Minor Threat - Complete Discography
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Free Music Review: Begin Here
Hit: 5 Stars
Like everyone else, this album changed my life, too. It's full of emphasis, ideas, and strong, healthy ethics. To be honest, when I first heard it back in 2000 (over the stereo in a coffeehouse), I started to laugh...not because I thought it was stupid but the fast, tight, music and McKaye's yelling somehow struck me as entertaining. Sonically, it was all such a great combination. Just funnier than I was used to, y'know?
So when I decided to buy the album, the lyrics and morals soon started to sink in as time went by. My life as a $300/week working-class loner dragged on, and I used this album for therapy...therapy for my depressions, money frustration, and annoyances with my loud, obnoxious middle-aged office co-workers who gripe at nothing but the 'stupidity' of their husbands and 'ignorance' of their kids. (They supposedly hated dealing with them...and they couldn't wait to come back for more). I could do nothing but listen. But I listened hard and with tears.
I'm 32 and my heart remains of the 60s and 70s music. But this band kinda woke me up from those dark states into a DIY way of thinking.
2000 sucked. All I wanted was Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, and Black Sabbath. But Minor Threat came in halfway through and there were times that I needed them as much as the other three put together. It really made me sweat and think. Helped get me through.
Free Music Review: The Meaning of Life for Quite a While. Excellent!
Hit: 5 Stars
Excerpts from my diaries: DAY 5 -- 23 OCTOBER 1981 8.53AM. `I've been listen to the Minor Threat ep for four days straight. The sun is shining through the shades of my window on what must be a glorious summer-like day. I've been self-incarcerated in my suburban prison cell room for what seems like forever, and will not be let myself out again until midday; four days of solitary confinement. How can a white suburban youth of seventeen resist this record? It is impossible. I will change my religion. I will have no religion. I will worship Minor Threat. I will not worship anyone. I will turn inward, and to my friends. This is the Western world in the twentieth century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Iran, but the USA. I will not be trapped by conformity' TWENTY-TWO YEARS LATER -- OCTOBER 29 2003, after 22 years I am still listening to Minor Threat. Are they the best punk band in the world? Did they invent hardcore? They certainly perfected it, didn't they? Or was that the Bad Brains? Who cares? Life seems like a perjury trial lasting forever, and good music makes it tolerable. At least this music, which is so impassioned. Perhaps without it I might have turned into a violent criminal. If you don't get this record, you have no right to criticize me, or especially punk rock from Washington, DC, or the USA, circa 1981 through 1983.
Peace.
Free Music Review: Holy crud, turn up the volume!
Hit: 5 Stars
A couple days ago, I was on the bus to school when my friend said that I should try to listen to different genres of punk, because I only listened to the earlier forms of punk (I listened to, then, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, and some Bad Religion). She gave me this CD and said it was the hardest punk you will find. I seriously doubted that, but after I listened to the CD three times in a row, I was blown away. I could NOT believe how angry and passionate the songs were. Ian's vocals are incredible, blowing just about every other punk vocalist out of the water. I could just see in my head this pissed off crew cut guy screaming his head off, veins popping out of his head even before I saw him in picture. Like most punk, the guitar isn't that complicated, but Minor Threat plays guitar LOUD, ANGRY, and DISTORTED with grace. This discography literally changed my life. If it weren't for my friend, I would not look at punk as I do now. I mean, these guys' lyrics were real and alive, I could actually relate to them. If only more of the preps and scenes actually listened to Minor Threat, then they'd know what true punk rock really is. Buy it, pump up the volume, and learn how to dance hardcore without breaking your neck because thats the only way you'll be able to let out the emotions that this CD will fill you up with.Free Music Review: A Minor Threat Misunderstood...
Hit: 5 Stars
Being weaned on Minor Threat, you would think most here would recognize it when 'Fred Dursts Numba One Fann' slams them over the head with an completely over the top, overt, obviously * ironic * manifesto. His other reviews are funny too -- the ones for The Essential Bruce Springsteen and The Saved by the Bell Soundtrack are especially hilarious.[As for the conscientious mother alarmed at the preponderance of cursing in Minor Threat's lyrics, I hope you have since then taken a moment to reconsider their content and full meaning before rejecting them a second time as wholesale abominable.
You are right to try to take an active role in your son's life -- more should take this vocation seriously -- but the fact of the matter is that Minor Threat's music, most likely, would only have a * positive * influence on your son's life, especially if he, even without adopting them, at least seriously considered the themes of abstinence from drugs, alcohol, meaningless sex, and the general call for critical evaluation of that which give life meaning as one finds in Minor Threat's songs.
This kind of thing, I would bet, is not in ready supply among much of what your son sees and hears day to day. And I bet it's also what you yourself most want for him. So don't stifle him when he searches for something greater.]
Free Music Review: listen to a true punk!
Hit: 5 Stars
im tired of this new age punk sh-- filling up our review space! one review for this CD talked about nothing but how these guys are the kind of band you hear in the electronic department trying to sell their product, and that you should stick to limp bizkit, blink 182, and good charlotte! HELLLLOOO!!! i think you may be a little confused, minor threat would never be played in a store, some grandma would (...) have a stroke if she heard five seconds of this hardcore punk! Anyway, who the hell decided limp bizkit was even close to punk, they aren't even good enough to be called pop punk! maybe thats why people sell their CDs, brand new for 4 bucks? seriously, go check used and new for the new limp bizkit CD. Well if you want the truth about this CD, its a raw, excellent example of what punk REALLY is. Even further, for all the mommys out their, this is a straight edge punk band. They promote punk with out drinking, drugs, sex, and violence. im a sixteen year old half way through high school, and im sure glad i didnt get sucked into that pop punk poser trend like so many of my friends have fallen into, because that will never be reall punk. Stick with minor threat, the adicts, the dead kennedys, and the varukers, and help keep REAL punk alive!