a bigger bang
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a bigger bang
A Bigger Bang is the 22nd British and 24th American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released on Virgin Records in September 2005. It is the follow-up to their previous full-length studio album Bridges to Babylon from 1997; that gap of eight years was, up to that time, the longest between studio albums of the band's recording career. Released as a double album on vinyl and a single CD, it was produced by Don Was and the Glimmer Twins.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
A Bigger Bang is just a straight-up, damn fine Rolling Stones album, with no qualifiers or apologies necessary for the first time in a few decades
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The Guardian
Indeed those who complain that the Stones are incapable of growing up are offered swift rebuttal by many of A Bigger Bang's lyrics, in which Jagger gamely tries to maintain the wizened roué schtick, but finds his attention continually distracted by more Pooterish concerns.
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NME
it’s the best record they were going to make, and a world with the Stones is better than one without them
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Pop Matters
here isn't a single song on this record that I feel compelled to listen to again
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Paste Magazine
most of these songs, unfortunately, just aren’t very good
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Drowned in Sound
it’s not as a good as the old stuf
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BBC
It's certainly their best record since 1978s Some Girls
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NY Times
"A Bigger Bang" is about simpler, more immediate pleasures: a twang, a beat, a moan, a laugh. They're enough to keep a great band going.
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Mark's Music Reviews
But overall, it is a frustratingly hit-and-miss record.
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Don Ignacio
it was a concentrated return to what they did best: pure rock 'n' roll
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Adrian's Music Reviews
That so many tuneful and memorable and not at all embarrasing Stones moments are included on the same LP, this late into their career? Well, it pleases me.
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Only Solitaire
Well, after decades of waiting I now know what a "generic Rolling Stones album" really is. And I like it.
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Keno's ROLLING STONES Web Site
“This is a damn good album”, I find myself saying that each time I play it.
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Countdown Kid
there’s some solid stuff here and not too much of it feels derivative of older work
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Alltime Records
This wasn't so much a comeback for The Rolling Stones, but rather a concentrated return to what they did best ... pure rock'n'roll.
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Vntage Rock
To paraphrase, it may in fact only be rock and roll, but if they keep making them like this one, you can’t help but like it.
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