BibleLand

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Bibleland
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Studio album by Daniel Amos
Released 1994
Recorded The Green Room
(Huntington Beach, California)
Genre Alternative rock, noise pop
Label BAI
Producer Terry Scott Taylor
Daniel Amos chronology
MotorCycle
(1993)		Bibleland
(1994)		 Songs of the Heart
(1995)
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Bibleland is the eleventh album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos, released in 1994 by BAI Records. The album is unusual for its loud, distorted noise pop sound, atypical of the band's other recordings.

Christian alternative rock is a form of alternative rock music that is lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview. Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

Daniel Amos American Christian rock band

Daniel Amos is an American Christian rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. The band currently consists of Taylor, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart. Over the band's career, they have included keyboardist Mark Cook, drummer Alex MacDougall, bassist Tim Chandler and keyboardist Rob Watson with sounds that experimented with country rock, rock, new wave and alternative rock.

Noise pop is a subgenre of alternative or indie rock that developed in the mid-1980s in the United Kingdom and United States. It is defined by its mixture of dissonant noise or feedback with the songcraft more often found in pop music. Shoegazing, another noise-based genre that developed in the 1980s, drew from noise pop.

Contents

The title song mocks cheap religious merchandise in the form of a fictional Amusement Park (although based on several real parks) called "Bibleland." The album's artwork includes a "Circus" style gatefold illustration by Douglas TenNapel.

Track listing

  1. "Broken Ladders to Glory" (words and music by Taylor)
  2. "Bibleland" (words and music by Taylor)
  3. "Theo's Logic" (words and music by Taylor)
  4. "Low Crawls and High Times" (words and music by Taylor)
  5. "Bakersfield" (words and music by Taylor)
  6. "Out in the Cold" (words and music by Taylor)
  7. "The Bubble Bursts" (words and music by Taylor)
  8. "Pete and Repeat" (words and music by Taylor)
  9. "Constance of the Universe" (words and music by Taylor)
  10. "I'll Get Over It" (words and music by Taylor)
  11. "She's Working Here" (words and music by Taylor)
  12. "Stone Away" (words by Taylor, music by Taylor/Chandler/McTaggart)

Credits

Jerry Chamberlain is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies.

Tim Chandler was an American bass guitar player, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies and The Choir.

Greg Flesch is an American guitarist and musician, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies.

Additional musicians

Gene Andrusco, better known as Gene Eugene, was a Canadian-born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician. Andrusco was best known as the leader of the alternative rock band Adam Again, a member of The Swirling Eddies and as a founding member of the supergroup Lost Dogs.

Production notes

Joey "Ojo" Taylor is an American bassist, vocalist, and keyboardist best known for his work with the Christian rock band Undercover. He produced and was a studio musician for Nobody Special, the stage name for his brother, Pat "Nobody" Taylor.

The Green Room was a popular recording studio located in Huntington Beach, California. The Green Room was owned and operated by musician Gene Eugene and Anna Cardenas and was active from the 1980s until Cardenas was forced to sell the studio in 2002, after Eugene died in 2000.

Huntington Beach, California City in California, United States

Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. The city is named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington. The population was 189,992 during the 2010 census, making it the most populous beach city in Orange County and the seventh most populous city in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,809. It is bordered by Bolsa Chica Basin State Marine Conservation Area on the west, the Pacific Ocean on the southwest, by Seal Beach on the northwest, by Westminster on the north, by Fountain Valley on the northeast, by Costa Mesa on the east, and by Newport Beach on the southeast.

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References

  1. ↑ BibleLand at AllMusic
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