It's nice to be loved by friends.
We went to a 4th of July Independence Day cookout yesterday.
Just a small gathering, the couple having the party, are
not real rockers. That being said, the Mrs pulled out a new
copy of A Bigger Bang, and put it on for me....it was a perfect
day. I had forgotten how good that album really is...I really
enjoyed it. Found myself singing along....IT WONT TAKE LONG.

A nice day.

The album has charme, but it was done too fast. I love Dangerous Beauty. Neocon is bad and silly. A trumpet would have done well on the great Laugh I Nearly Died. The problem of Bigger Bang (I like it) is that Ronnie and Charlie did their bits within a few days. The main problem is that the Stones did not even try to promote it on the tour. In Vienna they played 5 songs of it but the songs vanished later on. It could not develope because Keith and Ronnie were in bad shape, and they could not bring passion into the new songs.

Yeah, Dangerous Beauty, She Saw Me Coming, It Won't Take Long, Rough Justice, Back Of My Hand, ONNYA....there was a lot of good stuff...Under the Radar (on the deluxe version) too.

If they had left a handful of songs off...say 3-5 songs, I would have liked that album a whole lot more.

Good latter day effort.

I'm sure that technically has some merit. Enjoyed reading your post, in fact.

I remember on the old Rollingstones.com, the band performed
Streets Of Love live in rehearsal, and put that video on the website.
It was an awesome rendition. They played many of the new
songs when I saw them during Bigger Bang, but I think Mick
gets bored if the audience doesn't respond. I always enjoyed
hearing 5 of the tunes in the concert!

Fans that post here, love hearing the obscure and newer songs.
I really enjoyed hearing the album as a background to our
celebration chatter......some of the songs even distracted me
from our group to sing along....to songs that no one else there
had ever heard!

I remember when you purchased an ALBUM, and you went through the inserts,
photo's, credits, while putting the vinyl on the turntable...you
might really dig half of the tracks, and get used to the rest of them...
THAT was a good album!

Now it might not be CD's much longer...all digital, iTunes...etc.

Hearing a Bigger Bang when I didn't expect it, was a real pleasant experience.
At someone ELSE'S party for once! Now that was NICE!



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The thing is, on the good Stones albums, there are no duff tracks, so while I agree with you, I'd say we're generally spoiled and expect to like everything on a Stones album.

Agreed

at first i thought you were saying she pulled out a bigger bong...

I had just put on ABB, seconds later opened IORR and this thread!

I loved the album on release, and still do. It's overlong, and has fillers like NeoCon, Infamy and one or two more but has quite a lot of outstanding songs. Any album with bloody good songs like 'Laugh I Nearly Died', the wonderful 'Rain Fall Down', 'Let me Down Slow', 'This Place is Empty', 'Back of my Hand', 'Look what the Cat Dragged In' and the 'It Won't Take Long' is something special indeed.

'Laugh I Nearly Died' and 'Rain Fall Down' are two of my favourite Stones songs, standing up there with their greats. Even something like 'Rough Justice' just kicks with a vibrant rock'n'roll sound.

Too long, but my own 12 track 'A Better Bang' is an album I love coming back to

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sonomastone
at first i thought you were saying she pulled out a bigger bong...

HA!

Indeed, it does have some great music in there.

Love it. I don't mind Streets of Love, and the lesser tunes for me are Sweet Neocon, Driving Too Fast and Biggest Mistake, but they're still OK. The rest is generally superb. I don't mind the length at all, I think it's part of its charm. Better than the 14-track Voodoo Lounge, which has a weaker second half. They're not in the Tattoo You-Some Girls Class, but ABB and Babylon are in the next category, definitely superior to the mid-70s trilogy (expecting rocks and tomatoes at this point).

I've kept 'A Bigger Bang' heavy in my Stones rotation play

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

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IrelandCalling4
I had just put on ABB, seconds later opened IORR and this thread!

I loved the album on release, and still do. It's overlong, and has fillers like NeoCon, Infamy and one or two more but has quite a lot of outstanding songs. Any album with bloody good songs like 'Laugh I Nearly Died', the wonderful 'Rain Fall Down', 'Let me Down Slow', 'This Place is Empty', 'Back of my Hand', 'Look what the Cat Dragged In' and the 'It Won't Take Long' is something special indeed.

'Laugh I Nearly Died' and 'Rain Fall Down' are two of my favourite Stones songs, standing up there with their greats. Even something like 'Rough Justice' just kicks with a vibrant rock'n'roll sound.

Too long, but my own 12 track 'A Better Bang' is an album I love coming back to

1+

Funny my 12, 14 & 16 year olds like the albums.
Have it on their ipod.

Their all time favorite track is Driving to fast. They love it.
They like BB more then me...haha.

Not an album I envisage rediscovering any time soon. If Rain Fall Down pops up on the iPod shuffle, it may not get skipped, but that's it.

Their all time favorite track is Driving to fast.

YEAH lurv that one too ... Ya can hear the sound of crumpled fenders flyin' from the Stones vehicle ...... PLAY LOUD



ROCKMAN

I love ROUGH JUSTICE and it's an example of Mick listening to new bands and taking an influence and bettering them, in this case the fuzz-box vocal that's on every Strokes song—Julian Casablancas being insecure in his singing—and putting it on ROUGH JUSTICE. I know Mick did a fuzz vocal on MIGHT AS WELL GET JUICED (where he was influenced by industrial rock) but I think it was the Strokes that influenced Mick on ROUGH JUSTICE. Just like I think the Black Keys' LONELY BOY influenced Mick on DOOM AND GLOOM, and Mick bettered them (and I love LONELY BOY).

Don't Wanna Go Home and Under The Radar should've made the cut, both are excellent rockers.

Some decent tunes on it for sure but I don't find myself ever going back to it. Maybe I should. The fact that MJ dominated the one channel with his guitar playing blows...

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Not an album I envisage rediscovering any time soon. If Rain Fall Down pops up on the iPod shuffle, it may not get skipped, but that's it.

+1

Took the longest to grow on me of any of their stuff. I'll give it that, though--it did grow on me eventually! In truth, I only really started to enjoy it this year although I gave it many tries starting in 2005. Definitely way overlong, but for me, "Sweet Neo Con" is not only a highlight but one of the four or five best on the record, along with "Rough Justice," "Laugh I Nearly Died," "Driving Too Fast" and "Oh No Not You Again." "Rain Fall Down" is pretty good too but the filler lyrics about "she cooked me up some eggs" are embarrassing, even for latter day Mick. Some gold on there though . . . They seemed energized! In some places better than B2B but overall I'd say B2B's by far the most solid of their "comeback" albums (Steel Wheels onward) . . .