Complete Discography is a 1989 compilation album

Compilation album

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 released by the American hardcore punk

Hardcore punk

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 band Minor Threat

Minor Threat

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. The band was relatively short-lived, but had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene, both stylistically and in establishing a "do it yourself" ethic for music distribution and...

 on the band's own Dischord Records

Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...

. Despite its title, it only includes songs that were released on studio releases. It contains their three EPs, the Out of Step album and Flex Your Head

Flex Your Head

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compilation tracks, yet lacks the three tracks from the 20 Years of Dischord box set: the live version of the track "Straight Edge" and songs "Understand" and "Asshole Dub". It also doesn't contain the demo versions of the songs "Minor Threat", "Stand Up", "Seeing Red", "Bottled Violence", "Small Man, Big Mouth", "Straight Edge", "Guilty of Being White" and "I Don't Wanna Hear It" which were released on the First Demo Tape album. Both releases, though, were released several years after Complete Discography. The newly discovered song "You Betrayed Me By Growing Up" is also not included. The cover photo (later imitated by Nike) is of singer Ian MacKaye

Ian MacKaye

Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and The Teen Idles, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well...

's younger brother, Alec MacKaye

Alec MacKaye

Alec MacKaye is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the Washington, DC Hardcore bands Untouchables, The Faith, and Ignition. In the mid-1990s Alec joined the band The Warmers as a vocalist and guitarist. Their album 14 Songs was released in 1996 by Dischord Records. The...

.

Two separate covers for Complete Discography were issued. The 1989 original version had a red cover (shown on the right), which looks exactly the same as the first Minor Threat EP, and the 2003 remastered issue of the compilation had a blue cover. There is also a yellow cover, the red cover is now out of print.

Track listing

All tracks by Minor Threat

Minor Threat

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. The band was relatively short-lived, but had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene, both stylistically and in establishing a "do it yourself" ethic for music distribution and...

1. "Filler" – 1:32
2. "I Don't Wanna Hear It" – 1:13
3. "Seeing Red" – 1:02
4. "Straight Edge
   Straight Edge (song)
   "Straight Edge" is a track from Minor Threat's first EP, Minor Threat EP, later reissued both as part of the collection First Two 7"s on a 12", then as part of 1989's Complete Discography...
   
   " – 0:45
5. "Small Man, Big Mouth" – 0:55
6. "Screaming at a Wall" – 1:31
7. "Bottled Violence" – 0:53
8. "Minor Threat" – 1:27
9. "Stand Up" – 0:53
10. "12XU
    Pink Flag
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     (Wire
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     Cover)" – 1:03
11. "In My Eyes" – 2:49
12. "Out of Step (With the World)" – 1:16
13. "Guilty of Being White" – 1:18
14. "Steppin' Stone (Monkees Cover)" – 2:12
15. "Betray" – 3:02
16. "It Follows" – 1:50
17. "Think Again" – 2:18
18. "Look Back and Laugh" – 3:16
19. "Sob Story" – 1:50
20. "No Reason" – 1:57
21. "Little Friend" – 2:18
22. "Out of Step" – 1:20
23. "Cashing In" – 3:44
24. "Stumped" – 1:55
25. "Good Guys (Don't Wear White) (The Standells
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     Cover)" – 2:14
26. "Salad Days" – 2:46

Personnel

• Ian MacKaye
  Ian MacKaye
  Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and The Teen Idles, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well...
  
   – vocals
• Lyle Preslar
  Lyle Preslar
  Lyle Preslar is an American musician best known for being a guitar player and song writer for the hardcore punk band Minor Threat. Before that, he was the vocalist for The Extorts....
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Brian Baker
  Brian Baker (musician)
  Brian Baker is an American punk rock musician. He is best known as one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and as a guitarist in Bad Religion since 1994 alongside Greg Hetson...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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   on tracks 1–14 and 24–26, guitar on tracks 15–23
• Steve Hansgen
  Steve Hansgen
  Steve Hansgen was a bass player in the hardcore band Minor Threat, joining them in the fall of 1982 to allow bassist Brian Baker to switch over to second guitar....
  
   – bass guitar on tracks 15–23
• Jeff Nelson
  Jeff Nelson (musician)
  Jeff Nelson is best known as the drummer for the hardcore punk rock band Minor Threat. He and friend Ian MacKaye formed their first band, The Slinkees, in 1979. Their next band was The Teen Idles. Nelson and MacKaye founded Dischord Records in 1980, whose first record was the Teen Idles. They...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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• Cynthia Connolly – Drawing
• Glen E. Friedman – Photography
• Skip Groff – Mixing
• Susie Josephson – Photography
• Minor Threat – Producer, Mixing
• Tomas Squip – Photography
• Don Zientara – Engineer