Minor Threat : The Complete Discography
Genre: Hard Core Punk	Dates: 1981-1983

“Don’t smoke/don’t drink/don’t f***/At least I can/F***ing think!” goes the climax of “Out of Step”: This is Puritan punk—the aural birth of the straight-edge movement. But you don’t have to meet that incredibly high standard (one lead singer Ian MacKaye has held himself to for over a quarter century, in Minor Threat and Fugazi) to appreciate—to love—the intensity, intelligence, and challenge in these 26 songs. In fact, if you listen to the tracks from the last side of their second and final record Out of Step (18-22 here), they might just have achieved something no American band of any kind has really completely succeeded at doing: an opera of sorts—about, appropriately enough, growing up. It made my hair stand on end when I was 19 and it still does.

Playlist:

1. Filler
2. I Don't Wanna Hear It
3. Seeing Red
4. Straight Edge
5. Small Man, Big Mouth
6. Screaming At A Wall
7. Bottled Violence
8. Minor Threat
9. Stand Up
10. 12XU
11. In My Eyes
12. Out Of Step (With The World)
13. Guilty Of Being White
14. Steppin' Stone
15. Betray
16. It Follows
17. Think Again
18. Look Back And Laugh
19. Sob Story
20. No Reason
21. Little Friend
22. Out Of Step
23. Cashing In
24. Stumped
25. Good Guys (Don't Wear White)
26. Salad Days