The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

jamieanderson1968 said:
16 yr old skateboarding me is very happy
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Yep, same here. Minor Threat was one of those bands that popped up on mixtapes my skate buddies cranked on the boom box by the half pipe. Today I prefer what Ian MacKaye did with Fugazi, and I do think there’s better hardcore punk out there. But this still feels like a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart when I crank up the volume on ”It Follows”.
 
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I probably have not listened to the entire album this century. This is one of those albums that is important, despite the music. I know for me MT/Discord and the entire DC scene was about doing it for yourself, which myself and my friends took to heart in our town, putting on shows and starting bands.

It is like the weight of The Buzzcocks first ep, Boredom. Musically it is not great but it showed a bunch of people that you can do all of this outside of the ‘system’

3/5 for me.

Now if you don’t mind I am going to skank around my office.
 
I was 11 when this came out and I had another 1984 album on vinyl instead, the one by Van Halen. I didn’t discover MacKaye until Fugazi hit. Had a friend who was into Minor Threat and heard him playing the first ep and was like what is that? Still have the vinyl copy I bought later that week. Didn’t really dive into Minor Threat until I was listening to the audiobook for Our Band Could be Your Life (I should really get back to that).
 
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