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| Black And White Album | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 42 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8473
Category: Music
Artist: The Hives
Publisher: A&M/Octone
Studio: A&M/Octone
Manufacturer: A&M/Octone
Label: A&M/Octone
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001003002
UPC: 602517508071
EAN: 0602517508071
ASIN: B000WCBMA8
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Tick Tick Boom | | • | Try It Again | | • | You Got It All... Wrong | | • | Well All Right! | | • | Hey Little World | | • | A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors | | • | Won't Be Long | | • | T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. | | • | Return The Favour | | • | Giddy Up! | | • | Square One Here I Come | | • | You Dress Up For Armageddon | | • | Puppet On A String | | • | Bigger Hole To Fill |
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Amazon.com
Ladies and gentlemen, THE HIVES return with The Black and White Album! Recording around the world (Sweden, Memphis, Miami, London) with a mind-blowing cast of producers (Dennis Herring, Pharrel Williams, Jacknife Lee) THE HIVES are set to release the definitive, kick-your-ass, funky, fun, and of course, rock n rollin' record of your life! Check out their Fall 2007 tour with Maroon 5! The Hives Photos More from The Hives 
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It's about time some authority finally declared the Hives the greatest live band in the world. And The Black and White Album, their third U.S. full-length, as a jaw-dropping facsimile of a band leaping and lurching live, three feet from your face. Big backing vocals, propulsive rhythms, and twin-guitar thickness, will have you convinced the Swedish quintet is playing live inside your head. Yes, the trope of "Tick Tick Boom"--Black and White's first single--has come up in rock before (P.O.D., Saliva). But the Hives do the exploding "Boom" thing leaner, Pelle Almquist leading massed-vocal choruses and bright, fist-raised guitars--meshing upstart garage punk and sheer pop style. Black and White spills infectiously catchy singles, with the sing-song, stomping chorus of "Try it Again" ("up and down and round again/You get up, you get down, and you try it again") and maracas, and counter-riffing guitars creating a fab dance-floor vibe with the boom-boom-slap of the drums a perfect backdrop. Then there are the other 12 tunes here, a couple electro-tinged and the rest making a persistent case for these Swedes to be burned on your brain. --Andrew Bartlett
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Though the garage-rock boom of the early '00s has long since passed, Sweden's The Hives are among the few to have survived the hype and continued playing their brand of rough, howlin' rock. The quintet has actually found a nice middle ground over the seven years since 2000's Veni Vidi Vicious, gaining respectable appreciation in the U.S. without breaking out huge like it seemed they might. By the sound of The Black And White Album however, they?re not content with that. Broader, more adventurous, and sporting production credits from Modest Mouse collaborator Dennis Herring and The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams, Black and White is the band?s most nakedly ambitious release. At least half of the record is among their best work to date; lead track "Tick Tock Boom," for instance, is an absolute gas, full of exuberant stomp and rowdy glam. As the record progresses, so too does the experimentation. "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S." drives their stripped-down rock into new wave territory, like Queen once did on "Another One Bites the Dust" (except Queen pulled it off). Some songs, like the quirky, borderline-ridiculous "Giddy Up!" go off the deep end completely. But like everything The Hives do, the album is interesting even at its worst--and totally fantastic at its best. -?Matthew Cooke
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 Adrenaline Rush--Forget the 'Red Bull'--Just Go Along for the Ride! August 4, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
(4.5 *'s) Nothing has rejuvenated the airwaves like The Hives' "Hate to Say I Told You So." Crescendo and angst about who-knows-what? Gets the answer: Who cares? 'The Black and White Album' finds the fabulous five Swedes with none of the trappings of success. What makes this album a worthy successor to the remarkably fast-forward 'Veni, Vidi, Vicious'* is the variety. Add to this the fact they've yet to take themselves too seriously, and, '...Black and White...,' while not as groundbreaking, draws on an expertise that prevents any formula. As an ABBA aficionado, The Hives covers more Swedish territory. From slick and sweet to awesomely wild, The Hives do Scandinavia proud!
Highlights only Please! Okay, I'll try.
1.) "Tick Tick Boom" is incredibly propulsive. Almost matches "Hate to Say I Told You So." Found on recent soundtracks, including 'Jumper'. Hollywood `Get(s) Smart'.
2.) "You Got It All Wrong," "Hey Little World," and "Return the Favor" are expansive. Great trajectory, yet they manage to mix it up better than The Ramones did.
3.) The whole idea is fun, so "Well All Right!" "You Dress up for Armageddon," and "Square One, Here I Come" fill the bill. "Puppet on a String" reinvents the wheel nicely.
4.) "Big Bang Theory"? "Try It Again," "Won't Be Long," and "Bigger Hole to Fill" are harder rockin' evidence.
5.) "Variety is the spice of life." "T.H.E. H.I.V.E.S." showcase a Mick Jagger-like vocal. Now I thought The Hives drew from The Kinks and The Dave Clark Five, but the columnists were right, there are Stones' influences. "Giddy Up" funks it up nicely. (Are they singing about `Urban Cowboy,' `Brokeback Mountain,' or protesting the foreign policy of President Bush? I haven't decided yet.) "A Stroll Through Hive Mansion" shows no false modesty: We need an intermission, but this carnival music for a flea circus is a little too tame. Maybe they should have consulted R.E.M. before creating an instrumental.
The Hives still are fun after all these years, but their experience only expands their already impressive repertoire.
(I know 'Tyranasaurus Hives,' came just before 'Black and White,' but I prefer to compare 'Veni Vidi Vicious'.)
 The Hives - Black And White Album 7.5/10 July 24, 2008
Remember mainstream rock radio in 2001? Bands that were about as groundbreaking as a Nickelodeon cartoon held the top positions, such artistic visionaries as Creed, Puddle of Mudd, Lifehouse, and the last gasp of nu-metal, Linkin' Park.
Then something strange happened. Something fresh started popping up on the radio, heralded by a number of plural-noun bands such as the Strokes and the White Stripes, something the music press dubbed the "garage-rock revival."
At the forefront of this new rock was Sweden's The Hives, bursting out of the frozen north in matching black-and-white suits and ties and ridiculous stage names. Singer "Howlin'" Pelle Almqvist made the band's live shows legendary with his crowd-surfing antics, and the band's breakthrough, Your New Favourite Band, gave them major-label backing.
Two albums later and six years later, The Hives return to the States with The Black and White Album, a record that maintains the raucous punk spirit of their earlier albums while showing a novel musical direction that saves the album from repeating the trends of its predecessors.
Opener and first single "Tick Tick Boom" opens with a distinctive pulsating guitar line and Almqvist's trademark yell, a typical Hives song opening up what at first seems to be a typical Hives album. Complete with back-and-forth backup shouts and a fist-pumping chorus, the track is intensely enjoyable, but it is nothing a Hives fan wouldn't expect.
The album starts to veer off into uncharted territory around the Pharrell Williams-produced "Well Allright!," a bouncy, swing-flavored rave-up that manages to sound fresh without completely redefining the band's sound.
"A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors" is perhaps the oddest addition to the Hives discography, an instrumental interlude halfway through the album solely featuring a drum machine and what sounds like a B-horror movie `50s soundtrack. Although initially interesting, it fails to evolve much beyond a creepy melody.
The album ends with the one-two punch of "Puppet On A String" and "Bigger Hole To Fill," both typing up the record's creative loose ends. "Puppet On A String," currently being featured on the Cartoon Network, utilizes only piano and handclaps and Almqvist's nonsensical lyrics ("got your education from just hanging around / you got your brain from a hole in the ground") to solidify the Hives' acceptance of experimentation.
"Bigger Hole to Fill" ends the collection on a triumphant note, producing yet another catchy chorus anchored by a jagged guitar line and a simple rock beat and serving to assure the listener that the Hives won't be abandoning their trademark sound anytime soon.
While The Black and White Album proves that sometimes some adventurous tinkering produces some intriguing new possibilities, it also affirms that if it isn't broken, it doesn't have to be fixed.
Thumbs Up! June 1, 2008
This album is "thumbs up!" .. I love it & I love the band, I hear the album all the time
Go on The Hives, love ya
The B and W album is awesome May 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This cd was awesome, tick tick boom and wont be long are just two great songs, and T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. was a great hip hop type of song!
This album ROCKED
 not what I wanted May 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
by far the worse one yet. good, but not up to par.
a little to disco man rockish
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