Words To Die For

>Another 7" that I got from Wanna Hear It Records last month, and this one is one of the cntenders for 'greatest 90s hardcore compilation'... although admittedly, there is a fair bit of competition. The 'Words To Live By, Words To Die For' 7" was released by New Age Records in 1991, and it reads like a who's who of early 90s straight edge bands, with songs by Mouthpiece, Turning Point, Outspoken, Undertow, Drift Again and Counter Punch. To me, the Drift Again song steals the show. Always has.

The original pressing of this record came in a photocopied sleeve. At some point it was repressed in a glued, card sleeve with revised artwork. Discogs says that the repress was from 1994, and the labels of the record have 1994 printed on them, but I don't remember seeing this version until many years later. Anyway, there were two different coloured vinyl pressings of the repress, and the one I just picked up is this clear vinyl version.

There are also copies of this on red vinyl, which has always felt more common to me than this clear pressing.

Interestingly, the original release of this record was also pressed on clear vinyl, although there is no danger of the two being confused as both pressings also have different labels on the records as well as the different sleeve. This is shown in the photo below, which shows all four copies that I now own.