M- Garage Psych THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND - Mystique 1968

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MINT European deluxe VINYL issue of AMAZING PSYCHEDELIC GARAGE CLASSIC                                                

        The Chocolate Watchband

                                Europe - TOWER RECORDS - ST - 5106                      

TOP CLEAN....Hard to find exact long out of print, 2ndpress(no bar code ~ old reproduction) in MINT condition of 1968 psychedelic garage classic !

The Inner Mystique seems to be the Chocolate Watchband album that fans and casual listeners want and love the most, even though it was put together in late 1967, in the wake of the virtual collapse of the original lineup and rushed out in February of 1968.

Side one features a pair of languid psychedelic treats -- "Voyage of the Trieste" and "Inner Mystique" -- in which the sitar flourishes and flute arabesques hung like jeweled ornaments, sandwiched around a new singer, Don Bennett (who'd already supplied some vocals without the group's knowledge or approval on their first album) ...The best track on the album, "In the Past," is shimmering slice of psychedelia originally written and recorded by the Florida-based psychedelic-garage band We the People, although this Chocolate Watchband surpasses the original version just on vibe' alone. The second side was comprised of superb finished Watchband sides -- most notably "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" and "I Ain't No Miracle Worker," mixing punk bravado and angst, which have long been the album's selling points -- and outtakes such as "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" and "Medication," with Bennett's vocals replacing original vocalist David Aguilar's, and one remixed and partly redubbed version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." As with the group's first album, however, Inner Mystique is sort of "guilty with an explanation" -- it flows in terms of continuity, with two different singers and three different vocal/instrumental combinations present, but the three full Watchband tracks are killer recordings that can hold their heads up with the best rock records of 1967; what's more, even the Bennett-sung/studio band played "In the Past" is amazing, Watchband or not, as a piece of shimmering psychedelia with a great beat and arrangement; and even "Voyage of the Trieste" and "Inner Mystique," as pieces of psychedelic music, were good enough that one of them ended up on Rhino's Best of the Chocolate Watchband collection.

Voyage of the Trieste

In the Past

Inner Mystique

I'm Not Like Everybody Else

Medication

Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go

It's All Over Now Baby Blue

I Ain't No Miracle Worker

CONDITION: The laminated cover is ALL shiny clean and sharp MINT

The vinyl is equally clean and perfectly MINT 

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record