all things old school: INSIGHT - Standing Strong

Thursday, February 7, 2019

INSIGHT - Standing Strong

Location: Salt Lake City, US
Release: Soul Force Records, 1989

Throwback thursday! It occured to me the other day that I had many versions of the same songs from Utah's INSIGHT one and only 6-song EP.

It first came out in 1989 through Soul Force Records as Standing Strong then re-released in 1990 by Victory Records with a different title What Will It Take? (and artwork), but then I came across the 1995's edition in Victory Early Singles CD compilation. This latest version has the best audio quality by far, I'm guessing it got remastered and it sounds much clearer and louder!!

Back to INSIGHT, they started in 1988 as the first Salt Lake City straight edge vegetarian group, recorded this 6-song EP and a couple of comp tracks in 1990 (I managed to track down 2 songs), toured with the likes of Chain of Strength and Up Front, then broke up that same year. Half the members went to form Revelation Records' alumni ICEBURN. Later on in 2013 they reunited for a couple of shows.

The comp songs I mentioned are "SILENT SHORE" from Only The Strong 7" (Victory Records) and "GET IT" from Voice Of Thousands 12" (Conversion Records) and remained exclusive to those releases.


I decided to leave all mentioned compilations in full for download, specially the Victory Early Singles! It features some highs and lows of such a weird and transitional era that was the early 90's. For instance, it has the great first EP by BILLINGSGATE "Reach Out", which also has superior audio quality then the 7" version.

DOWNLOAD includes the following: [NEW LINK 2021!!]

1989 - Standing Strong 7" (Soul Force Records)
1990 - Only The Strong 7" Compilation (Victory Records)
1990 - Voice of Thousands 12" Compilation (Conversion Records)
1995 - Victory Early Singles CD (Inner Strenght, Billingsgate, Insight, Iceburn, Worlds Collide)
+ vinyl scans, flyers and photos



I wish every post here was as comprehensive as this one, especially on the old releases, although it's quite time consuming to do this sort of thing, bands like INSIGHT deserves more attention. UPDATE 2021: new link has even better audio quality rips and the Voice Of Thousands comp was added in full!



end the cruelty!

3 comments:

  1. Can you re-up this link... it's dead. Thanks!

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    1. It's working for me here. Where you from? I'm guessing mediafire is blocked in some countries. Could you try other links from this blog? 99% should be working

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  2. Damn how I loved these 'Worlds Collide' songs as a teenager. Gonna listen 'em now, thanx

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