THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
958) The Humane Society — “Eternal Prison”
This ’68 B-side from a Simi Valley, California garage is “great, dark brooding psych” (liner notes to the Tony the Tyger Presents . . . Fuzz, Flayke,s & Shakes: Vol. 1: 60 Miles High CD comp), a “cryptic quasi-punk monolgue[]” (Alec Palao, liner notes to Where the Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 CD comp) Even more far out, “[i]t goes beyond the boundaries of imagination and beyond the Cosmos. Words can’t describe the trip and the journey through other dimensions.” (JoeGongora2200, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhRzCD436wY)
“They’re gonna put you in a prison. They’re gonna leave you without living.”
Jason Ankeny tells us about the Society:
Simi Valley, CA, psych-punks the Humane Society formed in 1965 as the Innocents . . . . [T]he band was discovered . . . while performing on a flatbed truck parked outside a local record store. [Their] debut single, “Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me” — recorded just prior to Tiny Tim’s smash novelty rendition . . . was a hit in Los Angeles, but it was the flip side, “Knock, Knock,” for which the group is justly celebrated: a savage, disarmingly visceral slab of proto-punk genius . . . . After Liberty rejected a proposed follow-up, the Humane Society landed at New World for their second single, 1968’s “Lorna” [(“Prison” is the B-side), which] received scant attention, and the band dissolved soon after.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-humane-society-mn0000766521/biography
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