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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 49166
Released: September 6, 2005 |
| Our Price: $1.75 |
| Used Price: $0.43 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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A Bigger Bang 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
Editorial Review:
It should come as no surprise that it took sex, disease and death to shake the Rolling Stones out of their latest creative dry spell. Leading up to the making of A Bigger Bang, produced by Don Was, Mick Jagger endured a very public break-up with Jerry Hall, Charlie Watts battled throat cancer, and Ron Wood was devastated by the news of his ex-wife's suicide. Out of their collective struggles, the members of the venerable British rock band managed to piece together some of their best work in nearly two decades. It's a slick, slightly uneven affair bounding from raunchy blues to MOR rock songs that sound suspiciously like they were left over from the Alfie soundtrack, yes, but it also sounds vital at every turn. Even though they don't really need to, the jet-set vagabond rockers plunge into hot-button politics ("Sweet Neo Con"), rummage through their dirty laundry ("Oh No, Not You Again") and dip cautious toes back into ridicule-tempting "Miss You"-style funk ("Rain Fall Down"), without making any major missteps unless you count the ewwwww-factor of a 61-year-old Keith Richards singing "Come on honey, bare your breasts and make me feel at home" on "This Place Is Empty." --Aidin Vaziri
A Bigger Bang Reviews:
A Stones Come Back, Of Sorts 
2009-11-10 - Hey, in 2009 no one, including this reviewer, NEEDS to comment on the fact that The Rolling Stones, pound for pound, have over forty plus years earned their place as the number one band in the rock `n' roll pantheon. Still, it is interesting to listen once again to the guys when they were at the height of their musical powers (and as high, most of the time, as Georgia pines). This album represents a comeback from the tail end of their most creative period long ago in conjunction with their 2005 world tour (endless tour, right?), moreover, unlike let us say Bob Dylan who has produced more creative work for longer, is the `golden era" of the Stone Age. The album, however, is a little uneven in spots reflecting, I think, a certain exhaustion of material that they could call their totally their own unless the time when they owned a big chunk of rock 'n'roll in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The stick outs here are "Rain Fall Down" and "Oh No, Not You Again" with a slight kudos for "Sweet Neo-Con" from group that has not expressed much politically for a long, long time.
A damp squib 
2009-10-01 - On first listen this sounded like the great return to form they'd been promising for nearly 25 years (since Tattoo You), but sadly it's another false dawn.
Two songs stand out, "Rough Justice" and "Back Of My Hand"; the former a crunching, innuendo-laden rocker that's up there with their best work and the latter a country blues with an off-hand virtuosity that used to be their trademark.
As for the rest, well, there's not much here to be honest. Just re-treads and filler. They're clearly trying hard, which we should perhaps be grateful for after all this time.
It could perhaps have been better if they were capable of self-editing. They seem to feel that they have to fill an 80 minute CD. An album half that length would have been preferable and much more satisfactory.
It leaves something of an empty feeling. It's all very calculated and professional. In the pre-release interview Jagger compared this with Exile on Main Street. It's nowhere near that fagged-out masterpiece, of course. To be fair, it doesn't even compare to Goat's Head Soup.
bang! biff! pow! 
2008-10-02 - Best rolling stones album in a longggg time. all loud rock and roll. it's also available as a dbl disc limited edition with a bonus dvd. killer album - get it.
Hellofa Bang
2008-09-30 - Mick and the boys can still get ut up. This has some great vintage Stone vibes!
Nice BANG for your buck.
2008-09-29 - Waited a while before I reviewed this CD. Recently I loaded it into my Ipod and have been rocking out to it regularly.
First of all, I find it to be great fun. Okay so it's not the best Rolling Stones effort, and no comparison to the greats like Exile on Main St. But there are some rockin' little tunes here, and certainly enough to rationalize the purchase.
Of course my favorites are the ones that most reviewers list as the weakest and least favorites.
Streets of Love (had to be written with Jerry Hall in mind and heart) & Sweet Neo Con. (Politically charged and my sentiments to a "T") Second favorites are Rain Fall Down & Laugh I nearly Died.
They may be looking like little old men who have been around the bush and back a million times, but they still rock and roll like nobodies business.
I would have given this 5 stars, but it just doesn't stand up to some of their older and better masterpieces.
