1988-1991 Discography

• Artist: Turning Point
• Rating:
• Release Date: May 30, 2000
• Total Time: 73:03
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Rock

Review

Turning Point are perhaps best remembered as the band that Lenola guitarist Jay Laughlin was in back in the day, but the extensive 38-track compilation 1988-1991 Discography shows that the southern New Jersey-based band was a largely overlooked component in the development from hardcore to the early days of emo. In opposition to the title, 1988-1991 Discography actually moves backwards from the band's last work to their early days, which gives the album a curious reverse-growth feeling: Turning Point were basically a standard-issue straight-edge hardcore band at the start, and moving backwards to the 78-second hardcore blurt of "Watching It Fall" from the comparatively mature and complex (musically and emotionally) "Behind This Wall" is like watching a flower revert to a seedling. Throughout their career, however, Turning Point had the secret weapon of singer Skip Candelori, one of the most compelling frontmen of his time; even on the earliest material here, Candelori has a voice that delivers more than the usual tuneless bark; even on fairly anonymous material like the double-time thrash of "The Few and the Proud," he's singing with greater wit and sharpness than the vast majority of hardcore screamers, not to mention he was actually perfectly capable of staying in tune. Emo fans of a historical bent should check this out immediately. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Behind This Wall		Turning Point	(3:48)
Thursday		Turning Point	(2:12)
Anxiety Asking		Turning Point	(2:16)
Broken		Turning Point	(2:57)
Before the Dawn		Turning Point	(1:39)
Running in Place		Turning Point	(1:56)
Guidance		Turning Point	(1:11)
Face Up		Turning Point	(1:53)
Turn It Around		Turning Point	(1:35)
Shadow of Lies		Turning Point	(2:38)
Life Goes On		Turning Point	(1:54)
Prophecy		Turning Point	(2:20)
Descent		Turning Point	(1:22)
Growing Stronger		Turning Point	(1:44)
Get It Back		Turning Point	(1:30)
Feeding the Fire		Turning Point	(1:44)
Insecurity		Turning Point	(1:24)
My Turn to Win		Turning Point	(2:08)
To Lose		Turning Point	(1:47)
The Few and the Proud		Turning Point	(1:34)
Empty Promises		Turning Point	(1:37)
Never Again		Turning Point	(1:24)
Over the Line		Turning Point	(1:38)
Turning Point		Turning Point	(1:39)
To Lose		Turning Point	(1:29)
Face Up		Turning Point	(1:49)
Never Again		Turning Point	(1:29)
Behind My Back		Turning Point	(1:46)
Turning Point		Turning Point	(1:44)
Curtain Falls		Turning Point	(1:25)
Empty Promises		Turning Point	(1:40)
Growing Stronger		Turning Point	(1:45)
Down		Turning Point	(2:13)
Hollow Inside		Turning Point	(2:38)
Unexpressed		Turning Point	(2:20)
Undertow		Turning Point	(2:48)
Will to Speak		Turning Point	(2:49)
Watching It Fall		Turning Point	(1:18)

Credits

Alan Douches (Mastering), Tim Owen (Photography), Dave Grubb (Photography), Turning Point (Main Performer), Turning Point (Photography), Jeremy Dean (Design)