Minor Threat | The Complete Discography

In the early 80’s a lot of metal bands got some influence from punk and hardcore bands. One of the greatest hardcore bands, though a lot of people would argue that they are more punk than hardcore are Bad Religion and in a sense a lot of punk was hardcore. Telling of life on the streets, broken homes and speaking of not letting society get them down. Another hardcore band that was a straight edge hardcore band was Minor Threat. Minor Threat while not the most technical was an amazing band in their era and wrote some great tunes just to be covered by such great acts as Slayer. Minor Threat was a band that would speak from the heart and preach of a drug free life.

One of Minor Threats great hits was Guilty Of Being White. Guilty of Being White was about hated merely for being white because of the white races tainted past of slavery, bigotry and the murderous ways of the KKK. Now I’m not saying that such things as bigotry and prejudice don’t exist in this day and age because they do. You’d be a fool to say that everything is fine in the world of race relations today. They spoke out about not blaming every white person for the history of some of our idiotic forefathers. It’s like Jews blaming every German of today for holocaust events.

Minor Threat also screamed out about religion in Filler, alcoholic violence in Bottled Violence, straight edge ways in Straight Edge, Out Of Step and In My Eyes, Self Pity in Sob Story, and Napoleonistic bastards in Small Man, Big Mouth.

Although their recording history is short Minor Threat did enough in the short time they were on the scene to make an impact in the world of Hardcore and Punk. While aforementioned bands like Bad Religion are still carrying a dimming torch, the world of hardcore/punk is still slightly alive and kicking. Hardcore metal and Metalcore (kind of both the same but not really) have lit a new torch and carry it high with more mainstream bands such as Hatebreed, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains and a boatload of other bands, but there is still a huge underground following in major cities such as L.A., N.Y, Boston, and Chicago just to name a few. Where there are hard knocks there is always hardcore.

Now back to Minor Threat for a moment. There is not that many full-length albums out there of Minor Threat, mostly EP’s because that’s all a lot of bands of this type could afford to do back then . What you will find online and at some major record stores and I’m sure some smaller ones is Minor Threat Complete Discography. The complete discography consists of 26 Minor Threat hits. Not much of a discography, I know but an amazing short career of an amazing band. If you every get a chance and are interested in the world of old School Hardcore/Punk I would highly suggest Minor Threat The Complete Discography. It never hurts to expand your mind in the world of music and see where some of your favorite bands got their influence from.

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