Never Is Forever

Never Is Forever
Studio album by Turbonegro
Released	1994
Recorded	March–December 1993 at Nesodden Musikkverksted by Christian A. Calmeyer and Åsgeir Knudsen
Genre	Punk rock
Length	65:55
Label	Dog Job Records Bitzcore Records (re-press)
Turbonegro chronology
(He's a) Grunge Whore (1993) Never Is Forever (1994) Stinky Fingers (1995)
Alternative cover
Original 1994 cover

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Never Is Forever is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Turbonegro, released in 1994 via 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.

The album—a tribute to Blue Öyster Cult, as claimed by the band themselves—is an attempt to dissociate from the Lo-Fi aestethics 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."

Four songs from the (He's a) Grunge Whore EP are also included here.

On the CD-version there are three hidden tracks in the end of the final track: Bingo singing Staten och kapitalet, a 1970s radical left-wing progressive rock tune by Blå Tåget made into a national hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band Ebba Grön, Evel Knievel performing a poem named Why? and John Culliton Mahoney performing his song The Ballad of Evel Knievel.

Track listing[]

1. Letter from Your Momma – 2:16
2. Suburban Prince's Death Song – 3:36
3. Übermensch – 3:37
4. I Will Never Die – 3:54
5. No Beast So Fierce – 3:54
6. Destination: Hell – 3:23
7. Timebomb – 3:18
8. Pain in der Arsch Pocket Full of Cash – 1:31
9. Hush, Earthling – 3:14
10. Nihil Sleighride – 2:59
11. (He's a) Grunge Whore – 4:37
12. Black Chrome – 2:26
13. Oslo Bloodbath Pt. II: I Don't Care – 2:44
14. Oslo Bloodbath Pt. III: The Ballad of Gerda and Tore – 24:26

• 00:00-06:04 – Oslo Bloodbath Pt. III: The Ballad of Gerda and Tore
• 06:04-12:04 – Six minutes of silence
• 12:04-16:58 – Bengt "Bingo" Calmeyer sings Staten och Kapitalet, a cover of Blå Tåget (made famous by Ebba Grön).
• 16:58-19:58 – Evel Knievel – Why?
• 19:58-24:26 – John Culliton Mahoney – The Ballad of Evel Knievel

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"

Production[]

• Morten Anderson - photography
• Ando - photography
• Christian A. Calmeyer - engineer
• Dimitri - artwork
• Craig Morris - editing, mastering

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