Neverneverland [UK Bonus Tracks]

• Artist: The Pink Fairies
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• Release Date: 1971
• Genre: Rock

Review

Kicking off the most exhaustive exhumation yet of the Pink Fairies' early-'70s catalog, the remastered Neverneverland readily takes its place among the era's most crucial debuts, a hard-rocking, free-flowing and, above all, anarchic monster that opens with the definitive statement of Yippie intent, "Do It," and doesn't look back. Titled for radical Jerry Rubin's book of the same name, "Do It" remains a manifesto for the revolution that never quite got off the ground, a gutsy affirmation that the Pink Fairies were never to eclipse. Originally released as a January 1971 single, "Do It" also appears among the bonus tracks in its edited (three-minute) 45 rpm format, together with its turbulent B-side, the similarly barnstorming "The Snake." And it must be admitted that anybody entering the realm of the Fairies from those points of view is in for at least a few surprises. While "Say You Love Me" and "Teenage Rebel" certainly adhere to the band's rockiest tendencies, the ballad "Heavenly Man" sounds like nothing so much as that other pink thing, Floyd, circa Obscured By Clouds, while "War Girl" has a distinct American R&B tinge to it. Other moods float in and out of focus before Neverneverland returns to Free Festival Central for the live crowd-pleaser "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" -- present in both its 11-minute LP form and, among the bonus tracks, the 12-minute instrumental prototype that was one of the band's first studio attempts at the piece. Needless to say, both are as relentless as the title insists -- and as fiery as the Fairies' own reputation demands they should be. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Do It	Russell Hunter, Paul Rudolph, Duncan Sanderson	The Pink Fairies	(4:15)
Heavenly Man	John Adler	The Pink Fairies	(3:41)
Say You Love Me	The Pink Fairies	The Pink Fairies	(3:48)
War Girl	John Adler	The Pink Fairies	(4:34)
Never Never Land	The Pink Fairies	The Pink Fairies	(6:55)
Track One, Side Two	The Pink Fairies	The Pink Fairies	(4:41)
Thor	John Adler	The Pink Fairies	(:58)
Teenage Rebel	The Pink Fairies	The Pink Fairies	(5:20)
Uncle Harry's Last Freakout	The Pink Fairies	The Pink Fairies	(10:51)
The Dream Is Just Beginning	John Adler	The Pink Fairies	(1:18)
The Snake [*]	The Pink Fairies	The Pink Fairies	(3:58)
Do It [Single Edit][*]	Russell Hunter, Paul Rudolph, Duncan Sanderson	The Pink Fairies	(3:04)
War Girl [Alternate Extended Mix][#][*]	John Adler	The Pink Fairies	(4:34)
Uncle Harry's Last Freakout [First Version][#][*]	The Pink Fairies	The Pink Fairies	(12:23)

Credits

Joe Black (Project Coordinator), Mark Powell (Mixing), Mark Powell (Research), Mark Powell (Reissue Producer), Paschal Byrne (Mixing), The Pink Fairies (Producer), The Pink Fairies (Instrumentation), Paschal Byrne (Remastering), Mark Powell (Reissue Compilation), Mark Powell (Liner Notes), Alasdair Moodie (Research Assistant)