Complete Discography
Complete Discography is a 1989 compilation album released by the American hardcore punk band Minor Threat on the band's own Dischord Records. As the name implies, it contains the band's entire discography at the time, including their three EPs, the Out of Step album and Flex Your Head compilation tracks. Some tracks were unreleased at the time and didn't appear on this compilation, but were later released. This includes the songs "Understand" and "Asshole Dub" from 20 Years of Dischord.
| Complete Discography | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | 1989, 2003 (re-issue) | |||
| Recorded | 1981, 1983 | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk | |||
| Length | 47:10 | |||
| Label | Dischord | |||
| Producer | Minor Threat | |||
| Minor Threat chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| The Great Alternative & Indie Discography | 8/10[2] |
| Laut.de | [3] |
| MusicHound Rock | 4.5/5[4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 10/10[6] |
The cover is very similar to that of Minor Threat, featuring the same photo of singer Ian MacKaye's younger brother, Alec MacKaye. The album was released with the cover in multiple colors, including red and green and a 2003 remastered version in blue and yellow.
In 2018, Pitchfork ranked it the 23rd best album of the 1980s,[7] while LA Weekly ranked it the 2nd best hardcore punk album of all time in 2013.[8] The latter's Patrick James wrote: "Sure, it's not technically an album, but there is nonetheless no better introduction to the genre of hardcore than Minor Threat's Complete Discography. [...] That Minor Threat's entire body of work fits on one CD doesn't diminish its significance; even today, it's still perfectly out of step (with the world)."[8]
Track listing
All tracks by Minor Threat, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Albums | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Filler" | Minor Threat | 1:32 |
| 2. | "I Don't Wanna Hear It" | Minor Threat | 1:13 |
| 3. | "Seeing Red" | Minor Threat | 1:02 |
| 4. | "Straight Edge" | Minor Threat | 0:45 |
| 5. | "Small Man, Big Mouth" | Minor Threat | 0:55 |
| 6. | "Screaming at a Wall" | Minor Threat | 1:31 |
| 7. | "Bottled Violence" | Minor Threat | 0:53 |
| 8. | "Minor Threat" | Minor Threat | 1:27 |
| 9. | "Stand Up" | Flex Your Head | 0:53 |
| 10. | "12XU" (originally performed by Wire) | Flex Your Head | 1:03 |
| 11. | "In My Eyes" | In My Eyes | 2:49 |
| 12. | "Out of Step" | In My Eyes | 1:16 |
| 13. | "Guilty of Being White" | In My Eyes | 1:18 |
| 14. | "Steppin' Stone" (originally performed by Paul Revere and the Raiders) | In My Eyes | 2:12 |
| 15. | "Betray" | Out of Step | 3:02 |
| 16. | "It Follows" | Out of Step | 1:50 |
| 17. | "Think Again" | Out of Step | 2:18 |
| 18. | "Look Back and Laugh" | Out of Step | 3:16 |
| 19. | "Sob Story" | Out of Step | 1:50 |
| 20. | "No Reason" | Out of Step | 1:57 |
| 21. | "Little Friend" | Out of Step | 2:18 |
| 22. | "Out of Step" | Out of Step | 1:20 |
| 23. | "Cashing In" | Out of Step | 3:44 |
| 24. | "Stumped" | Salad Days | 1:55 |
| 25. | "Good Guys (Don't Wear White)" (originally performed by The Standells) | Salad Days | 2:14 |
| 26. | "Salad Days" | Salad Days | 2:46 |
| Total length: | 47:10 | ||
Personnel
- Ian MacKaye – vocals
- Lyle Preslar – guitar
- Brian Baker – bass guitar on tracks 1–14 and 24–26, guitar on tracks 15–23
- Steve Hansgen – bass guitar on tracks 15–23
- Jeff Nelson – drums
- Cynthia Connolly – Drawing
- Glen E. Friedman – Photography
- Skip Groff – Mixing
- Susie Josephson – Photography
- Minor Threat – Producer, Mixing
- Tomas Squip – Photography
- Don Zientara – Engineer
References
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Complete Discography – Minor Threat". AllMusic. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
- Strong, Martin Charles (1999). The great alternative & indie discography. ISBN 9780862419134.
- "Der Blueprint für alle Hardcore-Shouter".
- Gary Graff, ed. (1996). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). London: Visible Ink Press. ISBN 978-0-7876-1037-1.
- Kemp, Mark (2004). "Minor Threat". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 544. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- Weisband, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
- "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s - Page 9". Pitchfork.
- "TOP 20 HARDCORE ALBUMS IN HISTORY: COMPLETE LIST". LA Weekly. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 2019-06-26.