Max Frost & The Troopers - Wild in the Streets
Max Frost and the Troopers were a fictional rock music group created for the exploitation film Wild in the Streets, released in 1968. The film featured Christopher Jones as the highly influential singer Max Frost. The songs performed by Frost and his band, a group that was never formally named in the film, were credited to Max Frost and the Troopers in the subsequent singles and album. The band name "Troopers" is based on the term "troops," the designation Frost used in the film to refer to his friends and followers.
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Wild in the Streets is a 1968 film produced by American International Pictures and directed by Barry Shear. Based on a 1966 Esquire magazine short story titled "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" by Robert Thom, it stars Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. The movie, described as both "ludicrous" and "cautionary", was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and became a cult classic of the 1960s counterculture.
VA - Wild in the Streets 1968
Original Sound Soundtrack
Either you've already seen this film, or you really should. Briefly, Max Frost (portrayed by proto-James Dean lookalike Christopher Jones) is the most popular rock star in the land. Somehow, he gets involved in the presidential race, at first to support a candidate, and then to run for office himself. It's bizarre, surreal, awful, and fantastic -- all at the same time. As for the music, it probably looked better on paper in the planning stages. With two of the finest writers of the time under contract (Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil), they probably should have come up with something a little better. Most of the tunes reflect the revolutionary rhetoric of the times (à la the Doors' "Five to One"), with titles like "Fifty Two Percent," "Fourteen or Fight," etc. It's just too bizarre. There is one promising cut, though, "The Shape of Things to Come" (not the Yardbirds song). This tune could have been a real hit for a decent pop/rock band like the Grass Roots. Under the weight of Les Baxter's heavy-handed arrangements, though, it hardly stands a chance. Much like the rest of the album. For the brave at heart.
00. Bonus - Wild In The Streets - Movie Promo
01 - The 13th Power - Love To Be Your Man
02 - The 13th Power - Free Lovin'
03 - The 13th Power - Fifty Two Per Cent
04 - The 13th Power - Shape Of Things To Come
05 - The Senators - Psychedelic Senate
06 - The 13th Power - Fourteen Or Fight
07 - Jerry Howard - Wild In The Streets
08 - The Second Time - Listen To The Music
09 - The Second Time - Sally Le Roy
10 - The Gurus - Shelly In Camp
11.Bonus - Max Frost & The Troopers - Paxton Quigley's Had The Course (Tower)
12. Bonus - Max Frost & The Troopers - Lonely Man
The Shape Of Things To Come... Thanks
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