History UsefulNotes / StraightEdge

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* Music/{{Fugazi}}
* Music/EarthCrisis

Straight Edge is a philosophy in which participants abstain from the vices of the modern world. What these actual vices are is subjective, but most commonly, followers will keep well away from alcohol, nicotine, THC, other drugs, sometimes premarital or promiscuous sex and in some cases even meat-based diets.

[-[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Music/MinorThreat I'm a person just like you, but I've got better things to do [=/=]\\
Than sit around and smoke dope, 'cause I know that I can cope...]]"'']]-]

Straight Edge is a philosophy in which participants abstain from the vices of the modern world. What these actual vices are is subjective, but most commonly, followers will keep well away from alcohol, nicotine, other drugs, sometimes premarital or promiscuous sex and in some cases even meat-based diets.
Thought to have stemmed from the beliefs of Music/MinorThreat front man [[PostHardcore Ian Mackaye]], nowadays Straight Edge is held all over the world throughout numerous different subcultures. It's also believed that Music/TheModernLovers helped plant the seeds of Straight Edge with their song "I'm Straight".

It has at times been accused of initiating violence, particularly in the {{Hardcore Punk}} scene, sometimes causing it to be labeled a gang. Nowadays, however, Straight Edge is largely peaceful.

While the Straight Edge punk subculture began in the 80's, the violent version most famous in media emerged in the mid-90's with the pioneering {{metalcore}} band Earth Crisis, who wrote songs with a stronger DrugsAreBad message, including a song that encouraged listeners to "Kill your local drug dealer." When the mainstream media heard about this, it sparked a minor [[TheQuincyPunk moral panic]] and led to claims that Straight Edge was a gang, in reality never reaching the level of organized violence claimed by the media.

The Straight Edge subculture continued to be influential in {{Metalcore}} and HardcorePunk in the 2000s and a number of prominent hardcore bands emerged from the subculture at the time. People in punk continue to identify with the culture to this day, though it's less prominent than it once was.

It has at times been accused of initiating violence, particularly in the {{Hardcore Punk}} scene, sometimes causing it to be labeled a gang. Nowadays, however, Straight Edge is largely peaceful, if occasionally HolierThanThou.

While the Straight Edge punk subculture began in the 80's, the militant and violent version most famous in media emerged in the mid-90's with the pioneering {{metalcore}} band Earth Crisis, who wrote songs with a stronger DrugsAreBad message, including a song that encouraged listeners to "Kill your local drug dealer." When the mainstream media heard about this, it sparked a minor [[TheQuincyPunk moral panic]] and led to claims that Straight Edge was a gang. Earth Crisis and straight edge punks also supported militant [[AnimalWrongsGroup animal rights]] and [[EcoTerrorist environmental]] movements that were prominent at the time, which only heightened the media hysteria. While aggressive straight edgers certainly existed, they mostly stuck to taking people's beers or getting involved small, one-on-one fights, never reaching the level of organized violence claimed by the media.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Music/MinorThreat I'm a person just like you, but I've got better things to do / Than sit around and smoke dope, 'cause I know that I can cope...]]"'']]

Straight Edge is a philosophy in which participants abstain from the vices of the modern world. What these actual vices are is subjective, but most commonly, followers will keep well away from alcohol, nicotine, other drugs, sometimes premarital or promiscuous sex and in some extreme cases meat-based diets.

Straight Edge is a philosophy in which participants abstain from the vices of the modern world. What these actual vices are is subjective, but most commonly, followers will keep well away from alcohol, nicotine, other drugs, and sometimes premarital or promiscuous sex.

I got no urge to binge and purge!"''\\
--'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin''', "Modern Man"

[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Music/MinorThreat I'm a person just like you, but I've got better things to do / Than sit around and smoke dope, 'cause I know that I can cope...]]"'']]

Thought to have stemmed from the beliefs of Music/MinorThreat front man [[{{Post-Hardcore}} Ian Mackaye]], nowadays Straight Edge is held all over the world throughout numerous different subcultures. It's also believed that Music/TheModernLovers helped plant the seeds of Straight Edge with their song "I'm Straight".

[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Music/MinorThreat I'm a person just like you/But I've got better things to do/Than sit around and smoke dope/'Cause I know that I can cope...]]"'']]

I got no urge to binge and purge!"\\

[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Music/MinorThreat I'm a person just like you/But I've got better things to do/Than sit around and smoke dope/'Cause I know I can cope...]]"'']]