Artist
Minor Threat
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.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Hardcore Punk and The Eighties
- Year
- 1981
- Highest placing
- No. 2 in Hardcore Punk
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Appears on
Straight Edge
1981 · Dischord
Ranked No. 2 in Hardcore Punk
Forty-six seconds that accidentally founded a movement Ian MacKaye spent the next decade disowning. He was describing himself, not issuing instructions.
Also on The Eighties
Filler
1981 · Dischord
Ranked No. 5 in Hardcore Punk
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.
Straight Edge
1981 · Dischord
Picked by The Eighties
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.
Also on Hardcore Punk