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(TV) OT: thoughts on The Hives and the severity of their status as a schtick band?



Okay, I hate to make my first post to the list in ages be off-topic, but 
there's something that's been bothering me to no end. Everybody seems to love 
The Hives. I like their first album, Barely Legal, just fine -raw, fast, 
mindless rock record. Veni Vidi Vicious, on the other hand, seems very dumbed 
down. It's too kind, it's too polite. Not that I want to slight anyone for 
putting out a pop record -it's a good pop record in it's own right, 
but...well, something just annoys me, considering that it's this suit-wearing 
Swedish five piece who obviously can rock out. One kick-ass record, one 
comparably bland record...the only word that comes to mind is "insincere." 
Granted, the first record's mindless, but the second one doesn't even have 
any guts to it. It leaves me wondering if they even care about what they're 
doing, just so long as they're a "cool-looking rock band". Their visual 
gimmick -moddish attire- doesn't even fit with the stuff on either record 
(save maybe "Find Yourself Another Girl" on the second one). Even worse...a 
friend of mine went and saw them at the Metro here in Chicago a little while 
back; she's been into them for almost two years. Apparently, they came out on 
stage, asked who'd seen them opening for some other band there last fall (she 
and maybe three other people put up their hands), and then they basically 
said something to the effect of, "No, none of you assholes were here, and now 
we're on the radio and you all love us, fuck you." 

I mean, come on. Isn't this almost as bad as -if not worse than- the pop idol 
shit that's been the defacto standard for U.S. top 40 radio over the past few 
years? In my opinion, it's definitely far worse a pose. What do the rest of 
you think?

-nick keiser

> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:32:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: (TV) Current music obsession...
> 
> My "now playing" list includes:
> 
> - - The Hives VENI VIDI VICIOUS
> - - Bowie's HEATHEN and some of the b-sides
> - - Elvis In Person
> - - VU & Nico in mono (on the new deluxe set)
> - - Just picked up Richard Hell's TIME
> - - ...and the Dead Milkmen's "Nutrition" - something I haven't head in 
> over ten
> years, but now I can't get it out of my head...
> 
> Going to sneak out to get the Pixies' demo tape release later today (I 
> think
> it's out today).
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