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Fearful Symmetry (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Fearful Symmetry is Daniel Amos’s (or as they called themselves at the time, DA’s) seventh studio album, released in 1986. Though it didn’t say anywhere on the cover, this was the fourth and final part of their concept album series The Alarma Chronicles.At the time, frontman Terry Scott Taylor had death on his mind. His wife had recently miscarried, and he had lost two grandparents who he’d been very close to. So on the issue of how to end The Alarma Chronicles, the answer seemed obvious: the final chapter would be a meditation on death and Heaven. Taylor’s story in the liner notes picked up where Vox Humana had left off: the dreamer wakes up from his vision, writes down his story, and realizes that he’s on the verge of waking up again—passing via death into a greater reality.Musically, Fearful Symmetry merged the darker sound of Doppelgänger with the synthesizer emphasis from Vox Humana. Although here, DA mainly used the synths to stand in for orchestral embellishments, more effectively on some songs than others.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Personnel:DA is: | |
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Dead Man Writing | |
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Dead Man Writing: The narrator of the entire Alarma Chronicles story admits that he'll be dead soon, and that this is his final message. | |
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Literary Allusion Title: Aside from the obvious reference to William Blake’s poem “Tyger, Tyger”, it also refers to Malcolm Muggeridge (quoted in the liner notes): | |
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Song Style Shift: “Sudden Heaven” starts off as an odd country/new wave fusion, then goes psychedelic when the Last Chorus Slowdown kicks in. | |
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Death Song | |
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Death Song: “Shadow Catcher” is about a man on the verge of death, staring into the shadow. | |
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Officially Shortened Title: By this time, they were just DA. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: How the liner notes story ends. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: “The Pool” has a narrator reading a brief poem in the intro and bridge. “Instruction Thru Film” features interludes in the style of educational shorts from the ’50s and ’60s. | |
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Heaven | |
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Heaven: Not described in any detail, but “Beautiful One” is about the soul’s reunion with God after death. | |
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Stopped Numbering Sequels: This is the only album in the series that doesn’t have the subtitle The Alarma Chronicles Volume [number]. In fact, it only mentions its connection to The Alarma Chronicles inside the liner notes. | |
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Mundane Afterlife | |
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Mundane Afterlife: “Neverland Ballroom” is vague, but the Ballroom seems to be some kind of afterlife, considering how no one can leave. | |
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Hard Work Hardly Works | |
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Hard Work Hardly Works: “Strong Points, Weak Points” and “Instruction Thru Film” demonstrate the tension between the Protestant understandings of sanctification and salvation through faith alone. “Strong Points” is about growing to be a better person; “Instruction” reiterates that our own good deeds aren’t what save us. | |
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Last Chorus Slow-Down | |
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Last Chorus Slowdown: “Sudden Heaven”. | |
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Eucatastrophe | |
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Eucatastrophe: “Sudden Heaven”, the narrator is in his darkest hour, only for the forces of Heaven to overtake him. | |
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Talking to the Dead | |
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Talking to the Dead: “Sleep, Silent Child” is addressed to a deceased child. | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification: In the liner notes story, the narrator sees a man who represents the entire physical universe. He’s old and decrepit—waiting to die and be reborn. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: The album opens with “A Sigh for You”, a meditation on sorrow and brokenness. Things quickly get better. | |
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