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The Music of the 77s...
123 Box SetPing Pong Over the Abyss: 1982 Produced by Steven SolesA Different Kind Of Light/ How Can You Love/ It's So Sad/ Falling Down A Hole/ Someone New/ Renaissance Man/ Ping Pong Over The Abyss/ Time Is Slipping Away/ Denomination Blues/ A Different Kind Of Light (live)/ How Can You Love (4 - track demo)/ It's So Sad (live)/ Falling Down A Hole (live)/ Ping Pong Over The Abyss (4 - track demo)/ Denomination Blues (live) All Fall Down: 1984 Produced by Charlie Peacock Caught In An Unguarded Moment/ Someone New/ Something's Holding On/ Your Pretty Baby/ Another Nail/ Ba Ba Ba Ba/ Under The Heat/ Mercy Mercy/ You Don't Scare Me/ Make A Difference Tonight/ Locked Inside This Moment (Ballad Version)/ Locked Inside This Moment (Rock Version)/ Someone New (12" Version)/ Jesus/ Tattoo/ (Charlie Peacock story) Seventy Sevens: 1987 Produced by Robert Musso Do It For Love/ I Can't Get Over It/ What Was In That Letter/ Pearls Before Swine/ The Lust, The Flesh, The Eyes, & The Pride of Life/ Frames Without Photographs/ Bottom Line/ I Could Laugh/ Do It For Love (Demo)/ I Can't Get Over It (Live 8-track Demo)/ What Was In That Letter (Live 8-track Demo)/ The Lust,The Flesh, The Eyes, & The Pride of Life (Live 8-track Demo)/ Frames Without Photographs (Live 8-track Demo)/ Don't Say Goodbye (Demo)/ MT (Unreleased Alternative Mix)/ Don't, This Way (Single Version) The 77's first three albums collected for the first time in digital form with two albums' worth of bonus tracks. Roe insists, "it's not truly a box set. It's three albums in a box, But that's okay. What I'm hoping for is that people will get to hear what we did, because the records sounded terrible. The cassettes and the albums that came out, with the exception of the Island release, which was as good as could be, were just plain awful." As with most 77 releases, this set had a painfully short shelf-life; it was only in stores a few months before Via Records effectively went belly up. But RadRockers (www.radrockers.com) rescued most of the remaining inventory. Unless another company comes to the rescue again, it won't, be long till this release is talked about more than it is heard. by Brad Caviness - 7ball |