Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava (2LP) RSD23

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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. With a faithfully recreated original sleeve and extensive notes, produced in collaboration with the Tom Rapp Estate. “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 Instead, Tom Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical reference.”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.

1. Trumpeter Landfrey
2. Translucent Carriages
3. Images of April
4. There Was a Man
5. I Saw the World
6. Guardian Angels
7. Suzanne
8. Lepers and Roses
9. Florence Nightingale
10. Ring Thing
11. Transclucent Carriages (Long Version) (Balaklava Out-Takes)
12. Ring Thing (Balaklava Out-Takes)
13. The Cowboy Who Ate Vietnam (Balaklava Out-Takes)
14. I Saw the World (Balaklava Out-Takes)
15. There Was a Man (Live at the Jabberwock Club, 1971)
16. Images of April (Balaklava Out-Takes)
17. Guardian Angels (Balaklava Out-Takes)
18. Suzanne (Live at WNIA Radio, 1971)
19. Transclucent (Alternative Version) (WUSB Radio Session, 1971)