Nati nel 1973 in Galles, i Budgie capitanati da Bourge, sono una band quasi sconosciuta nell'immaginario colletivo, tuttavia essi sono stati,nonostante non abbiano mai sfondato, indispensabili per l'evoluzione dell'Hard Rock e dell'Heavy Metal. "Never Turn Back On A Friends" è un saggio di tecnica, dimenticato, in cui vengono alla luce le mirabolanti doti del batterista Ray Philips e le particolarissime ugole dei due vocalist Bourge e Shelley. L'unica pecca del disco, forse, è la lunghezza dei brani, infatti cinque tracce su sette superano i cinque minuti e mezzo.
"Breadfan", prima opera dell'album, è introdotta da un riff scattante, reso noto dai Metallica, veloce e rapida si rimane allibiti dalle capacità compositive del trio, ma soprattutto come avevo già detto dalla voce di Bourge supportata e ben amalgamata dalle continue scale esplosive di Shelley e dello stesso Bourge. C'e anche il tempo di rallentare, infatti verso la metà del brano il ritmo cala, quasi rasenta il fondo, per poi lentamente, lentamente risalire la china, amaliatrici le note di basso in questo segmento, e ricominciare calvalcando i riff diabolici precedenti sino alla fine.
"Baby, Please, Don't Go" uno dei migliori lavori dell'opera si rispecchia in un ritornello Rock and Roll anni '60, negli urli di Bourge, vagamente ricordanti quelli di Gillan in Speed King (lungi da me però il confronto), e nell'uso massiccio della tecnica in ogni strumento, il risultato è quello di un brano coinvolgente e stupefacente per la maestria dei compositori.
La traccia seguente "You Know I'll Always Love You", una ballad struggente, triste e commovente che dura solamente 2.17 minuti. Un brano che ti lascia qualcosa dentro sicuramente.
"You're The Biggest Thing Since Powered Milk" brano numero 4, beh per presentarlo basterebbe far sentire l'assolo di batteria iniziale, un minuto e 40 secondi, seguito dai soliti riff grezzi e accattivanti e da un Bourge più arrabbiato, ispirato se vogliamo, che porta per mano le musiche e le conduce con la sua stessa voce fino alla conclusione della canzone. "In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand" non mi ha lasciato molto, a mio parere è il brano che lascia più a desiderare dell'album, troppo massiccio l'uso di tecnica e strumenti. "Ryding my Nightmare" brano lento, la cui caratteristica, peculiarità, è l'uso del coro durante il ritornello, anch'esso come la traccia 3, essendo ritmicamente diverso dal resto dell'album, dura molto poco, 2 minuti e 45 secondi. Infine "Parents" fantastica, i suoi ritmi, i suoi assoli, il suo blues, rapiscono come le parole di un vecchio saggio, di sicuro il brano più maturo del disco e che preferisco.
E' un peccato che questo lavoro sia poco conosciuto e che i Budgie non siano famosi, ma guardandola da un altro lato forse è un bene, cosicchè almeno loro non siano stati trasportati a suon di denari nello Showbiz. Da notare in questo disco, ma anche in altri,l'uso di titoli stravaganti e talvolta nonsense ma pure di copertine Fantasy,s ognanti. Davvero un grande album.
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01 Breadfan (06:10)
Breadfan
Open up your mind
Open up your purse
Never, never, never gonna lose it
Breadfan
Take it all away
Never give an inch
Gotta make a mint
Gotta make a million
Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool
Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be
Loser
Give it all away
Never stay with the winner
With the man
With the money
Sailor
Roughin' up the town
With the gal
With a record on the top
If you're gonna be a bad boy
Breadfan
Finger in the pie
In the sky
Put a guineau on the nose
Of a gee gee
Come on
Keep it on the side
With a ride
On a throne
In the middle of an island
Loser, give it all away
Cos' I'm never gonna stay
Cos I don't need it.
Don't you feel it in your veins?
All the money in this world
And I don't need it
Breadfan
Open up your mind
Open up your purse
Never, never, never gonna lose it
Breadfan
Take it all away
Never give an inch
Gotta make a mint
Gotta make a million
Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool
Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be
Loser
Give it all away
Never stay with the winner
With the man
With the money
Sailor
Roughin' up the town
With the gal
On a record on the top of your van
Breadfan
Finger in the pie
In the sky
Put a guinea on the nose
Of a gee gee
Come on
Keep it on the side
With a ride
On a throne in the road
In the middle of an island
02 Baby Please Don't Go (05:30)
Rollin' off you go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please don't go
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard at the County Farm
With your shackles on
Baby please don't go
Gonna be a doll
Gonna be a doll
Gonna be a doll to get your way down here
To make you walk along
Baby please don't go
Don't you go
Don't you go
Yeeeah ha
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please don't go
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard
Why don't you mind that guard at the County Farm
With your shackles on
Baby please don't go
03 You Know I'll Always Love You (02:15)
Sun and moon and sky above me.
These are things I treasure most
Sun that lights my way goes on and on and on.
Simple things will not be lost.
You know I'll always love you,
No matter where you are
Feel it all around you
My love will travel far.
Sea of grass and earth below me.
These are things I treasure most.
Men who read the signs go on and on and on.
Better things will soon be gone.
You know I'll always love you
No matter where you are
Feel it all around you
My love will travel far.
05 In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand (06:29)
You got your feelings
Your old fashioned feelings
About the world and its ways
No retribution
No simple solution
I think we're caught in a maze
And all the plunder
That feeling down under
It tends to gnaw at you
We're in the grip it's a total Eclipse
The tyre fitter's got you
Now let me explain
This feeling of pain
Comes from the man at the top.
His grip is so tight
His political might
The tyre fitter will not stop
He's bleeding your brain
He'll drive you insane
Nobody making a move
He'll give you a pen
But he's got him a gun
The tyre man is oh so shrewd
I'm licking my wounds
And mending my bones
And catching the wind out of town
We're all in the grip of a tyre fitter's hand
It's only doing me harm
Running away
Just isn't the way
You got to get it yourself
Watch what we do
We just gotta make do
And hide away on the shelf
07 Parents (10:25)
PARENTS
When I was a little boy
They would say to me
Don't go in the world and play
It's bad company
All they had was child and faith
Let him grow and let him wait
Just to find out what it was to be free
But now I'm over twenty one
Growing up I've had my fun
And I know it's got to be
Baby lying in a womb
Are you free or in a tomb
Let me in,
I feel I want to cry.
Oh the road is long
Oh the road is long
Come on back, back.
Wash your hands and up to bed
Mind your manners
Or you're dead
Mind the cars cos you've got school on Monday
Put my trust in God
Who is he I know not what
Something mummy said one Sunday.
Maybe love is life but life is not
It's something I need plenty of.
Oh! I wish I'd died and never lived a day.
Now there's no one near me now
Tell me what to do and how
Take me back and sing my cares away.
Take me let me sing my cares away
Oh! the road is there
Oh that road is there
Come on back, back.
Oh! I'm empty now
Rainy pain has left me now.
Think of what my people used to say.
Black is black and white is white
Which to choose and which is right
Guide me to a place where I can stay.
Wrap me up and keep me warm
Hide myself far from the storm
Sleep and love will keep my mind at rest.
Only now I realise what my parents had to try.
Love you all and keep you all my life.
Oh that road is there
Oh the road is there
Come on back, back.
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