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THIS IS THE US ORIGINAL PRESSING on RHINO 'Maroon/Dark Red' label. SINGLE COVER + COMPANY INNER SLEEVE. The cover is still in shrink and in EX condition, BUT light discolouration/wear on corners (where missing shrink),left spine is fully readable, for details see photos (with and without flashlight). The vinyl is in EX condition, and plays wonderfully and without lessening in sound quality.

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THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND

Psychedelic garage rockers of the mid-'60s with a proto-punk sound.

Back in the mid-'80s, the Chocolate Watchband were trapped in an odd paradox (which actually wasn't that bad a place to be for a band that didn't exist anymore). They hadn't played a note together in almost 15 years, but their original albums were changing hands for $100 apiece or more, and a series of vinyl reissues, first as bootlegs from France and later legit ones from Australia, were selling around the world, and in numbers that only increased as more people had a chance to hear them. What's more, the group's sound was starting to be emulated in the work of then-current bands, playing obscure clubs in places like New York's Chelsea district and other locales as far east as the District of Columbia, made up of teenagers who were too young ever to have seen or heard the Watchband play, and living 3,500 miles east of where the Watchband played out its existence, and most of its gigs, two decades before. The group had reached this paradoxical situation -- nonexistence juxtaposed with a burgeoning cult of admirers around the world -- simply by being the best garage band of the '60s, or, at least, the best one ever to have had a serious recording career.

"THE BEST OF THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND"

1983    LP     RHINO RECORDS      RNLP 108

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE COVER + COMPANY INNER SLEEVE

HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER

NOTES:  * Tracks A1 & A5: From the "No Way Out" LP

* Tracks A2 & A4: Uptown single #740 ("Baby Blue")

* Tracks A3 & B1: Tower Single 375 ("Are You Gonna Be There")

* Tracks A6, A7 & B7: From the "The Inner Mystique" LP

* Tracks B2 & B5: From the "Riot On Sunset Strip" soundtrack

* Tracks B3 & B4: Uptown Single 749 ("Misty Lane")

* Track B6: Previously Unreleased

(SPECIAL NOTE:) While every attempt has been made to present these songs in their best form, many of the original tapes were lost, and had to be reconstructed from the best available original discs.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: RHINO -  MAROON/DARK RED LABEL w/'RHINO' and 'AVI' LOGOS - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover:  RNLP 108

Catalog on labels: RNLP 108

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): RNLP-108  SIDE ONE  Precision  S-10538-

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): RNLP 108  SIDE TWO  Precision  S-10539-

On labels: Distributed by Rhino Records   ℗ 1983

On back cover: Notes by Mike McDowell

Tracklist + Credits

℗ 1983 A.V.I. Records

Distributed by Rhino Records Inc......90404

tracklisting

Side A: LET'S TALK ABOUT GIRLS - SWEET YOUNG THING - NO WAY OUT - BABY BLUE

EXPO 2000 - IN THE PAST - I'M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE

Side B: ARE YOU GONNA BE THERE 8AT THE LOVE-IN) - DON'T NEED YOUR LOVIN'

MISTY LANE - SHE'S WEAVES A TENDER TRAP - SITTING THERE STANDING

MILKCOW BLUES - I AIN'T NO MIRACLE WORKER

grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

.......as a collection encompassing the totality of recordings issued by (or as being by) "the Chocolate Watchband," this is unquestionably the best one going. "Let's Talk About Girls," which also opened their original debut album, opens this album, and it's a loud, defiant garage-punk masterpiece -- "Sweet Young Thing," "No Way Out," and "Baby Blue" represent some peak moments for the official, classic Watchband; and then we jump to "Expo 2000" and "In the Past," good tracks (especially the latter) that aren't the Watchband at all, but the work of studio musicians. After that, it's back to the "real" Watchband for "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" and "Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In)," which arguably mark the group's high point as a recording act. "Don't Need Your Lovin'" and "Sitting There Standing" from the soundtrack Riot on Sunset Strip are also here, along with "I Ain't No Miracle Worker" off of Inner Mystique and the  then-previously unissued "Milk Cow Blues," the trippy, gently orchestrated "She Weaves a Tender Trap" captures their experiment in a softer vein at the outset of the psychedelic era...(AllMusic)