Budgie's third album, `Never Turn Your Back on a Friend' contains their most famous and arguably best song in lead track, "Breadfan". This track, the album opener, is an amazing proto-thrash metal classic that is incredibly heavy for 1973! However if listeners were aware of the bands first two albums then they would be as surprised at the aural violence wreaked by "Breadfan".  `Never' also contains other notable tracks which curiously feature two other heavy long songs, two short acoustic ditties and a ten minute "power ballad" that closes the record, "Parents". The latter song is probably the LP's other key track as it has appeared on several compilations of the band's finest works.  "Powdered Milk" and "Tyrefitter's Hand" are exceptional tunes, complex and both feature the Budgie trademark of an absurd title.  "Powdered Milk" actually changes course about halfway through its eight minute running time where Tony Bourge (?) takes over as lead vocalist and sings what seems like an almost completely different song! A cover of "Baby Please Don't Go" also graces the third record and although this songs has been covered by many a hard rock band, Budgie's version seems a little more distinctive.  `Never Turn Your Back on a Friend' ensured the band modest success in Europe as a headline act but still didn't make much more of a cult dent in the States but Budgie would plow on. With a number like "Breadfan" to open their shows, fans in the USA would have to wait another three years before Wales' unique power trio would come to apply the bludgeon to their skulls.