Ping Pong over the Abyss

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Ping Pong Over The Abyss
Studio album by The 77s
Released	1982
Studio	Exit Studios, Sacramento, California
Genre	Rock, new wave
Label	Exit
Producer	Steven Soles
The 77s chronology
Rock and Religion Radio Show (1980) Ping Pong Over The Abyss (1982) All Fall Down (1984)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Cross Rhythms	[2]
Trouser Press	Highly negative[3]

Ping Pong over the Abyss is the debut album by the 77s, released in 1982 on the Exit Records label.

One song from that album, "Renaissance Man", was later recorded by the Ocean Blue. "It's So Sad" was later rerecorded, with a drastically different arrangement, by Roe's other band, the Lost Dogs, for their album MUTT.

The title comes from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl", section 3: "I'm with you in Rockland / where you scream in a straight jacket that you're losing the game of the actual ping pong of the abyss."