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[[caption-width-right:350:The Hives are law. You are crime.]]

->''Do what I want 'cause I can and if I don't because I wanna!\\
Be ignored by the stiff and the bored because I'm gonna!\\
Spit and retrieve 'cause I give and receive because I wanna!\\
Gonna get through your head what the mystery man said because I'm gonna!''
-->-- "Hate To Say I Told You So"

The Hives are a Swedish rock band from Fagersta, UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} that rose to prominence in the early 2000s during the GarageRock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the album ''Veni Vidi Vicious'', containing the single "Hate to Say I Told You So". The band is known for their energetic live shows, and have been acclaimed by music critics as one of the best live rock bands of their era.

The band were formed in 1989, but changed the name to The Hives in 1993. Their first official release was the EP ''Oh Lord! When? How?'' in 1996.

Younger tropers may remember them from their 2007 song "Fall Is Just Something That Grownups Invented," which played in Creator/CartoonNetwork during the summer of that year.

In the midst of the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic, the band made headlines at the tail end of 2020 by doing a [[https://music.mxdwn.com/2020/12/16/news/the-hives-announces-virtual-world-wide-web-world-tour-2021/ virtual world tour.]]

!! Band members:
* Howlin' Pelle Almqvist (Pelle Almqvist) - lead vocals
* Nicholaus Arson (Niklas Almqvist) - guitar
* Vigilante Carlstroem (Mikael Karlsson Åström) - guitar
* Dr. Matt Destruction (Mattias Bernwall) - bass guitar
* Chris Dangerous (Christian Grahn) - drums, percussion

!! Discography
* ''Barely Legal'' (1997)
* ''Veni Vidi Vicious'' (2000)
* ''Your New Favourite Band'' (2001) (compilation album)
* ''Tyrannosaurus Hives'' (2004)
* ''The Black and White Album'' (2008)
* ''Lex Hives'' (2012)
* ''The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons'' (2023)
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!! Provides examples of:
* AudienceParticipation: Pelle's banter and interaction with the crowd between the songs are almost legendary. After all, "the show doesn't stop just because the song stops." Also, when they played at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney (July 2011) one guy from the audience got to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcX52rbm-xw play bass for "Hate to say I told you so", while the bassist Dr. Matt Destruction]] [[CrowdSurfing crowd surfed]].
* BadassBoast: Being cock-of-the-walk is part of the Hives' charm. This trope makes up a lot of Howlin' Pelle's stage banter, but a lot of the songs themselves could fit this too. "Tick Tick Boom" is an example. The title of "Hate To Say I Told You So" says it all. "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S." is a badass boast about the band's own ''concerts.'' And then there's "Outsmarted" which combines this with TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
-->''Now I'm the kid who put the shit back in place \\
And I'm the one who threw it back in your face \\
It took a little bit of intellectual shit, diversity and wit \\
\\
Now you're the kid who put the 'L' back in lame \\
And you're the one who's always fitted the frame \\
Still such a fool \\
No suspicion, no clue, you've been -- \\
OUTSMARTED!''
* BigYes:
** Or Big Yeah, in the case of "Tick Tick Boom," which has Pelle just roaring out seven of these, and that's not counting the backing vocals.
--->''YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG! \\
YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, YOU KEEP TAGGING ALONG!''
** There's also "Go Right Ahead" which begins with a larynx-shredding "YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"
* BandOfRelatives: Pelle Almqvist and "Nicholaus Arson" (Niklas Almqvist) are brothers.
* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: "The Bomb" takes this to dizzying degrees during the verses.
-->''What do you wanna do?\\
(Get down!)\\
What don't you wanna do?\\
(Get up!)\\
What don't you wanna not don't do?\\
(Not get down!)\\
What don't you wanna not don't wanna not do?\\
(Not get up!)''
* DramaticPause: During live performances of ''Tick Tick Boom'' they suddenly freeze like statues for several seconds while the audience goes nuts around them. [[http://youtu.be/3Y1lXtGi8zc (Here for almost a minute starting at around 2.30)]] It's impressive.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: And gay women too, in their mariachi outfits, at least according to Pelle.
-->We're wearing what could possibly be the cutest outfits known to man. Turning a lot of straight men gay, and a lot of gay women straight!"
* ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: Their first EP was titled ''Oh Lord! When? How?''.
* FunkRock: "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S." from ''The Black And White Album.''
* GarageRock: Credited by the music press as one of the main bands of the "Garage Rock Revival" of the early 2000's.
* GratuitousNinja: The stage crew has been wearing ninja outfits since 2011, (the same time as the band swithed to tuxedos). [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stage_Crew_2012.jpg A ninja changing a microphone]], [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/be88f2c7825f3b2225a401e902194e51/tumblr_molz4qojNT1rsx4gno1_1280.jpg ninja with guitar]], [[http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8590328212_2fddb2b0bf.jpg ninja]], [[https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/486628_333123453445029_533361087_n.jpg ninja]].
* HighlyVisibleNinja: [[http://youtu.be/1tTi0FfRTqs?t=1m38s Ninja-roadie]], on stage! [[http://youtu.be/HvYwDGXpdC4 Tambourine ninja]]!
* IllKillYou:
--> '''Pelle:''' Clap and scream while I drink some water or I'll kill you.
* InventedIndividual: Randy Fitzsimmons, the band claims he founded the band in 1993, and is the songwriter, manager, and a honorary [[SixthRanger "sixth Hive"]]. Randy Fitzsimmons is a pseudonym registred at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIM STIM]] and the royalties for it goes to the guitarist Nicholaus Arson. The band claims that Randy Fitzsimmons is a pseudonym for someone else and that he did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RkqAhPCuULo#t=18 cameo in the "Main Offender" music video]] (backside only). 3ammagazine did a [[http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-little-bit-of-intellectual-shit-diversity-and-wit-randy-fitzsimmons-of-the-hives/ email interview with Fitzsimmons]] in 2008.
* {{Keet}} \ LargeHam: [[MeaningfulName Howlin']] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGtBZX32I0 Pelle]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbwokU0Y_c Almqvist]]. He just doesn't stop.
* LimitedLyricsSong: "Come on!". Here's the whole song.
-->Come on![x8]\\
Come on! (come on!)[x8]\\
Come on![x4]\\
Come on...
-->Everybody come on!\\
Come on![x8]\\
Come on! (come on!)[x8]\\
Come on![x4]\\
Come on...
-->Everybody come on!
* LongRunnerLineup: Type 1. The same five members since the band formed (under a different name) in 1989, and of course [[SixthRanger Fitzsimmons]].
* MetalScream: Sometimes opening the song ("Walk Idiot Walk"), sometimes making up lots of the lyrics (the BigYes on "Tick Tick Boom") or even the last chorus ("Hate To Say I Told You So"). He's not ''Howlin' '' Pelle for nothing.
* MinisculeRocking:
** For instance, only a third of ''Tyrannosaurus Hives'' reaches\surpasses the three minute mark.
** More than half the songs on ''Barely Legal'' are under ''two'' minutes.
** Taken up to eleven with "Come On," which is a minute long, and the lyrics consist of Pete yelling the title over and over.
* NoIndoorVoice: From his lyrics to his stage banter, Pelle is almost constantly shouting. Switch to decaf, Pelle!
* RapRock: Never usually invoke rap in their music in any significant way, but they did do a collaboration with Music/{{Timbaland}} called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW07szuiZmo "Throw It On Me."]]
* RefugeInAudacity: The stock in trade of Howlin Pelle's stage banter. Examples include:
-->'''Pelle:'''[[http://youtu.be/zgEz97IER-Q "The thing is we're gonna have to revise something about the way that we usually play this song. The way that we usually play this song involves the total destruction of the venue at the end of the song. Now we will not be able to do that tonight because we have to perform a concert here tomorrow night. So if you want the full version, you're gonna have to come back tomorrow."]]
* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Inverted. Their matching black and white outfits are often quite formal attire and they mostly look pretty "clean cut", but their music is almost exclusively raw and loud GarageRock. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQioCjYnbxw Here's one such perfomance]].
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: They are always wearing black and white but during the "The Black and White Album/Tour" period they wore school uniforms in stage with black blazers with "H" crests and striped black and white ties.
* SelfDeprecation:
-->'''Pelle:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scuQqdG0Hf4&feature=youtu.be&t=15s "This song is about me, possibly, it's called 'Walk Idiot Walk."]]
* SixthRanger: Randy Fitzsimmons - [[InventedIndividual or not]] (See above)
* SpellingSong: "A.k.a.i-d-i-o-t" and "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S."
-->a.k.a i-d-i-o-t, don't know who the hell I'm supposed to be, i-d-i-o-t (a.k.a i-d-i-o-t).\\
a.k.a i-d-i-o-t, yeah thats me, i-d-i-o-t (a.k.a i-d-i-o-t).

-->We rule the world, this is our world [x2]\\
T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. [x4]
* StageNames: All five members except Pelle Almqvist, who just added "Howlin'" before his real name. All invoke NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Nicholaus Arson (Niklas Almqvist), Vigilante Carlstroem (Mikael Karlsson Åström), Dr. Matt Destruction (Mattias Bernwall), and Chris Dangerous (Christian Grahn).
** Even their guest musicians get badass nicknames, as guest-guitarist Wolverine Brandstroem and guest-bassist The Johan and Only can attest.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: They are mostly known for their bombastic high-speed garage rock, but their album ''Veni Vedi Vicious'' throws in "Find Another Girl", a pretty faithful cover of a 60's R&B ballad by Jerry Butler. It sticks out quite a bit in the middle of the album.
* ThatCameOutWrong: A 2013 concert in Boston had this piece of stage banter: "This song's for everyone in Boston. It's about stuff blowing up. It's called 'Tick, Tick, Boom'." Considering the Boston Marathon bombing happened a few months prior, it was not the right combination of words, and Pelle Almqvist issued an apology the next day saying he should've remembered the tragedy.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Two Timing Touch and Broken Bones".
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->''"I KNOW YOU WANT US TO PLAY MORE. BUT THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE, SO YOU CAN TURN OFF NOW." \\
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[MicDrop]''