A Bigger Bang
by The Rolling Stones
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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 49 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,217.
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A Bigger Bang track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
A Bigger Bang rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 55 Music Albums of 2005 | 55/55 | 0 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 82 Music Albums of 2005 | 67/82 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | AllMusic Guide Best Albums 2005 | 35/50 | - |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Ranking: the Rolling Stones' studio albums | 20/25 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Monitor Best Albums 2005 | 32/44 | - |
| 2026 |  pedro1976 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 97/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2005 | 33/100 | - |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Greatest Rolling Stones Studio Albums | 26/27 | - |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 97/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 77 Music Albums of the 2000s | 67/77 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 90 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 227 | |||
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A Bigger Bang ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/24/2026 16:32 |  Leonard | 6,630 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 02:34 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,516 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2026 08:53 | platus | 5,896 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.2/100, a mean average of 66.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.
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A Bigger Bang forum mentions
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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.
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.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/24/2013 04:23 | #65962 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
ExTeaSea TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/12/2021 02:08 | #270562 | TOP COMMENT
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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..
lightmyway TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/11/2012 17:44 | #42034 | TOP COMMENT
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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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