• Complete Discography. The song was the inspiration for a movement in the punk subculture known as straight edge. The song provides a succinct summary...
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    drugs. The term "straight edge" was adopted from the 1981 song "Straight Edge" by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat. The straight-edge subculture emerged...
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    This is a list of notable people who follow the straight edge lifestyle. Straight edge is a subculture and subgenre of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain...
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  • have been associated with the straight edge subculture. Note that not all of these bands have or had all straight edge members, and some of them stopped...
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  • "Edge of Seventeen" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks from her debut solo studio album Bella Donna (1981), released as the third...
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  • stereotype Straight, a member of the straight edge subculture Straight, an alternative name for the cross, a type of punch in boxing Straight, a hand ranking...
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  • "The Edge of Glory" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her second studio album, Born This Way (2011). The song was released on May 9, 2011, as...
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    Minor Threat (category Straight edge groups)
    distribution and concert promotion. Minor Threat's song "Straight Edge" was the basis of the straight edge movement, which emphasized a lifestyle without...
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  • Youth crew (category Straight edge)
    Crew in 1984, which also contained the song "The Crew". Some other notable examples of this are Boston straight edge bands like SS Decontrol, Negative FX...
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    top-level domain intended for pornographic sites XXX, a symbol of the straight edge lifestyle XXX, the squadron markings of No. 29 Squadron RAF XXX (beer)...
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  • an untitled piece referred to as "The Fast Song" were combined into "Candy's Room". "Darkness on the Edge of Town" was recorded during the tail end of...
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    Bane (band) (category Straight edge groups)
    lyrics to the song "Wasted On The Young", on Bane's album The Note can be interpreted as criticism of people who ignorantly claim straight edge too early...
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    cultural function". Straight edge originated in the Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene with the Minor Threat song "Straight Edge" written by frontman...
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  • Lärm (category Straight edge groups)
    Lärm (German for noise) were a Dutch straight edge hardcore band formed in 1981, first playing under the name of Total Chaoz. They referred to their music...
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  • American hardcore punk and straight edge scenes became increasingly concerned with animal rights, spawning the vegan straight edge and hardline punk ideologies...
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  • single "Another Stranger Me". "Market Square" is the demo version of "Straight Through the Mirror" and is only available on the Double LP and Limited...
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    scene. Rettman, Tony. Straight Edge A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History. Jonathan Anastas: Minor Threat wrote the song "Straight Edge." Boston took it further...
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  • 1981: The Year in 7"s. "Straight Edge", a song from the Minor Threat EP, inadvertently inspired the straight edge movement. The song, while written merely...
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    Straight Ahead (known as N.Y.C. Mayhem in 1985) was an American straight edge hardcore punk band formed in Queens, New York City in 1984 by drummer and...
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    mental health; the resulting song "The Signal Fire" appears on the 2019 album Atonement. Jones used to be straight edge. Today, he shares a passion for...
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  • hard-grooving, competent song that nonetheless has me feeling like I still haven't found what I'm looking for". Spin called it "a straight-ahead rocker that...
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  • XDeathstarx (category Straight edge groups)
    Redlands, California. All of the members are straight edge and they incorporate both Christian and straight edge themes within their music, with their view...
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    and co-founder of the punk rock band Rise Against. He is vegan and straight edge. McIlrath was born in 1978 to Jim and Michelle McIlrath. He attended...
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  • film trilogy, parts of it are featured throughout, including in the song "The Edge of Night" sung by Billy Boyd in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of...
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  • only song within the album to appear on any charts. The song spent twelve weeks on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at #25. "Straight From...
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  • The Things We Carry is a studio album by the straight edge hardcore punk band Have Heart. It was released in 2006. Las Vegas Weekly called the album "the...
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  • Vegan Reich (category Straight edge groups)
    controversial hardline subculture, a more militant tendency of the vegan straight edge movement. Along with Raid, Vegan Reich were one of the most well-known...
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  • Violent Reaction (category Straight edge groups)
    Violent Reaction were an English straight edge hardcore punk band. Originally a solo-project of Tom Pimlott in Liverpool, the band gained additional members...
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    Dao (Chinese sword) (category Single-edged swords)
    dāo; jyutping: dou1) are single-edged Chinese swords, primarily used for slashing and chopping. They can be straight or curved. The most common form is...
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  • and Eric Melvin), and a Hispanic (El Hefe). All songs were written by Fat Mike except "Straight Edge," originally by Minor Threat. Fat Mike – bass, composer...
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