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Vox Humana (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Vox Humana (The Alarma Chronicles Volume III) is Daniel Amos’s sixth studio album, released in 1984. It took the New Wave Music of their previous two albums in a much more synthesized direction, with many tracks being outright Synth-Pop. The ravages of The '80s spared no band, and this album’s production bears witness to that.Appropriately enough for an LP that wears the decade on its sleeve so blatantly, Vox Humana was a critique of Western society at that time. In a World… where greed and commercialism were celebrated, where new technology was as likely to distract people from each other as to unite them, and where nuclear annihilation could have come without warning at any time—what could one synth-pop band do? For DA, the answer was to pen bouncy, upbeat ditties that highlighted the absurdities of the world around them, and then pair those with somber ballads about reconnecting with God and their fellow humans.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The story in the liner notes continued where Doppelgänger left off and paralleled the album’s lyrical themes: Terry Scott Taylor’s Author Avatar gets overtaken by a storm-breathing giant, comes to grips with the Awful Truth about society, and shrinks down to the size of an ant.It was followed in 1986 by the final chapter of The Alarma Chronicles: Fearful Symmetry.Personnel: Terry Scott Taylor: lead vocals, rhythm guitars, occasional keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals Ed McTaggart: drums, percussion, synthesizers Rob Watson: keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, backing vocals Tim Chandler: lead guitars, 4 & 12 string bass, synthesizers, backing vocalsAdvertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Tracklist:Side 1: Travelog (4:25) (It’s the Eighties, So Where's Our) Rocket Packs (3:35) Home Permanent (3:00) It’s Sick (2:18) William Blake (4:30) Dance Stop (2:43)Side 2: Live and Let Live (3:40) When Worlds Collide (4:20) As the World Turns (3:47) She’s All Heart (3:00) The Incredible Shrinking Man (2:45) Sanctuary (5:45) | |
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Giant Foot of Stomping | |
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Giant Foot of Stomping: On the back cover, a massive robot foot descends from above to crush DA underneath. | |
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Dance Sensation | |
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Dance Sensation: The liner notes come with instructions for how to dance to “Dance Stop”: | |
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Reveal Shot: The front cover is a photo of the band. The back cover◊ pulls back just far enough to show the Giant Foot of Stomping that’s about to crush them. | |
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Loss of Identity | |
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Loss of Identity: In the liner notes story, the narrator concludes that lack of change is what causes you to lose yourself. (See Static Character, below.) | |
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World-Wrecking Wave | |
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World-Wrecking Wave: In the liner notes story, the narrator gets overtaken by a black storm-wave-thing. | |
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Ludd Was Right | |
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Ludd Was Right: Sort of: Technology is an extension of man’s collective will. And since Humans Are Flawed... | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: “As the World Turns”: “The Incredible Shrinking Man” describes the many ways that the world conspires to make the character (addressed only as “you”) feel powerless and insignificant. | |
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Weather Manipulation | |
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Weather Manipulation: The giant in the liner notes story breathes storm clouds and freezing winds. | |
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God-Is-Love Songs | |
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God-Is-Love Songs: “When Worlds Collide” is a love song from God to all of humanity. | |
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Job-Stealing Robot | |
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Job-Stealing Robot: In “The Incredible Shrinking Man”: | |
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Vindicated by History | |
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Vindicated by History: invoked “William Blake”: | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: The chorus vocals in “Live and Let Live” bounce from one channel to the other. | |
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Drunk with Power | |
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Drunk with Power: “The Incredible Shrinking Man”: | |
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Lack of Empathy | |
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Lack of Empathy: “It’s Sick” is about responding to foreign tragedies with complete apathy. The narrator at least has the self-awareness to feel bad that he doesn’t feel bad: | |
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Officially Shortened Title | |
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Officially Shortened Title: The front cover has “DA” in large letters, with “Daniel Amos” written inside those in much smaller text—apparently to ease fans into accepting the shortened name. | |
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Opposites Attract | |
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Opposites Attract: “She’s All Heart”. The verses describe a couple whose differing viewpoints lead to disagreements and misunderstandings, but the chorus keeps coming back to the fact that “They are one heart.” | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: Keyboardist Rob Watson wasn’t available for the cover photoshoot. DA asked Leo Sorentino, tour manager for The Choir, to stand in for Watson—even though they didn’t look much alike at all. | |
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Portal Door | |
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Portal Door: The liner notes start with a reference to Doppelgänger's door, with the narrator in a desolate landscape with a storm-wave bearing down on him. And those notes end with the narrator stepping through another mysterious door. | |
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Bad Moon Rising | |
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Bad Moon Rising and The Stars Are Going Out: In “Sanctuary”: | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: In “The Incredible Shrinking Man”: | |
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'80s Hair | |
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'80s Hair: DA’s strangely sculpted hairdos on the cover photo. On the back cover, they lampshade it with a lyric from “Home Permanent”: | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: “Travelog”’s bridge includes several vocal samples from TV, including Johnny Jacobs proclaiming, “A new car!”—the same sample that was used throughout “New Car!”, from Doppelgänger. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: “William Blake” is an extended tribute to him, with several quotes from his poems. | |
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IWantMyJetPack | |
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I Want My Jet Pack: “(It’s the Eighties, So Where’s Our) Rocket Packs” laments that the techno-utopia never happened—partly because sci-fi technologies never materialized, and partly because people didn’t change that much. The items that sci-fi promised and reality never delivered (at least not by 1984) include: | |
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First World Problems | |
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First World Problems: After two verses describing genuine oppression, the final verse of “It’s Sick” covers the sort of problems that rich Americans face. Then the lyrics dig a little deeper, pointing out that we’re focused on these trivialities because our real problem—the possibility of nuclear holocaust—is just too big to deal with. | |
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While Rome Burns | |
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While Rome Burns: “Dance Stop” is about the masses falling into hedonism in the face of the impending apocalypse, specifically by dancing as the hydrogen bombs launch. | |
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The Moral Substitute | |
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The Moral Substitute: Parodied in “Home Permanent”. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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Fish out of Water: “As the World Turns” describes being an outsider in the spiritual sense: In the liner notes story, the narrator realizes: | |
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Foreign Language Title: Vox Humana, Latin for “voice of the human”. | |
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So What Do We Do Now? | |
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So What Do We Do Now?: In “Sanctuary”: | |
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Incredible Shrinking Man | |
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Incredible Shrinking Man: “Incredible Shrinking Man” uses this as a metaphor for being a Butt-Monkey in 1980s society. And in the liner notes story, the narrator literally shrinks until a tiny rock becomes an impassible mountain. | |
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Mutually Assured Destruction | |
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Mutually Assured Destruction: The fear of a nuclear war with the USSR looms in the background—or the foreground—of several songs. “It’s Sick”: “Dance Stop” is about crowds who go on dancing even as the bombs explode. “The Incredible Shrinking Man”: | |
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Bystander Syndrome | |
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Bystander Syndrome: In “Live and Let Live”: | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: “Travelog” is literally a song about watching TV, but the narrator makes it sound like a grand adventure. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The liner notes mention this happening on a societal scale: | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Nearly the entire album. The upbeat songs are the ones about selling your soul to the machine, while the somber songs are the ones about meaningful relationships with others. “Sanctuary” is the most lyrically hopeful song on the album—it’s God’s unconditional promise to be anyone’s sanctuary, in good times and bad—but musically, the moodiest and broodiest. | |
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet | |
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet: “The Incredible Shrinking Man”: | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: The album title means “voice of the human”, but this is probably the least-human-sounding music in DA’s discography. The irony was definitely intentional. | |
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