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The Music of the 77s...
All Fall Down1984 Produced by Charlie Peacock (A&M)Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba/ Under the Heat/ Mercy Mercy/ You Don't Scare Me/ Make A Difference Tonight/ Caught In An Unguarded Moment/ Someone New/ Something's Holding On/ Your Pretty Baby/ Another Nail Recorded in tandem with Charlie Peacock's Lie Down in the Grass, All Fall Down set the 77's on the tenuous first rung of the ladder to "Top 40 Teen Stardom." "Mercy, Mercy" got a few spins on MTV, and the record did well on the radio in L.A. and in other progressive music markets. The new wave stuff was still happening some, but the one-two blues rock attack of "Mercy, Mercy" and "You Don't Scare Me" provided what was probably the best two single sides of the year. And "Caught in an Unguarded Moment" (an unconscious rip-off of the Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died") cast the band's evangelistic goals in hip post-punk angst that gave listeners the first glimpse of the premiere rock band the Seven's were becoming.by Brad Caviness - 7ball |