Barely Legal (album)

Barely Legal is the debut studio album by Swedish rock band the Hives, released on 22 September 1997 through Burning Heart Records. The album's second track, "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T", had a video produced, but it was not commercially released until it was included as an extra on some pressings of Your New Favourite Band. The band later recorded an EP by the same name. The album sleeve features three quotations from fake newspaper reviews. These quotations are originally from British newspapers referring to the Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World.

Barely Legal
Studio album by the Hives
Released	22 September 1997
Recorded	Summer 1997
Studio	Rub-a-Dub (Stockholm)
Genre	Punk rock
Length	27:21
Label	Burning Heart
Producer	Pelle Gunnerfeldt
The Hives chronology
Oh Lord! When? How? (1996) Barely Legal (1997) A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T (1998)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Randy Fitzsimmons, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Well, Well, Well"		1:02
2.	"A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T"		2:12
3.	"Here We Go Again"		2:12
4.	"I'm a Wicked One"		1:45
5.	"Automatic Schmuck"		2:17
6.	"King of Asskissing"		1:46
7.	"Hail Hail Spit N' Drool"		1:27
8.	"Black Jack" (Raunch Hands cover)	Mike Chandler, Mike Mariconda, Mike Tchang	2:45
9.	"What's That Spell?... Go to Hell!"		1:41
10.	"Theme from..."		2:49
11.	"Uptempo Venomous Poison"		1:13
12.	"Oh Lord! When? How?"		1:42
13.	"The Stomp"		1:54
14.	"Closed for the Season"		2:34

Personnel

The Hives

• Howlin' Pelle Almqvist – vocals
• Nicholaus Arson – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Vigilante Carlstroem – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Dr. Matt Destruction – bass guitar
• Chris Dangerous – drums