Your New Favorite Band: Best of [Import]

The Hives | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 4, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Poptones
• ASIN: B00005QC3J
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,283 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hate to Say I Told You So

2. Main Offender

3. Supply and Demand

4. Die, All Right!

5. Untutored Youth

6. Outsmarted

7. Mad Man

8. Here We Go Again

9. A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T

10. Automatic Schmuck

11. Hail Hail Spit N'Drool

12. The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Itchin' for it, January 30, 2002

By 

David M Todd (Oakland, Ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your New Favorite Band: Best of (Audio CD)

I know we are all weary after a year of Strokes fueled critical adulation, but I have to say...

These guys Rock.
Their music makes me want to tear up the house,
quit my job and take up professional air guitar.
Turn this record up.
Great slabs of torn speaker muffled dueling guitars and pounding bass. Handsome crooner Howlin Pelle Almqvist is possessed of the finest rock and roll scream since Gerry Roslie of 60's favorite sons the Sonics.
With matching threads, white shoes, ascots, and a moustache sporting young Orson Welles/John Belushi look alike on bass,
What's not to like?

At first glance it would be easy to dismiss these boys as mere sixties revivalists. But they manage to mine the last four decades with equal aplomb, flowing effortlessly from garage to hardcore to new wave. Influences include the entire Pebbles/Nuggets canon, 70's punk like the Dead Boys and a just a touch of Gary Numan.

Pick Hits include:
Main Offender
Hate to say I told you so
Here we go again
Die Alright

Plus this cd comes with 4 cool mpeg videos

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure punk, July 25, 2002

By 

R. Fahey "paddyrf" (NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your New Favorite Band: Best of (Audio CD)

I got this as a gift, and it is the best disc I've heard in a long time. I was in my teens in the late 1970s and am well familiar with the punk of that time and its influences. If you like 60s garage punk, Raw-Power era Stooges, early Damned, the Dead Boys, and the Saints, you will like this. These guys manage to tie together the best of past punk sounds into one awesome new sound.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your New Favorite Band, December 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Your New Favorite Band: Best of (Audio CD)

The Hives wear their influences on their sleeve: Iggy and the Stooges, *all* 60's psychedelia garage: Nuggets 1965-68 Original Artyfacts, 70's punk like the Ramones, 80's American Hardcore like Black Flag, Minor Threat et al. through to the Pixies and still write original (relatively), catchy, punk powerpop tunes that sound great at high decibels!

They capture the progression of punk music from the 60's to the present so clearly.

If you like well-written punk music with a hook, buy this.