Tick Tick Boom (song)

"Tick Tick Boom"
Single by The Hives
from the album The Black and White Album
Released 8 October 2007
Format CD, Vinyl
Recorded 2007
Genre Garage punk
Writer(s) Randy Fitzsimmons
Producer Jacknife Lee
The Hives singles chronology
"Throw It on Me"
(2007)		 "Tick Tick Boom"
(2007)		 "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S."
(2008)

"Tick Tick Boom" is a single by Swedish rock band The Hives, released in 2007. It is the opening track to The Black and White Album and is the first single taken from that album. "Tick Tick Boom" was released on 8 October 2007. The song has recently been receiving a large exposure to American audiences, appearing in the television series Friday Night Lights and in the films Taken, Friday the 13th and Macgruber. It is used in multiple American football media and was included on the soundtrack of Madden NFL 08 and Madden NFL 11. In the WWE, this song served as the theme song of the 2007 Survivor Series event.

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Music video

Two music videos exist for this song. The video directed by Kalle Haglund stars the Hives as giant statues in Stockholm's Liljevalchs konsthall who eventually destroy the museum on the song's final "Boom". In the video, the Hives fashion suits with white dress shoes. The second version is of a staged live performance of the song, part of which was displayed in the Nike / Finish Line commercial.

Track listing

CD

  1. "Tick Tick Boom"
  2. "Waits Too Long"

CD (European Version)

  1. "Tick Tick Boom"
  2. "Waits Too Long"
  3. "Fall is Just Something Grownups Invented"

7"

  1. "Tick Tick Boom"
  2. "Hell No"
    • Includes exclusive signed poster

Chart performance

Chart (2007) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 41
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 36

External links

The Hives
Studio albums
Compilation/demo albums
EPs
Oh Lord! When? How? • A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T • A Killer Among Us • Tarred and Feathered
Videos
Singles
"Hate to Say I Told You So" • "Main Offender" • "Supply and Demand" • "Die, All Right!" • "Die, All Right! / Supply and Demand" • "Walk Idiot Walk" • "Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones" • "Abra Cadaver" • "A Little More for Little You" • "Throw It on Me" • "Tick Tick Boom" • "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S." • "Won't Be Long" • "A Christmas Duel"
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