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The Hives
- Record Label: Warner Bros. / Burning Heart / Epitaph
- Release Date: Apr 30, 2002
- Summary:
- Record Label: Warner Bros. / Burning Heart / Epitaph
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative
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Top Track
Hate to Say I Told You So | |
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Do what I want 'cause I can and if I don't, because I wanna Be ignored by the stiff and the bored, because I'm gonna Spit and retrieve 'cause I give... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 13 out of 13
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The Hives explode where a hundred other punk bands are proud to rock.
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Veni Vidi Vicious literally explodes with frenetic guitar jangle and audacious hooks.
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Plenty of fuzzed, struttin', propulsive guitar work on this disc to assault your ears.
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The Hives seem to have approached Vicious with one aim in mind: to rock hard -- for 27 minutes straight. Even more impressively, they actually pull it off.
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BlenderTheir propulsive intensity busts down garage doors, stumbling only with the wrongheaded ersatz cocktail ballad. [#8, p.117]
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Alternative PressThey came, they saw, they rocked viciously. [Jul. 2002, p.82]
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The Hives' brand of neo-garage leans heavy on punk and lacks nuance, but the unification of speed, volume, and shake generates a scalding steam.
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Positive: 13 out of 13
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AlbertomAug 16, 2005Simple: Best garage album of the decade.
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AsiaZJun 13, 2004
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AlexJMar 9, 2005
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BrianW.May 12, 2002
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TonyB.Sep 4, 2002
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TeresaC.Aug 8, 2002The Hives have the kind of sheer raw energy that almost seemed to have vanished completely during the `90s. Keep at it!
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EricSNov 22, 2007
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