Whose Turn?

Over the summer, Youngblood records had a contest for the chance to win a copy of the Line Of Sight record that was long sold out. All you had to do, was listen to the label's discography over on Spotify, take a screenshot of your listening history as proof, and email it over to Sean Youngblood. Sounded like a good time, so I jumped in on it. It was a blast revisiting some of the older Youngblood catalog that I hadn't given a spin for a while, and it reminded how great a lot of these records were. One of the bands that really jumped out at me was Our Turn. I've always really liked them, but for one reason or another, I've never owned either of their records. I've been in the mood to buy some hardcore records, so when I found a cheap copy of the first Our Turn 7 inch on Discogs, I grabbed it.

While the first Our Turn record wasn't on Youngblood, it was included on the CD pressing of Catch Your Breath that Youngblood did. These songs are a blast...just rippin' straight edge hardcore that makes me think of shit like Rancor and Floorpunch. Awesome.

I'm not sure what the deal is with the pressing for this. Discogs says that there is a "regular" cover, a metro cover and a tour cover. Is this one the regular cover, or is it the tour cover? I'm inclined to think that this is the regular cover, but it is numbered on the back out of 50, and someone on Discogs mentioned that they picked it up from the band on tour, so I just don't know. I guess I'll need to buy them all to figure out the mystery.

It's funny...a year or so ago, my friend Doug checked in with me to see if I was interested in buying any of his record collection. He had a bunch of 2000-era hardcore that he was looking to dump, and he offered me first pass at it. I briefly glanced at it, but at the time I really wasn't to interested in buying a bunch of old hardcore records, so I told him "thanks, but no thanks" and let him bring the whole lot to his local record store. I remember that he had a bunch of different pressings of the Our Turn records, and now I'm kicking myself for not grabbing them when I had the chance.