Pearls Before Swine - 4 Reissues

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 'These Things Too'   'The Use Of Ashes'   'City Of Gold'  'Beautiful Lies You Could Live In' 
"Pearls Before Swine's third album (and their first for Reprise) was 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"
"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!" "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"
"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"
1. Footnote (Auden/Rapp) - 1:18 
2. Sail Away (Rapp) - 3:06 
3. I Look into Her Eyes (Rapp) - 4:36 
4. I Shall Be Released (Dylan/Rapp) - 3:03 
5. Frog In the Window (Reprise) (Rapp) - 2:31 
6. I'm Going to the City (Rapp) - 2:30 
7. Man in the Tree (Rapp) - 3:30 
8. If You Don't Want To (I Don't Mind) (Rapp) - 3:14 
9. Green and Blue (Elisabeth/Rapp) - 0:21 
10. Mon Amour (Elisabeth/Rapp) - 2:07 
11. Wizard of Is (Rapp) - 3:35 
12. Frog in the Window (Rapp) - 2:42 
13. When I Was a Child (Rapp) - 4:46 
14. These Things Too (Rapp) - 3:25 		 1. The Jeweler (Rapp) - 2:48 
2. From the Movie of the Same Name (Rapp) - 2:21 
3. Rocket Man (Rapp) - 3:06 
4. God Save the Child (Rapp) - 3:08 
5. Song About a Rose (Rapp) - 2:21 
6. Tell Me Why (Rapp) - 3:43 
7. Margery (Rapp) - 3:03 
8. The Old Man (Rapp) - 3:16 
9. Riegal (Rapp) - 3:13 
10. When the War Began (Rapp) - 5:07 

 1. Sonnet #65 (Rapp/Shakespeare) - 0:49 
2. Once Upon a Time (Rapp) - 2:40 
3. Raindrops (Rapp) - 2:05 
4. City of Gold (Rapp) - 3:09 
5. Nancy (Cohen) - 4:50 
6. Seasons in the Sun (Brel/McKuen) - 3:24 
7. My Father (Collins) - 2:22 
8. The Man (Rapp) - 2:30 
9. Casablanca (Rapp) - 2:33 
10. Wedding (Rapp) - 1:42 
11. Did You Dream of Unicorns (Rapp) - 2:49 
 1. Snow Queen (Rapp) - 4:00 
2. A Life (Rapp) - 2:57 
3. Butterflies (Rapp) - 2:46 
4. Simple Things (Rapp) - 2:55 
5. Everybody's Got Pain (Rapp) - 2:47 
6. Bird on a Wire (Cohen/Rapp) - 3:33 
7. Island Lady (Rapp) - 4:01 
8. Come to Me (Rapp) - 2:57 
9. Freedom (Rapp) - 3:03 
10. She's Gone (Rapp) - 2:11 
11. Epitaph (Rapp) - 1:24