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Format: CD (2 disc)
Release Date: Nov 04, 2013
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Personnel: Terry Taylor (vocals, background vocals); Jerry Chamberlain (guitar, background vocals); Marty Dieckmeyer (keyboards, bass guitar); Ed McTaggart (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Doug Doyle; Eric Townsend; Terry Taylor.
Audio Remasterer: J. Powell.
Recording information: Rebel Base Studio, Santa Ana, CA (1980); White Field Studios, Santa Ana, CA (1980).
Photographer: Alex MacDougall.
Reader: Malcolm Wild.
Shortly after the release of Horrendous Disc, longtime DA fans were shocked to find the band suddenly metamorphosed from a country & western outfit into a quirky, occasionally disturbing new wave band on this freaky-looking album featuring the band members with their eyes airbrushed out. Off-beat harmonies reminiscent of Rick Ocasek or David Byrne are mixed with lyrics full of literary and topical references. This was hardly what anyone had expected. Punk-influenced two-beat rhythms abound here. Packaged with a surreal text called The ¡Alarma! Chronicles that compliments the songs, this record hit a mark way ahead of its time. Recording quality is a little shoddy in places, but what it loses in hiss and noise it more than makes up for in ingenuity. ~ Mark W. B. Allender
Audio Mixers: Doug Doyle; Eric Townsend; Terry Taylor.
Audio Remasterer: J. Powell.
Recording information: Rebel Base Studio, Santa Ana, CA (1980); White Field Studios, Santa Ana, CA (1980).
Photographer: Alex MacDougall.
Reader: Malcolm Wild.
Shortly after the release of Horrendous Disc, longtime DA fans were shocked to find the band suddenly metamorphosed from a country & western outfit into a quirky, occasionally disturbing new wave band on this freaky-looking album featuring the band members with their eyes airbrushed out. Off-beat harmonies reminiscent of Rick Ocasek or David Byrne are mixed with lyrics full of literary and topical references. This was hardly what anyone had expected. Punk-influenced two-beat rhythms abound here. Packaged with a surreal text called The ¡Alarma! Chronicles that compliments the songs, this record hit a mark way ahead of its time. Recording quality is a little shoddy in places, but what it loses in hiss and noise it more than makes up for in ingenuity. ~ Mark W. B. Allender
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Central Theme
2 - ¡Alarma!
3 - Big Time/Big Deal
4 - Props
5 - My Room
6 - Faces To the Window
7 - Cloak & Dagger
8 - Colored By
9 - C&D (Reprise)
10 - Through the Speakers
11 - Hit Them
12 - Baby Game
13 - Shedding the Mortal Coil
14 - Endless Summer
15 - Walls of Doubt
16 - Ghost of the Heart
Disc 2:
1 - Little Things [Mainstream Demos]
2 - Off My Mind [Mainstream Demos]
3 - As Long As I Live [Mainstream Demos]
4 - No Spaceship [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
5 - Out of Town [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
6 - Only One [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
7 - Central Theme [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
8 - My Room [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
9 - Faces To the Window [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
10 - Colored By [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
11 - Through the Speakers [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
12 - Hit Them [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
13 - Endless Summer [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
14 - Walls of Doubt [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
15 - Props [Vocal Mix]
16 - Shedding the Mortal Coil [Alternate Mix]
17 - Ghost of the Heart [Alternate Mix]
18 - Big Time/Big Deal [Alternate Mix]
19 - ¡Alarma!
20 - Colored By
21 - ¡Alarma! Reading
1 - Central Theme
2 - ¡Alarma!
3 - Big Time/Big Deal
4 - Props
5 - My Room
6 - Faces To the Window
7 - Cloak & Dagger
8 - Colored By
9 - C&D (Reprise)
10 - Through the Speakers
11 - Hit Them
12 - Baby Game
13 - Shedding the Mortal Coil
14 - Endless Summer
15 - Walls of Doubt
16 - Ghost of the Heart
Disc 2:
1 - Little Things [Mainstream Demos]
2 - Off My Mind [Mainstream Demos]
3 - As Long As I Live [Mainstream Demos]
4 - No Spaceship [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
5 - Out of Town [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
6 - Only One [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
7 - Central Theme [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
8 - My Room [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
9 - Faces To the Window [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
10 - Colored By [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
11 - Through the Speakers [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
12 - Hit Them [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
13 - Endless Summer [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
14 - Walls of Doubt [¡Alarma! Demos & Outtakes]
15 - Props [Vocal Mix]
16 - Shedding the Mortal Coil [Alternate Mix]
17 - Ghost of the Heart [Alternate Mix]
18 - Big Time/Big Deal [Alternate Mix]
19 - ¡Alarma!
20 - Colored By
21 - ¡Alarma! Reading