Veni Vidi Vicious by The Hives

Pros: High energy, make your body jump, havotic music.
Cons: Another girl is hugely out of place

The Hives are for people who like their music fast, loud, and furiously havotic. Is is chaotic, yet full of great life. It is punk at best. With melodies and lyrics that are as catchy as a baseball, it makes you feel good. Thankfully, The Hives ...

Pros: One good song, and it really rocks
Cons: Vocals, production, and the fact that it is possible to rock and suck

First off, I have to apologize to Eric and Greg, my two brothers who teamed up to give me this CD (one provided advice, the other provided the cash and the giftwrap). It’s probably pretty poor form to trash a gift. But hey, that Flaming Lips disc...

Pros: An Excellent Breakthrough effort from the Hives.
Cons: Its short length at 28 minutes. Why couldn't they bring a 29th minute?

With the music scene already wallowing in its own blandness, there are those who are wondering if there will be any good music to come around in the year 2002. Already, the radio have given the passionate music fans chunks of crap like Nickelback,...

Pros: Exhilarating. Whee!!!
Cons: Insubstantial and indistinguishable. But screw that.

As Sweden's hottest new export, the Hives have garnered a reputation as a gloriously raucous, uncompromisingly rockin' troupe of Iggy Pop-lovin' Swedes who put on a killer live show. They're also notoriously weird, but let's look past that, shan't we?...

Pros: A few decent songs
Cons: 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 ...

Pros: it's better than The Vines
Cons: ZERO replayability factor, everything sounds alike mostly

As we continue down our "garage rock revival" path, the next band that we come across is none other than our country's newest favorite Swedish import, The Hives. Complete with matching suits and ties, the Hives at least sound like they're having...

Pros: Raw power and fun.
Cons: A few weak moments, "Find Another Girl" has to go.

When I bought Veni Vidi Vicious by The Hives back in July, I was expecting to hear an album full of raw, gritty garage rock revivalism. I got plenty of that and I also got what has to be the most purely fun rock album I've heard in quite a while.
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Pros: 11 great songs
Cons: 1 really bad one

The Hives have very interesting ethics. They were formed in 1993 by their songwriter Randy Fitzimmons (who is rumored to be a member of the band), when the lead singer was all of 14. They formed the band as a response to grunge music. They hated it. They ...

Pros: Exaggerated singing and playing, one of the most original bands I've heard in punk rock!
Cons: Too short, Another Girl

In my own “personal fad” of PJ Harvey and Tori Amos, I had every doubt in my mind that a Swedish punk garage rock band known as The Hives would come easing into my life with one of the shortest albums I’ve ever heard of, boasting...

Pros: Tight, power-punk madness with the amps up to 11
Cons: lyrics are meaningless, sounds totally been-there-done-that

The slogans, the absurd manifesto-like liner notes, the sharp suits and retro glasses. While not necessarily relevant, this reviewer is baffled by the Hives (and indeed many of their rock-revival contemporaries). When Nicholaus Arson is jiving about...

Pros: Eccentric, alive, energetic, ingenious, and AWESOME DRUMS.
Cons: One shockingly horrible song, strangely fake.

After that horrible review that I wrote about the Strokes, my next stop on the "Bringing Back Rock" Review Tour is the Hives. What sucks, though, is that they're not really bringing back rock... they're just bringing back punk... if even that. Oh ...

Pros: Awesome stuff!
Cons: Rather short CD, running a bit below half an hour.

The Hives is the new sensation from across the Atlantic. More specifically they are from Sweden, and man, these Swedes know how to rock!

Although they have been around for a while, Veni Vedi Vicious is the first album from this band...

Pros: High energy garage rock
Cons: Find another girl

Many people classify The Hives as punk music. I will admit their earlier album was punk, but Veni Vidi Vicious is garage rock at it's best.

With other garage rock bands like The Vines, The White Stripes and The Strokes, The Hives are in...

Pros: This thing ROCKS!
Cons: Such great driving music, I find myself driving waaaay to fast

In the midst of all the garbage mainstream radio and record labels have been dumping on the listening public in recent years (i.e. all rap/rock hybrids, Dave Matthews, you turn on some music station and figure it out), real rock and roll has been hard to...

Pros: ENERGY!
Cons: Supply & Demand

I'm a sucker for this garagey punk. I was visiting the Epitaph website when lo and behold the name, The Hives caught my eye. Can't explain really why so I read on about them. They were mentioned as being similar to The Makers, so I thought I guess I...