A Bigger Bang
by The Rolling Stones

A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-09-05
Overall rank: 5,949th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 160 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2005 (109th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,018th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,949th)

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The Rolling Stones bestography

A Bigger Bang is ranked 27th best out of 105 albums by The Rolling Stones on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Rolling Stones is Exile On Main St. which is ranked number 48 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,376.

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A Bigger Bang
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A Bigger Bang track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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A Bigger Bang rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,949th | 2000s rank: 1,018th | 2005 rank: 109th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 160 votes)
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70/100
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..
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70/100
From 01/03/2021 04:41 | #263731
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
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80/100
From 08/07/2018 09:18 | #219356
Voodoo Lounge is a little more raw, but this may be their best executed album since Tattoo You.
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70/100
From 02/11/2018 16:21 | #207668
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...
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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.
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Rating:  
75/100
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.
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80/100
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.
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50/100
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.
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