Barely Legal is the debut studio album by Swedish rock band the Hives, released on 22 September 1997 through Burning Heart Records.

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 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.

All tracks are written by Randy Fitzsimmons, except where noted