Main Offender (song)

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“Main Offender”
“Main Offender” cover
Single by The Hives
from the album Veni Vidi Vicious
Released September 3, 2001 (re-released May 6, 2002)
Format CD
Recorded 1999
Genre Garage punk
Length 2:33
Label Burning Heart Records, Sweet Nothing Records, Poptones, Hard-On Records
Producer Pelle Gunderfelt
The Hives singles chronology
"Hate to Say I Told You So"
(2000)
"Main Offender"
(2001)
"Supply and Demand"
(2001)

"Main Offender" is a song from The Hives' second album, Veni Vidi Vicious, as the fourth track. It was released again on the compilation Your New Favourite Band.

The song was also featured in a commercial for the lingerie-brand Agent Provocateur, which showed Kylie Minogue riding an electric bull in her underwear, with Main Offender playing in the background.

The song is featured as a playable track in music video game Rock Band, and was performed on stage by Harmonix Music Systems employees while showcasing the game at the 2007 E3 convention.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Main Offender"
  2. "Lost And Found"
  3. "Howlin' Pelle Talks To The Kids"

[edit] Video

The music video is shot in black and white, in harmony with their recurring theme, and involves them and some evil clones of them and a wooden horse. Early on in the video, mysterious manager Randy Fitzsimmons' hand is seen signing some sort of contract.