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...more than 45 minutes, “The Black and White Album” is a distinct departure from the band’s three previous albums, none of which broke the 30-minute mark. Whereas “Barely Legal,” “Veni Vidi Vicious,” and “Tyrannosaurus Hives” featured only five songs over the three-minute mark between them, “The Black and White Album” has 10 of them. The Hives simply don’t use that extra time well; almost every...
...Jack surely loved those "strangler" metaphors. But he retired, three years ago, with his own neck untouched. He came to Hollywood an unknown quantity and left this world its most legendary hypester. Veni, vidi, Valenti...
Despite his numerous valiant efforts on behalf of the Harvard social scene, Corker will not quite be able to say “Veni, Vidi, Vici” upon graduation. He says that the number of improvements he would have liked to impose upon the social scene here are simply too numerous and ambitious to have been possible during his four short years here...
Proving that Harold Bloom's literary theories apply to rock, the Hives now sound like a sincere misinterpretation of the bands they loved. The blazing three-chord song structures on Veni Vidi Vicious, the Hives' debut American album (released in April), are so imitative--of the Ramones, the Sonics, the Stooges, you name it--that the album would be plagiaristic if not for Pelle's elastic voice, which travels to incredible peaks to rip off Little Richard. Are they better than the classics they imitate? No. But the songs are awfully catchy--and the Hives aren't kidding themselves, either...