Shape of Things to Come (Max Frost and the Troopers album)

Shape of Things to Come
Studio album by Max Frost and the Troopers
Released	1968 (1968)
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	22:00
Label	Tower
Producer	Mike Curb, Ed Beram, Harley Hatcher

Shape of Things to Come is the first and only album released by Max Frost and the Troopers. It was produced in 1968 by Mike Curb, Ed Beram, and Harley Hatcher (engineer) and directed by Rick Stephens for Sidewalk Productions and released on Tower Records.

The back cover of the album contains the following quotation:

"All things that have gone before are but the bleak, cold grayness of the early dawn... listen! Beyond the far edge of the world, the first yellow rays of sunlight are flooding toward us like the tide. Youth everywhere is ready to awake. Man stands poised to spring up from the Earth and thrust himself out, out, laughing, to stake a bright new homeland amid the stars!"

-- Angus Scrimm (Puket '83)

Track listing

Side one

1. "Shape of Things to Come" (Mann-Weil) – 1:55
2. "Lonely Man" (Paul Wibier) – 2:32
3. "Shine It On" (Paul Wibier) – 2:29
4. "It's Wrong" (Barney Hector-Paul Wibier) – 2:12
5. "Captain Hassel" (Wibier-McClane-Martin-Beckner-Hector) – 2:21

Side two

6. "Fifty Two Per Cent" (Mann-Weil) – 2:41
7. "Try to Make Up Your Mind" (Paul Wibier) – 1:55
8. "Let Your Mind Run Free" (Paul Wibier) – 2:31
9. "She Lied" (Dale Beckner-Stewart Martin) – 2:36
10. "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Paul Wibier-Dale Beckner) – 2:48