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Ping Pong over the Abyss

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Released
  
1982

Artist
  
The 77s

Producer
  
Steven Soles

Genres
  
Rock music, New wave

Ping Pong Over The Abyss (1982)
  
All Fall Down (1984)

Release date
  
1982

Label
  
Lo-Fidelity Records

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Recorded
  
Exit Studios (Sacramento, California)

Rock and Religion Radio Show (1980)
  
Ping Pong Over The Abyss (1982)

Similar
  
All Fall Down, Sticks and Stones, Pray Naked, Eighty Eight, Drowning with Land in Sight

The 77s ping pong over the abyss


The 77s released their debut album in 1982 on the Exit Records label.

Contents

One song from that album, "Renaissance Man," was later recorded by The Ocean Blue. "It's So Sad," was later rerecorded, with a drastically different arrangement, by Roe's other band, the Lost Dogs for their album MUTT.

The title comes from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," section 3: "I'm with you in Rockland / where you scream in a straight jacket that you're losing the game of the actual ping pong of the abyss."

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Side one

  1. "A Different Kind of Light"'
  2. "How Can You Love"
  3. "It's So Sad"
  4. "Falling Down A Hole"
  5. "Someone New"

Side two

  1. "Renaissance Man"
  2. "Ping Pong Over The Abyss"
  3. "Time Is Slipping Away"
  4. "Denomination Blues (That's All)"

Bonus Tracks (CD) *

  1. "A Different Kind Of Light" (Live)
  2. "How Can You Love" (4 - Track Demo)
  3. "It's So Sad" (Live)
  4. "Falling Down A Hole" (Live)
  5. "Ping Pong Over The Abyss" (4 - Track Demo)
  6. "Denomination Blues" (Live)
  • Bonus Tracks originally found on CD's in the 123 boxset.

    • The band

  • Mike Roe on guitars and lead vocals.
  • Mark Tootle on keyboards, guitars and vocals.
  • Jan Eric on bass guitars and background vocals.
  • Mark Proctor on Drums and vocals.

    • Songs

    A Different Kind of Light4:19
    How Can You Love4:40
    It's So Sad5:06

    References

    Ping Pong over the Abyss Wikipedia
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