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The 77s (Music)
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The 77s (occasionally the Seventy Sevens) are a Christian Rock band from Sacramento, California. Their one consistent member throughout their four-decade history has been the singer and guitarist Mike Roe, whose range and abilities as a vocalist and a musician are sizeable. Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman described the 77s as being "Too Christian for the radio, and too radio for the church," as the band's lyrics featured explicitly Christian themes while their music remained accessible to secular audiences.They released their first album, Ping Pong Over the Abyss, in 1982 and, by 1987, seemed to be on the cusp of a mainstream breakthrough, with a self-titled album set to release on Island Records in April. Unfortunately for them, a few weeks before their album was to come out, Island released its biggest hit of the decade: U2’s The Joshua Tree, and, depending on whom you ask, the 77s were left without much label support. This iteration of the band didn't last much longer. Roe put out some unreleased tracks under a variety of names in the late '80s and early '90s, and then reformed the band in the 1990s, first as a quartet and then as a power trio, its membership staying stable since 1995.The band has played a wide variety of music over the years, as most long-running acts do: They began as a New Wave Music act, but by the time the '90s had rolled around, had become much more influenced by Blues Rock and Hard Rock. In the Christian rock community, they were known for walking an uncomfortable line between Christian and secular, with many of their lyrics dealing frankly with topics like abortion and premarital sex that were generally considered off limits for Christian bands.Current Members | |
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Fade Out | |
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Fade Out: A lot of them in the ‘80s, when Christian rock as a whole was still largely beholden to the Nashville Fade. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: The 77s were one of the early Christian rock bands to tackle darker and edgier topics. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: The band loves them. "I Could Laugh" is basically wall-to-wall naked confessions and stealth puns. From "Kites Without Strings": "I was taught/taut but never learned a thing." Michael Roe's first solo album is called The Boat Ashore. From "Sevens": "A paradise/pair o' dice is what you throw away." Nearly every line in "Unbalanced" is a stealth pun. The apparently misspelled "Roesbud." | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: "Perfect Blues" suggests something like it: | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: Averted, except for "Ping Pong Over the Abyss" and "Pray Naked." | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: "You Don't Scare Me" is a list of things that could kill the narrator (but don't scare him). "MT" is a list of things the addressee is "more than" to the singer. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: Two right in a row on EP. "Sevens" uses a seven-measure structure instead of the more common eight. "Unbalanced" features a repeating figure of a six-beat measure followed by a five-beat measure. | |
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Singer-Songwriter | |
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Singer-Songwriter: Largely averted. While Mike Roe has written songs on all of the band's albums, most of his credits are co-writes. | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: Roe holds the final note of "The Days to Come" for eight full measures. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: "Dave's Blues," inspired by guitarist David Leonhardt's cancer diagnosis: | |
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Credits Gag | |
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Credits Gag: The 77s has a warning in the liner notes to "Beware the blunted needle!", about how record players with worn-out needles can impede sound quality and permanently damage your records. That's not the gag. Their next album, Sticks and Stones, copies that text over but changes a few nouns so it's now a warning about the dangers of worn-out CD players: "Beware the blunted laser!" That's the gag. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Fans who came along later are sometimes surprised to find out that Mark Tootle and Mark Proctor sing several songs on the first two albums. | |
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Beneath the Mask | |
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Beneath the Mask: When the addressee of "You Walked in the Room" shows up, everyone wishes they had "prepared a disguise." | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Drummer Bruce Spencer sings the second verse of “Leaving.� Mark Tootle sings two songs on All Fall Down, and both he and Mark Proctor get songs on Ping Pong Over the Abyss. | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: When Roe plays "Nowhere Else" at solo shows, the audience is often asked to sing the Nurk Sisters' "Hey na na" backing vocals. | |
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Misogyny Song | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_61d6784f | comment |
Misogyny Song: Decades later, two of the band’s anti-premarital sex songs ("Something's Holding On" and "Pearls Before Swine") can feel a bit like slut-shaming. "Save It" and "The Collector," two Larry Tagg compositions from the late '80s that were later released on the reissue of More Miserable, are even more straightforward examples. | |
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Pep-Talk Song | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_6732af17 | comment |
Pep-Talk Song: "Do It for Love." "God Sends Quails." Ironically, the song was so difficult to write and arrange that it almost broke up the band. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_67784113 | comment |
Non-Appearing Title: "Ping Pong Over the Abyss," "Pearls Before Swine," "Mary and the Baby Elvis," "Woody," "Happy Roy," "Dave's Blues," "The Jig Is Up," "Sneakers," "Earache," "Unbalanced." | |
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Supergroup | |
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Supergroup: Roe is in the Lost Dogs, along with the frontmen of Daniel Amos, The Choir, and Adam Again. | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_6f2fe973 | comment |
Epic Instrumental Opener: "Don't, This Way" and "God Sends Quails." | |
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12-Bar Blues | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_71067de4 | comment |
12-Bar Blues: "U U U U," "Perfect Blues," "Mary and the Baby Elvis," "Closer,� “Where It’s At, "Outskirts." | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: Quite a few! "Self-Made Trap," "Earache," "Lifeline," "Perfect Blues," "Cold Cold Night," "Nobody's Fault but Mine," "There Forever," "Say So Long to Your Sad Old Love Song," "Honesty," "Alone Together," "Related," "God Sends Quails," "Gone in a Moment," and "The Battle of Evermore" are all more than six minutes. "Don't, This Way," "I Could Laugh," and "Pray Naked" are all more than seven minutes. "Pearls Before Swine" and "Deliverance" are more than eight minutes. Even more true on the live albums, where Roe can stretch out as a soloist. Live versions of "This Is the Way Love Is" frequently hit ten minutes. At Cornerstone 1990, the band extended "I Can't Get Over It" to six minutes with an extended guitar solo. More than half the songs on Eighty Eight are more than six minutes long; "You Don't Scare Me" is more than eleven minutes, and "Mercy Mercy" and "I Could Laugh" both top twelve minutes. The Cornerstone '94 version of "Nuts for You" is more than six minutes long. The Ninety Nine version of "The Stellazine Prophecy" is longer than six minutes; and its medley of "Blood and Roses" and "Pearls Before Swine" is longer than seven minutes. Cornerstone 2002 and 2008 both have medleys that top ten minutes. The version of "Unbalanced" at Cornerstone 2003 is more than eight minutes long; its version of "Outskirts" is more than ten minutes. The live version of "Make a Difference Tonight" on Seeds and Stems is more than seven minutes long. The live version of "Kites Without Strings" included on the Pray Naked re-issue is nearly seven minutes long. | |
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Instrumentals | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_74b7629c | comment |
Instrumentals: "The Loop," “Mezzo,� and “Sounds o’ Autumn.� The latter is a drum solo. | |
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Alone in a Crowd | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_76dc3807 | comment |
Alone in a Crowd: "You Walked in the Room": | |
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BreakUpSong | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_7bef792a | comment |
Break Up Song: Much of Drowning with Land in Sight was inspired by the breakdown of Roe's marriage and the subsequent breakdown of his rebound relationship with a much younger woman. | |
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Rejected Apology | |
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Rejected Apology: "I Can't Get Over It," though the narrator wants to forgive the person. | |
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Siamese Twin Songs | |
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Siamese Twin Songs: The first three songs on tom tom Blues—"Rocks in Your Head," "Honesty," and "You Still Love Me"—are Siamese triplets. | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: Most of tom tom Blues is noisy, bluesy psychedelic rock—except for the quiet, jazzy "Flowers in the Sand," positioned at the end of the first side. | |
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Something Blues | |
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Something Blues: “Perfect Blues.� | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: "The Stellazine Prophecy," "Earache." | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: "You Don't Scare Me": "I could ride on a plan / Losing all its enGINES." | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_9b6acdb3 | comment |
Lyrical Cold Open: "What Was in That Letter," "U U U U," "The Boat Ashore," "U R Trippin'," "Mr. Magoo," "Guadalupe," "What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul," "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again." | |
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Take That! | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: "Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba" is an attack on the Mormon church (and was originally called "Utah"). | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: Holy Ghost Building and Gimme a Kickstart...and a Phrase or Two. | |
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The Not-Remix | |
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The Not-Remix: Many of them are included on the deluxe reissues of the band’s albums. | |
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Rock Trio | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_bcb34a0e | comment |
Rock Trio: Since 1995, although guitarist/keyboardist Scott Reams sometimes makes the band a quartet onstage. | |
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Re-Cut | |
| The 77s (Music) / int_c3ae004a | comment |
Re-Cut: All Fall Down is a thematically split album, with the more "worldly" songs on one side of the LP and the more overtly Christian songs on the other. On the initial release, at the record label's insistence, side 1 was the Christian songs ("Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba", "Under the Heat", "Mercy Mercy", "You Don't Scare Me", and "Make a Difference Tonight", in that order) while side 2 was the worldly songs ("Caught in an Unguarded Moment", "Someone New", "Something's Holding On", "Your Pretty Baby", and "Another Nail"). But when the band rereleased it on CD, they swapped the two sides, so "Caught in an Unguarded Moment" became the opener, and "Make a Difference Tonight" became the final track. Decades later, when the band reissued deluxe editions of their back catalogue, their re-rerelease of All Fall Down restored the track order from the first release, with "Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba" as the album opener and "Another Nail" as the closer. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Woody" is so named because its main riff sounds like Woody Woodpecker's laugh. (What did you think it meant, you pervert?) "Smiley Smile" (and its longer solo version, "Smile") are both homages to Brian Wilson and take their names from Beach Boys albums. “Happy Roy,� to Roy Orbison, who had recently died. (“The Rain Kept Falling in Love� was originally titled “Sad Roy.�) "Five in the Nave" ends with Jimmy Durante's catchphrase: "Goodnight, America, and all the ships that sail the sea!" Roe’s solo track “Billy Paul Said� is a tribute not just to the titular soul singer but to Van Morrison’s “Jackie Wilson Said.� "Mr. Magoo" is about another of the band's favorite cartoon characters. | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album: The 77s from 1987. Also Executive Meddling resulted in Pray Naked initially being released as The Seventy Sevens, but Mike Roe made it very clear to the fandom what the album's real title is, so hardly anyone calls it anything but Pray Naked anymore. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: Washington Phillips's "Denomination Blues"; Dee Clark's "Hey Little Girl"; Hank Williams's "I Saw the Light"; Velvet Underground's "Jesus"; a cover of Led Zeppelin's cover of Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody's Fault but Mine"; Daniel Amos's "Shotgun Angel"; Blind Willie Johnson's "I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge"; Tommy Bolin's "Long Way to Go." Live covers: The Yardbirds' "Over Under Sideways Down"; Robert Wilkins's "Prodigal Son"; The Smithereens' "Blood and Roses"; The Doors' "Riders on the Storm"; Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)." | |
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Live Album | |
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Live Album: A number of them (see above), but Eighty Eight deserves special credit. It's not going too far to say that its versions of "Mercy Mercy" and "You Don't Scare Me" are the definitive ones, and it also features a number of songs that never had studio versions. It's proof positive of what an amazing live band the 77s were, and are. | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
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Title-Only Chorus: "Make a Difference Tonight," "Do It for Love." | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: "Caught in an Unguarded Moment": | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: "Sneakers," in a series of increasingly absurd automotive analogies. | |
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It's Been Done | |
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It's Been Done: In the liner notes of Sticks and Stones, Mike writes about how the band had for years toyed with the idea of releasing a compilation of, in his words, "unreleased demos, dead dogs, weak sisters, failed experiments and/or otherwise brilliant material (depending on your point of view)"—only for R.E.M. to beat them to the punch with their 1987 compilation Dead Letter Office. | |
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Unplugged Version | |
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Unplugged Version: Echoes o' Faith, It's for You, and Played Naked. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: “I Can’t Get Over It�: “Erase it! Erase it! Erase it! Erase it!� The outro to "There Forever": "I know something, now you know." | |
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Long-Runner Line-up | |
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Long-Runner Line-up: Type 2. The band has been Mike Roe, Mark Harmon, and Bruce Spencer since 1995. | |
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Grief Song | |
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Grief Song: “Don’t, This Way," "Guadalupe." | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Beginning with the 1987 self-titled album, Roe frequently performed his own backing vocals, though other band members have typically joined him. | |
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Smoking Is Not Cool | |
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Smoking Is Not Cool: "Smokescreen," although Roe insists that it's not about smoking, and both he and Mark Harmon were smokers at one point. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: "Don't Leave Me Long" into "Gravy Train." | |
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Solo Side Project | |
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Solo Side Project: Michael Roe has a very active solo career, though other members of the band play on his solo albums. Lampshaded at the 1997 Cornerstone appearance of his “Safe as Milk Band�: “This is not the 77s. But we’re all here.� | |
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Single Stanza Song | |
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Single Stanza Song: "Smiley Smile." | |
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Bawdy Song | |
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Bawdy Song: Given the band's Christian rock milieu, "Pearls Before Swine" probably qualifies: Subverted, however, in that it's a song criticizing extramarital sex, not celebrating it. “Sneakers� is a more straightforward example. | |
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