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''Never Is Forever'' is the second full-length album by the Norwegian rock band
Turbonegro Turbonegro (Turboneger in Norway) is a Norwegian rock band, active from 1989 to 1998 and from 2002 to the present. The band combines glam rock, punk rock, and hard rock into a self-described "deathpunk" musical style. History Early years (19 ...
, 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 a remastered version of the album and with a new cover art in 1999. The cover artwork depicts ''Derrick'' actor
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at a press conference in Oslo in 1993.


Overview

The album—a tribute to
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, as claimed by the band themselves—is an attempt to dissociate from the
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aesthetics 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 were included on the album. The track "Hush, Earthling" features dialogue sampled from the 1980 film ''
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.'' The album's final song, "Oslo Bloodbath Pt. III: The Ballad of Gerda and Tore", is followed by six minutes of silence and three hidden tracks: bassist Bengt "Bingo" Calmeyer singing "Staten och kapitalet", a 1970s radical
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tune by
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turned into a hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band
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;
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performing a poem named "Why?"; and John Culliton Mahoney performing his song "The Ballad of Evel Knievel".


Track listing


Personnel

Turbonegro * Hans Erik/Hanky – vocals * Rune/Loonie – guitar * Pål/Toonie – guitar, vocals * Bengt/Panky – bass, vocals *
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/Happy Tom – drums Additional personnel * Christian A. Calmeyer – producer, recording engineer * Craig Morris – editing, mastering * Åsgeir Knudsen – recording engineer, additional instruments ("Letter from Your Momma") * Günter Kesselring – remastering (1999 edition) * Nero – remastering (1999 edition) * Christa Brüggemann – lacquer cutting (1999 edition) * Trbtopia – artwork * Stian Andersen – photography (live photo) * Ando Woltmann – photography (1999 edition cover) * Morten Andersen – photography (1999 edition band photos) * Dimitri From Oslo – artwork (1999 edition)


References

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