Fan poll: Top 5 straight-edge songs of all time
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Straight edge has been a part of hardcore since the dawn of the genre itself.
Conceived as a punk, personalized manifesto by Minor Threat vocalist Ian MacKaye, and disseminated in a raging 45-second song called “Straight Edge,” the subculture-within-a-subculture suggested that abstaining from smoking, drinking and doing drugs was a way to stay razor-sharp and aware of the chaos around you.
That idea soon spread around to other pockets of the U.S. hardcore scene, and would eventually go wor
Conceived as a punk, personalized manifesto by Minor Threat vocalist Ian MacKaye, and disseminated in a raging 45-second song called “Straight Edge,” the subculture-within-a-subculture suggested that abstaining from smoking, drinking and doing drugs was a way to stay razor-sharp and aware of the chaos around you.
That idea soon spread around to other pockets of the U.S. hardcore scene, and would eventually go wor
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