Balaklava
Pearls Before Swine
Double LP expanded re-issue of Pearls Before Swine‘s follow up to ‘One Nation Underground’, plus a second disc of unreleased extras including demos, rehearsals and alternative versions.
- LTD Edition 2XLP for Record Store Day 2023
“Extremely influential.” Rolling Stone
£28.00
Double LP expanded re-issue of Pearls Before Swine’s follow up to ‘One Nation Underground’, plus a second disc of unreleased extras including demos, rehearsals and alternative versions.
“The near-brilliant follow-up intended as a defiant condemnation of the Vietnam War, it doesn’t offer anthemic, fist-pounding protest songs. Instead, Tom Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical reference.” AllMusic.
“A high point in his recorded output.” Goldmine.
“A high of psychedelic delicacy and deceptive urgency, one of his masterpieces.” Rolling Stone.
Tracklist
A1 Trumpeter Landfrey
A2 Translucent Carriages
A3 Images of April
A4 There Was a Man
A5 I Saw the World
A6 Guardian Angels
Side Two
B1 Suzanne
B2 Lepers and Roses
B3 Florence Nightingale
B4 Ring Thing
Side Three
C1 Transclucent Carriages (Long Version) (Balaklava Out-Takes)
C2 Ring Thing (Balaklava Out-Takes)
C3 The Cowboy Who Ate Vietnam (Balaklava Out-Takes)
C4 I Saw the World (Balaklava Out-Takes)
C5 There Was a Man (Live at the Jabberwock Club, 1971)
Side Four
D1 Images of April (Balaklava Out-Takes)
D2 Guardian Angels (Balaklava Out-Takes)
D3 Suzanne (Live at WNIA Radio, 1971)
D4 Transclucent (Alternative Version) (WUSB Radio Session, 1971)
Description
Double LP expanded re-issue of Pearls Before Swine’s follow up to ‘One Nation Underground’, plus a second disc of unreleased extras including demos, rehearsals and alternative versions.
“The near-brilliant follow-up intended as a defiant condemnation of the Vietnam War, it doesn’t offer anthemic, fist-pounding protest songs. Instead, Tom Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical reference.” AllMusic.
“A high point in his recorded output.” Goldmine.
“A high of psychedelic delicacy and deceptive urgency, one of his masterpieces.” Rolling Stone.