Track Listing

1. The Hives - Declaire Guerre Nucleaire
2. Die, All Right!
3. A Get Together To Tear It Apart
4. Main Offender
5. Outsmarted
6. Hate To Say I Told You So
7. The Hives - Introduce The Metric System In Time
8. Find Another Girl
9. Statecontrol
10. Inspection Wise 1999
11. Knock Knock
12. Supply And Demand

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4196 in Music
• Released on: 2000-05-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
Meet the Hives: svengalis of swagger, cocky commanders-in-chief of small-town big-time RAWK, demented preachers of "punkrock music avec kaboom". Veni Vidi Vicious is their nihilistic message to you. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes it is gut-pummeling rock'n'roll of the take-no-prisoners variety. Its scratchy guitars and rapid-fire rhythms punctuated by vocalist Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's snotty histrionics land somewhere between the Stooges, the Pixies and everything else within a decade's radius.

"Declare Guerre Nucleaire" pops and thrashes like an epileptic mod on a Vespa of the Apocalypse, while "Statecontrol" and "Inspection Wise 1999" are jammed with demented Iggy-style bellowing. "Hate to Say I Told You So" (which many will recognize from their UK debut compilation Your New Favourite Band) sounds like a classic the instant you hear it, and delivers a head-jerking bass line break at exactly the right moment. The Hives may be aping styles that have already gone before them, but they do it with unapologetic glee and reckless abandon that make it all their own. You need this band in your life. --Leslie Gilotti

Customer Reviews

Pretty damn fine!
I got this album on the strength of The Hives being from Sweden (which spawned the mighty Hellacopters and the Backyard Babies) and the fact that it was supposed to be rock 'n' roll. It isn't exactly like the two bands I just mentioned but it certainly is rock 'n' roll. Blending sixties pop grooyness with raw punk energy into a lethal cocktail, The Hives don't dissapoint. A recommended purchase

Warning: Contents Are Highly Addictive
Here it is, two years since the American release of this album, and I've just gotten around to listening to it. Why? Because I had a hard time believing that "Veni Vidi Vicious" could justify its hype. Well, this release proved me wrong. At a tight and concise 28 minutes, this fantastic release bursts with playful, brash energy. It's wholly unoriginal, but they make up for that with the skill they use to play these tracks of crisp, amped-up punk. "Outsmarted" and "Hate to Say I told You So" are explosively great and are solid enough to win over just about any cynic, while "Statecontrol" and "Die All Right!" rock with fury. Sure, I'm two years behind in discovering this CD, but it's never too late to experience a record as fine as this. The grooves on "Veni Vidi Vicious" are as catchy and as infectious as a case of, well, the hives.

hate to say i told you so!
a damn fine album from a damn fine band. i bought this on the back of hearing 'main offender' but there are better songs on here, like 'die, all right!' and 'hate to say i told you so'. i would recommend it to...well...everyone! if the hives don't become very very big in the near future, then there's no justice in this crazy crazy world!!!