The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
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Free Music Review: bang! biff! pow!
Hit: 4 Stars
Good stuff. Should have been a 40 minute 10 track album though - some cool songs get bogged down by the filler stuff. All the same, it's a good album. Also must add it has the best album sleeve art since god knows when! about time!Free Music Review: Hellofa Bang
Hit: 5 Stars
Mick and the boys can still get ut up. This has some great vintage Stone vibes!Free Music Review: Nice BANG for your buck.
Hit: 4 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: Now that my opinion has cured for awhile
Hit: 2 Stars
Ah yes, the Stones 2005 release. Loved them at the Xcel in St. Paul.
First: I am a huge Stones fan. I awaited this release with baited breath.
Next: three years on, there is no need to fool around with giving this record more then two (three at the absolute outside, considering carefully the portfolio against which it is to be measured) stars.
Let's face it. There are some pretty embarassing moments on this record that no Rolling Stones fan should have to endure. Rough Justice is a pretty fun, Ronny influenced song, but what's with the stupid chicken and cocks lyrics kicking it off--it calls into question the (ahem) songwriters' judgement, and puts a big damper on what otherwise is a pretty good song. And "Streets of Love" is simply stupid and unlistenable, suitable only for a soap opera, one of very few Rolling Stones songs to merit such a label. I used to think "Blinded by Love" was bad....
And what about jello and tits in "Oh no"? Another perfectly good song ruined by a few poorly chosen lyrics.
Three years is about the historical max for a gap between good Stones records. 1997's "Bridges to Babylon"--despite several weak tracks--the last record to have been released within the three year timeframe--has stood the test of time as a solid Stones record. "Saint of Me", "Thief in the Night", and "Juiced" join a venerable rock 'n' roll pantheon.
Eight years is simply too long. If this is all the boys can muster up, then the simple truth is they should just quit pretending to create new music and rely on the timeless standards. (Incidentally, why wasn't a song like Bablylon's "Thief" or "Saint" included on the mostly excellent "Shine A Light" film? I mean, has there been nothing since 1983's "She Was Hot" worth recording? (And "She Was Hot" is one of the hottest tracks on a pretty good live record/film).
I will say that there are some good songs on "Bigger Bang". "Let Me Down Slow" is a fine paeaen to the life of earlier days, and "Dangerous Beauty" is an effective send up of the Abu Ghraib crowd. But, if that's all you've got, release an EP already.
Free Music Review: Where waiting !!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
TO THE STONES , ----Don't let us (FANS) wait years and years for another album. This music is simply fun and exciting (GOOD), so keep going "ROLLING STONES". DON'T STOP..........DON'T WASTE YOUR TALENT.......MAKE ANOTHER ALBUM , " FAST" . You guy's are to good not to make more albums. (p.s.) MICK, your voice sounds great on this album......keep it going.