Never Say Dinosaur is a tribute album dedicated to legendary Christian rock band Petra. The album includes 12 revisions and re-imaginings of classic Petra songs, all from albums before 1984's Beat the System. 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 "age", by rejecting comparisons of the band with extinct dinosaurs, thus "Never say dinosaur". It is also a pun on the title of Petra's fourth studio album Never Say Die.

The album was released by Star Song Records in 1996. They worked with the band during most of the 80s through part of the band's most successful tenure.

Track listing

1. "Taste and See" – Audio Adrenaline
• Produced by John Hampton
2. "Judas' Kiss" - The Walter Eugenes
• Produced by Nichols and Perkins
3. "Not Of This World" - Galactic Cowboys
• Produced by Alan Doss
4. "Yahweh Love" - Sarah Jahn
• Produced by Paul Mills
5. "I Can Be Friends With You" - MxPx
• Produced by Bob Moon
6. "Rose Colored Stained Glass Windows" - Jars of Clay
• Produced by Brent Bourgeois
7. "Louie's Solo" - Kevin Max Smith/Passafist
• Produced by Nichols and Perkins
8. "Road To Zion" - Sixpence None the Richer
• Produced by Brent Bourgeois
9. "Pied Piper" - The Stand
• Produced by Nichols and Perkins
10. "Wake Up" - Grammatrain
• Produced by Grammatrain and Aaron Sprinkle
11. "The Coloring Song" - Caprill And My Sister's Garden
• Produced by Nichols and Perkins
12. "All The King's Horses" - Plankeye
• Produced by 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

References

• Caviness, Brad (1996). "Never Say Dinosaur...the Petra Tribute". 7ball Magazine (07):