Always and Never is the debut album by
New Zealand
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pop punk
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band,
Goodnight Nurse
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, released in January 2006.
Album information
The album spawned many singles and radio hits, including, "
My Only", "
Death Goes To Disco", "Loner", "Our Song", "Going Away", "Taking Over", and "All For You" (most songs from the album were released as singles).
''Always and Never'' went Gold after only a week of release and debuted to place number 5 on the
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New Zealand
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Top 40 Albums Chart. From then on, the album stayed in the Top 40 for 5 weeks (from 30 January until 27 February).
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critics
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took notice of the tight
riffs
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and hooks, wide range of subject matter, and musical diversity (the album included fast,
punk
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songs, as well as more mature-sounding songs that deal with themes such as
death
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).
Joel Little, the lead singer, said, when asked about the subject matter of the album:
Track listing
# "Welcome To Hell"
featuring Ben's Choir – 0:48
# "
My Only" – 2:29
# "
Death Goes to Disco" – 3:34
# "All Hail The Serpent Queen Part 1; Trilogy" – 2:48
# "Take My Hand" – 3:38
# "Loner" – 2:18
# "No Way To Escape" – 3:13
# "
Our Song" – 3:51
# "A Shadow And A Prayer" – 3:48
# "Suffocating Slow" – 3:08
# "Suffer" – 3:10
# "Massacre Begins Tonight" – 3:30
# "All For You"
featuring Kimbra Johnson – 4:56
# "
Milkshake
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"
(Bonus) – 2:28
Alternate track listing
# "Welcome To Hell"
featuring Ben's Choir – 0:48
# "
My Only" – 2:29
# "
Death Goes to Disco" – 3:34
# "All Hail The Serpent Queen Part 1; Trilogy" – 2:48
# "Take My Hand" – 3:38
# "Loner" – 2:18
# "No Way To Escape" – 3:13
# "
Our Song" – 3:51
# "A Shadow And A Prayer" – 3:48
# "Going Away" – 3:17
# "Suffer" – 3:10
# "Taking Over" – 3:03
# "All For You"
(Bonus) – 15:10
, digiRAMA.com, Alternate track listing, Accessed: 27 November 2007
Charts
Singles
Music videos
Every song from ''Always and Never'' which was released as a single has an accompanying video, all of which are available on YouTube
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.
'Death Goes To Disco' Music Video
'Taking Over' Music Video
'Going Away' Music Video
'Our Song' Music Video
'My Only' Music Video
'Loner' Music Video
'All For You' Music Video
References
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2006 debut albums
Goodnight Nurse albums
Festival Records albums