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NME Video News - 31 July 2009

NME Video News - 31 July 2009

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Minor Threat Live At 9:30 Club 1983 Part 1

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Minor Threat Live At 9:30 Club in Washington, DC 1983

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Minor Threat - Guilty of Being White

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Minor Threat Biography

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene.

Minor Threat's song "Straight Edge" became the eventual basis of the straight edge movement, while the band often professed their own "straight edge" ideals. Allmusic referred to Minor Threat's music as "iconic," and have noted that their "groundbreaking" music "has held up better than [that of] most of their contemporaries."

Along with the fellow Washington DC hardcore band Bad Brains, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s. They produced short, often astonishingly fast songs, eventually with high production quality, which at the time was lacking in most punk and alternative rock. All of Minor Threat's records were released on Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson's own Dischord Records label.

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Minor Threat's Best Songs

  • 1. Straight Edge
  • 2. Filler
  • 3. Minor Threat
  • 4. Seeing Red
  • 5. I Don't Wanna Hear It
  • 6. Screaming at a Wall
  • 7. Bottled Violence
  • 8. In My Eyes
  • 9. Small Man, Big Mouth
  • 10. Guilty of Being White
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