The Hives

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The Hives
Singer "Howlin" Pelle Almqvist at the Southside Festival (2004)
Singer "Howlin" Pelle Almqvist at the Southside Festival (2004)
General information
origin Fagersta , Sweden
Genre (s) Alternative rock , garage rock , punk rock , indie rock
founding 1993
Website www.thehivesbroadcastingservice.com
Current occupation
Howlin 'Pelle Almqvist (Per Almqvist)
Guitar , vocals
 Nicholaus Arson (Niklas Almqvist)
Guitar, vocals
 Vigilante Carlstroem (Mikael Karlsson Åström)
Dr. Matt Destruction (Mattias Bernvall)
Chris Dangerous (Christian Grahn)

The Hives are a Swedish alternative rock - band . The band's hallmark are tailor-made suits in black or white.

history

The band , which was founded in the Swedish city of Fagersta in 1993 , consists of the singer "Howlin '" Pelle Almqvist, the guitarists Niklas Almqvist ("Nicholaus Arson", brother of the singer) and Mikael Karlsson Åström ("Vigilante Carlstroem"), the Bassist Mattias Bernvall ("Dr. Matt Destruction") and drummer Christian Grahn ("Chris Dangerous"). As the sixth band member, the musicians name the songwriter and producer "Randy Fitzsimmons", who, however, is generally considered to be a fictional character.

In 1996, the band released on Japhi, the side label of Burning Heart Records , their first EP Oh Lord! When? How? , which was followed in 1997 by the album Barely Legal . In the beginning they toured mainly in Sweden through clubs a. a. with The Pricks and as support for the band The Hellacopters .

After a US tour in 2000 and 2001, respectively, they achieved their breakthrough in America and Europe with the albums Veni, Vidi, Vicious and Your New Favorite Band ( compilation ) . The singles Main Offender and Hate To Say I Told You So featured on it became hits.

The Hives are one of the most popular of stylistically similar bands that have been referred to as "The-Bands" (such as The White Stripes , The Libertines , The Strokes ) through the common use of the English article The in their name and since the beginning of the new millennium are very present in rock music ( see also: Garage Rock ).

On July 20, 2004, the third album of the Hives was released under the title Tyrannosaurus Hives . The first single was called Walk Idiot Walk , the second Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones, and the third A Little More For a Little You (only released in the US and UK ).

The Spin magazine named the Hives in August 2006 for "best Liveband in the world" and sat at the same time the singer Pelle Almqvist on the list of "50 Greatest frontmen Of All Time".

The Hives were three times as guests of the Toten Hosen on the “Laune der Natour” tour (Stuttgart, Bosen and Essen).

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US SE SE
2000 Veni Vidi Vicious - - - - US63 (25 weeks)
US 		SE50 (2 weeks)
SE
First published: April 10, 2000
2004 Tyrannosaurus Hives DE10 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT18 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH32 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK7th
gold
gold

(8 weeks)UK 		US33 (7 weeks)
US 		SE1
gold
gold

(18 weeks)SE
First published: July 19, 2004
2007 The Black and White Album DE13 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT23 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH18 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK29 (2 weeks)
UK 		US65 (2 weeks)
US 		SE4 (10 weeks)
SE
First published: October 9, 2007
2012 Lex Hives DE25 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT38 (1 week)
AT 		CH20 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK71 (1 week)
UK 		US84 (1 week)
US 		SE7 (14 weeks)
SE
First published: June 1, 2012

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US SE SE
2001 Your New Favorite Band - - - UK7th
platinum
platinum

(41 weeks)UK 		- -
First published: October 22, 2001

more publishments

  • 1994: Sounds Like Sushi
  • 1996: Oh Lord! When? How?
  • 1997: Barely Legal
  • 1998: AKA IDIOT
  • 1998: A Killer Among Us
  • 2005: Tussles in Brussels
  • 2007: primer
  • 2010: Tarred and Feathered

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US SE SE
2000 Hate to Say I Told You So
Veni Vidi Vicious / Your New Favorite Band 		- - - UK23
silver
silver

(3 weeks)UK 		US86 (11 weeks)
US 		-
First published: December 4th, 2000
Republished: February 11th, 2002
2001 Main Offender
Veni Vidi Vicious / Your New Favorite Band 		- - - UK24 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: September 3, 2001
Republished: May 6, 2002
2004 Walk Idiot Walk
Tyrannosaurus Hives 		DE78 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - UK13 (9 weeks)
UK 		- SE15 (12 weeks)
SE
First published: July 6, 2004
Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones
Tyrannosaurus Hives 		- - - UK44 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: October 2004
2007 Tick ​​Tick Boom
The Black and White Album 		- AT75 (1 week)
AT 		- UK41 (4 weeks)
UK 		- SE25 (6 weeks)
SE
First published: October 2007
2008 A Christmas Duel
 - - - - - SE4 (3 weeks)
SE
First published: November 19, 2008
with Cyndi Lauper

More singles

  • 2001: Supply and Demand
  • 2001: Die, All Right!
  • 2004: Abra Cadaver
  • 2005: A Little More for Little You
  • 2007: Throw It on Me (with Timbaland )
  • 2008: THEHIVES
  • 2008: Won't Be Long
  • 2012: Go Right Ahead
  • 2012: Wait a minute
  • 2015: Blood Red Moon

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US SE
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: SE UK

Web links

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