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Advantages: Great Sweedish Rock and Roll
Disadvantages: Lethargic Work Rate

I love Garage Punk Rock and Roll, Trebbely Guitars and Bass, Distorted Vocals screamed out less than tunefully and raw primitive rhythms, delivered by sharply dressed young men (and sometimes women) with attitude problems. I mean as far as rock and roll is concerned this is what it is. The Hives exploded into the public consciousness in 2002 after Alan McGee’s Poptones label put out the mini Lp “Your New Favourite Band”. This was a compilation ... Read review

Advantages: A few recognizable tracks
Disadvantages: An accuired Taste

So in 2001 The Hives burst onto the scene with “Your New Favourite Band” the album that brought them into the limelight here in Britain. But that’s not the whole story because in fact, Your New Favourite Band was basically a greatest hits album designed for the exact purpose of breaking into the European and American markets. And to be fair to them it did exactly what they set out to do, but for this op I’m going to go back to 2000 and to the album ... Read review

Advantages: A few decent songs
Disadvantages: over half of it is crap,vocals

Once upon a time, I was very into the whole Punk Scene, by that I refer to what is currently known as the punk scene, ala all those bands on Epitaph records and such, NOFX,Pennywise...you know the type. Im not now, but I can still look back on some CDs purchased during this time, and semi-relate to what I was enjoying in them. One such CD I cannot is this. Because Im Mr.Finger On the Pulse (not really), I was actually alerted to Sweden's The ... Read review

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“It’s not fair, no-one will believe me,” cried Ben aged 15. The reason? He’d been into Queen for ages, seeing as his dad used to listen to it all the while. Then he regained interest in it when he met a girl who was heavy into the Mercury-led pomp-rockers. He also quite fancied her. You can guess the rest – but I’ll tell you anyway. Everyone thought I only liked Queen because she did – especially as the naïve and pimply Ben never knew Freddie was ... Read review