Never Say Dinosaur is a tribute album dedicated to Christian rock band Petra. The album includes 11 revisions and re-imaginings of classic Petra songs and one original composition by Kevin Smith of DC Talk. Dinosaur contained an eclectic lineup of artists which, at the time, highlighted "some of the best new bands in Christian music."
The album title is a pun on Petra's fourth studio album, Never Say Die. It is also a pun on the title of Petra's irrelevance and age, who at the time had been performing for nearly twenty-five years, by rejecting comparisons of the band with extinct dinosaurs.
The album was released by Star Song Records in 1996. They worked with the band during most of the 1980s through part of the band's most successful tenure.
Track listing Track Song title Originally released on Cover band Producer1 "Taste and See" Washes Whiter Than (1979) Audio Adrenaline John Hampton2 "Judas' Kiss" More Power to Ya (1982) The Walter Eugenes Nichols and Perkins3 "Not of This World" Not of this World (1983) Galactic Cowboys Alan Doss4 "Yahweh Love" Washes Whiter Than (1979) Sarah Jahn Paul Mills5 "I Can Be Friends With You" Never Say Die (1981) MxPx Bob Moon6 "Rose Colored Stained Glass Windows" More Power to Ya (1982) Jars of Clay Brent Bourgeois7 "Louie's Solo" Original song. Based on the title of,and including samples from a song offCaptured in Time and Space (1986) Kevin Max Smith/Passafist Nichols and Perkins8 "Road to Zion" More Power to Ya (1982) Sixpence None the Richer Brent Bourgeois9 "Pied Piper" Not of this World (1983) The Stand Nichols and Perkins10 "Wake Up" Petra (1974) Grammatrain Grammatrain and Aaron Sprinkle11 "The Coloring Song" Never Say Die (1981) Caprill and My Sister's Garden Nichols and Perkins12 "All the King's Horses" This Means War! (1987) Plankeye Gene Eugene and Plankeye
Personnel Executive producer - Darrell A. Harris Co-executive producers - Lynn Nichols, Dave Perkins Mastered by Steve Marcussen at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, California Project coordinator - Debby Austin
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