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Then a voice said, "You do something about it!", March 20, 2006
This review is from: The Alarma Chronicles (Audio CD)
This is a just a brief correction to the long review given on the Alarma book set.
The previous reviewer seemed to have mixed things up a bit about the nature of these recordings. The album mentioned in the previous review [where there was any dispute to ownership] was not the Alarma Chronicles, but rather the album Horrendous Disc, which was finally released just a couple months prior to !Alarma!, which was the first of the 4 albums in these Alarma Chronicles. This is a well documented case of everything going wrong that could go wrong, but it really had zero effect on these albums. In fact, I'm a firm believer that things would be radically different today if that album [Horrendous Disc] had been pressed when it was supposed to. Robert Tilton might have, in fact, become President and would have made onto PrimeTime television!
Also, the Alarma Chronicles book set is not re-recorded from scratch. It may have been remastered, perhaps, but they are not re-recordings of the originals. Terry is good, but not THAT good! Remastering may add intros or outros originally removed from the originals, but no new licks were recorded and inserted to the originals that were not there in the first place and maybe left out for the sake of time or whimsy of the editor on duty.
Although I agree with the previous reviewer about the 3 discs versus 4 albums (scratched my head on that one too), I think it was intended to make the album one cohesive unit, which in fact it really was in Terry's mind when they were released. In reality, you can listen to all 4 of the original albums/CD's in one sitting as one big album. They were the chronicles after all.
You must keep in mind there was a limit to how much information you could fit onto vinyl in the early 80's, where this [same] limit was not there on CD. The initial re-release of the individual albums of the Alarma Chronicles on CD (long prior to this book set) took advantage of this space and added a few previously unreleased and live tracks. Of course, I am thankful they were not previously unreleased covers of these songs by (the now late, great) Larry Norman. Ooh! - That boy's a radish.
I must confess it has been a while since I listened to this box set. I played it once when I first received it years ago and decided to leave it in as "pristene condition" as possible. As such, it is probably worth a quarter million dollars today!
In all it is a very nice set and a "must-have" for any collector of Daniel Amos/Terry Scott Taylor music. The book alone is worth the asking price. If you ever find a copy -- buy it, bid on it, steal it if you have to (OK, maybe you shouldn't steal it) -- anyway -- just get it.
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Alarma Bookset, January 4, 2012
This review is from: The Alarma Chronicles (Audio CD)
These are the original recordings of the four Alarma Chronicle albums as they were originally released on vinyl. In the 1990s the albums were individually released on CD with a couple bonus cuts each, for this release the bonus cuts were dropped and the four albums were printed on three discs. As others have mentioned, we were told at the time by the then manager that Frontline didn't want the albums released on individual discs so Fearful Symmetry was split in half and put on disc two and three. Its possible Frontline never said this though. :/
The song order is the same as the original albums as well. The songs on Vox Humana have also had the CD IDs corrected, which were goofed up on the original single CD issue. Also, the Vox Humana cassette typo "It's Slick" was corrected to the songs actual title, "It's Sick." Some inbetween album narration was added by Terry Taylor himself. The book is a collection of lyrics, album information, transcripts of radio shows, photos and other cool stuff. Unfortunately after completion of the text and submission, someone ran the text through some kind of goofed up spell checker which added errors to some of the text. Originally it was all correct, I know because I typed it.
Larry Norman had nothing to do with these four albums, and frankly little to do with Horrendous Disc other than delaying it and eventually releasing different versions of the album in different countries. That album was recorded before his involvement with the band.
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Why 3 cds and not 4!!, November 26, 2009
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What can be said of the chronicles? A masterpiece that contains one of the best albums from DA, Fearful Symmetry.
Why 3 cds and not 4 as everybody would have want it to be?
there is a reason for this and the problem was that Frontline Label, wouldn't permit Fearful Symmetry to be alone in one cd so basically we all know what happen that fearful symmetry shares the same cd with part of Vox Humana
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