Minor Threat - Complete Discography
|
List Price: Our Price: $9.25 You Save: $10.73 (54%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $6.94 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music Reviews of Complete Discography
Music Review: SOBERING
Rating: 5 Stars
This would be the holy grail of STRAIGHT EDGE. Not to mention the actual genesis of EMO given that the seed planted here sprouted into Fugazi by way of Rites Of Spring. Pick your movement. Classify your soul. I don't care. Fight amongst yourselves. Clearly Ian WAS screaming at a wall. At any rate, this collection (red or blue) was the template for the DC Hardcore scene of the late eighties. For good reason too, the songs are short furious blasts of self-righteous indignation. Well-crafted gems of rage. In a scene over-run by drugs, anonymous sex, & mindless violence Minor Threat asked some tough questions...and did so with ten times the fury of their peers. Aside fom the youthful ignorance of "Guilty For Being White" this is weighty stuff. Shockingly honest. Angst to be sure but insightful & brave.This CD is a must-have.
Their influence runs deep. They've been covered by the Beastie Boys & Rage Against The Machine (among others).
Music Review: Greatest Alternative Record in Existence
Rating: 5 Stars
You know, I'm getting tired of all this hype about "straight edge." I'm sorry to burst the younger generation's bubble, but this music was not about "straight edge" at all. I had friends in DC and Virginia who knew Brian Baker and Jeff Nelson from way back, and this is NOT a slam, but they were not exactly puritans. Ian sang "Straight Edge" to express his individual preferences. But the "ethos" was mostly just underage suburban kids' sour grapes. Sorry!Buzzwords and the pigeon-holing effect of "movements" just obscure the fact that this is the most exciting music ever made, anywhere. Even now, in my 30's, I cannot listen to it on the tinniest little tape player without wanting to jump up and down and exult. Fiercely committed, utterly driven and explosive beyond old-school punk rock's wildest dreams, this band has never been bettered. A permanently relevant masterpiece.
Music Review: A Classic That Hasn't Aged Well
Rating: 3 Stars
15 years ago when me and other little snots were skateboarding and listening to this, it was already a relic. We all liked it pretty much just because we were supposed to and it was "old school". Today I listen to it and I'm mildly amazed that I can't really get anything from it anymore when it was so vital to me as a kid. I recognize how influential it is, and that they deserve respect in that regard and so on, but on its own the music just sounds dated and boring. Ian Mackaye just sounds like a tool on a lot of tracks and the earnestness of the lyrics is kind of embarrassing. For a listen from the same basic time and place that's weathered the intervening decades much better, pick up Government Issue's discography (volume 2 especially), which should be outselling this by about 10 to 1. "Caring Line" still outrocks any track on here, and there's not a single song with lyrics as dumb as "I Don't Wanna Hear It". Peace.Music Review: I Gotta Set the Record Straight
Rating: 4 Stars
I'm not sure if anyone's read it, but there's a review on here saying that Minor Threat are "talentless posers trying to make a quick buck off a passing trend" and that "TRU" punks should stick to "Good Charlotte, blink-182, Green Day, Sum 41, SR-71, and of course, Linkin Park." Holy sh*t, you are very f**kin' misguided! You seem to be under the impression that Ian McKaye heard Good Charlotte on the radio and said, "I Wanna do that!" and started a talentless band. If you ever read this: this is a collection of hardcore classics from the EARLY 80S! If you listen to Good Charlotte's dismal new album they pay tribute to Minor Threat in their "thanks" sheet and in the song "Riot Girl." (I don't own their album, it was my old girlfriend's). Everything you're decrying about "Complete Discography" is what makes it REAL, what makes it the essence of PUNK!Music Review: straight edge brilliance
Rating: 5 Stars
Ian Mackaye and the boys deliver one of the best albums to have come out in the 80s punk scene. Think about it, in a time where most bands were singing "hungry like the wolf" they were talking about individualism, fighting the desire to conform to the assimilating establishment--an idea lost on many new and upcoming punk bands. Labelled as straight edge and not your typical lager lout, debauchery-loving guys this album is more of a tribute to ideals than to the pervading mediocrity of so many "punk" bands (read:Blink 182,Green Day, Offspring). Songs like: I Don't Wanna Hear It, In My Eyes, Out of Step instills that wrathful energy that only punk can saturate in your psyche. This is one of the remaining compilations left of a band whose influence sustained and took our music into a totally intellectual sphere. Piercings and tatooes don't make you punk kids, your brain does.