Melts In Your Brain Not On Your Wrist

Great rock'n'roll rarely translates properly to disc. The history of the genre is littered with literally thousands of acts that were blinding and transcendent on the bandstand, yet limp, ineffectual or misguided in the studio. And the opposite is just as true, though the art of the recording medium allows for a control and an innovation that usually isn't possible in a live context. When the two disciplines are matched, there is the potential for true greatness; yet for those involved, the realization of such may come only after years of frustrated disillusion with the initial outcome. Such is the case with the Chocolate Watchband. The recorded legacy of this supreme psychedelic punk combo paints a picture quite removed from the truth, yet as our definitive new anthology MELTS IN YOUR BRAIN . . . NOT ON YOUR WRIST demonstrates, it nevertheless holds up as one of the finest catalogues of the 1960s, balanced between the Watchband's own Anglophile blueswailing, and a preternatural aura, the result of studio trickery imposed without the bands knowledge or consent. The juxtaposition acts as a paradigm of how the British Invasion-inspired punk fury acquired an experimental veneer, and led to something unique. By unwittingly having their record career mapped out for them by producer Ed Cobb, the Watchband paradoxically wrote themselves into the annals of cultdom; yet it is the rock'n'roll heartbeat of this once-in-a-lifetime band that is their true heirloom.

Disc: 1
1    LET'S TALK ABOUT GIRLS (new Aguilar vocal)
2    SWEET YOUNG THING
3    BABY BLUE
4    MISTY LANE
5    DON'T NEED YOUR LOVIN'
6    SITTING THERE STANDING
7    SHE WEAVES A TENDER TRAP
8    IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (original Aguilar vocal)
9    COME ON
10    ARE YOU GONNA BE THERE
11    GONE & PASSES BY
12    NO WAY OUT
13    I'M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
14    I AIN'T NO MIRACLE WORKER
15    MEDICATION (new Aguilar vocal)
16    TIL THE END OF THE DAY (new Aguilar vocal)
17    PSYCHEDELIC TRIP (backing track)
18    HOT DUSTY ROADS (backing track)
19    MILK COW BLUES
20    LET'S TALK ABOUT GIRLS (Don Bennett vocal)
21    DON'T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING
Disc: 2
1    SINCE YOU BROKE MY HEART
2    DARK SIDE OF THE MUSHROOM
3    EXPO 2000
4    GOSSAMER WINGS
5    VOYAGE OF THE TRIESTE - THE YO-YOZ
6    IN THE PAST - THE YO-YOZ
7    THE INNER MYSTIQUE - THE YO-YOZ
8    UNCLE MORRIS
9    HOW YA BEEN
10    DEVIL'S MOTORCYCLE
11    I DON'T NEED NO DOCTOR
12    FLOWERS
13    FIREFACE
14    AND SHE'S LONELY
15    IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR (Don Bennett vocal)
16    HOT DUSTY ROADS (Don Bennett vocal)
17    MEDICATION (Don Bennett vocal)
18    LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO - THE INMATES (Don Bennett vocal)
19    LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO - THE INMATES (backing track)
20    THE UNCHARTED SEA - THE YO-YOZ
21    BABY BLUE (LP mix)
22    BLUES THEME
23    LOOSE LIP SYNC SHIP