1. High Noon
2. Bad Moon Risin'
3. Rude Boy
4. Don't Come Running
5. Have My Heart
6. Skatin' On Thin Ice
7. When The Night Calls
8. Just Like A Woman
9. Who Do You Think You Are?
10. Around Midnight
11. Faith Hope And Love
12. Bed Of Lies
13. Weight Of The World
14. House Of Glass

Ok...lets see what we got here...Victims of Grunge Part 983.299??? Looks pretty much like it.

Though No Turning Back is not a huge all time classic record, it´s strange and sad to see another good band that never really made it because of some Seattle slowpokes that decided to ruin Rock N Roll for a while back in the 90s...

Released in 2010 on reissue label Eönian, this output contains a collection of High Noon songs that were recorded between 1989 and 1994.

The sound quality isn´t always that good but that doesn´t spoil the whole thing for me: Take a listen at LA Guns´ first record, that one sounded really really bad but I wouldn´t want to hear it in any other way because sometimes even a bad sound gives you a special feeling about a record you wouldn´t want to miss.

First song on No Turning Back is entiteld like the band itself. "High Noon" starts with a thunder and lightning intro and rocks out pretty good. Not a song I would kill for though...

Next one is " Bad Moon Risin´". Unfortunately the vocal melody lines this band comes up with are not always on a very high level, as you can hear in this uninspired chorus.

One of my favourite songs on this album is "Don´t Come Running" - the ballad! Reminds me a bit of early Tuff or Pretty Boy Floyd material and this time singer Jim Zappa creates a really nice reffrain situation.

Same thing with the next rocker "Have My Heart"! Probably the catchiest tune on the whole record. I guess I will play this song on my next party and I´m sure I will be asked which band it´s from.

Another really good one is song number 10 "Around Midnight", I think this must have been a great live track. Too bad that band doesn´t exist anymore and we won´t be able to check that out...

All in all, No Turning Back is not a milestone in rock history but if you´re into 80's Hard Rock, like you probably are as a reader of Slezenation.be, you may give High Noon a try.

I know I enjoyed listening to this album.

Line-up:

Jim Zappa - lead / backing vocals
Ken Hitsman - guitar / bass / backing vocals
Sam Persons - bass / backing vocals
Mike Patterson - drums

Written by Markk