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MINOR THREAT

Out Of Step (repress)

Limited White LP - 1 per customer - £19.99 | Buy
This white vinyl LP was recut from the Silver Sonya re-masters in November 2008 at Chicago Mastering Service, and features an album sleeve redesign from the ori...
MINOR THREAT

minor threat (2022 repress)

limited grey lp in grey sleeve + download - 1 per customer - £22.99
The collected first two 7”s from Ian Mackaye’s legendary hardcore band are back in limited waxy action & guilty of being blue.
Out Of Step Outtakes
  1. In My Eyes
  2. Filler
  3. Addams Family

MINOR THREAT

Out Of Step Outtakes

dischord
  • limited import clear 7"

    Released: 1st Dec 2023

    £12.99
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To celebrate the landmark hardcore ep's 40th anniversary, here are three previously unreleased outtakes.

In January 1983, Minor Threat went into Inner Ear Studio for the first time as a five - piece (Brian Baker had moved from bass to second guitar and Steve Hansgen was now playing bass). They had six new songs that would end up being the centrepiece of what became the ‘’Out of Step’’ 12" EP. The band had also decided to re-record the song "Out of Step" with some extra language to try to clarify the lyrics, as well as "Cashing In", a tongue-in-cheek song about the DC punk scene which they had only played live once. After much debate, "Cashing In" was added as a hidden track on the original vinyl release though not listed on the cover or label.

There was still blank tape on the reel, so they decided to record an instrumental with the working title, "Addams Family" and then recorded new versions of "In My Eyes" and "Filler" to hear what they sounded like with two guitars. "Addams Family" ended up being used as a coda to "Cashing In", but the other two songs were never mixed and largely forgotten for over 35 years until the multitrack tapes were taken into the studio to be digitized in 2021. Surprised by the discovery, Ian and Don Zientara mixed the two songs along with the complete take of "Addams Family".

These outtakes are now being released on a 7" to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of ‘’Out of Step’’.