History Music / The77s

* MisogynySong: Decades later, two of the bands anti-premarital sex songs ("Something's Holding On" and "Pearls Before Swine") can feel a bit like slut-shaming.

* ExecutiveMeddling: ‘’Drowning with Land in Sight’’ was subject to quite a bit of it:
** Word Records demanded that the band’s cover of “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” open the record and be the lead singer. (Most fans will agree that this was for the best.)
** They also felt that the record lacked religious content and had the band record the closing track, “For Crying Out Loud,” which is tonally very different from everything else on the album.
** The label demanded that the innuendo-laden song “Sneakers” be removed from the album. It was later released on the general-market version of Roe’s first solo album.
** Most infamously, Word backmasked the phrase “kicked my ass” in the song “Dave’s Blues” without informing the band.
** The 2018 reissue of ‘’Drowning’’ uncensors “Dave’s Blues,” restores “Sneakers,” and shuffles “For Crying Out Loud” to the bonus disc.

* DeadHorseGenre: At Lost Dogs shows, Terry Taylor and Gene Eugene were fond of making fun of Roe for his other band's "boogie woogie music."

* CoverVersion: Washington Phillips's "Denomination Blues"; [Music/VelvetUnderground]'s "Jesus"; a cover of [Music/LedZeppelin]'s cover of Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody's Fault but Mine."

* CoverVersion: Washington Phillips's "Denomination Blues"; [The Velvet Underground Music/VelvetUnderground]; a cover of the Led Zeppelin cover of Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody's Fault but Mine."

* CoverVersion: Washington Phillips's "Denomination Blues"; "Jesus" by TheVelvetUnderground; a cover of the LedZeppelin cover of Blind Willie Johnson's "Nobody's Fault but Mine."

* {{Supergroup}}: Roe is in the Lost Dogs with the frontmen of DanielAmos, The Choir, and Adam Again.

* SelfBackingVocalist: 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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* Mike Roe: Lead Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica
* Mark Harmon: Keyboards, Bass, Backing Vocals
* Bruce Spencer: Keyboards, Drums, Backing Vocals

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* ''Naked and Unashamed'' (2017) (outtakes from the ''Pray Naked'' Sessions)

* Jan Eric Volz: Bass, Vocals (1982-1987)

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 TheJoshuaTree, 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.