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The Hives-Walk Idiot Walk Analysis

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The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk

I am going to write about the band The Hives. The reason why I wanted to write about this band is because I love the genre and I think their music is really good. The first time I heard the song ”Walk Idiot Walk” I just fell for the rythm. I actually heard this song for the first time, in many years, a week ago, and now I can`t get his song out of my head.

The Hives is a band from Fagersta in Sweden and is known for the album ”Vendi Vidi Vicious” that came out in April in 2000, that was the second album released from the band. The genre they belong in is rock, garage rock and garage punk.

The official bandmembers are:
-Hown´Pelle Almqvist (Per Almqvist) – Lead Vocals
-Chris Dangerous (Christian Grahn) – drums, percussion
-Nicholaus Arson (Niklas Almqvist) – guitar, keyboard, backing vocals
-Dr. Matt Destruction (Mattias Bernvall) – Bass, guitar
-Vigilante Carlstroem (Mikael …show more content…

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