(Hard rock) [LP][16/44] Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend - 1973, FLAC (tracks), 1st Press [UK]

A1 Breadfan 6:10
A2 Baby Please Don't Go 5:30
A3 You Know I'll Always Love You 2:15
A4 You're the Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk 8:50

B1 In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand 6:29
B2 Riding My Nightmare 2:42
B3 Parents 10:25

---

---

---

---

foobar2000 1.1.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2012-04-15 23:37:37

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Analyzed: Budgie / Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DR12 -0.75 dB -15.90 dB 6:06 01-Breadfan
DR12 -1.14 dB -15.77 dB 5:26 02-Baby Please Don't Go
DR10 -4.84 dB -17.96 dB 2:11 03-You Know I'll Always Love You
DR12 -0.72 dB -15.61 dB 8:48 04-You're The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk
DR13 -1.12 dB -15.39 dB 6:25 05-In The Grip Of The Tyrefitter's Hand
DR10 -6.02 dB -18.42 dB 2:40 06-Riding My Nightmare
DR12 -1.00 dB -15.55 dB 10:21 07-Parents
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of tracks: 7
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 874 kbps
Codec: FLAC

================================================================================

Turntable: VPI Scoutmaster
Tonearm: Trans-Fi Termninator
Cartridge: Audio-Technica AT33PTG/II
Phone Stage: Cinemag SUT feeding a Marantz 2220B
Digital Interface: E-MU 1212
Recording Software: Adobe Audition 3.01

---

Never Turn Your Back on a Friend is Budgie's third album, released in June 1973. A remastered version was released in late 2004.

This is the band's best known album and is notable for its inclusion of "Breadfan", the band's best-known song. Metallica recorded a cover version of "Breadfan" in 1988.

The album cover was done by Roger Dean, who has done much of the album artwork for progressive rock band Yes.

---

---

Three albums in and Budgie hit their eclectic zeinth with the 1973 release of Never Turn Your Back on a Friend. The Welsh power trio kicked off the seven song studio effort with the full-on blitz of "Breadfan", and never looked back. With the meandering ten-minute "Parents" hung-out as the other bookend track, Budgie filled-out Never Turn Your Back on a Friend with a cover of "Baby Please Don't Go", the hard boiled "You're the Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk" (only Budgie consisently came up with out-there song titles like this), and the heavy handed "In the Grip of a Typefitter's Hand", while a pair of short and soft cuts, "You Know I'll Always Love You" and "Riding the Nightmare", offset the powerful riffage.

---

---

Personnel

Burke Shelley - lead vocals, bass
Tony Bourge - guitar, backing vocals
Ray Phillips - drums