Main Offender
By The Hives
Once again I'm a little lost as to what to write... Much to my dismay I've never seen these guys live so I don't have any 'possibly fictional' tales of rock and roll hi-jinks this time around. However, The Hives are one of my favorite bands, and damn good at what they do (which is rock out, co-incidentally), so it seems a waste not to feature some of their songs.
This one is off of their first major album 'Your new favorite band'. Pay special attention to the lyrics, because I'm pretty sure they make no sense at all.
Missing Link
By The Hives
Missing link is off the second tour de force of an album (and my favorite), Tyrannosaurus Hives. It was hard picking just one song from this album, but that's why I'm here... making the tough decisions. Also for listening pleasure please consider 'Dead quote Olympics', 'B is for Brutus' and 'Two timing touch and broken bones' from the same album. Actually, just make that the entire album, just to be safe.
The reason I'm so dismayed that I haven't seen The Hives live yet is because apparently they do one of the greatest rock shows of all time. Rolling stone rated it as 8th best ever or something. Apparently this is due to the lead singer, 'Howling' Pelle Almqvist, engaging in what he has dubbed "Colorful idiocy". Such a display can be seen below, in quote form (I got this from Wikipedia, so it's gotta be true):
Pelle: "I'm out of control! Tell me to take it easy!"
Crowd: "Take it easy!"
Pelle: "No, I wooon't!"
I think that pretty much sums it up.
Bigger Hole To Fill
By Delta Goodr- I mean The Hives
This one's from their latest album, "The Black and White album", which is a reference to the band's need to have a different uniform every time they go on tour, but always only in black and white. This album's also pretty rad, but I don't like it as much because they felt the need to mess with the timing in some songs. It's not in this one, put for others they are there rocking out and then suddenly BAM... songs at half speed for some reason. It throws out my dance steps.
Anyway, every time I hear this song I think of this first person shooter I'm going to make one day. One of the characters will be an assassin who kind of looks like Andy Warhol and dresses like a French punk. At some point in the game, his henchmen (dressed similarly, but also wearing mime makeup) manage to jump you and capture you. When you come to, you are tied to a chair and assassin Andy does a song and dance to this song, with choreographed mime dance moves.
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