A Bigger Bang (studio album) by The Rolling Stones

From ExTeaSea 06/12/2021 02:08

Quite underwhelming honestly. Love the Stones but this didn't do much for me. Beggars Banquet actually did way more and is super underrated. All of Bigger Bangs songs kinda just meld together.. I dunno I always thought it was generic sadly..

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Honestly, probably the Stones best album since Tattoo You in '81.

Best Song(s): It Won't Take Long; Laugh I Nearly Died; Sweet Neo Con

Voodoo Lounge is a little more raw, but this may be their best executed album since Tattoo You.

From Sandrof1969 02/11/2018 16:21

Diciamo la verità: nessuno si aspettava, dieci e più anni fa, un album così da parte dei Rolling Stones. E invece: album doppio in LP, media qualitativa delle canzoni buona, senza nessuna caduta di tono ( senza nemmeno un brano capolavoro, per contro ). Qualche grande canzone, un suono chitarristico curato ma grezzo e senza sovraprodruzioni...

Endless. Getting through the entire album is a torture.

This place is empty, Biggest mistake and Back of my hand are the best tracks but still a 7 or 7.5 at best.
The rest are at best passable fillers while some 3 or 4 tracks are plain garbage.

Coming eight years after bridges to Babylon, a bigger bang is one of the stones strongest albums for years, although a little too long again. It's got some brilliant cuts in streets of love, biggest mistake and laugh, I nearly died. The best track has to be the funky, rain fall down, one of the best stones tracks for years. My personal favourite track though is Keith's gruff ballad, this place is empty. Rough justice is also good, as is the blues track, back of my hand. It's 16 tracks long and therefore too long. If they had cut it down to 12 by discarding dangerous beauty, she saw me coming, sweet neo con and oh no, not you again, it might well have become, as most critics seem to claim, their best album since some girls. Still, it's easily the best of the stones later albums, and their most enjoyable since, steel wheels, maybe even, tattoo you.

From RoundTheBend 02/24/2013 04:23

This seems to have more soul than anything they have done in over 20, possibly 30 years. Some solid tracks on here that stick. Some really boring ones. I like Rough Justice, Rain Fall Down, even streets of love, Back of my Hand (that terrible sounding early stuff that sounds like this, actually is realized to it's highest potential in this track due to advances in production), and Sweet Neo Con is an awesome commentary.

From lightmyway 05/11/2012 17:44

Better than Bridges to Babylon, yet another album where the Stones go back to doing what they do best. It's a little disjointed and overlong but it's still an okay listen.