I'm going on vacation tomorrow, so I'm gonna keep this one kinda short since most of the people reading this are probably already familiar with these bands, and if not, you can look 'em up on Google for background information and all that jazz. I figure I haven't gushed about New Jersey in awhile, so... both of these bands were from New Jersey, and this is without question the greatest split ever released in the history of mankind. No fucking question. I believe the 7" was originally released in 1991 on Temperance Records, and then it was reissued on CD years later (plus all of the tracks have appeared on various other CD releases over the years, from which I've ripped them for this post). Every fucking song is complete and total mastery on every level: Two of Turning Point's best songs ever (I don't give a fuck what anyone says, their more "emo" sounding stuff was the shit), as well as two of No Escape's finest (although their most golden tune, the unfuckwithable "Silenced", was on the "Rebuilding" compilation in 1990, along with another of Turning Point's unforgettable gems, "Broken", ironically enough). I can't get enough of this shit, and totally flipped over both these bands the first time I heard these four songs:
1. Turning Point "Thursday"
2. Turning Point "Behind This Wall"
3. No Escape "Framework"
4. No Escape "Guilty"
Seriously. Best. Split. Ever. I'm not fucking kidding...
This is of course out of print, but you can grab this shit on CD for less than a buck at Amazon right now, 'cause people are dumbasses and there are actually those out there who would rather listen to three-chord old school hardcore than some jams with actual fucking feeling (not to mention legitimate musical value). Go figure...
Comments
I agree with this review 100%...genius.
That being said Turning Point is my favorite hardcore band of all time…everything they did was gold. The demo / 7” was incredible and “Darkest Before the Dawn” was groundbreaking. Such an amazing and under-rated band. R.I.P. Skip…
I was also lucky enough to see both of these bands live in 1991. Wow.
5.20.2008 | By Chris
So damn good, Turning Point is one of the best bands of their time, whole discography is absolutely crazy how good it is. Definitely very under-rated band!
5.21.2008 | By xMarkusxKTL
Behind this wall, without a doubt my favorite turning point song, they grew out of their youth of today influences into something much more emotional, rip Skip.
5.21.2008 | By tim
Turning Point! Yes!! I haven’t pulled out that discography disc in FOREVER. Putting that shit on now…
5.21.2008 | By Andy
wow! the first 7” i ever bought in my life hahaha! the cover has different colors from the one showed in the review, mine has blue band logos and white and red background. I honestly wouldn’t go as far as defining it the best split 7” ever made, but it’s quite an excellent record indeed, i also really really like turning point’s LP and “behind this wall” is for sure one of my favorite songs of all time and was also the first “emo” song i ever listened to, as when I bought the record back in ‘91 I was almost exclusively into metal, grind and old school hardcore. great review however (as always!)
5.21.2008 | By andrea
Lets not sleep on the No escape side of this record. Absolute gold, such a hard and original sounding band and totally underated in my opinion, these two tracks and the Silence cut on Rebuilding are some of my favourite songs ever. Good call Andrew.
5.21.2008 | By Son Of Man
best stuff both bands hands down…cuz that NO ESCAPE LP caught them sleeping at the grunge wheel.
5.21.2008 | By TRIP MACHINE
ive had the Turning Point discography in my amazon shopping cart for a couple months. thanks for inspiring the final click.
5.21.2008 | By Marcus Garvey
Good stuff, it’s inspired me to listen to the Rebuilding comp again. Some more posts on classic (or cool but obscure) split EPs would be great! Regression/Breach (Goodlife Records) and Red Animal War/Slowride (Deep Elm) spring to mind…
5.21.2008 | By Adam G
‘The criminally unheard EP featuring members of TURNING POINT’...
http://anattitudeexhumed.blogspot.com/search?q=godspeed
5.27.2008 | By tim
I have always thought this was an amazing 7” too. I’m not even sure what made me pick it up back then but I heard this before the early TP stuff and was just confused. I liked the melodic stuff even more. Buske posted the Godspeed EP not too long ago too. Great stuff. No Escape’s 2 songs on here were super powerful as well. I always liked early deadguy but was secretly wishing for more No Escape.
5.27.2008 | By EMS
Great split and post! I remember ordering this from Kent McClard (!). The black vinyl is so thin that you can see through it. Both sides are great, but No Escape blew me away at the time. Very tight and heavy stuff and production was also better than most records at the time (especially from Kent McClard’s catalogue!). That No Escape demo is very good also, the 12” was kinda sloppy.
5.28.2008 | By JL
This split is so good. turning point side is better, IMO, but that’s because those are some of the best songs i’ve ever heard. So dope.
5.29.2008 | By mr lun
one of my guitars used to belong to a dude from turning point. maybe it was played on this very record! i cannot say for sure.
6.18.2008 | By johntorn
Hey. Whatever happen to old Tim Singer? I was wondering. Did he stop making music? Did he move to another country like Dwid?? Someone has been loggin’ in and out of the Kiss It Goodbye Myspace page, I see. Hmmm. What is up?
6.21.2008 | By willhandicap
How in the hell do i find skip from turning point’s side band Godspeed’s EP on temperance records>>??
6.26.2008 | By rus martin
[...] CD version has an extra live song from Burn, and the songs from the Turning Point/ No Escape 7″, and an atrocious layout. I have scanned all of the pages of the 7″, as each band got [...]
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