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Posted by Kit on 12-12-2007 at19:42:

The Essential Seventy Sevens

....as presented by myself. It's a 2 disc comp I keep in my car. Some might disagree with the selections I suppose (including Doc Love himself)...

Disc 1

1) born on separate days
2) blue sky
3) rocks in your head
4) mean green season
5) look
6) mr. magoo*
7) perfect blues
8 ) wild blue
9) you walked in the room
10) i can't get over it
11) the days to come
12) this is the way love is
13) nowhere else
14) phony eyes
15) the years go down
16) sevens
17) self-made trap
18 ) mezzo

Disc 2

1) god sends quails
2) caught in an unguarded moment
3) something's holding on
4) happy roy
5) bottom line
6) don't, this way
7) film at 11
8 ) alone together
9) the jig is up
10) gone in a moment
11) ride the waves
12) shotgun angel (da cover)
13) flowers in the sand
14) guadalupe
15) kites without strings
16) come & gone

*Tacked on "Mr. Magoo" because I needed a song small enough to fill the remaining space, not necessarily because it's one of their greater songs. But, it is one of the better tracks from AGFORC though I think. Kind of underrated in my opinion.

What about Ping Pong Over the Abyss? Well....I do like "A Different Kind of Light", "It's So Sad", and "Time Is Slipping Away". Just didn't like them enough to put them on here. If I had a 3rd disc, those would all make it on there. "Pearls Before Swine" from the Island Record is pretty badarse too but it's 8 friggin' minutes long. So, that would be on a 3rd disc as well.

Posted by TJ 2.0 on 12-12-2007 at21:40:

8 minutes or not, there's no reason to exclude "Pearls Before Swine". That is as classic a track as "Do It For Love", also noticeably absent.

Choke yourself, Pyle.

Posted by Kit on 12-12-2007 at21:42:

I actually never cared for "Do It For love" really. And if I put "Pearls Before Swine" on there, I would have had to cut off 3 or so songs. Couldn't do it.

Posted by nick on 12-13-2007 at10:09:

Ahhh. I am glad you posted this on here also as I can't reply on the Northern board for some reason! I thought I had everything but the Scratch Band stuff (which I am sooo mad I don't have but have no way to get!) but I do not know these songs I don't think....

gone in a moment
ride the waves
guadalupe

What are they from? Can I still get them? Are there others!!!! AHHHH!!!! What am I going to do!? Smile

Posted by drowning on 12-13-2007 at10:16:

from "Fun with Sound" by 7&7is

run don't walk to acquire this best release from '04!!

Posted by nick on 12-13-2007 at10:55:

GEEEZ! Yes! I love that CD! I wasn't thinking but I KNEW they sounded familiar: I'm just not good with names! And I was only looking in my 77s i-tunes and I have "solo" stuff else where so now I am going to listen to it now! Smile

Thanks!

Posted by Ping Pong Over the Abyss on 12-13-2007 at16:07:

What? No Ba Ba Ba Ba? This reeks of heresy, man!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked

Posted by TJ 2.0 on 12-14-2007 at06:52:

quote:

Originally posted by Ping Pong Over the Abyss
What? No Ba Ba Ba Ba? This reeks of heresy, man!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked

Hahahaha. Too true.

Of course, it IS a good list Kit. But you know when you put up the Essentials list, it's going to get critiqued to the HILT. Big Grin

Posted by 77 bc on 12-14-2007 at07:20:

quote:

Originally posted by Kit
I actually never cared for "Do It For love" really. And if I put "Pearls Before Swine" on there, I would have had to cut off 3 or so songs. Couldn't do it.

Would have been easy for me to make it work. I would have ditched the AFD cuts. Not that they are bad songs, but I can't stand the 80's over-production.

Shocked

I would also call a technical foul on your list, for including the "almost 77's" stuff on the list. Just because one or more of the guys is playing on the record, doesn't mean that it's 77's.

It's like the local radio station playing a "Two for Tuesday" and using a Sammy Hagar song, and a "Van Hagar" song and calling it a Two-Fer, or a Bad Company song, with a Free song, even though Paul Rodgers fronted both... It just doesn't fly in my book!!!

So...to sum up.

Pearls would fit
Don't care for AFD production
Unless it's labeled 77's or Seventy Sevens, it doesn't fit
77 bc is opinionated
Kit could retitle the list as "Essentially the Seventy Sevens" and it would allow me to be at rest with this concept.

Posted by MarkyMark77 on 12-14-2007 at08:08:

quote:

It's like the local radio station playing a "Two for Tuesday" and using a Sammy Hagar song, and a "Van Hagar" song and calling it a Two-Fer, or a Bad Company song, with a Free song, even though Paul Rodgers fronted both... It just doesn't fly in my book!!!

You mean a DLR song, and a "Van Hagar" song, right?

Man, you sure are picky! Smile

Posted by Nailtatt on 12-14-2007 at09:03:

I would have to include "I Could Laugh" on there as well. That is at the top of my list for a 77's tune. I know it's basically Mike and his guitar but it is an incredible song and touches me everytime I hear it.

Posted by Alex on 12-14-2007 at09:43:

I made a sevens 90 minute tape for my car several years ago... Tom Tom Blues was the new album back then.

Different kind of Light
How can you love
Caught in an unguarded Moment
You don't scare me
Tattoo
Do it for Love
The Lust, the Flesh and all the Rest
MT
Wild Blue (live)
Mary and the Baby Elvis (live)
Mercy Mercy (live - edited)
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Woody
The Rain kept falling in Love
Film at 11
Cold cold Night
Rocks in your Head
Outskirts
Go with God but go
Hold dearly to me
Love like Gold
Tall Trees

I still like to listen to it - one of my fav car tapes after all these years. Of course, 90 minutes are not enough, even without considering songs after Tom Tom Blues. I miss Denomination Blues, Pearls before Swine, Perfect Blues, Don't this Way, God sends Quails, Miserable, Nuts for you, Snake, Dave's Blues, For crying out loud, etc.

Alex