Things To Come - I Want Out (1965-67) (1993)

Artist: Things To Come
Title Of Album: I Want Out
Year Of Release: 1965-67/1993
Label (Catalog#) :Sundazed Music [SUNDAZED SC 11017]
Country: USA
Genre: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Bitrate: Lossless
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue,log)
Time: 00:50:02
Full Size: 243mb(+3%)(covers)

The liner notes of '60s garage reissues can tend to go overboard on the hyperbole, but the praise lavished upon this unknown outfit in this booklet really does exceed tasteful limits. This is hardly a band that was "in some ways...charting the same grounds as the Doors." Like many other groups in California and across the country, Things To Come played basic teen raunch with psychedelic touches. With their Farfisa organ, wheezing harmonica, and Steve Runolfsson's snarling vocals, their sound was rather slavishly imitative of the Stones and especially Them, with hints of Love and the Seeds creeping in now and then. Not only were Things To Come not nearly as good as the Stones, Them, Doors or Love, but they were not nearly as good as many other similar garage bands who also imitated the heavyweights listed above. This CD reissues both sides of the only single to feature the original lineup, as well as 16 previously unreleased demos from 1965-67. Most of the material is original, derivative, and rather weak, recycling the "Gloria" riff a number of times. The management-instigated firing of the sandpaper-voiced Runolfsson is presented as a tragedy that short-circuited the group's potential in the enclosed band history, but neither he nor his band had what it took to stand amongst their competition.

Tracks:
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01. Sweetgina (Steve Runolfsson) - 2:59
02. Missisippi Dealer (L. Robinson) - 2:09
03. I Want Out (Steve Runolfsson) - 2:41
04. Your Down (Steve Runolfsson) - 2:30
05. Speak Of The Devil (Steve Runolfsson) - 2:41
06. Smokestack Lightning (Instrumental) (C. Burnett) - 2:20
07. Character Of Caruso (Steve Runolfsson) - 3:33
08. Tell Me Why (Bryan Garofalo) - 2:12
09. Tomorrow (Lynn Rominger) - 3:06
10. Pushin' Too Hard (Instrumental) (Sky Saxon) - 2:32
11. Show Me A Place (R. Kunkel) - 3:02
12. I'm A Man (Instrumental) (E. McDaniels) - 1:48
13. Home To You (R. Kunkel) - 2:08
14. Your Down (Instrumental) (Steve Runolfsson) - 2:28
15. Icicles On The Roof (Lynn Rominger) - 2:27
16. Sweetgina (Instrumental) (Steve Runolfsson) - 3:05
17. Behold Now Behemoth (Steve Runolfsson) - 4:05
18. Darkness (Steve Runolfsson) - 4:05

Personnel:
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Steve Runolfsson - Vocals
Lynn Rominger - Guitar
Bryan Garofalo - Bass
Russ Kunkel - Drums

All thanks to original releaser