It honestly happens a lot with me, I can really, really fall in love with a song hard... but for some strange reason I never follow up on the band or singer and give their other stuff a try, I'm not sure why but if I fall in love with a song what's to say at the very least I might really enjoy something else by them.
Nobody But Me by The Human Beinz is a song I love a lot, but if you seriously asked me to name another song of theirs I would come up with absolutely nothing. The Human Beinz where a 60's garage rock band who only released two albums in the late 60's - Nobody But Me and Evolutions (which I've heard is the better album), so it was a toss up do I go for the album with the song I know or the supposed higher quality release... I'll go with the debut album because at least hey I get Nobody But Me.
Which I don't have to wait long to hear because the title track is the opening track - I fell in love with this song the first time I ever heard it, which was listening to that compilation album (Artifacts of Garage and Psychedlic Rock it was called something like that - which mean't I ended up hearing an all bunch of great 60's songs unfamiliar to me, such as those from The Sonics and Count Five among others). I didn't realize to much later though it was a cover of an Isley Brothers song, I think this version is much better though.
Foxy Lady, the second track, yes is a cover of the more well known version and maybe with time I'll get used to it just feels musically a bit off, it is because the original is imprinted in my mind after so many years, the vocals are decent though.
The Sharman (track 3) builds up hope for me that this album is going to have potentially, love the guitar on this track, Flower Grave (track 4) again features a cool guitar hook and the song does have enough moments for me to rate it as pretty good.
Dance On Through (track 5) I could easily see the opening being used in a film, this instantly became my second favourite track of theirs (behind NBM of course), Turn On Your Love Light (track 6), invokes possibly intentionally The Rolling Stones of that era, and I just looked it up to avoid looking like an idiot to see if was a Stones song but it's originally a Bobby Bland song (loads of people have covered it not including the Stones)
It's Fun To Be Clean (track 7) sounds like those fun 60's songs I can't help but love, nothing original but enjoyable, Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair (Track 8) is a traditional song that is downbeat and threatens to surprise you second act change to set the song to the next level which never comes... this is the first track so far on the album I can't see my rushing too any time soon, it's not awful by any means just not for me (and is the albums longest track I think).
This Lonely Town (track 9) is another cool little song, perhaps it's worth saying there is something of a Bob Dylan vibe mixed in here, which with me comparing to other bands was something intentional The Human Beinz where going for across the full album, Sueno (track 10) is not bad but nothing too special, while Serenade To Sarah (track 11) is a song I ended up liking more then I thought given it's beginning.
Overall, coming in at under half an hour, the album flies by - musically and vocally these boys where gifted and the album overall is mostly a joy to listen to.
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