Your New Favourite Band

I bought this album in 2001 on the strength of Hate To Say I Told You So, but would have struggled to name another track on it. After re-listening to it in full for the first time in years, I quite enjoyed it but I think that’s still the only song I’m likely to keep playing.

A waste of 28 minutes.
There have been a number of poorly sequenced live albums on here that I thought were stupid additions to this list, but I can't believe a compilation album of bad garage punk songs from a one-hit-wonder band made the cut. At least live albums typically have a story or personality.
Really a huge disappointment and a contender for one of the worst uses of a spot on this list. 1/5

I think compilation albums have their place, but including that's just the highlights of their first three projects is just cheating. As for the band themselves, they're unremarkable garage rock revival, the kind of band to be popular in 2002 and disappear immediately afterwards.

It's a compilation but not a greatest hits, so I'm not sure how I feel about that, but damn it has manic energy in spades. Short, punchy, everything you'd want in a introduction.

Compilation album! Cool rock sound on the front 1-2, Hate To Say I Told You So and Main Offender. Supply And Demand keeps the aggression up. Man this album is all fast, aggressive tunes.

This was a lot of fun, and a great bop pretty much all the way through. It's hard not to like something that has so much infectious energy. It also doesn't overstay its welcome. 'Hate To Say I Told You So' is an absolute tune and is the standout.

Side recommendation: If you ever get the chance to see these guys live, do it. They're very, very good. Complete showmen.

The worst of the three big y2k 'guitars are back' indie rock garage revival bands. The vocals are so grating. The riffs are very high energy and can be fun, but its super frenetic, unfocused and there is way too much treble. I like the garage punk sound, but it's really just an incredibly annoying album and the whole visual marketing thing with them made them just made them seem like an industry hype band.

This was full of amazing songs. Kinda hate compilation albums but it’s just a collection of amazing post punk. Had a lot of fun in the short runtime

they are not my new favorite band, but they aren’t my new least favorite band so they’ve at least got that going for them

A greatest hits album? 'Veni Vidi Vicious' should have been picked instead.

I like the Hives. It doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. I don't think they won many song writing awards and I don't think they give a fuck.

I’m at a 3.5 that I think I’m gonna just barely bump up to a 4.

I really wish I could keep it at that 3.5, but what’s here, in terms of energy and atmosphere and tempo is all honestly pretty good. The biggest knock I have on this album is its pacing and some of its production; I think there are too many tracks in a row that rely entirely on the energy of the soundscape, going at blazing fast speeds that are sure to perk up a listener, but at the expense of not being able to comprehend the lyrics, which are a bit incomprehensible throughout chunks of the back half of the album. It would be fine if it were one or two tracks in a row, but it feels like it’s around 3 or 4, and that’s simply too much.

However, I thought too many of the soundscapes during that stretch were fucking rad as hell to ignore them like that. It’s a really entertaining 28 minutes, and that short length stops any one track from truly overstaying its welcome and becoming annoying. These are great individually, but as an album, they’re a little weirdly clumped together.

With that said, the energy is still entirely infectious, and this album stays at a consistent enough quality that I think it can get that bump up to a 4, but it really is hanging on by a thread. I imagine if I come back to this album, those little lingering issues about lyrical comprehension and the overall pacing of the 12 tracks (seriously, who decided to have that many fast tracks in a row in the middle there?) are gonna bite at me more and more to a point where I might drop it down to a 3… but it’s no less than a 3. It’s pretty fun, and pretty good, and I think it should be on the list.

Big talk from the Hives here. I will say for the record they are not my new favorite band.

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.

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

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

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.

It was fun to listen to the album.

Love The Hives, but their previous albums are so much better than this compilation.

Decent, but one hit seeing does not make a hit album.

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