• Rehearsals and arrangements recorded at the Rebel Base, Santa Ana
• Derrill Bazzy – art direction, photography, album art concepts
• Bonnie Ferguson – photography
• Terry Taylor – album art concepts
• Phillip Mangano – album art concepts
• Keyboards arranged by Taylor/Chamberlain/Howard
• Tom Gulotta – project coordinator
• Eric Townsend – alternate bonus mixes
• Re-mastered by J Powell at Steinhaus

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