One Nation Underground

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One Nation Underground
Studio album by Pearls Before Swine
Cover

Publication
(s)

1967

Label (s) ESP disk

Genre (s)

Psychedelic folk , psychedelic rock

Title (number)

10

running time

35 min 50 s

occupation
  • Autoharp, banjo, mandolin, vibraphone: Wayne Harley
  • Bass, guitar, English horn, sarangi, celesta, cymbal: Lane Lederer
  • Organ, harpsichord, claviolin: Roger Crissinger

production

Richard Alderson

chronology
- One Nation Underground Balaclava
Single release
1967 Morning Song / Drop Out!

One Nation Underground is the first album by the American folk rock band Pearls Before Swine .

Inspired by the music of Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary , the musician Tom Rapp decided in 1965 to start a band himself. In the same year he recorded Rapp's first demo recordings inspired by The Fugs with his high school friends Wayne Harley, Lane Lederer and Roger Crissinger in the living room , which he then sent to the New York independent label ESP-Disk , which Pearls Before Swine then signed took.

The first album was released in 1967, and percussionist Warren Smith worked on it as a studio musician . The style of the album was an innovation: psychedelic folk elements were the driving sounds of a Farfisa -Orgel and repititivem minimalism combined so that a garage rock song can as Playmate with a mantric -orgellastigen MorningSong or acoustic folk song like Another Time could harmonize. In I shall not care , all three stylistic elements were combined with each other by successively changing from one style to the next over the course of the song. The arrangements were also peppered with unexpected details such as the use of Morse code in (Oh Dear) Miss Morse and the use of such diverse musical instruments as the harmonica , banjo , English horn , sarangi and harpsichord .

The excerpt from Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights shown on the cover and the lack of a photo of the band underscored their status as psychedelic outsiders. One Nation Underground was requested between 100,000 and 250,000 times and was the band's most commercially successful album.

The songs Morning Song and Drop Out! released as a single in the same year .

Track list

  1. Another Time - 3:03 (Rapp)
  2. Playmate - 2:19 (Saxie Dowell)
  3. Ballad To An Amber Lady - 5:14 (Crissinger, Rapp)
  4. (Oh Dear) Miss Morse - 1:54 (Rapp)
  5. Drop out! - 4:04 (Rapp)
  6. Morning Song - 4:06 (Rapp)
  7. Regions Of May - 3:27 (Rapp)
  8. Uncle John - 2:54 (Rapp)
  9. I Shall Not Care - 5:20 ( Teasdale , Roman Tombs, Rapp)
  10. The Surrealist Waltz - 3:29 (Lederer, Crissinger)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mark Brend: Perfect Sound Forever , May 2001 (English)
  2. ↑ Mark Brend: American troubadours: groundbreaking singer-songwriters of the '60s . Hal Leonard Corporation, 2001. ISBN 0879306416 . Pp. 115-116.