Pearls Before Swine was an american psych-folk band that released several records in the late sixties/early seventies. They have a very blurred sound, common to i.e. Bobb Trimble. Balaklava and One Nation Underground is considered as their main works.The cover is by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, a dutch renaissance artist, picturing a great battle, just as the title of the album indicates. The battle of Balaklava was fought during the Crimean war in 1854. The opening tune "Trumpeter Landfrey" is in fact a recording of one of the surviving soldiers from this battle playing his trumpet. The whole album has, as Tom Rapp stated himself, an anti-war-theme making the lyrics more sombre. You don't get the feeling of listening to a protest-record though (thank god). I thought i had a lot of clever things to say about this record, but i will cut it down to: Good record, listen, now.
If you like war more than this record you're an ignorant and should be dumped in the ocean.
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