Product Description

A Bigger Bang is the Rolling Stones first studio album since Bridges to Babylon eight years ago. It features the single "Streets of Love", the controversial "Sweet Neo Con", and the already classic blues track, "Back of My Hand".

Track Listing

1. Rough Justice
2. Let Me Down Slow
3. It Won’t Take Long
4. Rain Fall Down
5. Streets Of Love
6. Back Of My Hand
7. She Saw Me Coming
8. Biggest Mistake
9. This Place Is Empty
10. Oh No, Not You Again
11. Dangerous Beauty
12. Laugh, I Nearly Died
13. Sweet Neo Con
14. Look What The Cat Dragged In
15. Driving Too Fast
16. Infamy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5392 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
A Bigger Bang--the Rolling Stones' 25th studio album--begins exactly how Rolling Stones albums ought to begin, with the testosterone calling-card explosion of "Rough Justice"; a ribald, licentious rocker with Sir Mick getting bawdy and with Keith Richard's infernal bottleneck guitar sliding around like an aroused python on an oil slick. Sigmund Freud would have had a field day.

Venerable rock aristocrats they may be but beneath the wrinkles and erudition throbs the passion of reckless, raffish young dandies whose loins cannot be encumbered by codpieces. It's to the Stones credit that (knighthoods aside) they can still sound like the sort of chaps you wouldn't want hanging around your daughter. Jagger sounds fantastic; tawdry, bitchy and condescending on stompers like "Look What The Cat Dragged In" and like a dumped mug on the jilted love tale of "She Saw Me Coming".

At sixteen tracks the album is long and not entirely without its shortcomings--"Sweet Neo Con" won't have George W Bush choking on any pretzels and "Driving Too Fast" sounds like a cross between "Jumping Jack Flash" and a lecture in road safety. But there are strong ballads ("Streets of Love") vintage malt blues ("Back of My Hand") and even Keith resurrecting one of Kenneth William's finest wordplays on "Infamy". Best Stones album in yonks? Quite possibly so. --Kevin Maidment

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Customer Reviews

How do they do it?
Maybe its Bill gone, but there is a cohesion, they just got it together big time on this album, best since sixties. it would be great to tell them how amazing this album is. Pity that's not possible.

Some good songs on here methinks...
Having never listened to the Stones before (being only 21...), I decided it was hightime that I pulled the proverbial finger out and started...and I wasn't disappointed! Some of the songs on this album are really good, but my favourite has to be "Streets of Love". I didn't actually realise it was by the Stones til I heard the album!

There's a strong motive behind this album..
There's a strong motive behind this album, palpable from even the name A Bigger Bang, coiling in the Ian Brown myth of Music of the Spheres to fling out a glorious re-birth. There's some great touches here, so many it's hard to know where to begin. The late 60's style throw-away stomp of It Wont take Long is for me a tight Let It Bleed moment, then there's the percussive beat up of Dangerous Beauty, springs to mind a severe cosh beating with it's Abu Graib symbolism wielded by the mythologised femme fatal of Jagger's originary firmament, or the soul wringing stream of life of Laugh, I Nearly Died.

Heavily percussive, at time incendiary as they ever were, A Bigger Bang has indeed proved to have re-energised Rock's solar system as every band and their off shoot either reforms or kicks out their best, most effective response.