EdgeStraight Straight Edge? At the Straight edge (sXe) can be attributed to the philosophy that developed and emerged from the hardcore community, who own filosofinya taken from a song that diciptain same band Minor Threat. Basicly, philosophy contains about how to make our lives better, about self-control. Becoming sXe's appetite means that we retain the name of alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and freesex.
Songs Out of Step (With The World) written with Ian MacKaye (bands Minor Threat vocalist) made to invite us flinch from that nihilistic tendencies of punk rock, with a message that provides a simpler, namely "do not drink, don 'T Smoke, do not fuck at least I can fuck thing. " After twelve years since bubarnya band Minor Threat, a philosophy that simple is changed into a kind of the way of life for young people in the world. Plus more mengecewakannya social circumstances that increasingly shoddy from day to day. Ngebuat more youth-up guy and girl teenagers who use the teachings of this kind as a Blueprint for progress itself, which then diterapin in the environment in which they live. In the beginning I was the definition sXe I avoid what in the above and added a modern interpretation, one example being a vegetarian. Intra As I know, sXe is a philosophy that grows and grows from the scene and hardcore punkrock. Therefore, the flow of the music has an important influence in the business development sXe. Can be the beginning of the year, the city 80an Washington DC, bands such as The Teen Idles and Minor Threat become a pioneer the emergence of hundreds and even thousands of bands straight edge that have been progressively later. So in the mid 80an bands like Minor Threat, SSD, and Uniform Choice reached peak success, especially in a metropolitan city like New York city. Ginilah atmosphere of the house, which finally delivered kinds of bands Gorilla Biscuits, Bold, Wide Awake and also including the band to be the most at that time, the Youth of Today. The X sign At the end of the year in the United States 80an precisely, in every sorry punk / hardcore held, so I custom make them the straight edgers nunjukin a sign of "X" in hand. I mean they sign this baseball tunjukin though they can buy alcohol is sold there. In perkembanganya, as a philosophy, something that sXe become popular at that time. Moreover, with issues under the positive, made a sXe ideology. One, for example, their actual age limit for ngelewati I can buy alcohol (was here 17 years, in amrik was 21 years old, "but in the UK was 18 years old) but baseball like" drinking "for ideological reason, starting with a hand mark X. Now the X mark this developed into a nametag / en straight edge for Kids. Symbol of this drug free and proud to be disclosed by the children in the straight edge clothes and various other attributes. Benefits of this sign if they want to recognize one another. With signs that the X dipakainya we can know that he is a sXe.Music Written by Bert & Various Sources
