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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

dude is wrong, minor threat never preached.

ian became a puritan in fugazi.

you read too fast.

Originally Posted by that article

Take the straightedge thing, which is a moralistic offshoot of hardcore that stresses abstinence from alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, and sex. It sounds like a creation of the Moral Majority, but in truth, it was MacKaye's brainchild. MacKaye christened this phenomenon with the songs "Straightedge" and "Out of Step," which he wrote during his days with Minor Threat. In the latter song, MacKaye sings, "I don't smoke/Don't drink/Don't fuck/At least I can fucking think." Jeff Nelson once said, "If it was [MacKaye's] way, the whole scene wouldn't drink or smoke." And Nelson had to fight tooth and nail to get MacKaye to add the pronoun "I" to the lyrics.

MacKaye used to brag about how he and Henry Garfield (later Rollins) liked to run around clubs slapping beers out of people's hands. Finally, if you play any Minor Threat song backward, what you'll hear is MacKaye saying, "Put out that cigarette, now!"