Along with bands like the Groundhogs, the Fugs, the Monks, and Amon Duul, the Pink Fairies were one of the most radical and free spirited psychedelic rock bands of their era, not just musically but also in their advocation of staging free concerts, unabashed drug use and pre-punk hippie squat culture. Dropping out, indeed. The album even opens with a track entitled "Do It" clearly channeling Jerry Rubin, however limiting the Pink Fairies to being steeped in drug culture doesn't give them enough credit for how radical and later influential they were. When listening to this album it's much more comfortable to place this next to the Stooges than the Dead, and it's certainly less dated than alot of other music of the period. Never Never Land is not only an excellant slab of psychedelic and proto-metal freak outs but the band also occasionally has a certain proto-punk sensibility particularly on the track "Teenage Rebel" which is every bit a foreshadowing of punk as the Stooges in its straight forward angsty approach.
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