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"Main Offender" is a song from
The Hives The Hives are a Swedish rock band that rose to prominence in the early 2000s during the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the album ''Veni Vidi Vicious'', containing the single "Hate to Say I Told You So". T ...
' second album, ''
Veni Vidi Vicious ''Veni Vidi Vicious'' is the second studio album by Swedish rock band the Hives. The album was released on 10 April 2000 through Burning Heart and Epitaph. It was later re-released on 30 April 2002 through Sire and Gearhead. The Japanese releas ...
'', as the fourth track. It was released again on the compilation ''
Your New Favourite Band ''Your New Favourite Band'' is a collection by The Hives released in 2001, featuring tracks from their first two albums and the '' A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T'' EP. It was released by Alan McGee's Poptones record label, which was licensed the band's songs ...
''. Nicholaus Arson notes the song as a favorite. The song reached number 24 in the
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in May 2002. This was a re-release, the single having failed to chart when it was originally released in 2000.


Track listing

#"Main Offender" #"Lost and Found" #"Howlin' Pelle Talks to the Kids"


Video

The music video is shot in black and white, in harmony with their recurring theme. It is made up of several image cut-outs, and video of the band for each shot, like an animated comic book, and involves them making their way through a town called "Punkrock city" to defeat some evil clones of them named: "The Negatives" . The video opens with newspapers praising The Negatives and mysterious manager Randy Fitzsimmons' hand is seen signing some sort of contract. He is then briefly seen giving an interview where he is quoted as saying: "Punkrock city is not big enough for both! The Hives are law, Negatives are crime, Capisce?" The members of the Hives are then seen on several phone calls to each other across the city, which lead to the band meeting up, getting into a car, and racing out of the city, towards a mansion where The Negatives are going to play a gig. They storm into the Mansion, jumping over cracks in the floor while the songs lyrics go overhead, and getting off an elevator. They then proceed to punch up The Negatives and walk out onto the balcony where The Negatives had been scheduled to play, where they are greeted by a large crowd of cheering people. A poster with "The Hives" written on it drops down and a drum count in starts before the video is cut off, ending.


References

{{authority control 2000 songs 2001 singles Burning Heart Records singles Garage punk songs The Hives songs