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	Daniel Amos and Mike Stone
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Daniel Amos chronology
Shotgun Angel (1977) Horrendous Disc (1978/1981) ¡Alarma! (1981)

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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. Maranatha! Music began as a non-profit outreach of Calvary Chapel in 1971. ... Curb Records is a country record label started by Mike Curb in 1973, after leaving MGM Records. ... Warner Bros. ... Larry David Norman (born April 8, 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter considered the forefather of Contemporary Christian Music, an attribution which he denies. ... Solid Rock Records is the record label of Larry Norman. ... Randy Stonehill (born March 12, 1952) is an American singer/songwriter from Stockton, California. ... Tom Howard Tom Howard is an American Pianist, Musical Arranger and Orchestral Conductor. ... Cover of Mystery Mind John Mark Heard (1951-August 1992) was a record producer, singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia. ...

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. Rock & Religion (a. ... NewPax Records was founded in 1976 by musician Gary S. Paxton. ... ¡Alarma! is the title of a 1981 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on Newpax Records. ...

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).

US track listing

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)

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" (Cook-Chamberlain-Taylor)

UK release track list

Side One

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

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"

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

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.

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External links

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