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1982 studio album by The 77s
Ping Pong Over The Abyss
Studio album by The 77s
Released1982
StudioExit Studios, Sacramento, California
GenreRock, new wave
LabelExit
ProducerSteven Soles
The 77s chronology
Rock and Religion Radio Show
(1980) 		Ping Pong Over The Abyss
(1982) 		All Fall Down
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Cross Rhythms
Trouser PressHighly negative

Ping Pong over the Abyss is the debut album by the 77s, released in 1982 on the Exit Records label.

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

  • Mike Roe - guitar, lead vocals
  • Mark Tootle - keyboards, guitar, vocals
  • Jan Eric - bass, background vocals
  • Mark Proctor - drums, vocals

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.
The 77s
  • Jan Eric Volz
  • Aaron Smith
  • Mark Tootle
  • Mark Proctor
  • David Leonhardt
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