THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,653) The Tol-Puddle Martyrs – “Time Will Come”
From Australia comes “taut, distressed garage rock on the verge of getting slightly psychedelicized, with cutting minor-keyed distorted guitar/organ riffs and ominous, distrustful lyrics”, with “its organ, distorted guitar, and cool vocal recall[ing] American garage-psychedelia like Max Frost & the Troopers’ ‘Shapes of Things to Come'”. (Richie Unterberger, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-tol-puddle-martyrs-mn0001442992#biography, https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-tol-puddle-martyrs-mw0000303751)
Listening Post Blog writes:
[It is] a very typical 60’s keyboard psyched-out sound with softened vocals contrasting the distorted guitar/organ riffs; but what I really like and what really sets the song apart is the ominous lyrics and the uneasy chord changes. . . . A little darkness amidst what initially seems to be an upbeat vibe makes for a pleasant surprise!
Richie Unterberger tells us of the Martyrs:
The . . . Tol-Puddle Martyrs (evolving out of the mid-’60s band Peter & the Silhouettes . . . ) put out a couple of singles in 1967-1968 that are highly regarded by garage rock collectors . . . . Their name, incidentally, wasn’t as contrived a bit of ’60s weirdness as might be assumed, inspired by an 1834 incident in which six farm workers in Tolpuddle, England, were banished to Australia for unionizing, subsequently becoming known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-tol-puddle-martyrs-mn0001442992#biography
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