Drowning With Land in Sight

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This darkly brilliant collection of songs takes a number of left turns designed to keep the "establishment" at a distance--just when the band was entering the Christian-music mainstream. Some worked. The label back-masked the phrase "kicked my ass" on "Dave's Blues," completely missing the tribute to guitarist David Leonhardt, who gave his all on Drowning despite undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's disease at the time. Band leader Mike Roe's Alice Cooper impersonation on "Snake" is creepy and beguiling, and the band's note-for-note cover of Led Zeppelin 's "Nobody's Fault but Mine" makes no pretense about "stealing it back" for Blind Willie Johnson. --Brad Caviness

Drowning With Land in Sight, Music, Seventy-Sevens

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I don't care what allmusic.com says...

77s become Seventy Sevens & Keep Their Heads Way Above Water

The Absolute Best 77s CD Ever!

Not worth throwing a life saver

Great CD

Drowning With Land in Sight
Seventy-Sevens
Manufacturer: Ocean -- Word --
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000316Q
Release Date: 1995-11-28

Tracks:

Nobody's Fault But Mine
Snowblind
Snake
Indian Winter
Film At 11
Mezzo
Cold Cold Night
Dave's Blues
Sounds O' Autumn
The Jig Is Up
Alone Together
For Crying Out Loud

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This darkly brilliant collection of songs takes a number of left turns designed to keep the "establishment" at a distance--just when the band was entering the Christian-music mainstream. Some worked. The label back-masked the phrase "kicked my ass" on "Dave's Blues," completely missing the tribute to guitarist David Leonhardt, who gave his all on Drowning despite undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's disease at the time. Band leader Mike Roe's Alice Cooper impersonation on "Snake" is creepy and beguiling, and the band's note-for-note cover of Led Zeppelin 's "Nobody's Fault but Mine" makes no pretense about "stealing it back" for Blind Willie Johnson. --Brad Caviness

Customer Reviews:

I don't care what allmusic.com says..........2005-08-12

... I think this is a great album.

Why? Because I don't get tired of it. I've had it for a very long time now, and I find it an album that has stood the test of time on my rack. Many others have ceased to sound 'fresh' to me. Despite the largely prevalent 'grunge' sound, there is enough variety among the songs, and enough pungency to the lyrics ("Alone Together", "Film At 11", "For Crying Out Loud"), that I keep coming back.

Michael Roe was apparently going through some very difficult times, and didn't hold anything back - but it still doesn't feel egocentric.

77s become Seventy Sevens & Keep Their Heads Way Above Water.......2004-02-09

The "Sevens" aren't drowning here. They're walking on water. Just take into account the difficult circumstances behind the scenes while most of this collection was assembled. An EP called "Snake" slithered out to radio, and should've scored the "Sevens" an overdue hit on their excellent cover of Zep's best cut from the equally tumultuous sessions and dregs assembled for Zep's Presence. Roe's Plant comes close to Out Planting Plant. That's no small feat when you consider the odd lyric like life, self induced guilt (read: blame) present in Plant's delivery on Fault. He was beating himself up because he was absent when his young son died. But that's a different story, and that's Zep. Multiply the reasons to buy this recording by counting every great cut. Then, add Seventy Seven. That's a lot of reasons you'll love this CD.

The Absolute Best 77s CD Ever!.......2003-11-06

This is the absolute best 77s CD ever released (with the possible exception of 'Sticks and Stones'). The CD begins with a Led Zeppelin cover tune, which is VERY well done. From there, the band is all over the spectrum from a type of Seattle Grunge sound, to straight ahead rock and roll, to an Alice Cooper sound w/'Snake', to their usual 77s sound with Film at 11.

In my opinion there is not a bad song on this whole CD. While this CD is not an earlier work, like Sticks and Stones, or Eighty Eight, it is still as fresh, and seems to demonstrate great growth in their song writing abilities. This is just good music for anyone who loves great rock and roll.

Not worth throwing a life saver.......2003-01-29

Although the 77's have had great accomplishments in the past, this is not one of them. A big let down from their self titled album, and I think I was asking a lot when I first heard that album. Of course, I am still waiting for the re-release of the album on CD again. However, this is not anything like that and although I don't like to put down music, I think I would tell people to pass on this one in search of some of their better CDs.

Great CD.......2002-02-06

All the 77s do is put out HIGH QUALITY music and this CD is one of thier best! A note for note cover of "Nobody's Fault But Mine" is mind-blowing. Snake and Dave's Blues are worth the cost of the CD alone. ENJOY!

Barking Jim

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