Never Turn Your Back on a Friend [Import]

Never Turn Your Back on a Friend [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
1996 reissue on Repertoire of their 1973 album for MCA in a digipak. Features the original Roger Dean artwork and seven hard rocking classics, including 'Breadfan' (popularized years later by Metallica's cover of it) and 'InThe Grip Of A Tyrefitter's Hand'.

Tracks:

Breadfan
Baby Please Don't Go
You Know I'll Always Love You
You're The Biggest Thing Since The Powdered Milk
In The Grip Of A Tyrefitter's Hand
Riding My Nightmare
Parents

Album Description

1996 reissue on Repertoire of their 1973 album for MCA in a digipak. Features the original Roger Dean artwork and seven hard rocking classics, including 'Breadfan' (popularized years later by Metallica's cover of it) and 'InThe Grip Of A Tyrefitter's Hand'.

Album Details

Budgie's Third Album Found the Group Really Hitting their Stride with Tony Bourge Playing Riffs that Rivaled the Best Guitarists of the Day (Like Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore) and Burke Shelley Delivering the Goods to Thousands of Metal Fans. This Album Ranks as One of their Best Ever, Inspiring Many a Rocker...in Particular, Metallica Paid Tribute by Covering "Breadfan" to Show their Appreciation of the Band.

Customer Reviews:

3 and 1/2 star effort--aged well in some spots, not in others.......2006-08-18

Welch rockers Budgie swoop through the hard rock spectrum on their solid third album "Never Turn Your Back on a Friend." There is plenty of pile-driven rock balanced by their nod at the mandatory ballads that seemed to crop up on most hard-rock albums of this era.

At their best, as when they finally get down to business in You're The Biggest Thing Since the Powdered Milk, Budgie can hold serve with the best of its day. But it's the getting down to business part that makes many songs infuriatingly hard to listen to.

The nearly two-minute drum solo altered by cheesy Doppler effects that opens Powder Milk is a case in point. There are too many sudden changes in direction in too many songs, changes that seem not as thought our or well-executed as by other bands of this time (unlike, say, Family's wonderfully complex Spanish Tide from "Fearless").

And ultimately, I have to concede that Burke Shelley plays a mean bass but that his vocals fray my nerves at times. Budgie's cover of Baby Please Don't Go falls short because his high-pitched voices don't have the grittiness this song needs.

Still, I really like a lot of what's here: In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand is just the type of song that really sounds good coming through some vintage JBLs, and Parents conveys the shifting tides of life that haunt us all.

To me, this is a three and a half star effort, a solid album that has aged well in some spots, not in others.

Out of the Nest.......2005-03-13

Budgie comes into their own with their third studio release. Their hard rocking style and songwriting personality is fully developed with an album full of great songs. The best songs are: Breadfan, Baby Please Don't Go (cover), You're the Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk, In the Grip of the Tyrefitter's Hands, and Parents. Match this with BANDOLIER and you've got the band's two best overall albums.

BUDGIE TAKES FLIGHT!.......2002-02-04

With their third album Budgie came up with their first masterpiece. Every song is memorable and made this the album that should have put them on the map to stay. There is the wonderful Roger Dean cover art, the energetic sound, and seven masterful songs. The two earliest Budgie songs I remember hearing in San Antonio are here: "Parents" and "Riding My Nightmare". The great music doesn't stop there, though, there is the definitive "Breadfan" and the excellent cover of "Baby Please Don't Go". There is the ballad, "You Know I'll Always Love You", which has a rich sound to it and "You're the Greatest Thing Since Powdered Milk". Budgie manages to once again have some strange titles and lyrics, but this time they have woven a tapestry to catch and inspire the listener's imagination.

If you know Budgie and don't have this, shame on you! If, however, you are new to the sound of Budgie, or, are looking for a place to start, this is it! You can't go wrong with NEVER TURN YOUR BACK.... After buying this you will definitely pursue other discs by Budgie. This is an addictive album! There is great guitar work here, electrical and acoustic. The bass and vocals, as always, are envigorating and flawless. Catch the fever; go Budgie!

NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON MOTT.......2001-11-09

The release in 1973, of "Never Turn Your Back On A Friend" was the band's third studio L.P. It proved to be a major mile stone in the long, hard gigging career of Welsh rockers Budgie. It also established their hard rocking style with the drums and bass thumping along together and Tony Bourge's lead guitar work ruffling even the largest feathers.
The first song off the perch was to become Budgie's standard bearer, "Breadfan". It opened with Tony Bourge's rocking guitar, then the bass and drums come thundering in with the fuzzy crunch of twelve thousand banging heads. Add to this Burke Shelley's very high pitched, quintessential 70's metal singing (reminiscent of Geddy Lee of Rush but much sharper) and this heavy metal bird takes flight.
Metallica tried to cover this song on their "Garage Inc". This revealed them to be the rather sad `covers' band that they are.
However, Budgie deliver it all in true hard rock style, pacing the album nicely with two acoustic songs to break up the heavy metal bluster. I'll even forgive the one minute thirty eight second drum solo at the beginning of the fourth song as it's so short, sharp and heavy.
It's the final song "Parents", which is a supersonic power rock ballad that elevates you through the stratosphere. A song very similar in structure to "Led Zeppelins" "Stairway To Heaven", Burke Shelley sings of the torment of turning from child to parent, hitting the heart fair and square with Mott who has a few puppies of his own. This song alone makes this album worth hunting down.
The parents tell their children, "Wash your hands & up to bed, mind your manners or you're dead, watch the cars `cos you got school on Monday". Haven't all parents at sometimes spoken in these jumbled spurts of love and warning?
Though they never reached the dizzy heights of success like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath or Cream, Budgie did leave behind 10 hard rocking studio albums. Really, this is a million heavy metal dreams from their wild concerts attended by their substantial live following.
Budgie also specialized in wonderful album and song titles. As well as the ones on this album, there was also "If I was Brittania I'd waive the rules", "Impeckable", "Nude disintegrating parachutist woman" and "Hot as a dockers armpit". This, at least, proves that the boys from the valleys had a sense of humour. Well, you try fitting those words in a chorus!
Add to this Roger Dream's stunning artwork and you always got the complete package with this bird.
This is one Budgie this Dog will never mess with.
Mott the Dog.

The batty bird takes flight........2001-04-11

FINALLY!,THIS IS WHERE THE BAND REALLY TAKES OFF.SURE THE FIRST TWO WEREN'T TERRIBLE LISTENING(BUDGIE BEATS SQUAWK IN MY OPINION)BUT THAT WAS CLEARLY THE BAND IN THEIR FORMATIVE YEARS.LISTEN TO THE OPENING OF METALLICA COVERED CLASSIC"BREADFAN"AND YOU'LL SEE WHAT I MEAN.THIS BAND IS READY TO PAVE THE WAY FOR FUTURE HARD ROCK AND METAL.STARTING WITH A FEROCIOUS RIFF,THIS SPEED ROCKER JUST KNOCKS ME DOWN EVERY TIME I LISTEN TO IT,THE BEST INTRO RIFF EVER LAID TO WAX.I CAN SEE WHERE THE MET WAS HEAVYLY INFLUENCED BY THIS BAND.ONTO BABY PLEASE DON'T GO(A COVERSONG I GUESS BUT IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE THEIR OWN.)GREAT RIFFS AND SOLOS BY THE MAN HIMSELF,TONY BOURGE.A SHORT DIRGE FOLLOWS SETTING THE LISTENER UP FOR THE CRANIUM CRUSHING DITTY"YOU'RE THE BIGGEST THING SINCE POWDERED MILK",A KILLER OPENING RIFF AND THOUGHTFUL GUITAR SOLOS BY THE MAN."IN THE GRIP OF A TYREFITTERS HAND"IS ALSO A AN AWESOME SONG-BASED ROCKER AND HIGHLY REMINISENT OF SABBATH,COULDA BEEN ON VOL.4 EASILY.RIDING MY NIGHTMARE IS THIS BANDS BEST BALLAD,HANDS DOWN.STARTING LIKE THE CHORDS OF FREEBIRD,BURKE SHELLEY'S VOICE REALLY SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL HERE AND THE CHORUS IS JUST HEAVEN SENT.LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS PARENTS.A 11 MINUTE(BALLAD?)TALE ABOUT ONES GROWING UP AND INDIFFERENCE TO OLDER AGE,A VERY MATURE EFFORT HERE AND VERY GOOD BOURGE FILLS HERE NOT TO MENTION.IF I COULD GO HIGHER I'D GIVE IT TEN STARS DEFINITELY.BUY THE THING IF YOU LIKE A VERY WELL-BALANCED HARD ROCK RECORD.

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Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
Budgie
Manufacturer: Noteworthy Prod. UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Breadfan
Baby Please Don't Go
You Know I'll Always Love You
You're The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk
In The Grip Of A Tyrefitter's Hand
Riding My Nightmare
Parents
Breadfan (Bonus Track)
Parents (Bonus Track)
Breadfan (1973 Video) (Only Known Film Footage Of Mk1 Budgie)

Album Description

Full title - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend. 2004 remastered reissue of 1973 album includes three bonus tracks, 'Breadfan', 'Parents', & 'Breadfan' (1973 video). Noteworthy.

Album Details

Classic Third Album Remastered with Two Bonus Tracks. This Album Has the Famous "Breadfan" Later to Be Recorded by Metallica, and features Original Roger Dean Artwork!

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Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
Budgie
Manufacturer: Repertoire - Popumentary Series
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000BRAPEI
Release Date: 1996-11-21

Average customer rating:

Never Turn Your Back on a Friend
Budgie
Manufacturer: Noteworthy Prod. UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Breadfan
Baby Please Don't Go
You Know I'll Always Love You
You're The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk
In The Grip Of A Tyrefitter's Hand
Riding My Nightmare
Parents
Breadfan (Bonus Track)
Parents (Bonus Track)
Breadfan (1973 Video) (Only Known Film Footage Of Mk1 Budgie)

Album Details

Classic Third Album Remastered with Two Bonus Tracks. This Album Has the Famous "Breadfan" Later to Be Recorded by Metallica, and features Original Roger Dean Artwork!

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