The album cover of the Teen Idles's EP Minor Disturbance features one of the iconic symbols of the straight edge movement: the X-ed hands.
The Teen Idles were a hardcore punk band that existed only for about 14 months. Jeff Nelson and Ian MacKaye formed the band as well as Dischord Records, revolutionizing the Washington DC music scene and setting the stage for the formation of Minor Threat and the inadvertent development of the straight edge movement. The Teen Idles were the first band on Dischord Records. Image File history File links Teen_Idles_Minor_Disturbance_Album_Cover. ... Image File history File links Teen_Idles_Minor_Disturbance_Album_Cover. ... |||Minor Disturbance||| was the debut (and only) release by DC hardcore punk pioneers The Teen Idles. ... Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. ... Jeff Nelson was the drummer for the hardcore punk rock band Minor Threat. ... Ian MacKaye (b. ... Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in D.C.-area independent punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore music. ... Flag Seal Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... Minor Threat was a short-lived but incredibly influential hardcore punk band from Washington DC, often credited with starting the straight edge movement. ... For the drawing or cutting tool, see Straightedge. ... Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in D.C.-area independent punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore music. ...
The roots of the TeenIdles and DC hardcore lie in a group of skaters from Wilson High School in DC.
The TeenIdles also found little sympathy from the existing local punk scene and music press who dubbed the band and their fans "teeny punks".
Following the TeenIdles demise Nathan formed the short-lived Youth Brigade (not to be confused with the LA band of the same name) while Ian and Jeff formed Minor Threat.
First TeenIdles gig was December and after that they gig regulary in Washington D.C. and did often support Bad Brains.
In summer 1980 they did make recordings and when the band broke up in November 1980 (Geordie was losing interest in the band and that Ian was itching to try his hand at singing) they decided to use the $600 in show earnings to release a record.
That was the first release and the beginning of the Dischord Record which still is one of the the most important hardcore label in Washington D.C. After TeenIdlesIan MacKaye had played in Minor Threat and Fugazi.
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