Never is Forever

Infobox Album
Name = Never is Forever
Type = Album
Artist = Turbonegro

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Released = 1994
Recorded = March, 1993–December, 1993 at Nesodden Musikkverksted by Christian A. Calmeyer and Åsgeir Knudsen
Genre = Glam punk
Length = 65:55
Label = Dog Job Records
Bitzcore Records (Re-press)
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9uavqj4qoj0a link]
Last album = "(He's a) Grunge Whore"
(1993)
This album = "Never is Forever"
(1994)
Next album = "Stinky Fingers"
(1995)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Background = Orange


Lower caption = Original 1994 cover

"Never is Forever" is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Turbonegro released in 1994 on Dog Job Records. It was a limited and CD only release to only 1,000 copies (some accounts suggest 1,200). Bitzcore Records re-released the album remastered and with a new "Derrick-style" cover artwork in 1999. This album - "a tribute to Blue Öyster Cult" as claimed by the band themselves - is an attempt to dissociate from the Lo-Fi estethics of the garage scene: "When the rest of the punk oriented world tried hard to be lo-fi and 'real', Turbonegro as usual went the opposite way, creating a miniature suburban deathpunk opera. Seldom have pop culture, darkness and desperation blended so well."cite web|title = Turbojugend USA - Turbonegro Discography: Full Length|author=Heffington, Mike & Lucassen, Martin|publisher=Turbojugend USA|url=http://www.turbojugendusa.com/turbo_disc/disc_lp.html|accessdate=2007-06-08]

Four songs from the "Grunge Whore" EP are also included here. As well as a hidden track that features Bingo singing "Staten Och Kapitalet", a 70's radical left-wing prog rock tune by Blå Tåget made into a national hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band Ebba Grön, plus bits of Evel Knievel performing a couple of country ballads.

Track listing

#"Letter From Your Momma" – 2:16
#"Suburban Prince's Death Song" – 3:36
#"Übermensch" – 3:37
#"I Will Never Die" – 3:54
#"No Beast So Fierce" – 3:54
#"Destination: Hell" – 3:23
#"Timebomb" – 3:18
#"Pain In Der Arsch Pocket Full Of Cash" – 1:31
#"Hush, Earthling" – 3:14
#"Nihil Sleighride" – 2:59
#"(He's A) Grunge Whore" – 4:37
#"Black Chrome" – 2:26
#"Oslo Bloodbath Pt. II: I Don't Care" – 2:44
#"Oslo Bloodbath Pt. III: The Ballad Of Gerda And Tore" – 24:26
#"Satan Och Kapitalet" (hidden track, CD-only)

Line-up

Band members

*Hans Erik - vocals
*Rune - Guitar
*Pål - Guitar/Vocals
*Bengt - Bass/Vocals
*Thomas - drums

Additional musicians

*Åsgeir Knudsen - Additional instruments on "Letter From Your Momma"

Credits

*Morten Anderson - Photography
*Ando - Photography
*Christian A. Calmeyer - Engineer
*Dimitri - Artwork
*Craig Morris - Editing, Mastering

Miscellanea

*Although the recording sessions took place at a time when they had opted for "Stierkampf" they returned to their former name Turbonegro again for the album release. Its initial working title "Diary From A Female Prison" was later switched to "Never Is Forever", the chorus line from the song "Nihil sleighride" - a tune with evident references to Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper".
*The album was also released on 12" Vinyl in 1999. A limited number of 123 transparent red vinyl were also made available.
*The Bitzcore Records re-issue comes with new sleeve artwork designed by Dimitri 'from Oslo' Kayiambakis showing German TV detective superintendent 'Derrick' Horst Tappert holding a gun to his head. Furthermore the LP insert / CD traycard depicts a photo montage of Pål imitating H.M. Schleyer (president of the German employers association) as abducted by the R.A.F. terrorists in 1977. According to Happy-Tom this "was a special greeting from the other members of the band, regarding Pål's newly found role as owner and operator of Pamparius Pizza".

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