... This was a compilation of their two Albums on Burning Heart Records “Barley Legal” and this one “Veni Vidi Vicious”. Soon the NME (wash my mouth out with carbolic soap and vinegar) was rabidly rabbiting on about all things garage rock and paying a lot of attention to an underground scene that ... Read review
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RAWK, demented preachers of "punkrock music avec kaboom". Veni Vidi Vicious is their nihilistic message to you. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes it is gut-pummel...
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Meet the Hives: svengalis of swagger, cocky commanders-in-chief of small-town big-time ... more
RAWK, demented preachers of "punkrock music avec kaboom".Veni Vidi Viciousis their nihilistic message to you. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes it is gut-pummelin...
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Offender Outsmarted Hate To Say I Told You So The Hives - Introduce The Metric System In Time Find Another Girl Statecontrol Inspection Wise 1999 Knock Knock Sup...
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Meet the Hives: svengalis of swagger, cocky commanders-in-chief of small-town big-time ... more
RAWK, demented preachers of "punkrock music avec kaboom". Veni Vidi Vicious is their nihilistic message to you. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes it is gut-pummeling rock'n'roll of the take-no-prisoners variety. Its scratchy guitars and rapid-fire rhythms punctuated by vocalist Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's snotty histrionics land somewhere between the Stooges, the Pixies and everything else within a decade's radius. "Declare Guerre Nucleaire" pops and thrashes like an epileptic mod on a Vespa of the Apocalypse, while "Statecontrol" and "Inspection Wise 1999" are jammed with demented Iggy-style bellowing. "Hate to Say I Told You So" (which many will recognize from their UK debut compilation Your New Favourite Band) sounds like a classic the instant you hear it, and delivers a head-jerking bass line break at exactly the right moment. The Hives may be aping styles that have already gone before them, but they do it with unapologetic glee and reckless abandon that make it all their own. You need this band in your life. --Leslie Gilotti
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Meet the Hives: svengalis of swagger, cocky commanders-in-chief of small-town big-time ... more
RAWK, demented preachers of "punkrock music avec kaboom".Veni Vidi Viciousis their nihilistic message to you. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes it is gut-pummeling rock'n'roll of the take-no-prisoners variety. Its scratchy guitars and rapid-fire rhythms punctuated by vocalist Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's snotty histrionics land somewhere between the Stooges, the Pixies and everything else within a decade's radius."Declare Guerre Nucleaire" pops and thrashes like an epileptic mod on a Vespa of the Apocalypse, while "Statecontrol" and "Inspection Wise 1999" are jammed with demented Iggy-style bellowing. "Hate to Say I Told You So" (which many will recognize from their UK debut compilationYour New Favourite Band) sounds like a classic the instant you hear it, and delivers a head-jerking bass line break at exactly the right moment. The Hives may be aping styles that have already gone before them, but they do it with unapologetic glee and reckless abandon that make it all their own. You need this band in your life. --Leslie Gilotti
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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 ... ...Legal” and this one “Veni Vidi Vicious”. Soon the NME (wash my mouth out with carbolic soap and vinegar) was rabidly rabbiting on about all things garage rock and paying a lot of attention to an underground scene that they had ignored for decades. The Hives willingly jumped on the bandwagon, which is what they said they’d always do given the opportunity.
The Hives for those of you who don’t know are a Garage Punk rock and Roll band ... more
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 of their two Albums on Burning Heart Records “Barley Legal” and this one “Veni Vidi Vicious”. Soon the NME (wash my mouth out with carbolic soap and vinegar) was rabidly rabbiting on about all things garage rock and paying a lot of attention to an underground scene that they had ignored for decades. The Hives willingly jumped on the bandwagon, which is what they said they’d always do given the opportunity.
The Hives for those of you who don’t know are a Garage Punk rock and Roll band from Sweden, who wear Black and White all the time even checking that their undergarments adhere to their strict dress code. We all know that the best band all have a dress code:- Man or Astroman? (Space age clothing), The Ramones (Leather Jackets and Ripped Jeans), Turbonegro (Denim), the less mentioned about Status Quo here the better ok.
So they fulfil one of the requirements for a garage band being sharply dressed, what about the music then?
The opening track “The Hives – Declare Guerre Nucleaire” is a racket of primitive Drumming, trebbily guitars and screaming distorted vocals, yeah all the ingredients are there this is the sound of a small sweaty club on record great stuff. Then onto “Die Alright” this is the musical equivalent of a sten gun on single shot, you don’t want to be in front of it and with lyrics like "Heavy morals seem so light, But when it comes to cash I’m gonna die alright!”. It makes selling out sound like the way forward and why not, I’d rather be in a band than have to work in a factory for a living. “ A Get Together To Tear It Apart” is full speed blistering noise and makes you wanna get down the front and jump up and down.This is the true spirit of rock and roll.
“Main Offender” is a lot more subtle even with the pounding primitive rhythms that assault you relentlessly, and the overly simplistic guitar solos, I am a happy man here as this is simply great stuff. “Outsmarted” returns us to high-speed punk rock dripping in attitude and a great sense of fun. The hit single “Hate To Say I Told You So” has the greatest opening line I have hear in a long time “Do what I want cause I can and if I don’t” that really sums up rock and roll to me, and that Rhythm guitar riff is just amazing and relentless, and its is topped off with some great fuzz guitar, what more do you want!!!!.
“The Hives Introduce The Metric System In Time” is another high-speed primal noise fest, I can never get sick of this myself you might but I don’t. “Find Another Girl” is a relaxed waltz with singer Howlin’ Pelle Almquist crooning over a easyish listening background enough of that hit the skip button onto “Statecontrol”, yea it starts off with some great surf guitar and takes us back to the wonderfully primitive sounds we know and love. The next two tracks follow the same templates as before but this is garage punk and it is not meant to be anything else. The Album finished off with “Supply and Demand” which finished off the album the only way it could primitive tribal drumming and distorted guitar. I love it.
The Hives Return in a few weeks with a new album just when we need them most, the music press has been driving us to listen to more cerebral music. Pants to that is what I say it is clever to be deliberately stupid, and you can learn more about song writing and music from one 3 chord punk track than you can from the entire back catalogue of Yes.
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 ... ...New Favourite Band came from. If you don’t know the Hives are a Swedish 5 piece with a bizarre sense of humour and some decent sounding new rock tunes.
The Band
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Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist: Vocals
Dr Matt Destruction: Bass
Vigilante Carlstroem: Middle
Nicholaus Arson: Treble
Chris Dangerous: Rhythm
There is a strange thing about The Hives though, they put the writing credits for their songs down to a guy called Randy Fitzsimmons. Now ...
Andy.mack 11.05.2003
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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 Hives ... ...also grew to dislike them before they became famous. Don't like the Hives? My bandwagon you are jumping on. Ok, so Im sure others hated them first, but I deserve honourable mention, because I liked them for a bit before seeing the light. My first encounter with the Hives came on a VHS tape I found retailling for about 2 quid, named Punxploitation. It was basically a video compilation of the promo's for various band's on Epitaph records. I bought ...
Flash-Hammer 06.12.2005
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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 naďve and pimply Ben never knew Freddie was ... ...when it’s not!) – who cares, right? The same has thankfully been avoided with the Hives, with Ben aged 25. See, I heard of them a while ago when the single “Die, All Right” was released amid a rock market filled with Limp Roaches and DefKorn. Now, with the emergence of The Strokes (criminally dull) and The White Stripes comes an interest in rock ‘n’ roll, and the Hives have the right idea – it’s exciting and THERE IS NO WHINGING!
I owned this CD ...
peppersinclaire 09.04.2002
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