Main Offender

Suspiciously similar to ‘Hate To Say I Told You So’, in much the same way as The Kinks’

post-’You Really Got Me’ material seemed mere variations on the theme of that groundbreaking release. ‘Main Offender’ is brash, ballsy and frankly uncompelling, and follows the Hives’ explicit sonic policy of noise over melody. Ragging on the Swedish Saviours of Rock is not looked upon kindly by the ministry of music, but I’m doin’ it anyway, because I wanna.