Description
When Numbers Get Serious is a live album by the American rock band The Seventy Sevens, independently released on Lo-Fidelity Records in 2022. Originally released as a bonus disc when Millennium Eight re-issued the band’s classic 1991 live album Eighty Eight as a double disc in 2000. When Numbers Get Serious has been remastered by Scott Reams and band member Michael Roe, and is the first time the album has been released as a stand alone CD. Featuring live tracks that span the history of the 77’s as a live band with various players (tracks recorded between 1987 and 1999).
Eighty Eight / When Numbers Get Serious 2CD (Millennium Eight 2000)
Length: Disk 1 (88): 11 tracks / 77 min. 35 sec.; Disk 2 (When Numbers Get Serious): 16 tracks / 79 min. 08 sec.…I must mention the bonus disk included with their reissue of 88. As indicated by the producer, When Numbers Get Serious is a live collection very rough around the edges. It contains songs not played with the expectation that they would end up on an album. These recordings span the history of the 77’s as a live band with various players. Among a few songs that are less than technically solid are many that work as fine companions to the songs on 88. The bonus disk contains sound versions of «Alone Together», «Flowers in the Sand», and «Woody» and very nice covers of the Rolling Stones’s «Paint It Black» and Led Zeppelin’s «Nobody’s Fault But Mine» (itself becoming a 77’s standard).
The 77’s have been and are surprisingly tight on stage when one considers them also as an emotional, wild, and elemental live band. The re-release of 88 (with When Numbers Get Serious) serves as both a testament and a homage to the happy mix of extremes the 77’s are on stage. [Terry Wandtke, The Phantom Tollbooth, 9/15/2000]
Ever since the original release of 88, we have been continually asked if there was, uh… ‘any more’…
Let the rumors be laid to rest – we also performed «Don’t, This Way» and «This Is The Way Love Is» that same evening so very long ago, and we are thrilled to have discovered and finally released rough mixes of those two performances in all their glory.
So, when the decision was made to re-release 88 for a third time in a deluxe expanded edition, we couldn’t resist remastering and re-releasing its companion bonus disc from the old Fools Of The World rerelease of 88 back in 2000 entitled When Numbers Get Serious.
I had this to say about Numbers back then: “…an all-new ‘for collectors only’ bonus disc crammed to the gills with many performances culled from many concerts spread across many years, performed by many different incarnations of Our Beloved Band of Merry Sevens. Not only are the ‘hits’ here, but a few obscure ‘misses’ as well, not to mention an astonishing medley of instrumental passages that shed new light on several of our older compositions in a bold and often surprising way. Rounding out the collection with a few cover tunes thrown in for fun, it all adds up to one big THANK YOU to each and every one of you who have continued to follow, support, pray for, believe in, and ultimately, love our spiffy little pop group year in and year out against all odds. Indeed, it it because of you that we continue to not only exist, but also thrive. Serious numbers indeed…”
I couldn’t have said it better, and after 22 years, I feel exactly the same way about this collection. I can only add another thank you to all our fans for still hanging with us. You guys are the greatest.
DOC LOVE [CD liner notes]
CD tracklist:
01. The Days To Come
02. Paint It Black
03. This Is The Way Love Is
04. Alone Together
05. Flowers In The Sand
06. Snowblind
07. Outskirts
08. Woody
09. Nobody’s Fault But Mine
10. Pick Up The Pieces
11. Honesty
12. Dave’s Blues
13. God Sends Quails
14. Pearls Before Swine
15. Bridge Of Sighs
16. Saved
Note: CD comes in a 4 panel digipak featuring the songs originally released as part of the Eighty Eight 2CD Millennium Eight re-issue from 2000. The album has been remastered by Scott Reams and Michael Roe, and is the first time the album has been released as a stand alone CD. Available at Bandcamp: https://the77s.bandcamp.com/album/when-numbers-get-serious
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