Minor Threat - Complete Discography
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Free Music Review: Confrontation, Aggression, Perfection
Hit: 5 Stars
A good way to get acquainted with Minor Threat is to watch their live performance on the hardcore documentary "Another State of Mind." Singer Ian Mackaye doesn't have a microphone but performs anyway, relying on the audience to help him shout the lyrics above the music. Of course everyone in the crowd, which packed the venue from wall to wall, knew every word of the lyrics and helped make them audible over the extremely loud music. If the intensity of that performance doesn't convince you that Minor Threat is pure hardcore, then you don't know what hardcore is.
After watching that show, you will clearly understand the recordings of Minor Threat and will have no trouble digesting it. The "Complete Discography" compiles the most important hardcore records ever and doesn't have one bad song on it. The youthful anger is transferred into music perfectly.
While Bad Brains may have shown these young men how punk could be done, Minor Threat easily surpassed their mentors with every song they wrote. Bad Brains were grown men and could not convey youthful angst like Minor Threat could. Bad Brains sounds like Easy Listening music compared to Minor Threat.
The straight edge lifestyle they originated may not seem all that special, especially in the eighties, until you realize that they're still anti-authority all the way. Being clean and sober made them more effective rebels. Plus, it was a middle finger to the mainstream rock establishment who seem to believe that creativity could only be spawned with the use of drugs. Minor Threat proved that a person in a natural state of mind could make the most emotional and intense music.
Part of their straight edge lyrical philosophy included sex, religion, and consumerism as mind numbing agents also. MacKaye was about full force confrontation of the real world, which is still a revolutionary stance to this day.
They also had a clever sense of humor as can be heard on songs like "Steppin' Stone," Cashing In," and "Sob Story," which are wheel barrels of fun.
Aside from the brilliant lyrical content, the music just rips. The aggression comes through in the hyper speed levels they play at and short length of the songs leave you hungry for more. The low budget production and imperfections actually make it even more powerful in a reckless sort of way. Every song is an adrenaline rush of therapeutic anger.
Minor Threat influenced the entire hardcore scene with their point of view and spawned countless imitators to this day. SSD, Gorilla Biscuits, and Youth Of Today are vastly inferior to Minor Threat. MacKaye's next full-time project, Fugazi, started out great but slowly drifted into being another mediocre Indie rock band of the nineties. When a band starts out this great, it's pretty much impossible to keep it up for the years to come. However, we have these recordings to remember how much substance hardcore had at one time.
Free Music Review: A true classic...
Hit: 5 Stars
Minor Threat are among the most important bands to ever leave their mark on the punk scene. While they never had the longevity of the Ramones or the massive sales of the Sex Pistols they came to define an entire movement that on even today. Ian McKaye and company thumped with a double-time tough guy punk vibe that helped get the hardcore movement off and running. Being the kings of the D.C. scene they also inspired much of the intellectual side of the hardcore scene that many in other areas were attempting to avoid. Liberal without being weak, intelligent without being nerdy (well - excluding Brian Baker), and musically powerful as all hell - Minor Threat are to be held among the legends.
This compilation of their entire released catalog (other tracks do exist elsewhere) with classics and clunkers alike. It's all mixed up and mastered to sound nice and clear and the redone artwork includes full lyrics and photographs that chronicle the bands rise to power. Thankfully it lacks a big rant from a famous critic (classy) with all sorts of pointless praise and instead includes the classic cover artwork to "Out of Step" on the back. From beginning to end, Minor Threat evolved from a primitive hardcore band with a brain that howled against the system to a rather melodic band that hinted at Ian McKaye's future projects. With Minor Threat there isn't such thing as a dull moment, and this compilation does much to cement this fact.
The key tracks that help define the band to a newcomer might include the double-kicking "Filler", the raging "Screaming at a Wall", and personal anthem "Minor Threat". Other key performances pop up on "12XU" and "Guilty of Being White" as well. While this CD really doesn't have any missing links, these tracks are a good introduction to the band and will help the beginner find his way around the ever-important world of Minor Threat. If you've been in the hardcore scene long enough and you don't own all of these songs and you need to be reading the review - shame on you.
Minor Threat are a classic band from a time long by that needs to be continually praised and remembered for their short career. Unlike many bands they left when they should have, avoided a crap reunion and kept the memory alive through recordings that are still powerful to this day. If you're an old-skool fan you should already own these tracks. If you're new to all of this...BUY IT!
You won't regret the decision.
Free Music Review: Out of step with the world
Hit: 5 Stars
"Amazing" is usually a really crappy word to use to describe albums. It's a word overused by high school freshmen to describe their Thursday albums. However, in this case, I can think of few other words to describe this record than "amazing". In case you've been living under a rock, or watching a lot of MTV, Minor Threat is a Washington DC hardcore punk band from the mid 80s who never failed to create some awesome music. If you're an average radio-listening music fan, chances are, you don't like hardcore. This album could very well change that. This was my first true hardcore record and has since got me into bands such as Black Flag and the Bad Brains. At the time I got this, I was listening to mostly '77 punk rock bands such as the Ramones, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, and Stiff Little Fingers. I got this record, popped it in my CD player, and proceeded to be beaten up. Compared to Minor Threat, the other punk bands I was listening to sounded like adult-contemporary. I was truly amazed at how much energy could be flowing through a band and its music at one time. I listened to the whole record in one sitting, and have since listened to it countless times. It simply never gets old. Before I heard this, I didn't believe that an album could be "life-changing". Well, this one is. Because of this album, I've gotten into so many bands (Black Flag, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Germs, et al) that I would have never heard of if I didn't buy this. Even though this is extremely hardcore, it occasionally takes some time to slow down and even employ (gasp!) some meoldy. Songs like "Cashing in" and "Think again" are good examples of this idea. They're a bit slower, less abrasive, and catchier than most of the songs on the record (which doesn't mean they don't rock HARD). Minor Threat is a kind of gateway to hardcore. Though they're not the BEST hardcore band (that honor would go to the Bad Brains), they're definitely the most accessible (and 2nd best). If you're completely new to hardcore, or if you're already in to it, this album is definitely worth your money. It's an absolute essential in any punk collection and if you don't have it, you don't know what you're missing.
Free Music Review: Still Relevant and Powerful
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard Minor Threat in 1990. My friend had the "Out Of Step" ep cassette. I had heard of them, but never really looked into them. After one listen I was hooked. I wasn't straightedge at the time, but years later I would come to grips with what a real and honest lifestyle it is. I was undergoing the same sort of daily angst that Ian was when he penned these songs. I realized that the movement he basically started was in-line with my present thoughts. Every song on here is awesome. There are songs like "Filler" where you get goosebumps from the anger and passion and there are songs like "Look Back and Laugh" which really make you think about how our relationships change over time. There are even funnier songs that are just great to sing along to. Minor Threat was awesome because they could joke around and still be about something positive. They could write a song that would rip you up and they could write another that would bring you back and make you smile...one after the other. This is the whole package. Every band in the punk/hardcore genre should be this sincere and real. One of the reviewers said that this is a "joke" because punk isn't about making rules to follow. No, punk is about living against the predetermined norm. What is more punk than being yourself? What is more punk and real than seeing the madness around you and not partaking in it? Nothing. Minor Threat was the first band to really get it. Another reviewer said that straightedge kids are "discriminating hypocrites". Most of us are hypocrites. And all of us discriminate on some levels. Not all sxe kids are going to stick to their words, but then again how many religious folks really follow their oaths and dogma? Not many. I am proud to say that at 28 I have been sxe for over 8 years now. I do discriminate...I believe living real and clean is the right way to live. Of course, this is my opinion and this is my life. This got off on a bit of a rant here, but the lowdown is just that this album is amazing. It can motivate people and create something positive where only negative things live. Fast, emotional, real, powerful, punk, straightedge...this is the best of the best!Free Music Review: Awsome CD
Hit: 5 Stars
One Of the other reviewers said "Yo people, by now everyone knows and loves punk, its hard to turn on a demo TV at any local appliance store without a jolly happy punk song selling products!! We all love punk!! Well now and then there are some bands who say their punk rawk but really are talentless posers trying to make a quick buck off a passing trend!! These Minor Threat dudes are posers trying to do just that!!!! The production is very bad, its hard to hear what the dude is saying, the guitars are outta tune and weak, the bass sounds like a bee buzzing and the drums sound like someone is hitting tin cans!! Please, for good punk, just stick with Good Charlotte, Blink 182, Green Day, Sum 41, SR 71, Limp Bizzkit and of course Linkin Park!! These guys will never be on TRL or American Idol, and if they do go on they'll be booed very loudly and I'd giggle about it!! Also if they were to be played at the Gap or Hawt Topic at the mall, the intelligent kids there wood tell the owner not so kindly to turn it off and put on something good like Puddle Of Mudd or the mighty Trapt!!! Peace out all... "
Ok, I like this CD it's awsome. But Dude, you think Greenday, Sum 41, and Blink 128 are punk They are like (Pop-punk/ panzy punk, I don't even concider them punk.)? Well they aren't. Before you start saying how bad bands are and how they are posers learn what punk actully is. Cheack out Stiff Little fingers, Sex Pistols, there are so many great punk bands. Yet all of those bands you metioned suck (except Sum 41, Blink and Greenday, bu they are not punk!). If you think that all those bands you mentioned were punk, then you are a poser, you obviosuly no nothing about punk rock. Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, trapt, and Puddle of mudd are some of the worst bands ever. Grow up listen to real music and don't call other peopel posers when you don't even know what Punk rock is.
Any way, I would suggest this album, there is sometihng about it I just really love. And don't listen to reviewers that listen to Godd Charlotte, they obviously have no taste in music.
Bottom line this album is good, there are better ones but I'd recommend this anyway.