Singles and other appearances

Singles.  

This is a list of (known) Pearls Before Swine singles:

• Morning Song / Drop Out! (1967, ESP 4554)
• I Saw The World / Images Of April (1968, ESP 4576)
• These Things Too / If You Don't Want To (1969, Reprise 0873)
• Suzanne / There Was A Man (1969, Fontana 279 250 TF)
• The Jeweller / Rocket Man (1970, Reprise 0949)
• Marshall / Why Should I Care? (1972, Blue Thumb 222)

Other Appearances.  

This is a list of albums (compilations, promo's, samplers) with music of Tom Rapp or the Pearls Before Swine:

• "The Wizard Of Is" is on a three disc set called "The Psychedelic Years Revisited" (companion set to the three disc "The Psychedelic Years") on England's Sequel records.
• "The Jeweler" appeared in a This Mortal Coil box set which was available a few years back. This 4 disc set was the first US release of the 3 TMC CD's and included a fourth disc of the "Original Versions" of most of the cover songs on their three CD's... So there were some nice Gene Clark, Tim Buckley, etc. tunes as well as one Tom Rapp rarity!



• "The Jeweler" Warner Bros sampler album (the 3-LP "Merrie Melodies & Looney Tunes")
• "Footnote" Warner Bros sampler album (the 2-LP "The Big Ball")
• "These Things Too" Warner Bros sampler album (the-2 LP "Record Show")
• "Uncle John" ESP-disk compilation ("Boots 'n' Roots")
• "The Cowboy Who Ate Vietnam / Ring Thing (alt.)" (POT-15), a 7" hard-vinyl EP issued with the The Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine (1993).
• "Blind" Master Pete Capitol And His Magic EP (POT-21), a 7" hard-vinyl EP issued with the The Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine (Sept. 96).

Tom Rapp Covers.  

Here is a list of all known recorded PBS/Rapp covers:

• "Translucent Carriages" by Psychic TV (on A Pagan Day picture disc, Temple Records UK 1984, reprinted and currently available on CD in the US on Cleopatra Records),

• "The Jeweler" by This Mortal Coil in 1986 (album: 'Filigree and Shadow'. CD nr. DADC609, 1986)

• "Another Time" by Mooseheart Faith (hold for details)

• "Waar ben je morgen" ("Another Time") by Herman van Veen (album: 'Morgen', Harlekijn, 1970)

• "Rue de la Paix" ("Another Time") by Armand (album: 'Rue de la Paix', Killroy, 1972)

• "Another Time" by Craig Leon & Cassell Webb in 1987 (album: 'The Thief Of Sadness' - Venture/Virgin CDVE6)

• "Love and Sex" by Michael Johnson in 1975 (album: 'For All You Mad Musicians' - Sanskrit Records SR-0751)

• "There Was A Man" and "City Of Gold" by Carl Edwards in 1996 (available on Our Lady Of The Media Records. Check Carl Edwards' site (http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/1082) for more info).

• "If You Don't Want To" by Carl Edwards (album: 'El Coyote' 1997, see above for details)

• "The Baptist." by Carl Edwards (album: 'The Saving or the Damning Kind' 1998, see above for details)

• "Casablanca." by Carl Edwards (album: 'Caboodle' - Reprobate Records RR11399, 1999, see above for details, or visit the Reprobate Records website (http://home.earthlink.net/~carledwards))

• "Images Of April" by Fit & Limo (album: 'The Serpent Unrolled' - September Gurls, 1999)

The Tribute Album. (1997) 

Special attention is to be given to the tribute album called For The Dead In Space, released by Magic Eye Singles. This album feature covers from various artists of this and other labels, including Shy Camp featuring Tom Rapp's son David. And - at last but not least -, the record closes with a previously unreleased song (written in 1971) from Tom Rapp himself.
Here are the details:

For The Dead In Space.  (magic eye singles, 1997)

• Tono Bungay - Morning Song / Footnote (medley) (6:11)
• Flying Saucer Attack - Space (the man who fell to earth) (3:24)
• Metronome - Green And Blue (1:32)

• Fit & Limo - Surrealist Waltz (3:33)
• Carl Edwards - There Was A Man (3:44)
• Townies - (Oh Dear) Miss Morse (3:31)
• Masaki Batoh (Ghost) - Images Of April (3:10)
• Alchemysts - Drop Out! (4:10)
• Damon & Naomi - Translucent Carriages (4:17)
• Bevis Frond - Lepers And Roses (5:03)
• Kitchen Cynics - Stardancer (5:29)
• Tower Recordings - I Saw The World (4:23)
• Shy Camp - Love/Sex (2:09)
• Mourning Cloak - I Shall Not Care (5:49)
• Tom Rapp - Hopelessly Romantic (3:27)
• Half Calf & Plexorjet - For The Dead In Space (4:20)
• Shy Camp - Another Time (3:23)

Note that the last two (bonus) tracks are only available on the CD.

The Second Tribute Album. (2003) 

A new double CD set For The Dead In Space Vol. II and III is a continuing tribute to TOM RAPP and PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. This is a follow-up to the first volume that was released in 1997. This new 2CD volume features all different tracks and more than 25 different artists than the 1997 CD. Both sets represent simply the finest artists in the folk, experimental and noise undergrounds paying tribute to an acid folk legend. Liner notes by Phil McMullen (editor of Ptolemaic Terrascope).
Here are the details:

For The Dead In Space Vol. II and III.  (Secret Eye AB-OC-05, 2003)

Volume II

• Marissa Nadler - Ballad To An Amber Lady
• Kemialliset Ystävät - Suojelusenkeli (Guardian Angels in Finnish)
• the Olive Tree (Jewelled Antler) - Blind River
• Bardo Pond - Uncle John
• Aquarium Poppers - From The Movie Of The Same Name
• Gentle Tasaday (of Salamander) - Snow Queen
• Noxagt - Regions Of May
• Kawabata Makoto (of Acid Mothers Temple) - When I Was A Child
• Oren Ambarchi - Sail Away
• Prydwyn - Prayers Of Action
• Fursaxa - Epitaph
• Black Forest / Black Sea - Wizard Of Is
• Kitchen Cynics - Les Ans
• James Jackson Toth (of Blood Group) - City Of Gold

• David Rapp - Frog In The Window
• Aspera - These Things Too
• Bevel - Look Into Her Eyes
• Monster Island - Riegal
• Ron Chelsvig - Rocket Man
• Adrian Shaw (of Bevis Frond) - Mars
• Thurston Moore and Mike Watt - Fourth Day Of July
• Alastair Galbraith - Everybody’s Got Pain
• Green Crown - Raindrops
• Dead Raven Choir - Song About A Rose
• Stone Breath - Ring Thing
• Cauldron (of Spacious Mind) - Man In The Tree
• Mutter - Forbidden City
• Pearls Before Swine - Translucent Carriages (unreleased 1967 alternate version)

And More.  

An LP-compilation has been released on Adelphi records in 1980:
Pearls Before Swine: Best of Pearls Before Swine (double, Adelphi 4111, 1980)

Actually this double album comprises the album "One Nation Underground" on the first disc, and "Balaklava" on the second disc. The front-cover is the cover of One Nation Underground, the back cover is of Balaklava.

The album has been recorded from remastered tapes at RCA, N.Y.C. (disc mastering: bill kipper, masterdisk, n.y.c. 1979)

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