# These Things Too
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{{Infobox album
| name = These Things Too
| type = studio
| artist = [Pearls Before Swine](/source/Pearls_Before_Swine_(band))
| cover = Thesethingstoo.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 1969
| recorded = 1969
| venue =
| studio = Impact Sound, New York
| genre = [Psychedelic folk](/source/Psychedelic_folk), [folk rock](/source/folk_rock)
| length = 40:44
| label = [Reprise](/source/Reprise_Records)
| producer = [Richard Alderson](/source/Richard_Alderson_(record_producer)), Jim Fairs
| prev_title = [Balaklava](/source/Balaklava_(album))
| prev_year = 1968
| next_title = [The Use of Ashes](/source/The_Use_of_Ashes)
| next_year = 1970
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r46410|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]]
}}'''''These Things Too''''' is the third album by American [psychedelic folk](/source/psychedelic_folk) group [Pearls Before Swine](/source/Pearls_Before_Swine_(band)), and their first for [Reprise Records](/source/Reprise_Records). It was released in 1969.
By early 1969, the original line-up of Pearls Before Swine - which had only ever performed in the studio, never live - was disintegrating around its leader and mainstay, singer and songwriter [Tom Rapp](/source/Tom_Rapp). Original members Lane Lederer and Roger Crissinger had left, and Rapp had married [Dutch](/source/Netherlands) traveller Elisabeth Joosten, whom he had met in New York when recording the album ''[Balaklava](/source/Balaklava_(album))''.[Sleeve notes to Jewels Were The Stars.] Original member Wayne Harley remained in the group, but left shortly after ''These Things Too'' was recorded.
The group had now left ESP-Disk and joined Reprise, a major label, and Rapp and producer [Richard Alderson](/source/Richard_Alderson_(record_producer)) recruited studio musicians to play on the album. Chief among these was Jim Fairs, formerly of garage band [The Cryan' Shames](/source/The_Cryan'_Shames), who acted as co-producer and arranger as well as musician. Other musicians included violinist Richard Greene, later of [Seatrain](/source/Seatrain_(band)), and jazz drummer [Grady Tate](/source/Grady_Tate).
''These Things Too'' has been described as Rapp's ''"dreamy"'' album,[[http://members.chello.nl/cvanderlely/pearls/disco/disco3.html These Things Too]] and it is generally less well regarded by critics than the albums which immediately preceded and followed it, ''Balaklava'' (1968) and ''[The Use of Ashes](/source/The_Use_of_Ashes)'' (1970). Rapp stated that it was the first Pearls Before Swine album which reflected drug use in the writing of the songs.[
The album sleeve showed a 15th-century painting of Christ by [Giovanni Bellini](/source/Giovanni_Bellini). The picture was removed from the version of the album issued in Germany because it showed Christ's nipple exposed.][
The album was reissued on CD in 2003, originally as part of a box set, ''Jewels Were The Stars'', which comprised the group's four completed Reprise albums. It was again reissued, with ''The Use of Ashes'', as a two-on-one CD by Floating World Records in 2011.][[https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/the-use-of-ashes-these-things-too Record Collector review of ''The Use of Ashes / These Things Too'']. Accessed 24 February 2012]
==Track listing==
# "Footnote" – 1:18 (Rapp / [Auden](/source/W._H._Auden))
# "Sail Away" – 3:06 (Rapp)
# "Look Into Her Eyes" – 4:36 (Rapp)
# "[I Shall Be Released](/source/I_Shall_Be_Released)" – 3:03 ([Dylan](/source/Bob_Dylan))
# "Frog In The Window (reprise)" – 2:31 (Rapp)
# "I'm Going To City" – 2:30 (Rapp)
# "Man In The Tree" – 3:30 (Rapp)
# "If You Don't Want To (I Don't Mind)" – 3:14 (Rapp)
# "Green And Blue" – 0:21 (Rapp / Elisabeth)
# "Mon Amour" – 2:07 (Rapp / Elisabeth)
# "Wizard of Is" – 3:35 (Rapp)
# "Frog in the Window" – 2:42 (Rapp)
# "When I Was a Child" – 4:46 (Rapp)
# "These Things Too" – 3:25 (Rapp)
==Musicians==
===Pearls Before Swine===
*[Tom Rapp](/source/Tom_Rapp): Vocals, Guitar
*Wayne Harley: Banjo, Harmony
*Elisabeth: Vocals
*Jim Fairs: Guitar, Harmony, Celeste
===Other musicians===
*Bill Salter: Bass
*[Grady Tate](/source/Grady_Tate): Drums
*[Richard Greene](/source/Richard_Greene_(musician)): Electric Violin
==Other credits==
*Recorded at Impact Sound, New York, by [Richard Alderson](/source/Richard_Alderson_(record_producer)) and Danford Griffiths
*Mixed at A&R Recording, New York, by Steve Friedman
*Arranged by Bill Eaton, Jim Fairs and the Pearls
*''This album is dedicated to Elisabeth''
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://members.chello.nl/cvanderlely/pearls/disco/lyrics.html#thingstoo Lyrics to ''These Things Too'']
*[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r46410|pure_url=yes}} AMG review]
*[http://www.pbswine.com/ Official site for Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070621205448/http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile Fan site on MySpace]
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