The Inner Mystique 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.

The Inner Mystique, the hypnotic second album by the Chocolate Watch Band, takes up exactly where its sacred predecessor left you: Looking for your perfect match at the local Love-In. When Watch Band lead singer par excellence Dave Aguilar grabs you by the lapels and tells you "I'm Not Like Everybody Else," you have no choice but to believe him. He's not. And when he cools down enough to extol the virtues of "Medication," who could doubt his sincerity? Especially when he stokes the fires to the boiling-point where medication may not really make much difference? The real stunner here is the Watch Band's exhilarating cover of Bobby D's "It's All over Now, Baby Blue." It's typical CWB interpretive-bliss: nobody has ever done this hallowed tune any better—not Bob Dylan, not Van Morrison. Nobody!