1. Best Straight Edge Songs
2. Straight Edge Song Minor Threat
3. Straight Edge Songs
4. Straight Edge Bands
5. Straight Edge Song Lyrics

'Straight Edge' is a track from Minor Threat's 1981 eponymous debut 7' EP, later reissued both as part of the 1984 collection Minor Threat, then as part of 1989's Complete Discography. The song was the inspiration for an anti-hippie movement in a punk subculture known as straight edge.^[1]

Cultural impact[edit]

The song provides a succinct summary of Ian MacKaye's interpretation of the straight edge philosophy, in the four opening lines,

I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead.

The song continues to specify abstinence from snorting white powder (cocaine), speed (amphetamines), smoking dope (marijuana), sniffing glue (inhalants), and qualude use.

In the past few years, how do you think straight edge communities have formed? In the time of covid, have online straight edge communities allowed you to stay in touch with the community? Or do you feel like live music is the main way you are able to interact with other straight edge folks? Thank u everybody! Straight edge sentiments can be found in songs by the early 1980s band Minor Threat. This anti-inebriation movement had been developing in punk prior to Minor Threat, but their song 'Straight Edge' was influential in giving the scene a name, and something of a (somewhat unwilling) figurehead.

This anti-inebriation movement had been developing in punk prior to this song,^[2] but the song was a major influence in giving the scene a name and, in frontman Ian MacKaye, something of a (somewhat unwilling) figurehead.^[3] دانلود دیکشنری ldoce5 برای کامپیوتر. The song is also notable as being, at 46 seconds long, unusually short, especially considering its cultural impact. The track's themes were later followed up, and further detailed by the later Minor Threat songs 'Out of Step (With the World)' and 'In My Eyes'.

Critical reception[edit]

Along with being cited regularly as an important moment in founding the straight edge punk scene, the track has continued to receive critical plaudits, with Pitchfork Media stating that 'Straight Edge' 'rings with as much immediacy as it ever has',^[4] while AllMusic's Blake Butler describes it as an 'anthemic, pulse pounding manifesto', citing 'this song's importance in the progression of hardcore'.^[5]

Personnel[edit]

• Ian MacKaye – vocals
• Lyle Preslar – guitar
• Brian Baker – bass guitar
• Jeff Nelson – drums

NOFX cover version[edit]

Punk band NOFX covered the song on their 1992 album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean. The song is played with a jazz melody, and sung in the style of Louis Armstrong.

References[edit]

1. ^Cogan, Brian (2008). The Encyclopedia of Punk. New York: Sterling. ISBN978-1-4027-5960-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. ^Haenfler, Ross (2006). Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change. Rutgers University Press. ISBN0-8135-3851-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
3. ^Azerrad, Michael (2001). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991. New York: Little, Brown and Company. p. 121. ISBN0-316-78753-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
4. ^'Minor Threat First Demo Tape review'. Pichfork Media.
5. ^'Minor Threat Straight Edge'. AllMusic.

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Best Straight Edge Songs

Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:

I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead

Straight Edge Song Minor Threat

Snort white shit up my nose
Pass out at all the shows
I don't even think about Speed
That's something I just don't need

I've got the straight edge

Straight Edge Songs

I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and smoke dope
'Cause I know I can cope

Straight Edge Bands

Laugh at the thought of eating ludes
Laugh at the thought of sniffing glue
Always gonna keep in touch
Never want to use a crutch

Straight Edge Song Lyrics

Used boat engines. I've got the straight edge