Any fans of "The Hives" here?

[Yoshi]

Anybody here apart from me like the well dressed badass band known as The Hives? They ROCK! Walk Idiot Walk, Hate To Say I Told You So and Die All Right are always on Kerrang.

[Mark Everclear]

they're alright. they suffer from darkness syndrome, i think.. huge image, good showmanship, but basically the same song over and over again.. i do really like the new single, mind.

[Alanok]

Wouldn't call myself a fan but really liked their last album 'Your New Favourite Band'. Plus the use of their song on the Agent Provocateur advert with Kylie in her undies was a masterstroke in more ways than one.

[LouBarlow]

Their new album is rubbish.

[Dazzle]

i find it hard to listen to their new single without hearing the WHO's "Can't Explain"

[Idle Child]

i think the hives also rock. I heard a wee bit of their new material and i think i can get into it after enough listens. "Hate To Say I Told You So" rocks though.

[Nathan-Wind]

they're alright. they suffer from darkness syndrome, i think.. huge image, good showmanship, but basically the same song over and over again.. i do really like the new single, mind.

I think thats nailed on. They have ONE okay song. On its on its sounds so exciting but its got no longetivity.

[Arch Stanton]

The new album is a bit of a shocker though. (Although it's not Libertines or Keane bad.)


Quite liked the 'new favorite band' stuff but alas thier one trick as come to an end.

[AndyWilson]

I think thats nailed on. They have ONE okay song. On its on its sounds so exciting but its got no longetivity.

Isn't that a description of the perfect pop song??

[mcallisterian]

just got a copy of new album - will give it a listen soon

[LouBarlow]

Make sure to burn it afterwards...

[jmdomain]

Advocating Arson.

Good name for a band. :suspect:

[Yoshi]

Nah, the Hives are awesome! I really want to get the album so don't burn it and give it to a hippie like me!

[Radiohead]

A marvellously acerbic review from The Independent's Andy Gill:

A conundrum: when brothel-creeper showbands such as Darts and Showaddywaddy trotted out their Teddy-boy pastiches of decades-old rock'n'roll styles, they were rightly derided as bowdlerising the original rockers' work; yet when The Hives grind out their similarly anachronistic pastiches of tired old punk-rock riffage, they are acclaimed as something bright and sparky and new. Beats me, because Tyrannosaurus Hives, for all its terse, brittle guitars and its machine-gun sprays of vocals, sounds about as moribund and lifeless as music gets. Musical excitement generally depends on dynamics: contrast, timing and transgression - three things completely absent from this album. There's consequently no sense of light and shade about these 12 songs. Everything seems to evince exactly the same degree of quasi-hysterical squawking, whether they're singing about a "Diabolic Scheme", a "See Through Head", or "Love in Plaster". It's all empty, and even though it lasts only a few seconds more than half an hour, it seems like an eternity with the CD player accidentally set to "Repeat". The most inventive these Swedish copyists get is the use of strings on "Diabolic Scheme", hardly a breakthrough innovation, but an extraordinary aberration in the context of the album as a whole.

2 stars out of 5

[LouBarlow]

Spot. On.

[Disappearer]

The new album's not terrible, but I think when they first 'arrived' on the scene it was a case of being at the right place at the right time.

[redmosquito]

Couldn't stand there first album, so i'm not even going to bother with this one. Tosh of the highest order.

[Raphph]

Couldn't stand there first album, so i'm not even going to bother with this one. Tosh of the highest order.

I disgagree, but I'll never argue with a fellow green-army fan!!!! :thumbs: