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Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
Constructive Melancholy: 30 Years of Pearls Before Swine
Label:
BIRDMAN RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
BMR 021CD
"Fantastic 30 song compilation from Tom Rapp's Pearls Before Swine. This collections spans the group's post-ESP years when they called Reprise Records their home. The cream of their 5 Reprise albums (recorded between 1969 and 1972) are here as well as a smattering of previously unreleased material and rare radio broadcast recordings. With extensive text from music scholar Byron Coley, this is an essential package for fans of quality music." Two new versions of ESP-era tracks are added (with backing from Damon & Naomi and Tom's son, David Rapp).
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
One Nation Underground
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
LP
Price:
$21.00
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 1054LP
"Tom Rapp, an 18 year-old draft resistor and college dropout living in Eaugallie, Florida, sent a small unsolicited reel of tape to ESP. Bernard Stollman invited him to bring his musicians to New York, where they recorded their acclaimed debut,
One Nation Underground
in 1967. Less than a year later, they released the equally strong follow-up,
Balaklava
. Classics of the genre, which certainly would have seen wider attention had ESP survived past 1968, these recordings are getting a well-deserved second chance, thanks to a thorough remastering, under the supervision of Tom Rapp. 180 gram virgin vinyl. Pressed in the United States with original artwork restored. Hand numbered 1-1000, limited edition. Includes free MP3 download of the album (320 kbps DRM free)."
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings
Label:
ESP-DISK
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
ESPDISK 4003CD
Both classic ESP albums (
One Nation Underground
and
Balaklava
) on one disc for the first time. Extensive booklet with new liner notes, complete lyrics. "Tom Rapp, an 18 year-old draft resistor and college dropout living in Eaugallie, Florida, sent a small unsolicited reel of tape to ESP. Bernard Stollman invited him to bring his musicians to New York, where they recorded their acclaimed debut,
One Nation Underground
in 1967. Less than a year later, they released the equally strong follow-up,
Balaklava
. Classics of the genre, which certainly would have seen wider attention had ESP survived past 1968, these recordings are getting a well-deserved second chance, thanks to a thorough remastering, under the supervision of Tom Rapp."
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
One Nation Underground
Label:
GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
GET 1008
Their debut album. Fronted by the lisping leader of the lower east side, Tom Rapp, these guys defined a distinctly psychedelic East Coast folk aesthetic. Contains two bona fide classics ("Another Time" & "Drop Out") and many other sweet brain burners. Featured instrumentation included guitar, autoharp, banjo, mandolin, vibraphone, audio oscillator, bass, swinehorn, sarangi, celeste, finger cymbals, organ, drums, etc.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
Balaklava
Label:
GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
GET 1010
2nd album before they went on to the major label lifestyle. Deep breathing loner folk-rock with some blasted experimental touches. Quite devastating. "A dark meditation on the uses of blood. If this band stopped recording after their 2 ESP albums they would have ascended to the halls of legend years ago." -- B. Coley.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
One Nation Underground
Label:
GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
GET 91008
"Superb 1967 debut album for this psychedelic folk band leaded by Tom Rapp (one of the most erudite minds in rock). An always mystical, innovative and mysterious combo with a drug-inspired distinctive acid sound characterised by Rapp's gentle vocals and good lyrics." 140 gram red vinyl.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
Balaklava
Label:
GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
GET 91010
"
Balaklava
is one of the most extraordinary, sublime and sophisticated protest albums of 1968. To many, this album (the groups second for ESP Disk) represents Tom Rapp's surrealist song-craft in perfection. Not a foot-stamping anti-Vietnam war album but a complex and psychedelic masterwork that touches on Tennyson & Tolkien in a sublime metaphorical fashion. Tom Rapp is among the most erudite, intellectual songwriters of the American '60s era." 140 gram red vinyl.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
These Things Too
Label:
WATER
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
WATER 111CD
Previously available in the
When Jewels Were Stars
boxset on Water, you can now get all the classic post-ESP Pearls Before Swine albums individually. These are the third thru sixth albums in the PBS discography. Each is exceptionally packaged in a deluxe hi-gloss 20-page booklet, with original lyrics, new liner notes, etc. "
These Things Too
was Pearls Before Swine's third album (and their first for Reprise), originally released in 1969. Dreamy psychedelia, organic American folk songs, political and social utopias, personal brokenness and transformation, country-rock, and pure beatific vision are the elements that create Tom Rapp's sonic architecture here." Liner notes by Nick Saloman.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
The Use of Ashes
Label:
WATER
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
WATER 112CD
"Their fourth album (second for Warner/Reprise) and released in 1970 features songs written by Tom Rapp while living in Holland. Subversive, tender, moving, goofy, maddening, and profound." 20 page booklet, complete lyrics, liner notes by Edwin Pouncey.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
City Of Gold
Label:
WATER
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
WATER 113CD
"
'Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.'
This is the third Warner/Reprise album from Tom Rapp and Co. Originally released in 1971." Liner notes by Lenny Kaye.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
Label:
WATER
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
WATER 114CD
"Pearls Before Swine's fourth and last Warner/Reprise album originally released in 1971. Ten Tom Rapp originals, plus a beautiful cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Bird On A Wire'. There is a dark angel's purity in these songs and all of them are of a piece musically and philosophically linked with all of the others." Liner notes by Joe Phillips.
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
The Wizard of Is
Label:
WATER
Format:
2CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
WATER 136CD
"This is a 2-CD set of all previously unreleased vintage Pearls Before Swine recordings. Disc One features '60s and '70s home demos, out-takes, various studio recordings, works in progress -- many songs that never appeared on any Pearls Before Swine albums, various cover songs, experiments, and just an amazing view of Tom Rapp's personal tape archives. Disc Two features a complete early '70s live concert performance, as well as other vintage '70s live recordings and radio sessions."
Artist:
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
Title:
When Jewels Were Stars
Label:
WATER
Format:
4CD
Price:
$50.00
Catalog #:
WATER 200CD
"After 'acid-folk' LPs for ESP-Disk' during the Summer of Love, in 1969 Pearls Before Swine signed to Warner/Reprise.
These Things Too
,
The Use Of Ashes
,
City Of Gold
, and
Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
are hippy singer/songwriter masterpieces with a cult of admirers as diverse as Elton John, Patti Smith, Damon & Naomi, and Sonic Youth. This box contains all those 4 Warner/Reprise albums (remastered from the original tapes and released on CD for the very first time), plus a detailed 60-page book with photos, memorabilia and liner notes by Lenny Kaye, Byron Coley, Savage Pencil, Bevis Frond, Mitch Myers, Joe Phillips, Damon Krukowski & Masaki Batoh, plus interviews with Tom Rapp and Elisabeth. Limited to 2,000 copies."
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