X[insert name here]X

So are all the new names on this board with this format some sort of flashback to the straight-edge thing? Is everything old new again? Will bands stop having "b-sides" and only release "double-A-sides" like Two-Tone did back in the day?

huh?


this is why work should let out at 2pm on Fridays….

While I agree with your thought about work I was just saying that I noticed a lot of new members with screen names that were something like-
ximcoolx
or
xiliveinrichmondx

and I took the two "X"s to be some reference to the straight edge movement. The last time I saw so many "X"s in screen names was the last time I thought that straight edge thing was really big -like 95 or so when Earth Crisis still existed

as opposed to, say, wrapping one's name in t's?

:p

What is the 'straight edge movement'?

Exactly- the "t"s stand for troubled- thus showing my connection to shoe-gazing, jim beam, and awkward pauses. ;)

Originally posted by Bags:
What is the 'straight edge movement'?

are you joking?

how long have you lived here?

Originally posted by Bags:
What is the 'straight edge movement'?

straight edge is the punks who don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, are vegan… there are differing degrees of sXe, but some believed it also includes no sex, etc. some people took it pretty seriously. it was big in the late 80's, and many people tattooed straight edge stuff to themselves (XXX or sXe or the like). i actually have several sXe friends today, but the movement has gotten quieter.

in some cities,the straight edge kids were somewhat, well, violent about it, and there were times when the sXe crowd would beat people up for smoking or drinking– as happened in detroit from time to time. most sXe folks will tell you that violence isn't okay, though.

I don't ever recall veganism being a tenet of the straight edge movement.

Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
I don't ever recall veganism being a tenet of the straight edge movement.

it was for ian mackaye

Originally posted by ratioci nation:

Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
I don't ever recall veganism being a tenet of the straight edge movement.

it was for ian mackaye

While the Minor Threat song "Salad Days" may lead one to believe so, the Teen Idles hit "I Drink Milk" would contradict.

The fact that Ian used to scoop ice cream at Haagen Das down in Georgetown might also contradict this.

I think the veganism aspect came later.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Originally posted by ratioci nation:

Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
I don't ever recall veganism being a tenet of the straight edge movement.

it was for ian mackaye

While the Minor Threat song "Salad Days" may lead one to believe so, the Teen Idles hit "I Drink Milk" would contradict.

Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
The fact that Ian used to scoop ice cream at Haagen Das down in Georgetown might also contradict this.

I think the veganism aspect came later.

Well I know it is discussed in Our Band Could Be Your Life that they had a hard time finding suitable food while on tour. I dont know if they were just Vegetarians or Vegans, or if it was the Minor Threat or Fugazi chapter.

straight edge is like religion in that some people were more "orthodox" than others

some were vegan, i knew some of those, others smoked but just didnt drink or do drugs.
it was really a matter of HOW straight edged you were.

the only REAL qualification that i saw was that you couldnt do drugs and drink…

Originally posted by ratioci nation:

Originally posted by Bags:
What is the 'straight edge movement'?

are you joking?

how long have you lived here?

Not joking – I've been here since 1990, but have never heard that term. I know about the whole Fugazi/McKaye 'credo,' but didn't know it was a whole movement with the XXXs and all. Kinda…annoying, really. I have two copies of "Our Band Could Be Your Life" – think I should get to reading one.

Originally posted by Bags:
Not joking – I've been here since 1990, but have never heard that term. I know about the whole Fugazi/McKaye 'credo,' but didn't know it was a whole movement with the XXXs and all. Kinda…annoying, really. I have two copies of "Our Band Could Be Your Life" – think I should get to reading one.

first, you've never heard of hot topic, and now you've never heard of straight edge? :)

what's next; he's never heard of teabagging?

the horror

I knew I'd be outed eventually…I don't have nearly enough indie or hipster cred to post here. And so close to my 5000th post! :p

go sit in the corner and read some ralph emerson, until you can join "their" ranks again.