Doppelgänger (Daniel Amos album)

Content

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 three CDs, over 200 pages of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information in a hardcover book.

Reissue

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.

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