Does anyone else here love Tyrannosaurus Hives

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I think it was the most underrated album of 2004.

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

wrong

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"wrong"

Well-articulated. Thanks.

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Second favorite album of the year.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

S.F.J. thought it was pretty coöl.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Miccio -- What was your favorite?

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i like it

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I couldn't stand Veni Vidi Vicious, so hearing Tyrannosaurus Hives and finding it so catchy, fun and worthy of repeat spins shocked me. I think a lot of people had a similar reaction to VVV or were just burned out on the "Garage Rock Movement" and, as a result, didn't give their last album a chance.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I love it.

― dan. (dan.), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I enjoyed what I heard.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Miccio -- What was your favorite?

Nellie McKay. Nobody beat the Hives as far as rock full-lengths goes last year, IMO. And I totally wasn't a Vini Vidi Vicious nut. Only really dug the singles on that one.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I also liked what I heard. Then the bitch vanished.

― ZionTrain, Friday, 6 May 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

"Diabolic Scheme" is so awesome.

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 6 May 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

The retarded olympic song is awesome too! And the one which sounds like him barking...

I love it - one of my fave albums from '04. Sharper and punchier than VVV as a whole, and the first half is just the best "nu-garage rock" or whatever of the past few years...too bad it came out after shit like Jet, which buried the hipppness trend.

Also, the way "Walk Idiot Walk" as a single was ignored on best singles lists last year, or even in the p&j poll, perhaps proves that singing about robots is not as popular as sounding like one ("Toxic"). There's no other explanation.

― Vikramadithya IX, Friday, 6 May 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link

The album really didn't have much of a chance with the current marketplace. One comparison that always sticks in my head is the Fall. Both groups mix techno and garage influences for this tinny bop with a guy hectoring about how everyone's an idiot in this culture, only MES was dead-set against being commercialized, objectified and being mistaken for 'the same old thing.' The Hives express a lot of the same emotions and make similar put-downs only they do it with the matching suits and cutesy moves that people can focus on if they don't want to deal with what its all about. While I understand why MES wants to avoid a previously proven successful predictable shtick (and yes, I know that MES certainly has a shtick I'm just playing along with his pretense here) with Tyrannosaurus Hives you get the Fall PLUS shlock shtick.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

plus I wish the Devo were more nuggets and I wish Nuggets was more Devo. I kind of hope they'll fall assbackwards into a "Whip It!" still.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

oh also Chris you used to run the Deamville blog (I think it was him who said this) said that he doesn't drink enough caffeine to get into the album and I drink like a 2-liter of Coke a a day and "caffeinated" is one my favorite compliments for a band.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

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