Picspam: The Hives
So, I was on a concert last night with The Hives and they are ao awesome! So I thought, hey! why not be a pain in the ass and spam everyone! So that is what I am doing now. Seriously though, The Hives is amazing and the best live band ever! And this is also a way for me to tell you guys why Howlin' Pelle Almqvist is hot, coz he is! Sure pretty boys are pretty etc, but Pelle is my god, the end!
“We promised ourselves when we were 17, that we’d make 3 half-hour-long records of blistering punk rock, and so we did, culminating in ‘Tyrannosaurus Hives’. This time, we didn’t want 12 fast songs, then it was over. That would’ve been the 4th time. They work in sets of three, you see, then it’s a new period, so we had to come up with a new plan.”
“It kinda meant we got to see rock with new eyes. We’d just hit a chord on electric guitar, and he’d freak out, and think it’s so cool. When you see someone react to it like that, you think, ‘Yeah! Loud, stinky guitar! This is really fun!’, and you get into it all over again. The best thing with Pharrell was, it’s mainly about having fun.”
“In the South, it’s all slow. At times, the temperance and efficiency of us Scandinavians didn’t gel with the old Jamaican attitude of the American South. Like, there’s nothing you can do today, that can’t be done tomorrow. But this had an impact on our sound. Some stuff was better because we took longer."
“The first two Hives records were designed to be played at a 200 capacity club, tops, whereas now we play to 1000s of people. The bigger the crowd, the slower they react, so there’s a natural progression in making the songs longer. When the last row of the audience hears the first chord, it’s already over for the first half of the audience, so basically we’re doing it for the people at the back.”
“We were missing the rock riffage. Plus, no-one’s doing it now, at all. There’s a complete lack of proper, good rock riffin’! It’s sorely needed!”
“If The Beatles could make a ‘White Album’ and Metallica could make a ‘Black Album’, there was only one band who could make a record twice as good as those two combined. And as far as sales go, The Beatles’ ‘White Album’ sold 11 million copies while Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ has sold well over 16 million copies. The logic is undisputable: THE HIVES’ ‘THE BLACK & WHITE ALBUM’ will go on to sell 176 million copies, thus exceeding sales-wise anything THE HIVES have released before, or any modern artist since 1968.”
From an UK magazine;
“They used to be our new favourite band, now they’re the best band in the world”
So if you listen to the songs you get why they are so amazing, and why Pelle so hawt. And the fact that he dated the lead singer in my favorite female band Sahara Hotnights for six years makes him even hotter to me. And yes, they alsway preform in clothes like that, which is part of their awesomeness.
“We promised ourselves when we were 17, that we’d make 3 half-hour-long records of blistering punk rock, and so we did, culminating in ‘Tyrannosaurus Hives’. This time, we didn’t want 12 fast songs, then it was over. That would’ve been the 4th time. They work in sets of three, you see, then it’s a new period, so we had to come up with a new plan.”
“It kinda meant we got to see rock with new eyes. We’d just hit a chord on electric guitar, and he’d freak out, and think it’s so cool. When you see someone react to it like that, you think, ‘Yeah! Loud, stinky guitar! This is really fun!’, and you get into it all over again. The best thing with Pharrell was, it’s mainly about having fun.”
“In the South, it’s all slow. At times, the temperance and efficiency of us Scandinavians didn’t gel with the old Jamaican attitude of the American South. Like, there’s nothing you can do today, that can’t be done tomorrow. But this had an impact on our sound. Some stuff was better because we took longer."
“The first two Hives records were designed to be played at a 200 capacity club, tops, whereas now we play to 1000s of people. The bigger the crowd, the slower they react, so there’s a natural progression in making the songs longer. When the last row of the audience hears the first chord, it’s already over for the first half of the audience, so basically we’re doing it for the people at the back.”
“We were missing the rock riffage. Plus, no-one’s doing it now, at all. There’s a complete lack of proper, good rock riffin’! It’s sorely needed!”
“If The Beatles could make a ‘White Album’ and Metallica could make a ‘Black Album’, there was only one band who could make a record twice as good as those two combined. And as far as sales go, The Beatles’ ‘White Album’ sold 11 million copies while Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ has sold well over 16 million copies. The logic is undisputable: THE HIVES’ ‘THE BLACK & WHITE ALBUM’ will go on to sell 176 million copies, thus exceeding sales-wise anything THE HIVES have released before, or any modern artist since 1968.”
Click to viewFrom an UK magazine;
“They used to be our new favourite band, now they’re the best band in the world”
So if you listen to the songs you get why they are so amazing, and why Pelle so hawt. And the fact that he dated the lead singer in my favorite female band Sahara Hotnights for six years makes him even hotter to me. And yes, they alsway preform in clothes like that, which is part of their awesomeness.