Keepin' it Clean with Minor Threat 

as a high functioning drug loving alcoholic, I just wanna say how awesome these bands are.

It's weird to hear a dude that could be my son telling me about bands before my time, but the videos speak for themselves. This is quality content that keeps the history alive.

As a straight edge dude, Minor Threat mean the world to me. Ian MacKaye specifically has endlessly inspired me with everything he's done throughout his career as a musician as well as his work running Dischord

I grew up in DC and like MT but it wasn’t until getting sober and older that they truly took an impact on me. Now, at 47 yrs old I’d say it’s the most important band of my life.

Stoked on what you’ve been doing for the scene. I joined the tribe of intelligent outcasts we call Punk Rock/Hardcore in ‘85. You clearly do put time into researching, fact checking and writing. And I want to say it’s rad to see you documenting & representing us wisely and with a passion that 99% of society doesn’t understand. I don’t read many comments but I hope your finding support from the scene. I’ve learned a few things about us from your work. So thank you and keep it up dude! 🤙🏽🤙🏻🤙🏿

Love Minor Threat since 1989; there is so much soul and integrity in the music.

I LOVE this video. Not because of my love for DC hardcore, but how you explain the idea of straight edge, and explaining that many of us DO NOT subscribe to ignorant approaches to life. Thank you AGAIN for another great video.

Minor Threat is the stuff of legends. I remember watching SLC Punk and hearing their track there and immediately going down the rabbithole, it opened up a whole new world to me. They were always in my car cd changer, and now sit on the mp3-fiilled usb drive i attach to my new car's entertainment system

The discography still holds up and I spent the early 2000s going to see bands like Bane, In My Eyes, Good Clean Fun, Reach the Sky and a bunch of other straight edge youth crew bands. We were definitely not a fan of the hard line guys causing fights. Half of the lyrics of hardcore bands of that era were talking about the scene itself

I feel like the Minor Threat/Straight Edge thing is only a "minor" part of their story and there's more to them than that. And I'm glad Bad Brains was mentioned a couple times since most of the hardcore bands that followed in their wake point to them as the reason they all started playing faster. That includes Minor Threat, Black Flag and probably anyone else who saw them back in those days. I am also amused seeing the latter day straight edge bands and remember drinking a beer while the drummer of one of those bands was enjoying a whole lot of weed. The band might have preached straight edge, but they also knew he was the best drummer around so they ignored his pot smoking.

Hell yes, I’m happy to see us straight edge people get some recognition🤘 sick video man

wow a channel about punk music that is actually good ! I'm sold

This needs to be revived again!!

Minor threat and fugazi blew me away when I first heard them. They were both really good.

These guys and so many others were and are the best friends I ever had. We in Iron Cross rocked too!

Love the Chanel and have had the honor of meeting and spending some incredible conversations with Ian back in 89-90.

As a 70s 80s and 90s Punk fan... I'm glad I found this channel 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

Saw them twice in San Francisco 1983. They were so loud and so tight, it was amazing. Really good band. No dopers could play like that.

Great job at handling the ambiguous subject of STARIGHT EDGE. I lived through it growing up in D.C. and playing bass in Hardcore in a short lived band called BLACKOUT. I personally wasn't STRAIGHT EDGE but other members of the band were AND we respected each other. Have you seen the DC HARDCORE Documentary SALAD DAYS.? I once again congratulate you and tell you that you are making a solid CONTRIBUTION to the Genre. I have repatriated to my country 🇦🇷 where I am still active with HARDCORE and REGGAE with my "under the radar" project RASCATRIPA. Cheers

I need more of these videos. This channel is what I hoped prmba would be.

Just discovered you and subbed, great videos! Something you might touch on when you cover Fugazi was how influential the business ethics of Mackaye and Dischord were to the DIY scene. They stuck to their principles, always had good shows/products at fair prices, and were very successful. Even pre-internet everyone knew their reputation and a lot of people wanted to emulate it to make themselves better.

So stoked to see a video just on Minor Threat. One of my top 3 fave HC bands and the biggest influence on my life. I heard them at just the right time in my life as a mid-teen who didn't like alcohol or smoking or anything, and was shocked to hear a furious band saying what i felt inside. It confirmed to me that I didn't have to follow the crowd and bow to peer pressure. Here I am at 48 and still Straight Edge. Never been militant or an asshole about it - always saw it as my personal choice. I got the chance to thank Ian for his influence on me around '95 before a Fugazi show and he was super cool and humble. One of the best days ever.

I live in the D.C area and my dad Jim was friends with John Falls back then. John was timid and had stage fright, that’s the reason he left Skewbald. John is a photographer now and took photos for Fugazi on “Steady Diet of Nothing and Jawbox on “Your Own Special Sweetheart”.

Punk rock was constantly going through these infusions of kids who just showed up for some reason. Hardcore became a reminder to some of the kids showing up at that time, of why punks hated hippies. And yeah, we did, all those songs said so. We hated hippies. Hardcore, side note, we used to put four letters between the x's we wrote on our hands and clothes, two were always H.C. for Hard Core, and the other two were your cities name or a neighborhood etc. Hard core was us accepting that we were the children of the hippies, rebelling against that music, and against that lifestyle, but still morally attached to those parts of the 60's revolution that we each personally believed the rhetoric of. I hope that made sense. Angry, moral, in rebellion, aiming to prove how real we could be.

I got into punk around 87, and came of age while Fugazi were making their rounds. There was always the idiot at the Fugazi show who would shout between songs,,,"PLAY SOME MINOR THREAT"!!!,,,and McKaye didn't like that too much! We would always listen to Minor Threat on our way to see shows in New Orleans. Ah the 80s!!!!!!

You do excellent work man. You really do a nice dive on things I'm interested in. More into wet leg and eazy Mac these days,but I always like a well done punk doc.

my fav band from high school. got me into the straight edge culture. also sweet ILL REPUTE shirt!!

Would love to see the Fugazi version, and maybe sprinkle in Embrace 🥰

Thanks youtube for this channel! We need people like you man your videos are pure gold

I've never been straight edge, and I never will be, but I still consider minor threat to be one of my top ten favorite bands across genres.

super glad I found this channel 🤘🏿

I’m from Oxnard and just wanted to say love the Ill repute shirt and love the video aswell!

When I discovered Minor Threat for myself, the only hardcore I knew of was the 90s chugga-chugga style. My brother showed me MT and I was like "well this is way fucking cooler!" I was into Christian punk at the time too, so the message mostly fit what I was about back then, except the anti-religion parts.

Funny thing, the ad before the video was for weed. RU-vid ad algorithm probably didn't realize that a) this video is about a straightedge band, and b) this viewer has been clean since the summer of '88. Keep up the good work!

Hard charging. Well worded. Someone get this guy an Emmy. I'm going to play the Minor Threat discography at full volume now.

Awesome video! Def need a video on the whole straight edge scene. Earth Crisis or Youth of Today could just about have their own videos.

Minor Threat was the most intense band I had heard by the time I had first heard them as a high school kid.

Awesome

Great rundown! I mostly listen to horror punk and Goth rock, but I've been steadily getting into hardcore, skate, and ska bands as I get older. Lately I've been getting VERY into the Chinese punk scene, there are so many great punk bands coming out of the East.

Looking forward to the Fugazi edition. The 7-8 shows I saw from 89-95 still inspire me and I often reflect on them. Realness

Gonna wake and bake to this video because its what Brian Baker would want

another cool one was kev and the 7 seconds thang....love what youre doin.. Ty from s.oz.[.i remember getting salad days after out of...in '86 and noticed a real difference]

Good to see you back!!

My favourite channel these days. Keep up the good work mate! Ceremony episode would be good.

Ian McKaye was also in the short lived industrial punk project PAILHEAD with the very anti-straight edge Al Jourgensen!

Excellent video as always Jack! One scene that would make for a great video is that of Long Island hardcore. Different than the sound that was coming out of New York City and a ton of great bands. Some of which include Krakdown, Silent Majority, Vision of Disorder, and my personal favorites Kill Your Idols (who cover Minor Threat!)

I'm still listening to minor threat in normal rotation. Band was great to me being a straight edge punk kid it cemented that punk had a niche for everyone

Thanks for the video. I knew about Teen idols, Embrace, Egg Hunt etc. But somehow, I’ve never heard about skewbald/Grand Union. Cool to see how that fits in the evolution of Ians other bands.

I've really enjoyed your content bro. Takes me back to a better time. Thank you for what you're doing.

Look back and laugh. I was10 when I heard that. It's still my favorite on Out of Step

probably my all time favorite hardcore band from my youth. though I've never really been straightedge, I've always had respect and empathy to straightedge bands

# Much Respects to everyone that got to see MINOR THREAT LIVE.

Love your channel

Great job as always dude. You've inspired me to dust off my bass and start a one-man punk side project

Great video, and I’m totally looking forward to that Fugazi album.

I just like seeing that you included all of Ian's projects and work on other albums for the playlist. Fugazi still is one of my favorite bands of all time.

Lyle Preslar was also a temporary member of the Meatmen, if memory serves. Who are probably another episode in and amongst themselves.

Just thought I would mention that Lyle Preslar was also rhythm guitarist in the band The Meatmen for a number of years. Which is quite the contrast to Minor Threat.

This was really good. Saw some footage I’ve never seen, found out some info I never knew. Nicely done!

hellllll yaaaaa buddy. great upload

Lyle and Brian played in the Meatmen too. Both were on War of the Superbikes and Lyle again on Rock N Roll Juggernaut albums.

so important. this band changed my life.

Great vid like always!

Awesome channel Just found it

Minor threats demo highly underated!

Just discovered your channel the other day, absolutely love your videos

Waiting for the Fugazi video! 👍

I saw them twice in '83, at Benny's in Richmond, VA...once as a 4-piece, once as a 5-piece. They were great both times, but as a 5, they fucking RAWKED!!!

Yeah!

A buddy of mine and I got the stink eye from hundreds of straightedgers at a gig as we were drinking beers.

Is there such a thing as occasionally crooked edge? Lol. That would be me. Great video. Stellar enthusiasm. Keep this shit up. You have a knack for breaking things down into enticing bites that make one continue the dig on their own. Righteous!

Love this, looking forward to that Fugazi episode

Take your time. Try to forget. We never will. We're just a Minor Threat!

Correction: Lyle Preslar was NEVER in Big Black. Albini said they were musically incompatible from the first jam session. Never happened. The story goes Albini recruited pezzati. Then Durango heard the racket, thus ruining the football game he was watching then he went down with his guitar, the rest is history

Love minor threat

Great content as always! See tonight at the Kraken my dude!!!

Ian said the first straight edge song was actually I drink milk by Teen Idles. Just a fun factoid.

JUST FOUND YOUR ACCOUNT, and fckin love it! also, nice to see another drummer so knowledgable about PUNK!! keep slayin', brother

Finally some one remembered the circle jerks🤟🏽🤟🏽

Minor Threat sounds amazing after taking a couple bong rips.

The filler ep was the first punk cassette I ever purchased

Also recommend listening to the egg hunt 7" which is another great project by Ian Mackaye and Jeff Nelson

Uniform Choice ...Scream for Change album great straightedge band with that minor threat style

We’ve gotta get a Fugazi video

I’ve always been sober and didn’t know there was a term for this lifestyle until I was 17 from a Saab mechanic. Never really liked sXe music, still don’t, but I’ll always live the life.

Proud to be X Straight Edge X for 26 years and counting, but some of the more hardcore gate keepers need to STFU and let people have fun however they see fit. It's your life, live it how you want, turn up the music, and let's get in the pit!

I was passed a Minor Threat CD in high school and loved it, dubbed it on cassette. Then a few years later I was watching a skate vid at a friends house and one of the parts featured Fugazi's Long Division. I was like holy shit that's Ian from Minor Threat, what is that track? Watched the credits to find out, and next day I was buying Steady Diet of Nothing at my local punk record shop (Zed Records in Long Beach, CA, RIP).

Love your shirt NARDCORE

I think that my favorite minor threat song is SCREAMING AT A WALL

I love the long winded news caster talking style it’s very polished and raw. Funny but serious.

Minor Threat were great, but Fugazi are definitely my favorite band of all time, bar none.

Great content! Can't wait for the Fugazi video!

This was an excellent video mate

Minor Threat was the first punk band I heard besides passively the Ramones in passing since I was little. Have you guys ever heard of Ignition? Alec Mackaye is Ian's brother and his band is nice!

I'm surprised you didn't mention the band Pailhead which consisted of Ian MacKaye with Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker of Ministery

Dude I am so excited I found this channel. Keep it up

Stand Up In My Eyes Filler I Don't Wanna Hear It Minor Threat Are my Favorite Minor Threat songs

Ayyy my dad has the same Ill Repute shirt!! :D

I grew up in Maryland and my introduction to Minor Threat came from finding the CD at a used CD store. I actually ended up finding a bunch of my first punk albums there (Minor Threat was one of the first, and favorite). I actually stole the CD because I didn’t have money to buy it. Hopefully Ian MacKaye would forgive me.

You left out 7seconds, they were Easily the 2nd most important straightedge band!