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I was thinking about the Wacky Fan's comment that the switch to DA was synonymous with the band's decline (or something like that). Obviously, this isn't true, but has anyone ever noticed any kind of great difference between the first group of Daniel Amos albums (Daniel Amos to Vox Humana), the DA albums (Fearful Symmetry to Kalhoun), and the second group of Daniel Amos albums (Motorcycle to MBD, and hopefully even farther)? Has anyone noticed any distinction there besides the name difference? Just some random thoughts.
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Um, no.
I mean, yes.
There's a huge difference in the music. I guess that may be normal for DA, but it's not normal for any other band. Try listening to Alarma! then Kalhoun. Well you don't have to, you know what I'm talking about.
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Joey T.
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My fav's all seem to be under the "DA" or "Da" moniker except for the new album. For me, the name change to DA was synonymous with the lyrical content of the music growing to something that no other band in Christian music or "any" music for that matter has achieved. Lyrics that make this hard-hearted synical son-of-a-french cry..... 
Now that means something, doesn't it??? 
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I think there's an element of truth that the Wacky Dallas guy picked up on.
In an interview (on Motorcycle Tracks?) I think Terry himself said the return to the full name in some way signified a return to the original DA sound with Motorcycle and the return of Jerry (not an exact quote.)
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The music may have changed from one genre to another but 2 things have remained the same.
1. The band has always plowed into new territory (for a “Christian” band this is a no-no). This courage establishes a foundation for the rest of Christian artists to follow in their footsteps.
2. The band has never changed their tune… in other words the message remains the same!
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arcticsunburn
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Originally posted by John Foxe
I think there's an element of truth that the Wacky Dallas guy picked up on.
In an interview (on Motorcycle Tracks?) I think Terry himself said the return to the full name in some way signified a return to the original DA sound with Motorcycle and the return of Jerry (not an exact quote.)
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The original DA sound? Oh, I see... but their sound changed every album...
I agree with Shemp.
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Originally posted by arcticsunburn
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Originally posted by John Foxe
I think there's an element of truth that the Wacky Dallas guy picked up on.
In an interview (on Motorcycle Tracks?) I think Terry himself said the return to the full name in some way signified a return to the original DA sound with Motorcycle and the return of Jerry (not an exact quote.)
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The original DA sound? Oh, I see... but their sound changed every album...
I agree with Shemp.
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Uh wha? Someone agrees with me?
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I always saw Vox Humana as a DA album, or more to the point it's a transition. It has a tongue-in-cheek approach to a majority of the songs that disappears on Fearful Symmetry, obviously a darker, thought-provoking record. Still, there on the cover, DA is prominently featured against the bold, spelled-out Daniel Amos name.
And think about it, that Daniel Amos to DA difference is very much a tonal shift as all the light-hearted asides were shifted to the Eddies. Some of it crept back in on Motorcycle (Jerry's influence?) but Daniel Amos as band seemed to have grown to take things more seriously from Humana and thereafter.
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It seems like a lot of the Alarma Chronicles (and maybe what makes it so good) has this end-times urgency ("Through the Speakers," etc.) that was obviously there from the Shotgun Angel days (side 2 especially). Like Terry had to say everything NOW. It was almost like when the world didn't end at the end of Fearful Symmetry and now only that but Terry saw it wasn't even close to what HAD to be said, he had to keep reinventing himself (and of course, the bands he was in) to find different ways of saying what was basically the same thing ("There may not ever be / Anything here new to say / But I'm fond of finding words / Say them in a different way," right?).
I know that probably doesn't make a lot of sense, but what can I say? Darn Floor Big Bite.
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Originally posted by Shemp
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Originally posted by arcticsunburn
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Originally posted by John Foxe
I think there's an element of truth that the Wacky Dallas guy picked up on.
In an interview (on Motorcycle Tracks?) I think Terry himself said the return to the full name in some way signified a return to the original DA sound with Motorcycle and the return of Jerry (not an exact quote.)
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The original DA sound? Oh, I see... but their sound changed every album...
I agree with Shemp.
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Uh wha? Someone agrees with me?
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Yeah, I do. 
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is just seems to me to be the overall growth of the band.
I think maybe TST was trying to break out of the CCM scene and give the band a more secular sounding name.
maybe??
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Joey T.
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Originally posted by Dr Rich
is just seems to me to be the overall growth of the band.
I think maybe TST was trying to break out of the CCM scene and give the band a more secular sounding name.
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It was during that time that the band was also playing the club circuit in Hollyweird, CA.... Luckily, I got to see at least one of those shows... 
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