AN UNBIASED VIEW OF BEST SONGS EVER

Once the Strokes broke open the dam for raw, punky, electric powered rock & roll in 2001, the Hives swelled in. The group had been ripping up stages in Sweden for around ten years from the time “Loathe to state I Informed You So” strike the charts with its chugging riffs and frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist’s atavistic, shredded–vocal-wire