Recording

Straight Edge
Minor Threat

Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released

1981

Label

Dischord

On

Hardcore Punk and The Eighties

Updated

2026-08-31

1. 02

   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.

2. ·

   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.