No Way Out PRE-ORDER

Sundazed—never anything less than the Fort Knox of garage rock, where the sounds of caveman drums, screaming guitar, pounding bass and an adenoidal lead singer with hair down to here, will forever be passed on from one generation to another—is about to reissue No Way Out and The inner Mystique, the first two albums by the Chocolate Watch Band. Make no mistake: it's as important an act as returning the missing Crown Jewels to the Tower of London.

No Way Out, the thrilling debut album by the Chocolate Watch Band, immediately finds that cosmic sweet-spot of perfect garage-rock traction: where the rubber meets the road and the train keeps a-rollin'. Nobody ever did Mick Jagger any better—even Mick, himself—than the Watch Band's frighteningly superb frontman Dave Aguilar. "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)" and "Let's Talk About Girls" are on everyone's list of Top 20 garage-rock anthems of all time. And that's just the tip of the vermillion iceberg for this essential longplayer.