Turning Point

The new Turning Point discography has been highly anticipated because, well, Turning Point are awesome, and because there has been 'new' material added compared with the previous discography version. You now also get a live set on WNYU. Think Fast has really done a beautiful job with this release. As a bonus you get the original demo on a 7" as well. Pretty cool. There are 1,000 copies of the yellow vinyl you can see here. There are also 500 copies on blue vinyl.

Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

I'm not the biggest Touché Amoré fan, but so far I definitely have enjoyed some of their output. Sometimes even without knowing. On the last mixtape my wife made for me, she put on this one song that I really liked, but I never bothered to look up which song by which band it actually was. Sorry. Anyways, while listening to this LP, I found out it was a song by Touché Amoré. On Parting The Sea... there are definitely some more good jams, too. This is the third press on black vinyl. Quantity unknown.

Kids Insane / Slander

Kids Insane is a band I like quite a bit, both on record and live. When I ordered the Marrón LP I was kind of surprised to find out that Kids Insane also had a new record out, so of course I picked up their split as well. The music is good, as usual, but who really needs a 12" split for five songs in total? What a waste of money an raw materials... I also like the Slander side, but Kids Insane still take this one home.

Marrón

I really liked the Marrón demo from last year, so when I read recently that they were going to release a new record, I knew I had to pick it up. And I certainly didn't get disappointed. This mini LP is really good. 150 copies on clear vinyl.

Through Being Cool

I really love the 2nd Saves The Day LP. As far as ego records from the 90s go, this is one of my favourites. So many good songs. I fell a little bit ashamed to admit that I've never owned a physical copy on vinyl so far. So I was really happy to learn that Equal Vision was going to do a reissue a few months back, because the nice looking colour copies of the first press go for a pretty penny these days. I finally decided to pick up a cream coloured record, because I thought it would match the cover really nicely. When I got the record though I was really disappointed because the colour doesn't really look like cream to me. It's more an ugly white mixed with an even uglier yellow. Sort of a scrambled egg colour. I'm glad I finally have a copy of this awesome LP, but I might have to upgrade it at some point.

Bringin' It Down in 2015

I'm not a Rev nerd, actually I'm far from it. There are certain bands on Rev I like and some bands on Rev that I try to collect, but I wouldn't call myself a Rev collector. On the downside, my record collection might lack a lot of records many people deem crucial. On the upside I don't have to play the repress game, which can get pretty annoying if you're a true Rev collector. With some reissues they still get me though. When it was announced that Rev was going to do a reissue of Judge's classic LP Bringin' It Down for its 25th anniversary and I saw a picture of the planned reissue, I certainly got intrigued. Fast forward a couple of weeks and everybody and their grandmother has their copy, which also includes your humble blogger. The record turned out to be a different colour, but in my opinion it looks a lot better than the one on the mock up picture posted on the internet. The purple swirl looks pretty fucking great. Rev really put in some effort here and also included a die-cut hammer logo, just in case you and your crew want to show respect to Judge and take it back to the streets.

Misfits II

Not much too see here. Standard repress of the Misfits Collection II. More classic Misfits songs.

Flexi Your Head!

This may be one of the weirdest records featured on my blog. It's not even rally a record, it's a flexi disc. Flexi discs are known for their poor quality, which is probably the main reason there not that common. I don't any other flexis, but since this one was made by a band that I collect, I made an exception. You could only get this flexi when you sent in the backcover of a fanzine and in return you'd get the flexi. I didn't take a picture of it, but the back of this flexi is actually a postcard. That's how it was shipped. Now, I never got my hands on a copy of said zine, but I did contact the guys in Punch and asked if they could send me one if there were any left. Brian, I think, agreed, but it got lost in the mail somehow. Since my want list is pretty long and seems to be getting longer instead of shorter every day, I didn't spend a whole lot of time and energy on finding one of these. I stumbled across a copy for cheap on discogs a few weeks ago, plus it was sold by someone in Germany, so shipping wasn't really an issue either. As I said, the quality is rather poor, but I like the whole concept of this release. Plus you get a bunch of covers of classic hardcore songs. But honestly, this one is to be filed entirely under 'collectible'.

Trial

I've never really been into Trial. I knew they existed and were sort of influential in the 90s, but I never really checked them out. I remember reading the bit on Trial in the Burning Fight book last year, which sort of intrigued me to finally give them a listen, but it wasn't until I caught them live at a Festival last year that I actually listened to them. I liked their live show so I decided to pick up a few of their records when possible. Some time after that a buddy of mine decided to get rid of some of his records, a chance I gladly jumped at. I must say though that I don't like Trial on this record as much as I liked them live. Then again, maybe this is not their strongest output, so I'll probably grab some of their other releases at some point. This 7" on brown marble is from the repress run New Age did in 2011. 500 copies exist.

Grade/Incision

This is a weird release. Originally, there was a split between Grade and Believe, which was released as CD only in 1993. In 1999 there was a reissue, but Believe had been dropped off this release and this other band, Incision, came in as replacement. So one could argue that this is not really a reissue, but more like a new release. It gets weirder though, because Grade was originally founded as Incision, but changed its name to Grade later on. So this is not really a split release either. Like I said, weird.
Honestly, I only knew about Grade before buying this record and I only discovered the whole background story while doing a little research for this entry. I really like the Grade side, but I like the songs on the Incision side a little better. This was a one-time only pressing limited to 500 copies on black vinyl.

Dew It!

There has been quite some hype about this Rev release, at least by Instagram standards. Well, it's Rev, but maybe more importantly members of Beyond went on to form such illustrious bands as Burn, Inside Out, Bold, Quicksand and many many more. The LP combines the long out of print and really pricy demo tape, which came out in 1988 and a live set on the also legendary WNYU radio show. While the Beyond songs are not as good as the songs by the bands mentioned above, there are some legitimately good songs on here. I really like the massive booklet that comes with it. You get lyrics, interviews, old flyers. Lots of good stuff in there. I feel red vinyl would have gone better with the artwork, but that's just me.

Clarity

For once I thought I didn't miss the band wagon when I picked up a copy of Clarity's Unstoppable 7", but once again I had to learn that I was late. Clarity isn't really a new band seeing that their demo came out in 2011, and this 7" is not a recent release seeing that it was released two years ago and they have released a new 7" in the meantime. On the bright side, I really like this 7". Good, powerful sxe hardcore in the vein of Right Brigade and Carry On. If you're into these bands, make sure to check out Clarity. This is the most common variant on clear blue vinyl out of 250 copies.

Peace

Helping out friends, or people in general for that matter, is something I really like doing. A few weeks ago Burn played a one-off show in London, well at least back then it was still thought of as a one-off show in Europe... To mark the occasion they had a special pressing of their debut 7" made for the London show. I asked a few people if I should try to pick up a copy for them if possible. I could have saved myself the question since the answer was rather obvious. Nerds will be nerds, right?
One of those 7"s has already reached its destination. In return I got this Peace 7" as a small trade I did with my buddy Tom. I'd asked him if he had any spare copies of records he'd recommend to me. I'd wanted to check out Peace for a long time, so when he said I definitely should give this 7" a listen and he did indeed have a spare copy of this, we had our deal.
Now some people might think this was a rather stupid trade because rare Burn or Rev vinyl is worth much more than a generic copy of this 7", and from a pure financial point of view, this may be correct. However, this is not what trading, especially with friends, should be about. And I didn't get disappointed. This 7" is really, really good. Hopefully there will be more releases by Peace soon.

Protester

I really liked the first 7" that Protester released last year, so when I read that Triple B was about to release a new 7" by this Washington, D.C. band I was more than stoked. While I'm not disappointed with this record, it's not quite as good as the first one. Maybe it'll have to grow on me though. Again, I only got the common variant on black and not the fancy coloured one (on white vinyl), but I felt no urge to order this one directly in the States and pay a looooot of extra money for shipping.

Late To The Misfits Party

Lately I've been finding myself listening to rather a lot of Misfits. I've never been really into them, but a few weeks ago I somehow started rediscovering the roots of hardcore and I thought I'd give them another chance. I'm still not their biggest fan, but I can thoroughly enjoy most songs nowadays and I think some are really good. Having said all that, I can definitely appreciate their role in the emergence of hardcore music but for me they'll never reach the same heights as a few other early hardcore bands. I think I picked up a copy of Legacy Of Brutality a few years back for really, really cheap but since then I never bothered to pick up more records until I bought this repress of Collection I, which probably makes for a good starting point to venture a little deeper into the Misfits world.

The spots on the record are not actually on the record. I'm just not that good at taking pictures.