Reviews (page 6 of 8)
Short album, very emblematic of rock at the time it was made. Nothing stood out from this album, but not bad.
i really like the amount of appreciation there is to the bass
Exactly what I needed to hear. Goated
Big talk from the Hives here. I will say for the record they are not my new favorite band.
ÁLbum bem legal, rapidão, pegada diferente....como se todos tivessem bem altos de cocaína ou meth...super agitados. O som é bem legal, direto, pancada.... coisa que falta no rock.
Good listen.
On the one hand, it's a compilation album, which i feel like should be a no-no for this kind of list. On the other hand, it fucking rocks.
Antes de tudo, tenho sentimentos mistos se uma complicação deveria entrar para a lista. Me parece errado. Se as músicas dos dois primeiros álbuns merecem entrar na lista, por que não colocar um ou até os dois álbuns na lista? Vou entender como algo similar aos álbuns ao vivo, que não são se tratam de músicas inéditas e na maior parte das vezes não são apresentações de um álbum só. O fato de reordenar, retirar e adicionar músicas em uma nova ordem torna o trabalho conjunto inédito, ainda que costurado a partir de peças de outros conjuntos. Dito isso, é um ótimo álbum. É um tipo de som que gosto muito e me pega demais. É rápido e abrasivo. Pelo que senti são os maiores hits da banda até então, então são as mais "pop" também. Eu fui atrás de ouvir os dois primeiros álbuns antes de finalizar a avaliação e cheguei a seguinte conclusão: Tudo o que da a cara do som do The Hives é maior, mais rápido e mais abrasivo no primeiro álbum. O The Hives são (ou eram) o primeiro álbum. No segundo eles deram uma diluída nas características em favor de um som mais palatável, o que não é ruim em si, mas é mais "comum". Your New Favourite Band é um bom álbum, mas eu facilmente o trocaria pelo primeiro nessa lista (ou o incluiria também pelo menos)
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1. told you zo - 2 2. offender - 1.5 3. demand - 1 4. die - 1.5 5. youth - 1 6. outzmarted - 1 7. mad man - 1 8. again - 1 9. idiot - 1 10. zhmuck - 1.5 11. drool - 1.5 12. hivez - 2
CD revisiting! I loved Hate To Say I Told You So and in those days buying the album was how to get the song (was it? What happened to taping off the radio). Short and frantic. I remember they were fun at Leeds Festival 2002. Bumped from the book.
Not trying to reinvent the wheel with this one, just a fun straight forward garage rock album. I’ve been aware of The Hives for a long time, but I’ve never really listened to them. I had a lot of fun listening to this album and may go back and check out more of their stuff.
30/100 Why is a Compilation album on this list??? Was actually positively surprised but this is still a Compilation album and feels like it.
Twenty-eight minutes An ideal length for rowdy Porcelain porch songs
the title would be funny if the band was provocative in any way. "The decision to release such a compilation was made with the intention of achieving mainstream success in the UK and other territories." and it sure sounds like that, from 2001. as mentioned in the Vines review, I hated this era of uninspired 'The' band radio rock, and it's aged badly. I can't believe I still have to hear Franz Ferdinand out in the world. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
A photocopy of a photocopy of something I like a lot.
Never heard this before. Simple catchy songs played with energy. Odd that they included a compilation album on this list. I found the first half of the songs pretty unlikable. But the second half, which are taken from the Barely Legal album, are a lot better. I was prepared to rate 2 stars but going to give it 3 stars. "Outsmarted, I'm selling you for scrap"
Nothing that I'd listen to again
Actually, not. I was relieved when this album was over. The lyrics, although difficult to make out when listening, were interesting to read in Spotify. "Would you like lemon or lime with that piece of advice mister?" Didn't realize they were Swedish, maybe that's why they were added to this list?
Lots of frenetic playing and yelling into the mic. Some of their later stuff is better and more melodic.
False advertising...they are NOT my new favorite band. I did enjoy the album though...lots of youthful energy.
Hated the singer’s voice. I’m not a big fan of garage rock so unsurprising result.
3.6
Fine but completely forgettable.
One of the most important punk-rock and alternative bands nowadays
short and loud and fun!
unoriginal. feel like ive heard it 5000 times from the first listen
Fast and melodious tunes on this album! I always like songs from The Hives, this being the greatest hits albums contains some of the best tracks.
I wish there was a 3.5 star option. This album is great, and a lot of fun, but it just keeps going at the same speed the whole time. Which is totally punk rock, but I need a little variety in my old age.
Full tilt rocking band! Intense with a sense of humour. Not necessarily my new favourite band but I know a little more of their music and I like it!
This feels like one of those albums that gets added because it has a strong single with that single being "Hate To Say I Told You So". The rest of the album is pretty mid. Angsty punk rock with fast progressions.
This is so 2001, which isn’t bad. It’s not good either. Hey why is there a compilation on here? That’s…dumb. This doesn’t really stand out from most of the garage music that came out at the time. The Dirtbombs are pretty good. Listen to them instead. God the second half is good. Feels like the underground skate punk that was happening around the time, which is good stuff. Kind of a bummer because that half is better and it’s from their EP…hmmmmmmm now I get why this comp is on here
It’s the Swedish Strokes! Great to see The Hives on this list, even if a compilation is a bit of an odd choice. An incredibly energetic and catchy set of songs that clocks in at just under half an hour, nothing too groundbreaking but just a fun little record
very fast british rockpunk. stopped it at outsmarted. not my cuppa!
I dont know what to say. It is good but not great. Short songs, sounds kinda samey. I enjoyed it.
An other rock band with always the same songs...
This was so much more punk than I was expecting. I thought everything would be like Hate To Say I Told You so. Loved it. Very strong 2.
Inaccurate Album Title
It’s a solid 3.5, but I’m rounding up to spite Luke and Kevin.
Came out about the time I drifted away from terrestrial radio Heard the first song, never did much for me Yeah that low fi throwback sound, lumped in with the darkness, jet, white stripes etc. Another overrated Brit punk album. Not surprising for this list. 2 star blah
When I was in high school, I was in a band that covered Bloodhound Gand, Blink 182, etc. I remember playing a gig where bands from all the local schools came together to perform, and one of them was called Amplex. They were all around 12 years old and covered Hate To Say I Told You So and outperformed everybody in my eyes. They rocked! Anyway, memories aside, I love this album. It’s the perfect blend of raw passion, yet still with plenty of melodies to avoid getting messy. Damn, The Hives are good.
High energy rock songs on this one. Good stuff.
Love the Hives. I do find the production a bit thin sounding though.
Could it be that this album is on the list just for the challenge of the title? Leaving aside the squashing of two albums to get this one does the music hold up. There is nothing groundbreaking here. A more controlled version of the genre fitting into its time frame. It is raucous, somewhat unrelenting but OK.
Very good, prefer the older/punkier second half of the album (AKA IDIOT, Outsmarted).
Here we go kappaleessa tuntuu että saan kaverien ajatuksenjuoksusta ainakin melodisesti enemmän selvää... Tulee mieleen tässä loppualbumissa albumin parhaat kohdat.. ensimmäiset sekunnit ennenkuin raivo pääsi valloilleen.. Sietämätön raivo tyhjän huutaminen.. Onneksi lopussa artistic..
Empty calories - musical junk food. You kind of enjoy it and tap your foot along in the moment, but it’s a shallow kind of pleasure. It’s basically music for advertisements. Also, this is a compilation album, which feels like cheating.
could i write poetry to this? y
I'm not sure why, but I just don't like The Hives as much as I think I should. They are just not my new (or old) favorite band.
I thought it was weird that they put what is basically a greatest hits album on here until I read that the intent was to introduce The Hives to the UK
Nothing memorable here at all.
2.5 it’s ok. The second half was better when it leaned into more punk sounds but something about them seems off. It’s like arctic monkeys tried making a punk album
haha, I used to play music with a guy that was into The Hives, but I never much listened to them. I am digging this album though. Very high energy.
Solid set of tracks, but I feel that including a compilation album here is sort of cheating.
The kind of punk rock that just fades into the background without impact. There's a lot of it out there so the only reason I can imagine it being on the list is because it was on TV or commercials or whatever.
It’s fine
It was a bit strange to have this compilation instead of a proper album. It was fun, but not particularly special.
Would have just been a 2 but lost one star for being a compilation album. Shouldn't be on this list.
I was about ready to trashjthis entirely forgettable one-hit wonder track album for taking up a spot on this list, but I actually settled into it well enough. Is it still entirely forgettable, dated piece of music from the garage rock revival scene? Yeah, but it's decent enough to keep you tuned in over its brief 28 minute runtime.
Quite the presumptuous title coming from everyone’s, like, fifth- or sixth-favourite garage rock revival band.
I seem to remember there being a song by The Hives in a Rock Band or Guitar Hero video game, but other than that, I can't say I'm familiar with them. As it turns out, I've heard "Hate To Say I Told You So" and "Main Offender" (maybe that was on Rock Band?) before, but the rest of this album was new to me. Anyway, I guess I'll start with the things I liked about this album. The guitar riffs were pretty infectious, and fun to tap along with, especially the first three tracks. I liked that these songs came fast, hit hard, and then moved along. It's a minor note, but I also enjoyed "The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime." There was some distortion that I really liked, and there was a part towards the end of the song where the main guitar riff faded really low, but everything else stayed the same. That guitar riff was so low that it was barely detectable, but it created a really cool effect. As for the things that I didn't like about this album, there was a lot of shine, but no substance. The guitar riffs were fun and infectious for the first three songs, but after that, the album sounded really repetitive. The Hives aren't really doing anything on this album that hadn't been done before, and this album certainly doesn't break any new ground in my opinion. I got pretty bored with it after "Supply and Demand," and the last track pulled me back in a little bit, but it was too late by that point. There are a couple of catchy tunes on this album, but that's pretty much the only thing it has going for it.
Conpilation to gain success.
Garage punkgarage rockpunk rock, indie. Estuvieron en Valladolid.
pretty heavy...
I was a little surprised to find I knew more of their songs than I thought I did. But the fact that I never connected their name to those songs indicates they have fallen well short of this albums stated goal. An underwhelming level of ordinaryness.
Quite late in the game for punk, but enjoyable.
I like that they were reviving punk in the 00s and like but don't love this album. I'm a little grumpy that this is a compilation with songs from previous albums. Maybe a 3.5 but rounded down.
It's pure garage punk energy - short, catchy, and makes you wanna mosh.
I love it. The bass breakdowns, cheap guitars, the vocals with too much gain, and the urgency. The last track is a good one but feels out of place
OK, then started to get mildly irritating as I kept listening to the rest of the album. 2.5* is about right.
3.5 maybe, patchy given it's compilation status but the good stuff is barnstorming still. Saw them live around this time and it was mayhem
I feel like I heard all of these songs playing sports video games on the PS2. 3/5
not a bad album overall. fun listen 6/10
I would have loved them when I was 20. Now i think they are OK, but can't see myself going back to the Hives. Best track (and cool title) Hives are Law, You are Crime
Today's album is like garage rock, or garage punk. The fact that these guys are Swedish blows my mind. Sounds so American.... If that makes sense. And in typical punk style, the album consists of 12 songs, and is done in 28 minutes. I remember the song Main Offender from the video game Rock Band. Favourite songs: Hate to Say I Told You So, A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T, Outsmarted, Main Offender, "Die, All Right!", Untutored Youth, Here We Go Again, Hail Hail Spit N' Drool Least favourite songs: Supply and Demand 5/5
yeah babyyyyy 5/5
some pretty alright punk
3.5
Punk high energy, kinda bummed it’s a greatest hits album.
Decent garage rock sound was energetic and generally good
Excellent album. Very short.
Songs lacking in direction and execution.
Following along in the Punk vein, The Hives bring a more modern sound to the genre on this album. I almost feel some metal mixed into this. TBH, I like it more than any of the other punk albums I’ve heard so far.
Straightforward, good, loud and I enjoyed it. Though not enough to listen more. This falls in the category of, I would not turn it off, but nothing grabs me enough to actively seek it out.
I love this band, idk if it’s just the mood I’m in or what, but these guys kinda just hit that pop/rage funk vibe for me
Very much my bag - Hives are classic
Really really likes it, already like the hives so
A mixed bag. Some of it is fun, some of it sounds like someone is trying to sell me a car. Also, including comps and greatest hits collections in album lists is kinda lame.
Powerful Fav songs: Hate to say i told you. Main offender (￣ー￣)
I'm really confused why this album exists and why it's on the list instead of Veni Vidi Vicious. Anyway, I digress. I was in high school at this time, absolutely loving the garage rock revival. Someone told me, "Hey, you'd probably like The Hives!" so I went out and bought VVV, having never listened to them before. I instantly loved it and it was the soundtrack to my summer in 2002. I remember putting this CD in my Walkman and riding my bike listening to it, hoping it wouldn't skip. Kids these days will never understand our struggle, man. I'm not sure why I stopped listening to The Hives because this was such a great trip down memory lane.
Not bad. Some very "The Hives" sounding songs. Some screeching. A few good tracks to pick off it, but not a complete album.
nice punk rock, not very imaginative in the long run, though
Rock is more than just screaming and having your voice crack
Think im coming down with a case of the hives
Good
At best a perfectly serviceable collection of garage punk songs and at worst fairly average. Aside from a few highlights its not anything to write home about.
Could barely get through it.
with an album name like that you are just asking to be ridiculed. doesnt help that it sounds like the most generic garage rock there ever was! painfully mediocre. its like if ai made some punk rock lol NNN
eh
Ready for slightly polished garage punk
Like the white stripes slammyjam but pretty catchy.
Oh my god, these guys are my new favorite band! Because they told me they are! Even though I think their music is derivative and stale! And monotonous! And repetitive! And redundant! And it all sounds the same! With every passing song my enthusiasm is waning! Please make it stop!
Not everyday listening but good for getting pumped up
Sounds fine but nothing prominent. I could listen to it if I had to. "The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime" (4/5 for that song) is my favorite one on here.
Well, a cheat code unlocked by including a compilation album, albeit one early in their career. Fast paced, entirely derivative but still a lot of fun. Opens with the best song (Hate to say I told you so), and gradually diminishes in quality. Good driving songs, no-could hate this* but also can't see how anyone makes the Hives their favourite band. Mostly harmless. *OK, it's the internet, of course some will hate this.
A decent album, I liked Die, All Right! But no other songs really stood out.
reheated and disposable. if art decorates space and music decorates time, this is auditory motel art
I enjoyed album's frenetic energy and pace. It's a very good punk album but I don't see anything in particular that elevates it above other efforts in the genre.
Garage rock/punk. Pretty cool compilation of songs from the swedish band The Hives. I had never heard of this band but was pleasantly surprised by the quality of their music. All of the songs sounded good on a technical level, loved the energy and vocals. But the big problem with the genre is that it's very easy for all of them to kind of blend together. Many of the songs were unique but there were also several that just sounded too similar. I think if they played with the styles a little bit more they could have had something really special. That being said it was just a compilation so there's not much that can be done about the songs at that point. Overall a collection of a bunch of pretty good songs, I had a good time even if it was a tad bit on the short side. Might revisit some songs, it's short enough to revisit all if I want. 3.5/5
I mean they're just a cool band aren't they? Not my new favourite band by any means, but definitely shifted up in my ratings
Wow, The Hives bottled a special energy on these songs. They sound just tight and punchy enough to showcase the songwriting and just rough and sloppy enough to capture the spirit of a live punk show. They’re punk bordering on hardcore but they also sound like they love The Rolling Stones. Really fun sound. Kicks like a double shot of espresso.
I'm really glad this band is making a comeback and is touring, even if they look a few years older and might not have the footwork from their younger days. When "Hate To Say I Told You So" came out, everyone wanted to be a rock and roller. I mean, "Is This It" by The Strokes came out 3 months before this record. This kind of music was HOT. I definitely have not heard most of these songs, which is a pleasant surprise. It's great! There's a lot of solid tracks on it, and even though they are kind of a little too popular for a true punk band, hearing some of their songs brings me back to playing shows with punk bands and sharing some of that raw energy. This happens the most with "Untutored Youth", "Mad Man", and "Here We Go Again". In fact, a lot of my "real punk" punk friends would have probably loved this album if I played it for them blind and told them it's from some band that no ones heard of yet.
This is Need for Speed music.
Decently fun punk-like music
Another album where songs are good individually but too much to listen to for an entire album.
This was pretty decent punk/post punk. First two tracks are the best. But why not just include Veni Vidi Vicious on the list rather than a compilation? Strong 3.
urla urla pure... a me non piacerà mai.
8/10
Fun and upbeat. I enjoyed this album!
Rock, Punk, 2001 -> 2
A perfect punk/pop/rock banger to open the album - I love that track - regularly crops up on one of my playlist shuffles. But the rest gets nowhere near that level for me. A high 2.
Great album by Swedish people who know how to rock! I'm surprised they have allowed a compilation album on this list (All Our Yesterday's is a banger of a comp. I look forward to its inclusion). Its got their most famous tracks on it m, so what's not to like? A low 4.
-1 star for being a compilation album
Eh, it’s just kinda loud and noisy. 4/10
Pretending this is veni vidi viciosus
Some decent songs, a lot of it sounds the same. 3/5 Probably won’t listen again
Quintessential punk band for the millennials. Confused as to why they would choose a compilation album though.
Interesting example of early 2000s garage rock reboot. I'd only previously heard "Hate to Say I Told You So". Many of the other tracks sounded similar, raw, unpolished, heavily distorted guitars, yelling lyrics. Overall it was ok
As long as you scream hard enough your music becomes better right? This is just loud. Gave me active annoyance 2/10
Not too bad an album, not great but not bad either. Short sharp songs with a lot of energy
This is some let's get up and kick ass from start to finish. After all that, there's only one song that really stands up above all, but still a good time over all.
It was fun to listen to the album.
short and sweet. listened 2x back to back. 3.4/5
Zeker niet mijn nieuwe favoriete band. Eerste nummer is de moeite nog waard, daarna veel geschreeuw en (toegegeven: aardige) gitaar.
2.5 maybe? Doesnt hold up
Heard *of* them but never *heard* them. Strong Stooges vibes at times, but overall this sounds like a dime-a-dozen post-punk band.
hate to say i told you so main offender supply and demand outsmarted here we go again automatic schmuck the hives are the law, you are crime
The not very good vocals and simplistic music and high energy are winning in small doses and absolutely exhausting at album length.
Super interesting riffs and an amazing drummer! Liked every song of the album. If you like this try listening to "equal idiots" it's a Belgian band with the same energy.
Short album, I enjoyed it a lot 4/5
Pretty fun and some crassness
High energy garage rock - love it. Really fun album.
meh
I never got into the Hives as much as I thought I should. They do a few very good songs, but a lot of them are very samey to me.
Pretty decent but don't think i'm ever going to choose to put it on
So much better than I remembered. My dad hates the hives which makes me like them even more. Also full of gold so, that's awesome.
I’ve always liked this album but I forgot how good it is as a whole. For me, this was the best of the early 00s garage revival.
Meh
Too screamy for me. Stand-out: A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T
Saw the Hives with a buddy and we were sitting in the loge seats. Lead singer Howlin Pelle Almqvist decides to scale the wall and as soon as he reached us, he wasn't sure how to get down. It was one of the cooler moments I've experienced at a rock show. That all said, Veni, Vidi, Vicious should have been in the book.
Unusual to see a compilation LP. Ultimately the sound production is quite competent, as is the playing of the band; my primary point of contention is the homogeneity of the sound, where the coarse garage punk aesthetic blends together from track to track which when taken in concert with the muddy vocals leads the individual tracks to not stand out much from one another. Still, a decent enough time for some energetic listening.
This album was really good, I enjoyed it Top tracks: Hate To Say I Told You So
Maybe not new favorite, but pretty decent, no standout songs, but dig the overall vibes. 3 enthusiastic foot taps out of 5 🦶🦶🦶
This was pretty fucking good, they border on hardcore punk in places, wasn't expecting that.
Nice to have a punk rock album once in a while. Although a best of compilation feels a little bit like cheating in this list.. would have preferred one of their original albums. So “only” 3 stars for this one.
Short, sharp and rocking!
Music good, just didn’t grab me by the balls.
hammer
Love The Hives, but their previous albums are so much better than this compilation.
these types all sound the same, and some others are much better than this and more bearable. this is most deff not my new favourite band, and it's far from being something I had to ever listen to. it's annoying as fuck.. bonus points for being so short
Svenska hjältar!
Just okay?
Boring repetitive rock
I got a different Hives album (Tyrannosaurus Hives) in a separate album project I'm currently doing. These are the first two Hives albums I've heard but I like them. Their sound reminds me of Anti-Flag. 4 star
not bad- better than I expected it to be
A couple decent songs despite being pretty damn samey. Feels like a solid 3.
Another band I missed from that time period. Enjoyed this.
all the songs sound the same and it’s under 30 minutes…the perfect album
This is not my new favorite band.
A greatest hits album from a band that had no hits and released only two albums prior. Compilation albums should not be on this list. A title that may have seemed clever at the time but they were not “new” or anyone’s “favorite” band. Songs one at a time can be fun but one after the next becomes very tiresome. Give the listener a pause, change things up just a little. This album I’m really surprised is on this list.
I like the track list of Veni Vedi Vicious more. Still awesome.
I knew one song. Overall the album was alright. It was relatively short and none of the songs drug on. I would listen to it again.
Decent album with some nice bangers. Won't be listening to it on repeat, but enjoyed it quite a bit!
This is what AI would come up with if you asked for a pop punk album. It's as inoffensive as you can get, plus a little fun along the way. The killer bass lines stand out. You've herd the rest of the album after the first three tracks
What a banger of a first tune. Great garage rock/punk. 4 stars
OK, so straightforward garage band stuff. Now, it's good garage band stuff if you're into the screamy. There's the one big hit that leads it off that's been in car commercial after car commercial. After that, it just gets repetitive to my ears. Same three chords, same tempo, same blarg blarg. Unexpected bangers: Untutored Youth, Here We Go Again.
This list is really making me hate British music
This punk album was much easier to listen to. If I wanted to get drunk and break stuff, this is what I would choose. Solid 3.5. I feel itchy though.
Such an obnoxious album, yet I enjoyed it. It’s very well produced and probably would be in my regular rotation if the vocals didn’t suck so much. The lead singer lacks charisma and ruins the incredible vibe the rest of the band brings. Too much yelling, not enough singing.
A nostalgic pleasure that I should return to more often.
A fun, high-energy rock joyride.
The Hives have a great sound, although it's pretty monotonous. This album is only 28 minutes, and honestly it's hard to listen to all the way through, since it's almost nonstop thrashing and belting.
Solid garage punk. This sound was very popular in the early 2000s. Nothing particularly stands out. Good production and the songs hover around the same tempo/feel.
My new favourite band? - If only ... 2/5
Great!
Too overproduced and polished to be punk. There's a reason that one song is the only one anybody knows.
like a slightly more modern punk band. not my cup of tea.
Started out with a great head-banger but went downhill from there.
First couple songs are alright, but it soon gets a bit too repetitive for my taste. At least it's short.
Great fun and it's either this or more limp.bizlit
Pretty good
Music was good but became repetitive
This whole album sounds like the Dollar Tree version of Blitzkrieg Bop.
Эту музыку писали в гараже, и слушать еë надо только в гараже. Чинить карбюратор под эту стену звука. Ахуенчик. НО: почему сюда попал сборник? Не по правилам, ставлю 1 балл + 1 по ОВ
Upbeat good solid album. Stand out was “hate to say I told you so” for me.
Nothing special but enjoyed it enough. Fav track: Die, Alright!
Really enjoyed this, and a vibe we haven't seen a ton of on the list - red-hot garagey punk rock. It's not reinventing the wheel but it gets ya going and there's a lot of fun to be had in the lyrics. Strong three and a half. Fave track: Supply and Demand
A perfectly fine album with a distinct and punchy sound I’ll probably never put on again. Enjoyable but all kind of blended together a bit for me. Two and a half. Fave track: Mad Man
Enjoyed, good for open driving
opening track starts strong! but oh my the rest is bleh
too strong for my current mood
Bad sign when a band you've bever actually listened to have several songs that are already played to death. Not their fault, and tbf they are bangers.
I liked this group for a long while but I never stopped to listen to their albums. It was very good !
Honestly this felt like a pretty standard garage rock album. It wasn't bad at all but nothing really stood out to me. I enjoyed it but it didn't blow me away at all.
It's kind of a bonkers album, but even with how wild and brash it is, it somehow doesn't feel very unique and actually feels quite conventional. Maybe it's because this music got ripped off a lot in the early 2000s or if it's just the kind of music that was in every iPod commercial. Or maybe this music itself is already a ripoff of earlier forms garage and proto-punk. However, I do remember even at the time that this album came out, it felt like The Hives were a a band we were all supposed to like, but no one really did. I don't know of anyone that was actually a big fan of the The Hives then or now, but this music was being sprayed all over the place. The sound is good and fast. Its garage rock. They're having fun, they're making noise. Its not quite punk, but it also is punk. I like how fast and punchy it is. Though, most songs sound very similar and they don't seem to break it up with sing along choruses or oi chants that you find in most punk music. On the flip side, they also don't have many bridges or guitar solos or really anything to break up the quick progression of distorted power chords to align closer with rock music. I hate to say it, but I'm kind of bored with this record even with it being a wild ride.
There was a time in my life I would’ve really loved this. It was more punky than I expected, but it was still just okay. I don’t think this deserves the same score as Bjork, but I don’t think it deserves a 3. 2.5 stars.
Compilation album?? 2/5
Trash
Forgettable
This..this is satirical, right? This is some meta commentary about punk music? A cynical ploy to see how many idiots will buy this garbage? Because if not, holy shit. Generic music, generic (bad) lyrics. The first track is a blatant rip-off of Blur. This is like rich kids doing a book report on what they think punk music is. I stand corrected—Slayer was not the longest 28 minutes of my life. This was. At least Slayer puts effort into their lyrics. Good god. I cannot begin to understand why this band is on this list, especially for a compilation album that seems to have been a blatant cash grab—they weren’t famous enough after releasing multiple albums, so they repackaged the best (!) songs off of them and released that. I’d give this negative stars if I could.
Good stuuf
Compilation and greatest hits albums shouldn't be on this list. And why this one and not Veni Vidi Vicious or Tyrannosaurus Hives which both are excellent albums? I love The Hives but this gets a 3/5 for the above reason.
Decent, but one hit seeing does not make a hit album.
First song was the only one I had heard. Every song sounds the same.
Molto interessante
Decent, but a bit one-dimensional.
Guitar jangly yumminess
Probably one of the more unique commercial sounds to come out of the strokes era. All the sounds on here are faster and louder than typical garage rock songs. It almost sounds similar to the Dead Kennedys on some tracks. The intermission broadcasting noises remind me of panic. 3.45
NO SON DE MI ESTILO.......
Amazing album. I wouldn’t call it an album, though; it’s more of a compilation. We already got a Motörhead live album as an album, so I don’t really blame Dimery for his choice. Definitely gonna listen to more of The Hives soon. 4.9/5 Fav: “Die, All Right!”, “Main Offender” Least Fav: None
I am not sure if it is really my new favorite band
Not my new favourite band. Immature, unimaginative and abrasive.
Definitely not my new favourite band but this was a solid collection of tracks. Not much else to say.
BL: I've heard of The Hives but I've never had a chance to listen to them. So will have to see how it goes. AL: Fun upbeat punk music. Nothing particularly world changing and only clocking in at around 30 minutes. This was enjoyable but I doubt I'd be running back to this to relisten any time particularly soon, compare to a lot of records on this list its incredibly forgettable and I'm not particularly sure why it was included. FT: "Main Offender", "Untutored Youth", "A.K.a. I - D - I - O - T" 2/5
Never heard of 'em but like 'em if I'm in a garage punk sort of mood!
Garage punkgarage rockpunk rock, indie. Estuvieron en Valladolid.
Def not one of the top 1001 albums, who decided this should be on the list? not unlistenable, but very unremarkable.
Not a big fan of this style of music. Simple riffs, paper-thin sound.
Maybe I'm over scoring this one based on numerous duds in a row, but good album. plenty of fun songs worth listening to.
I do agree that it's weird to put a freaking compilation album here, I thought it's not allowed. Anyway, The Hives are pretty bold to tell me that they'll be my new favorite band. But after hearing their hits here, I think it might be true. With a fun, rocking punk that is not annoying, this album is among the few punk albums that I enjoyed from start to finish. Anyway, it's a 5/5 experience. I don't really care if it's not supposed to be here, it's not the album's fault.
Energiek, zelfingenomen met een knipoog. Rauw, eenvoudig, maar niet te eenvoudig
Wat een energie! En ze klinken zeker vet. Maar net als bij de Pixies is een heel album lang deze snelheid/energie een beetje veel van het goede. Niet helemaal mijn smaak.
meh. Good rock but nothing really stuck for me.
Loud Swedish punk energy
Wow, that's a lot of energy. Actually woke me up this morning. Not sure why they included a compilation album on the list, but I'll rate it based on the merits of the music. Strong stuff, like Iggy Pop reincarnated (even though he is still alive). 4 stars.
Great punk vibes
Love the riotous punk energy with a hint of the strokes style indie rock coming through here and there. Strongest songs: Hate to say I told you so, Untutored youth, AKA I.D.I.O.T Weakest songs: Main Offender, Hives are law, you are crime
Very immediate, very exciting and very good.
It is, in fact, not my new favourite band, far from it, but it is not my least favourite band as well. They might comfortably fall into the most ambivalent category, with quite entertaining style, quickly turning into boring and monotonne throughout the album. Interesting punk rock concept, but ultimately, it fell flat, at least in my opinion. Good try though.
Zu energetisch für mich heute 😅
Not really my kind of jam
fairly good garage rock. some bangers. 7.3/10
This may not be my new favourite band, but I certainly enjoyed it more than I thought I might. This, as punk, hit the sweet spot between being edgy and aggressive, and also something you can bop your head to in your car on the way to work. The songs and the album are just the right length for the amount of energy they exude. "Hate to Say I Told You So" is a song I will always enjoy.
That was a short little high energy ride. I kind of liked it.
I had fun with this!
I started off not in the mood for this punky-rocky music from a Swedish band I never heard of. After a couple of songs it seemed that the albums wasn’t going to change my mental state. But as this went on there were several songs (Outsmarted and Here We Go Again, for two) I really enjoyed despite my mood - and I softened to this. Maybe if I wasn’t feeling run down and old this would get a higher rating - but I did end up enjoying these kids.
A lot of this sounded very familiar but confirmed not my new favorite band
It's powerful, visceral, and for me a good hit of nostalgia. But is it actually good? No, not really. Good to jump around to for a song, but not an album to sit down and listen to.
4/5. Think this is my first compilation album, which feels a little like cheating but these are some pretty cool songs. Pop punk is fun genre when done right and this is done very well. Short and sweet, solid ideas portrayed and stay just as long as needed. Will probably play these songs multiple times, great stuff.
Sehän saa b-puolella vauhtia. Hyvä siis, ettei levyllä ole liikaa pituutta. Hitillä sisään ja hyvältä kuulostaa. Sitten menee ehkä mun makuuni liian huudoksi, ei toimi ihan täydellisesti yhteen aikas tuotetun lopputuloksen kanssa.
Päätä nyökytteleviä riffejä. Plus soundi joka tietää, mitä tavoittelee, mutta ei uskalla tavoittaa sitä.
Knew the hits but this is a decent album anyway
Cool punk rock, repetitive
Похоже панк из 2001 года. Визгливый, крикливый, безцеремонный Hives лучше чем Germs, но... ну мех. Мне не 13 лет чтоб повизгивать от "моей новой любимой группы". Это не _моя_ новая любимая группа. Но стоит сказать, что на паре треков я отбил ритм, so here's that. Это, пожалуй, наибольшее удовольствие, которое я получил от этого альбома. Две звезды.
10/10 I’m surprised that I love Swedish garage rock this much, but damn is it a great rock album
1.5 - I don't understand why this compilation is on the 1001 albums rather than an album, but there's probably a reason that The Hives aren't an album band. Why even bother putting a compilation on there if you can't find an actual album by them that's good enough? Just choose a different band! As you can probably tell, I didn't like this. It was so, so repetitive, and it wasn't even that long, but it felt like it went on forever. It was basically like listening to the same song on loop for thirty minutes. And basically every song follows the pattern of chanting the song name in the chorus, which was so aggravating when I caught on to the pattern. It feels so lazy. Really not my type of thing.
On paper I should like it but nothing really stood out. -1 tax because it's a compilation album
Passabler Punk Rock.
I’m sure someone has already made the joke: they’re not my new favorite band. It’s never really annoying but never very remarkable.
Fast paced and dirty, perfect if the mood calls for it
They are very very wrong with the assumptive title. Perhaps "Your New Favourite Band to Shite On as they are complete ass and only listened to chav wankers" would have been a smarter title.
I’ve never heard of the hives and I’ve also never heard an album that sounds so much like the whole thing was made while on cocaine
Decent garage rock. It's over quickly!
Pitched at 13 year olds who like jumping up and down. Really awful.
This band is so much fun.
Great early 2000's rock album. Very punk, pretty alternative. HTSITYS is a classic album but Main Offender and Automatic Schmuck are also great.
This is a genre and era I thoroughly enjoy as a millennial. Hate to say I told you so is such a strong opener. Stronger punk influence than I remember or ever knew the Hives to be (Supply and Demand, Untutored youth for example), maybe because HTSITYS is so different from the rest of the album. Overall a 3*, doesn't cross into fave albums territory. Highlights: Main Offender, HTSITYS, AKA IDIOT
Some allright punk 2
3.8/5 Some tracks are kinda repetitive, but good overall. Favorites were "Hate To Say I Told You So", "Main Offender", "Die, All Right!" and "A.K.A I-D-I-O-T".
Love the Hives but why wouldn’t you just put an album on here?
They were not my new favourite band
Fair enough
First impressions weren't as good. Thought it was just another stale blur type britpop album, but actually not that bad. I'm kinda starting to like it. Not giving up on it yet. 6.5/10
It's just about fine. Weird that there's a compilation on here..
Nice discovery
meh. A more aggressive and less clever Sloan?
Relatively entertaining but the songs all sound the same after a while. I was into the first couple of songs before I realized it. Seems like the kind of thing I would have liked more in my early 20s than now.
3.5 second half is full on bangers.
Yeah. They aren’t. Kinda interesting but there are a million better groups from the early 2000s. And hip hop went nuts. But we have this to listen to. Your new 1500th favourite band. That band that was on the radio but you didn’t turn it off but just waited patiently till it ended when they hopefully played someone better. Not even worth dire. Just there. 2 stars.
Why do the first bars of every song sound like a cover? While unoriginal they do a good punky voice crack. Is it different to anything? Not being the expert I just listened to the fun garage rock punk and drummy stuff wondering if it's a happy part of life...
I discovered a lot of great bands on those cd’s attached to English music magazines in the 90’s & noughties, and this was certainly one of them. Still a big regret that I missed seeing them at The Metro in 2009. Anyway, this compilation cd was the first cd of theirs that I bought. I just love the madness of it and the first track, Hate To Say I Told You So, is as good a track as they’ve ever done.not a classic album but a bloody good listen.
Dimery! You've broken your own rule about "no compilations"! This is listed _everywhere_ as a compilation of tracks from The Hives previous albums and a few EP tracks. Tut tut! Such imprecision! Why can we have this and not (say) a Little Richard or James Brown compilation? That would be much more appropriate for those two artists than the arbitrary and non-representative albums you picked for this list. But, back to The Hives. They are enormous fun. It's loud and energetic rock and roll, which most reminds me of The Stooges with all the colour saturation turned up and the rough edges filed off. This record doesn't let up for its completely appropriate 28 minute run time. Any longer and I would get bored, and boredom is a sin in the world of The Hives. I don't feel the need to buy and repeatedly listen to this record, but if they were playing a mid-sized venue in my town, I would totally go see them live. Or maybe even a franchised Hives band (https://pitchfork.com/news/the-hives-issue-call-for-cover-bands-saying-theyre-franchising-live-shows/)
I’m a big fan of The Hives and have seen them live. Some real belters on this album!! 😎🎸🥁🎼⭐️
This is a good album. The recording or mix sounds bad. There are times that it sounds like the audio is wavy. That threw me off of the whole album.
Good album, fast, funny, energetic
As far as punk revival bands go... they were actually not bad. Musically it was basic repetition of arrangements... but you could listen to it OK... apart from the vocals, which were dreadful.
Odd that there’s a compilation in this collection. They’ve got one really good jam, Hate to Say I Told You So, and the rest are too similar. The constant screaming/yelling/singing is grating on the nerves.
Ease off the snare!
I had this when it came out, not sure it should be here in this book as it's a compilation, but it's still the 'album' which launched them in the UK for sure, along with that Kylie Minogue advert for pants or rodeo or something, so ok. Was really punchy and I loved it back then. I did always think it was kind of disposable at the time and didn't think it would stand up forever or anything, just incredibly immediate and loads of fun for a short burst. The band members names are cringe. Vigilante Steve? The breakdown bits in Untutored Youth are cringe. Hey, would you like lemon and lime with that piece of advice, mister? What? Also I remember the follow up Tyrannosaurus Hives was the law of diminishing returns, just more of the same and I lost interest. Turns out it's not in the latest edition, oh wow, that's the oldest album to be removed I think so far. Anyway this is fun for half an hour, half of the songs are pretty unremarkable, was definitely one for chucking bits of into playlists. Die Alright was and still is fantastic for pegging it down hills on your bike to.
Wasn’t a fan the first time, still not
C+ Hate to Say I Told You So 3 Main Offender 3 Supply and Demand 3 Die, All Right! 3 Untutored Youth 3 Outsmarted 3 Mad Man 3 Here We Go Again 3 A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T 3 Automatic Schmuck 3 Hail Hail Spit N' Drool* 3 The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime 2 This is boilerplate late 90s/early 2000s rock. I'm honestly surprised it's even on here because it seems so peripheral.
A nice throwback to a time I don't explore that often.
Real cool
Mit my cup.
As punk as it should be.
So many alternative obvious choices for early 2000s music and this is what is chosen? Derivative, repetitive, lame post-punk. To rephrase Bilbo Baggins, “No, thank you. We don't want any more pretenders, commercializes, or punk posers.”
Niet zo bijzonder, maar ook niet slecht. Lekker gemiddeld, 3 sterren.
Pretty decent, nothing really grabbed me but listenable.
Eigentlich ganz gut nur komische Compilation
Fantastic energy. It suffers from being part of that incredibly saturated indie rock era of the early 2000s, and struggles to fully elevate itself above that, but it's a really good record full of bangers