Horrendous Disc

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Horrendous Disc
Studio album by Daniel Amos
Released	April 1981
Recorded	1978-1980 Whitefield Studios (Santa Ana, California)
Genre	Rock
Label	Solid Rock Records
Producer(s)	Daniel Amos and Mike Stone
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Daniel Amos chronology
Shotgun Angel (1977)	Horrendous Disc (1978/1981)	¡Alarma! (1981)

Horrendous Disc is the title of a 1981 album by the rock band Daniel Amos, and recorded in 1978.

DA had almost completely abandoned the country sound of their first record by late 1977 and early 1978, when this album was recorded with legendary rock and roll producer Mike Stone (Journey, Queen, Asia, Kiss, Frank Zappa and others).

The album was dropped by Maranatha! Music after the label decided to quit releasing rock and roll albums and focus on children's releases and the new praise style of gospel music. So the band, now without a record contract, began to shop the project around to various labels like Curb/Warner Brothers. Word bought the tapes from Maranatha! and Larry Norman's Solid Rock Records, home to such artists as Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Mark Heard, and others, leased the recordings from Word. Norman had the album mixed and took photos of the band for the album's cover. In July of 1979, Norman released a test pressing with a different track listing and slightly different mix. This pressing was distributed to reviewers and extra copies were taken on tour.

Aside from live performances, music from the album, the test pressing, was first heard by the public on the Rock & Religion Radio Show on January 20, 1980. Several tracks were played and the band was interviewed about what they had hoped would be their soon-to-be-released album. For reasons that remain a mystery, the album was shelved by Solid Rock until its long overdue release in April of 1981, nearly three years after it had been recorded and just weeks before the band's follow up on Newpax Records, ¡Alarma!, hit record stores.

This album frequently appeared at the top of Christian Music magazine readers polls of the "album that people most wanted to see released on CD," until its eventual reissue on CD in 1999. It was listed at #63 in the book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music (Harvest House Publishers, 2001).

Contents 1 US track listing 1.1 Master Cylinder One: 1.2 Master Cylinder Two: 2 UK release track list 2.1 Side One 2.2 Side Two 3 July 1979 test pressing order 4 Personnel 5 Sources

[edit] US track listing

[edit] Master Cylinder One:

1. "I Love You #19" (Taylor)
2. "Hound Of Heaven" (Taylor)
3. "(Near Sighted Girl With Approaching) Tidal Wave" (Taylor)
4. "Sky King (Out Across The Sky)" (Taylor)

[edit] Master Cylinder Two:

1. "On The Line" (Taylor)
2. "I Believe In You" (Taylor)
3. "Man In The Moon" (Chamberlain)
4. "Never Leave You" (Cook)
5. "Horrendous Disc" (Taylor)

[edit] UK release track list

[edit] Side One

1. "I Love You #19"
2. "Hound Of Heaven"
3. "I Believe In You"
4. "Sky King (Out Across The Sky)"

[edit] Side Two

1. "On The Line"
2. "Never Leave You"
3. "After All These Years" (Taylor)
4. "Horrendous Disc".

The Canadian re-issue omits "Never Leave You". However, Word Canada still had labels, sleeves, and jackets from the first pressing so, not wanting to be wasteful, the disc was mastered to appear to have five tracks on side two by visually splitting "Horrendous Disc"

[edit] July 1979 test pressing order

• Flying Saucer sounds
• "On The Line"
• "Never Leave You"
• "I Believe In You"
• "Tidal Wave"
• "Sky King"
• "I Love You #19" +
• "Man in the Moon
• "Hound of Heaven" +
• "Horrendous Disc"

+ these tracks were re-recorded for the final release

[edit] Personnel

DA's membership had grown to six members, when this album was recorded.

• Terry Scott Taylor on guitars, and Lead Vocals.
• Jerry Chamberlain on guitars, and vocals.
• Marty Dieckmeyer on bass Guitar.
• Mark Cook on keyboards and vocals.
• Ed McTaggart on drums.
• Alex MacDougall on drums and Percussion.

[edit] Sources

• The Puzzle of the Horrendous Disc Recordings
• Collected reviews of Horrendous Disc

Daniel Amos
Terry Scott Taylor | Ed McTaggart | Greg Flesch | Tim Chandler
Marty Dieckmeyer | Mark Cook | Steve Baxter | Jerry Chamberlain | Rob Watson | Alex MacDougall
Production & Art Direction
Al Perkins | Jonathan David Brown | Mike Stone | Gene Eugene Ojo Taylor | Tom Gulotta | Eric Townsend | Jason Townsend | Doug TenNapel | Brian Heydn The Green Room | Whitefield Studios | Mama Jo's | Martinsound | 3-D Studios | Neverland Studios
Discography
Studio albums: Daniel Amos | Shotgun Angel | Horrendous Disc | ¡Alarma! Doppelgänger | Vox Humana | Fearful Symmetry | Darn Floor - Big Bite Kalhöun | MotorCycle | BibleLand | Songs of the Heart | Mr. Buechner's Dream
Live Albums: Live Bootleg '82 | Preachers From Outer Space!
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