Initially set for release a couple of years earlier on the ill-fated PVC label, surfacing first in Europe as Mad Dog Dreams and then expanded by two tracks, Want Something essentially crystallizes what the Droogs have been moving towards for the past few years. The album layers sinewy, decidedly Western slabs of open-highway hard rock ("Long Dark Night," John Hiatt's "Zero House") with moodier, folk-tinged atmospherics ("Mad Dog Dreams" and "Devil Left To Pay," the latter written by LA rock scribe/rocker Robert Lloyd). That the multitude of guests — including ex-Code Blue honcho Dean Chamberlain, Dream Syndicaters Steve Wynn (who sings lead on his own composition, "Maria"), guitarist Karl Precoda and Paul Cutler (who also produced the LP) — never obscures the Droogs' character is a tribute to the group's forceful personality.

TRACK LISTING: 1. Paper Dolls, 2. We All Fall Down, 3. Zero House, 4. Reach The Dawn, 5. Devil Left To Pay, 6. I Want Something, 7. Echo Of An Empty Heart, 8. Wings Of Mercury, 9. Mad Dog Dreams

SPECIAL FEATURES: Inner sleeve with lyrics and band photos