Don't Turn Away

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Don't Turn Away
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Studio album by
Released1992
RecordedOctober 1991 at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California, except track 3, 4, 9 and 10 in August 1992 at Anarchy Studios in Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length37:00
Label Dr. Strange, Fat Wreck Chords
Producer Face to Face
Face to Face chronology
Don't Turn Away
(1992)
Over It
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Don't Turn Away is the first album by the American punk rock band Face to Face. [4] It was released in 1992 under the label Dr. Strange Records, and was considered a strong debut for the band. It was re-released a year later on Fat Wreck Chords. [3]

Contents

Two years later, "Disconnected," the album's third track, was re-recorded for the band's second album Big Choice . Their then-label A&M Records wanted the band to re-record it, because no one could "hear a single" until the L.A. radio station KROQ first played it.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "a stirring and exciting debut undercut only slightly by its overt stylistic debt to Hüsker Dü and Social Distortion." [5]

Track listing

All songs by Keith, Riddle

  1. "You've Done Nothing" – 1:59
  2. "I'm Not Afraid" – 2:44
  3. "Disconnected" – 3:27
  4. "No Authority" – 2:42
  5. "I Want" – 3:00
  6. "You've Got a Problem" – 2:47
  7. "Everything Is Everything" – 3:08
  8. "I'm Trying" – 2:52
  9. "Pastel" – 3:13
  10. "Nothing New" – 3:26
  11. "Walk Away" – 2:09
  12. "Do You Care?" – 3:01
  13. "1,000 X" – 2:32

Fat Wreck Chords bonus tracks (2016)

  1. "Who You Are" – 1:56
  2. "Don’t Turn Away" – 2:47

Personnel

Technical personnel

Charts

Singles - Billboard (United States)

YearSingleChartPosition
1995"Disconnected"Modern Rock Tracks39

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  2. "Face To Face - Ignorance Is Bliss - Album Review". Audible. Dig Me Out. June 14, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2022. Face To Face had established themselves over their first three albums as a skate punk band with elements of Bad Religion and Hüsker Dü.
  3. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 357.
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