A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T is an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 band The Hives

The Hives

The Hives are a Swedish garage rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the "greatest hits" album Your New Favourite Band, featuring their most well-known song "Hate to Say I Told...

, released in 1998.

The song "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" was first released as the second track on The Hives' first album, Barely Legal

Barely Legal (album)

Barely Legal is an album released in September 1997 by a then-unknown Swedish group called The Hives, from Fagersta, Sweden.The album's second track, "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T", had a video produced, but it was not commercially released until it was included as an extra on some pressings of Your New...

. It was released again on the compilation Your New Favourite Band

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. The decision to release such a compilation after only two albums were made with the intention of achieving mainstream success in the UK and the US...

, though not in its entirety, along with "Outsmarted", "Untutored Youth" and "Mad Man". "Numbers" is a cover of The Adicts

The Adicts

The Adicts are an English punk band from Ipswich, Suffolk, England. One of the more popular punk rock bands in the 1980s, they were often in the indie charts at that time. Their song "Viva La Revolution" was featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground. It was also featured in a commercial...

' song from the album Songs of Praise and appeared only on the American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 pressing of the EP.

Music video

An unreleased music video was filmed in black-and-white

Black-and-white

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 and features the band performing this song in a recording studio

Recording studio

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. All of the band members, excluding Chris Dangerous

Christian Grahn

Christian Grahn is the drummer of Swedish rock band, The Hives.-Biography:In the early band years in Fagersta, Sweden, Grahn also played drums for another local band, Bad Dreams Always, a hate core band...

, are wearing sunglasses

Sunglasses

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. The strobe light

Strobe light

A strobe light or stroboscopic lamp, commonly called a strobe, is a device used to produce regular flashes of light. It is one of a number of devices that can be used as a stroboscope...

s are flashing during the chorus of "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T".

Track listing

1. "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T"
2. "Outsmarted"
3. "Untutored Youth"
4. "Fever"
5. "Mad Man"
6. "Numbers"