Complete Discography Explained

Complete Discography
Type:compilation
Artist:Minor Threat
Cover:Complete Discography Minor Threat.jpg
Released:1989, 2003 (re-issue)
Recorded:1981, 1983
Genre:Hardcore punk
Length:47:10
Label:Dischord
Producer:Minor Threat
Prev Title:Salad Days
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:First Demo Tape
Next Year:2003

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.

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,[1] while LA Weekly ranked it the 2nd best hardcore punk album of all time in 2013.[2] 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)."

Track listing

All tracks by Minor Threat, except where noted.

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s - Page 9. Pitchfork.
  2. Web site: TOP 20 HARDCORE ALBUMS IN HISTORY: COMPLETE LIST. live. LA Weekly. 29 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20190626000521/https://www.laweekly.com/top-20-hardcore-albums-in-history-complete-list/ . 2019-06-26 .