Veni Vidi Vicious

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Veni Vidi Vicious
Veni Vidi Vicious.jpg
Studio album by
The Hives
Released10 April 2000
RecordedLate 1999 [1]
Studio
  • Pelle's Studio (Sweden)
  • Studio Kuling (Örebro)
Genre
Length27:55
Label
Producer Pelle Gunnerfelt
The Hives chronology
A Killer Among Us
(1998)		Veni Vidi Vicious
(2000)		 Your New Favourite Band
(2001)
Singles from Veni Vidi Vicious
  1. "Hate to Say I Told You So"
    Released: 4 December 2000
  2. "Main Offender"
    Released: 3 September 2001
  3. "Supply and Demand"
    Released: 24 September 2001
  4. "Die, All Right!"
    Released: 2001

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 release included several extra tracks and other bonus features. The album's title is a play on words which refers to the sentence written by Julius Caesar after conquering Asia Minor in 47 B.C.: "Veni, vidi, vici." (In English: "I came, I saw, I conquered.") The album received universal acclaim from music critics, earning an average critic score of 84/100 on Metacritic.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 84/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [5]
Alternative Press 8/10 [6]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Entertainment Weekly B [8]
IGN 8/10 [9]
Pitchfork 7.4/10 [10]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [12]
Stylus Magazine A [13]
The Village Voice A− [14]

In 2005, Veni Vidi Vicious was ranked number 399 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. [15] The album was ranked number 91 on Rolling Stone 's list of the top 100 albums of the decade. Subsequently, "Hate to Say I Told You So" was ranked number 244 on Pitchfork 's list of the top 500 songs of 2000–2009.

Commercial performance

As of 2006 the album has sold 416,000 copies in United States. [16] In Europe it has sold over 250,000 copies. [17]

Track listing

All songs written by Randy Fitzsimmons, except "Find Another Girl", written by Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield.

Veni Vidi Vicious track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Hives – Declare Guerre Nucleaire"1:35
2."Die, All Right!"2:46
3."A Get Together to Tear It Apart"1:52
4."Main Offender"2:33
5."Outsmarted"2:22
6."Hate to Say I Told You So"3:22
7."The Hives – Introduce the Metric System in Time"2:06
8."Find Another Girl"3:12
9."Statecontrol"1:54
10."Inspection Wise 1999"1:37
11."Knock Knock"2:10
12."Supply and Demand"2:26

Personnel

The Hives
Additional musicians
Technical

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Veni Vidi Vicious
Chart (2000–2002)Peak
position
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [18] 50
US Billboard 200 [19] 63

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Veni Vidi Vicious
Chart (2002)Position
Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) [20] 73
Canadian Metal Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) [21] 34

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Veni Vidi Vicious
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Sweden (GLF) [22] Gold40,000^
United States—416,000 [16]
Summaries
Europe—250,000 [17]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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References

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