# Minor Threat — Straight Edge

Minor Threat’s Straight Edge (1981) appears on 2 of our lists — Hardcore Punk and The Eighties, highest at No. 2 in Hardcore Punk. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1981
- **Label:** Dischord
- **On:** Hardcore Punk and The Eighties
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31
- **Artist:** [Minor Threat](https://waxonia.com/artist/minor-threat/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/minor-threat--straight-edge/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 2 in [Hardcore Punk](https://waxonia.com/genre/hardcore-punk/)

Forty-six seconds that accidentally founded a movement Ian MacKaye spent the next decade disowning. He was describing himself, not issuing instructions.

### Picked by [The Eighties](https://waxonia.com/theme/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.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Minor%20Threat%20Straight%20Edge) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gsAu-nOg3Tw)

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