¡Alarma! [Bonus Tracks]

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