MAX FROST & THE TROOPERS Shape Of Things To Come Orig 1968 US Tower Psych LP
£
28
$
37
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Salemspider Ebay Page
Max Frost and The Troopers
Shape Of Things To Come
Very Rare original US LP released on Tower Records in 1968. 1st US White Label Promo pressing.
Max Frost And The Troopers were a fictional group created for the 1968 hippie-exploitation movie, Wild In The Streets. Frost was actor Christopher Jones (more interestingly, the Troopers’ drummer was a young Richard Pryor). Their role in the film was to gain voting rights for 14-year-olds. Frost is elected president of the USA at the movie’s climax, and he orders everyone over 30 into concentration camps, where they are forced to take LSD. His band’s songs were equally absurd semi-political rants (‘14 Or Fight’) save for one bona fide folk-punk classic, ‘Shape Of Things To Come’. Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, the song was actually recorded by a band called the 13th Power. However, it was released under the name Max Frost And The Troopers to capitalize on the movie’s success with the youth market, and eventually reached number 22 in the USA.
1968, garage rock, psychedelic sounds, mind expanding substances and wicked colorful fantastic movies pointing at a probably strange future or dealing with the then current dissatisfying political and social situation or with the abuse of drugs were the hottest topics of the time. The Vietnam War had reached a preliminary peak in its progress, the atmosphere was full of either love or fury. A great time to create a movie about a future society of young people taking over the reign in the USA and the first step on their path to success was a rockband, max frost and the troopers. Not much is known about the musicians who either participated on the soundtrack of the movie or on this sole album by max frost and the troopers. The band name troopers is based on the term "troops," the designation Frost was used in the film to refer to his friends and followers.
What we get to hear on the new reissue of “Shape of things to come” at hand is both: the entire studio work of max frost and the troopers plus the entire soundtrack album for the “Wild in the streets” movie and it is getting enormously colored and from time to time quite bizarre. The musical range goes from fuzzed out garage beat via soulful high energy rock numbers to a small quantity of acid freak outs. The compositions show a straight and accessible structure with a decent dance groove as it was usual in the contemporary pop music of the day. Some tinges of psychedelia like howling fuzz guitars, darker harmonies and swirling sitar lines were added for the good measure.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1 Shape Of Things To Come
2 Lonely Man
3 Shine It On
4 It's Wrong
5 Captain Hassel
Side Two
1 Fifty Two Per Cent
2 Try To Make Up Your Mind
3 Let Your Mind Run Free
4 She Lied
5 A Change Is Gonna Come
-
Released on Tower Records in 1968
-
Catalogue Number ST 5147
-
Record is in Ex condition (few very light hairlines from the paper sleeve)
-
Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition
***All Items must be paid for within 7 days***
