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Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1980 in Washington, D.C., by vocalist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson. MacKaye and Nelson had played in several other bands together, and recruited bassist Brian Baker and guitarist Lyle Preslar to form Minor Threat.
"Straight Edge" is a track from Minor Threat's 1981 eponymous debut 7-inch EP, later reissued both as part of the 1984 collection Minor Threat, then as part of 1989's Complete Discography. The song was the inspiration for a movement in the punk subculture known as straight edge. [1]
Minor Threat (also referred to as First Two Seven Inches) is a compilation album by American hardcore punk band Minor Threat, released in March 1984 through Dischord Records. The compilation consisted of the group's first and second extended plays , Minor Threat (originally released June 1981) and In My Eyes (originally released December 1981).
After a temporary break-up in 1982, Minor Threat entered Inner Ear Studios in January 1983 to record Out of Step.The album was produced and engineered by Don Zientara.The lyrics on Out of Step deal mainly with friendships and problems associated with them, unlike their previous recordings which were an outlet for MacKaye's message.
The punk bands the Sex Pistols, State of Alert, the Queers, and Minor Threat have also recorded versions of the song. [5] It was also covered by Fereydoon Foroughi with Persian lyrics in a song titled "Hoqqe" (حقه), also known as "Mashti Mashalla" or "Mashdi Mashalla". [6]
The term "straight edge" was adopted from the 1981 song "Straight Edge" by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat. [5] The straight-edge subculture emerged amid the early-1980s hardcore punk scene. Since then, a wide variety of various beliefs and ideas have been associated with the movement, including vegetarianism and animal rights.
The compilation takes its title from the Minor Threat lyric shouted in the song "12XU", included on the album, originally by the English band Wire.. Dischord assembled Flex Your Head as a way to record the many punk bands that had started up, and sometimes also ceased, in the previous years in the D.C. area.
Salad Days is the final EP by American hardcore punk band Minor Threat, released in July 1985 (two years after the band's breakup) through Dischord Records, with the catalog number DIS 015. [3]