A Minor Poll: Minor Threat's "Complete Discography"

Anyone gonna vote for Out Of Step then?

For me it's a toss-up between Out of Step, Filler and I Don't Wanna Hear It. I haven't decided yet.

i always kinda like how salad days ends all the fury with a sort of weird, sad, note

I had been listening to Minor Threat for years, but RATM's kind of crappy cover of "In My Eyes" really drove home to me what a cool, unfuckupable song it is. (They kind of fucked it up by playing it SLOWER, but whatever)

But "Seeing Red" is right up there for me too.

screaming at a wall

M@tt He1ges0n OTM.

For me, it's that or "Betray" for the way it kicks off what I think is their best record.

I likes my hardcore cleeeen...

In My Eyes

Steppin' Stone close behind

I'm with latebloomer. Filler & In My Eyes close behind.

'What the Fuck Have you done!!!!????....' Excellent.

Always loved the screw up guitar fuzz of 'Filler'

As much as I love the Eps, I always loved their- 3 minute plus!- 'Look Back and Laugh'.

'Salad Days' was a great, almost melancholic, closer.

'Minor Threat',for me though.

Steppin' Stone

"Salad Days" or "Minor Threat"

"...but it's a promise!"

"I Don't Wanna Hear It" for me.

i think it's salad days for me

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I seriously considered "Cashing In", I love that tune so much.

But I went with "Seeing Red", old skool stylee.

Tough choice between "Screaming At A Wall" and "Salad Days," but I voted for the former as I've been listening to it a lot lately.

"Sob Story" is a close third for the spoken-word segments alone.

Guessing no votes for "Guilty Of Being White," though?

Kudos - great poll idea - 'Minor Threat' it is for me - got me through college when it came out.

"Minor Threat"! It's the great American novel in ninety seconds. Such a concise mission statement, it's so full of ambition and hubris but self-aware too. "we're all headed for that adult crash" - an admission that this won't last, can't last, in fact it's already done - he may be a adult, but he's a minor at heart he says... he knows he's already faking it on some level, he's already too old for this. it's grasping, reaching back. it's futile, impossible to hold back time and age. He's howling, "why is everybody in such a fucking rush?" but it's his own band in such a fucking rush behind him, he can barely keep up. as his band, his movement, his moment hurtles along as fast as it can. He knows the less of a minor he is, the more of an adult he is, the less of a threat he will be - he's losing the superpowers of being young and snotty and punk. He knows these attributes will be less and less threatening and more and more ridiculous as time wears on.

I've always loved that about Minor Threat - it's so perfectly doomed, so teenaged in a way that you just can't hold onto - teenaged in a way that you'd be crazy to want to hold onto because it's horrible, but the alternative, the adult crash, is even worse and you kind of know that too. they hate everything around them but they hate that everything is changing even more. they're nostalgic for the present because it's already gone.

Okay I've pulled this out and played it again because of this thread. I only started revsiting this stuff again less than a year ago, so it's wild to me. One thing I found out was that the Out of Step vinyl release stuff is especially wonderful. I don't know for sure if I really owned the vinyl of that back in the day. I did have the first two 7"es stuff, though. And I had the Salad Days 7".

So yes, even though "In My Eyes", "Cashing In" and "Good Guys (Don't Wear White)" are stunners, my vote goes to "Salad Days" for the awe-inspiring chiming bell noises in the intro alone. I mean for the intro to that song alone, it should get #1 in this poll.

With one day's reflection, it's got to be "Salad Days." I first heard it when I was 18; I'm almost 42 now and it keeps taking on new meaning for me. When the bells come back in right before the last verse, it's one of the most melancholy and overwhelming moments rock music has to offer.

I must be the only person alive who doesn't like Salad Days :(

Hugely difficult choice, but I'll have to go with "Salad Days."

Guessing no votes for "Guilty Of Being White," though?

Heh, you know it. And it's too bad, too, 'cause MUSICALLY that track's practically my favourite.

voted "In My Eyes" for the music. lyrics are a little high schoolish but the guitar on this is my favorite, i'd love to hear a young greg ginn pull this off.

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I could probably have predicted "In My Eyes" would win this from the start. I was really torn between it and "Minor Threat", but went with the latter.

Two for "Guilty" but none for "Look Back And Laugh?" I stand corrected.

i didn't vote but it wouldve been in my eyes

also would've been in my eyes

I'm just happy Salad Days got as many votes as it did. I didn't really expect that.

I wish I had seen this. "In My Eyes" is terrible, "Filler" by a mile.

It is sad to see none for Look Back and Laugh, which was my favorite Minor Threat song epic back in high school. It was a great salve for all that adolescent drama.

I voted for Salad Days though. That BASS!

this is really ruling right now.

"filler" is a great song...

dudes could really play, and wrote good songs.

"straight edge" is breathless

"I was early to finish
I was late to start"

seems deeper than it is, somehow