The 77's

Track Listings
 1. Do It For Love 4:28
2. I Can't Get Over It 4:37
3. What Was In That Letter 3:07
4. Pearls Before Swine 8:20
5. The Lust, the Flesh, the Eyes and the Pride of Life 3:50
6. Frames Without Photographs 4:18
7. Don't Say Goodbye 4:31
8. Bottom Line 3:51
9. I Could Laugh 7:51
10. Do It For Love (Demo) 3:16
11. I Can't Get Over It (Live 8-Track Demo) 4:28
12. What Was In That Letter (Live 8-Track Demo) 3:09
13. The Lust, the Flesh, the Eyes and the Pride of Life (Live 8-Track Demo) 3:30
14. Frames Without Photographs (Live 8-Track Demo) 3:27
15. Don't Say Goodbye (Demo) 5:29
16. MT (Unreleased Alternative Mix) 4:00
17. Don't, This Way (Single Version) 4:20
 

Discography
Holy Ghost Building (2008)
Ninety Nine (2007)
Guilty Pleasures Ep (2003)
Direct Ep (2002)
A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows (2001)
Happy Chrimbo! From the 77's Ep (2001)
 Radioactive Singles (2000)
 Late (2000)
 8ighty 8ight / When Numbers Get Serious (2000)
 The 77's EP (1999)
 123 Box Set (1999)
Tom Tom Blues (1995)
Pray Naked (1994)
 Drowning With Land In Sight  (1994)
The Seventy Sevens (1992)
Echoes O' Faith (1992)
More Miserable Than You'll Ever Be (1990)
 Sticks and Stones (1990)
88 (1988)
 The 77's (1987)
All Fall Down (1984)
Ping Pong Over the Abyss (1982)



 

Release Date: (January  01, 1987)
Label: Lo-Fidelity Records
Producer:


December  Hotel 
Overall Rating: ++++-

(I Can't Get Over It)
Album Reviews
The Island Record is considered by many fans to be the band's high water mark. It is an album that by all accounts should have broken the band wide open. With their first two albums the guys were building a decent following on college radio, and were getting press in Rolling Stone. Everything was lining up, and the distribution with Island seemed like the ticket. Then U2 released The Joshua Tree right on the heels of Seventy Sevens - and the team at Island made their Sophie's Choice and sent the 77's to the showers.

Is this album really as good as all the hype and bullshit people spout off about what could have been? In a word: YES. I wouldn't go so far as to call this the perfect pop album, but my goodness people, this was just about as good as it got. It still sounds as powerful today nearly 20 years later as must have to the few who managed to snag original copies.

The album would be a classic for the first three songs alone, but like an infomercial, that's not all, there's more! - the hits keep coming - with the eight-minute blues angst of "Pearls Before Swine" a song that shows the band as more than just pretty pop song writers. The second half of the disc opens with "The Lust" a song that has taken on a life of it's own. It features The Byrds Chris Hillman on bass. If the band has a signature song, this is it. "Frames Without Photographs" is another great piece - the band could do no wrong. The album closes with Mike's lament "I Could Laugh" it's a song that doesn't follow the easy convenient two verses and a chorus formula. It's a beautiful poem in seven stanzas.

The CD takes the original and improves upon it eight additional demos and live tracks. Including an alternate mix of "MT" and the single version of "Don't This Way".

The band put it all on the line in an all or nothing gamble, and came up empty. "and you can laugh, and I can laugh, and we can laugh, but it's not funny."

~ banophernalia.com



 

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