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  "slug": "minor-threat",
  "name": "Minor Threat",
  "description": "Minor Threat appears 3 times in our Hardcore Punk and The Eighties lists, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/minor-threat/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 2,
  "years": {
    "first": 1981,
    "last": 1981
  },
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    "rank": 2,
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  },
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      "kind": "genre",
      "slug": "hardcore-punk",
      "name": "Hardcore Punk",
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      "entries": 2
    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "the-eighties",
      "name": "The Eighties",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/",
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    }
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      "trackKey": "minor-threat--straight-edge",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/minor-threat--straight-edge/",
      "title": "Straight Edge",
      "year": 1981,
      "label": "Dischord",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Forty-six seconds that accidentally founded a movement Ian MacKaye spent the next decade disowning. He was describing himself, not issuing instructions.",
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        {
          "kind": "curator",
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        }
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Minor%20Threat%20Straight%20Edge",
          "exact": false
        },
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          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 2,
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        "name": "Hardcore Punk",
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      },
      "artist": "Minor Threat"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "minor-threat--filler",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/minor-threat--filler/",
      "title": "Filler",
      "year": 1981,
      "label": "Dischord",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "MacKaye complaining that a friend has found religion, in under two minutes, with a bass tone like a dropped plank. Dischord's whole aesthetic in one cut.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Minor%20Threat%20Filler",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m3mUUupDtVA",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 5,
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        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "hardcore-punk",
        "name": "Hardcore Punk",
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      },
      "artist": "Minor Threat"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "minor-threat--straight-edge",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/minor-threat--straight-edge/",
      "title": "Straight Edge",
      "year": 1981,
      "label": "Dischord",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Forty-six seconds, on a label the band started to release it, which still caps its record prices four decades later. The clearest case here of the economics and the content being the same argument.",
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          "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/hardcore-punk/"
        }
      ],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Minor%20Threat%20Straight%20Edge",
          "exact": false
        },
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          "exact": true
        }
      },
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      },
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}