Ping Pong over the Abyss

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Ping Pong Over The Abyss
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Studio album by
The 77s
Released1982
StudioExit Studios, Sacramento, California
Genre Rock, new wave
Label Exit
Producer Steven Soles
The 77s chronology
Rock and Religion Radio Show
(1980)		Ping Pong Over The Abyss
(1982)		 All Fall Down
(1984)
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Trouser Press Highly negative [3]

Ping Pong over the Abyss is the debut album by the 77s, released 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."

Track listing

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)

Bonus tracks originally found on CDs in the 123 boxset.

  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)

Band members

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References

  1. ↑ Ping Pong over the Abyss at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Review: Ping Pong Over The Abyss - The Seventy Sevens - 12 inch vinyl - Cross Rhythms". www.crossrhythms.co.uk. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ "TrouserPress.com :: 77s". www.trouserpress.com. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
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