Flex Your Head

dischord records was founded by ian mackaye and jeff nelson of minor threat to release records by their bands, friends bands, and to document the explosive d.c. punk music scene of the day. all of the important early d.c. punk bands (except for bad brains) appear on this compilation: teen idles (ian and jeff's first band), untouchables, state of alert (the first band of henry rollins, then known as henry garfield), minor threat (the most important hc band ever), government issue, youth brigade (not the band from another state of mind... this is the other youth brigade), red c, void, iron cross, artificial peace, and deadline.