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The Hives
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Look, we can't blame you for assigning a short shelf life to the Hives after they landed smack dab at the forefront of the garage rock revival in 2002. (See the instant Molotov cocktail recipe of [i]Veni Vidi Vicious[/i].) No matter how you slice that situation, it's kinda hard to take a band seriously when they're wearing matching suits and saying, "we're God's gift to rock 'n' roll!" in more ways than one — [i]many[/i] more. That is until you let the tunes take over: four albums-plus of pure, unadulterated pop as seen through the eyes of a nitrous-fueled speed freak . . . or Iggy, circa [i]Raw Power[/i]. Not just the adrenaline-pumping intersection between garage and punk; try the surface-tension addition of admitted left-field influences like Devo and Kraftwerk, both of which can be heard on [i]Tyrannosaurus Hives[/i] and [i]The Black and White Album[/i]. What's next? A single produced by Timbaland? Oh, wait…