Barely Legal is an album released in September 1997 by a then-unknown Swedish

Sweden

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 group called 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...

, from Fagersta

Fagersta

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, Sweden

Sweden

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The album's second track, "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T

A.k.a. I-D-I-O-T

A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T is an EP by Swedish band The Hives, 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. It was released again on the compilation Your New Favourite Band, though not in its entirety, along with "Outsmarted",...

", had a video produced, but it was not commercially released until it was included as an extra on some pressings of 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...

. The band later recorded an EP

Extended play

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 by the same name.

The album sleeve features three quotations from fake newspaper reviews. These quotations are originally from British newspapers referring to the Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...

 novel Brave New World

Brave New World

Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's fifth novel, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 , the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of...

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Track listing

All songs written by Randy Fitzsimmons.

1. "Well, Well, Well" – 1:02
2. "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T
   A.k.a. I-D-I-O-T
   A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T is an EP by Swedish band The Hives, 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. It was released again on the compilation Your New Favourite Band, though not in its entirety, along with "Outsmarted",...
   
   " – 2:12
3. "Here We Go Again" – 2:12
4. "I'm a Wicked One" – 1:45
5. "Automatic Schmuck" – 2:17
6. "King of Asskissing" – 1:46
7. "Hail Hail Spit n' Drool" – 1:27
8. "Black Jack" – 2:45
9. "What's That Spell?...Go to Hell!" – 1:41
10. "Theme from..." – 2:49
11. "Uptempo Venomous Poison" – 1:13
12. "Oh Lord! When? How?" – 1:42
13. "The Stomp" – 1:54
14. "Closed for the Season" – 2:34

Personnel

• Vigilante Carlstroem – guitar
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• Nicholaus Arson – guitar
• Howlin' Pelle Almqvist – vocals
• Chris Dangerous – drums
  Drum kit
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• Dr. Matt Destruction – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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