THE 2-MINUTE RULE FOR BEST EVER SONGS

Once the Strokes broke open the dam for Uncooked, punky, electrical rock & roll in 2001, the Hives swelled in. The team had been ripping up levels in Sweden for about ten years from the time “Detest to state I Advised You So” hit the charts with its chugging riffs and frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist’s atavistic, shredded–vocal-twine decla