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| I just don't get why the Hives or any of their Swedish ilk are getting all big. In the Chicago Tribune, the other day, the rock critic started talking about how Sweden was the new capital of raw rock'n'roll, obviously forgetting that he is from Chicago (which up until 1970 or so was the punk capital of the world) which, right now, has about 20 or so garage/punk bands that are doing garage/punk better than the like of the Hives or the (International) Noise Conspiracy, and a shitload more who are on par and a few who are sub par; and that's just in Chicago. I don't get the hype, there's thousands of bands, past and present, who have that sound, who have done it before, done it better etc. and, granted, their single is pretty good for a radio song, not that great, but good (and that's just for a song they play on the modern radio stations, which have been so overpolluted with crap for the past few years that anything remotely sounding like decent rock'n'roll sounds like a breath of fresh air), but their hype is making them sound like the saviors of rock'n'roll, and if anything is gonna save rock'n'roll it needs an album about five to ten times better than Veni Vidi Viscious (which was put out by Epitaph two years ago, btw, but no one fucking cared then). |
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