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Hives - Lex Hives - Music Head - 04-06-2012 online listen not much here for me expected better based on the last if I could only lower my expectations go in thinking this is gonna suck 1.5 from me and a converted 2.1 from the pros at allmusic from the album - Go Right Ahead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NQx2R4jO7I released June 5th, 2012 Bio - from allmusic Eight years into their career, the Hives rose from garage rock stalwarts to one of the trendiest bands of the early 2000s, along with the Strokes and the White Stripes. Mixing arty contrivances such as a strict black-and-white dress code and the guidance of a (possibly imaginary) Svengali named Randy Fitzsimmons with Stooges-inspired rock, the Hives -- Nicholaus Arson, Chris Dangerous, Dr. Matt Destruction, Vigilante Carlstroem, and Howlin' Pelle Almqvist -- formed in 1993 in Fagersta, Sweden, while they were still in their teens. After signing with a subsidiary of the Burning Heart label in 1995, they released their debut EP, Oh Lord! When? How?, the following year. The group switched to Burning Heart for their first full-length, Barely Legal, in 1997; that year they also embarked on their first U.S. tour. After the release of 1998's A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T EP, changes in the band's management put things on hold for a time. However, the Hives returned in 2000 with their second full-length album, Veni Vidi Vicious, which featured the singles "Hate to Say I Told You So" and "Main Offender." The album, along with tours with the like- minded International Noise Conspiracy and the Hellacopters, generated serious buzz around the group, leading to praise from stars as diverse as Noel Gallagher and Courtney Love, and a deal with Alan McGee's Poptones label in 2001. Stateside, Gearhead Records reissued Barely Legal, A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T, and Hate to Say I Told You So. More touring and the re-release of their singles in the U.K. culminated with the Top Ten debut of Your New Favourite Band, a compilation of songs from their two previous albums and EPs, upon its release in spring 2002. That summer, the Hives returned to the U.S. for another round of live dates before playing the Reading and Leeds festivals, among others. The band spent most of 2003 in the studio and out of the limelight, but they returned with a vengeance in 2004: Your New Favourite Band was reissued in the States by Sire Records; Interscope released the Walk Idiot Walk single and the Hives' third full-length, Tyrannosaurus Hives. Late in 2007, The Black and White Album, which featured production work from the Neptunes, arrived. In 2012, after playing a series of secret shows in Stockholm, the band released their fifth album, Lex Hives, on their own Disque Hives label. Album Review - from allmusic Five years is a long wait between albums for almost any artist, but especially for a band like the Hives, who seemed to have such a tight grasp on who they are and what they do that they could practically churn out cartoonishly catchy garage punk in their sleep. However, 2007's The Black and White Album, which found the band expanding its sound and collaborating with Pharrell Williams, among others, was equally inspired and muddled, so it's not surprising that the Hives took some time to retool following it. It also makes sense that Lex Hives, the band's first self-released album, is by and large a return to form: the pounding toms that kick off the album's 66-second opening blast, "Come On!," lets listeners know that driving snotty melodies home hard is priority number one, a promise the band makes good on with "Go Right Ahead." the Hives may not be underdogs exactly, but there's a feeling of something to prove here, as well as undercurrents of vengeance in several of these songs, most notably on the loose 'n' shouty "Take Back the Toys," where Howlin' Pelle Almqvist snarls "I'll stick to pebbles and boulders and blocks" with enough venom to make it a classic Hives kiss-off. On the bulk of Lex Hives, the band slyly borrows from the past rather than trying to reinvent its sound. "I Want More" is a hybrid of AC/DC's "Back in Black" and Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" laced with plenty of the band's own smart-ass attitude; "Patrolling Days"' fiery minor-key assault pledges allegiance to the Ramones; and the new wave sheen on "Wait a Minute" and the strangely optimistic "1000 Answers" sounds more natural here than it did on The Black and White Album. At times, things threaten to become a little too straightforward, but the mix of tracks like the gospel-tinged interlude "Without the Money" and "These Spectacles Reveal the Nostalgics" -- perhaps the closest the band has ever come to sounding bittersweet -- and typically blistering numbers such as "If I Had a Cent" prevents the album from becoming Hives-by -numbers. All the Hives really need is energy and good songs, and they have enough of both on Lex Hives to bring smiles to their fans' faces. Track Listing 1. Come On! 2. Go Right Ahead 3. 1000 Answers 4. I Want More 5. Wait a Minute 6. Patrolling Days 7. Take Back the Toys 8. Without the Money 9. These Spectacles Reveal the Nostalgics 10. My Time Is Coming 11. If I Had a Cent 12. Midnight Shifter Hives - Lex Hives - Jerome - 04-06-2012 Great cover for an album! Hives - Lex Hives - CRAZY-HORSE - 05-06-2012 dont like the song you linked but as Jerome said "great cover" Hives - Lex Hives - SteveO - 05-06-2012 Nice cover but the song is mostly a repetitive chorus and doesn't appeal to me! Hives - Lex Hives - leenguyen - 25-07-2012 Excellent... I think i like for an album -------------------------------------------- Vietnam vacances--Jonque Ginger-Jonque Mekong Queen