Published July 28, 2005
The Rolling Stones celebrated Mick Jagger's 62nd birthday by announcing the Sept. 6 release of "A Bigger Bang" on Virgin Records, their first studio CD in eight years.
"While in the studio recording the album last year, the band came up with the title, `A Bigger Bang,' reflecting their fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the universe," the Stones said in a statement Tuesday.
Sixteen songs will be featured on "A Bigger Bang," and Keith Richards sings on two tracks. The Stones kick off their world tour Aug. 21 at Boston's Fenway Park.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)
― ghetty green (eman), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)
― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)
Always wondered what the secret sauce was that has kept those guys together so long. See, they're the Rolling Stones Travelling Rock And Roll Circus And Kosmogonist Society.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)
That will surely silence the critics and haters.
― George Smith, Friday, 29 July 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)
It's just a business, You can pay us in crudeYou love these toys, just go play out your feuds
Got no pride, don't know whose boots to lickWe act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick
So get up, stand up, out of my wayI want to talk to the boss right awayGet up, stand up, whose gonna payI want to talk to the man right away
We walk the highwireSending the men up to the front lineHoping they don't catch the hell fireWith hot guns and cold, cold nights
We walk the highwireSending the men up to the front lineAnd tell 'em to hotbed the sunshineWith hot guns and cold, cold nights
Our lives are threatened, our jobs at riskSometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist
Another Munich we just can't affordWe're gonna send in the eighty-second airborne
Get up, stand up, who's gonna payI wanna talk to the boss right awayGet up, stand up, outta my wayI wanna talk to the man right away
We walk the highwirePutting the world out on a deadlineAnd hoping they don't catch the shellfireWith hot guns and cold, cold nights
We walk the highwirePutting the world out on a deadlineCatching the bite on primetimeWith hot guns and cold, cold nights
Get up! Stand up!Dealer! Stealer!Hey!
We walk the highwireWe send all our men into the front linesWe're hoping that we backed the right sideWith hot guns and cold, cold nights
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)
Best Album Since Blood On The Tracks
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)
― George Smith, Friday, 29 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)
NO FUCKING WAY!!!!
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)
1. Don't Tell Me No2. You Gotta Have It3. American Dreamer4. Touched5. Young Heroes6. She's Dancing7. A Bigger Bang8. Going To A Go-Go9. These Streets10. Alone With You11. I Can't Say No To You12. Satellites13. Mine To Waste14. Awakening15. Nobody Knows16. Sleeping With My Eyes Open
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 30 July 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)
― p.j. (Henry), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
Track Listings1. Rough Justice 2. Let Me Down Slow 3. It Won't Take Long 4. Rain Fall Down 5. Streets Of Love 6. Back Of My Hand 7. She Saw Me Coming 8. Biggest Mistake 9. This Place Is Empty 10. Oh No, Not You Again 11. Dangerous Beauty 12. Laugh, I Nearly Died 13. Sweet Neo Con 14. Look What The Cat Dragged In 15. Driving Too Fast 16. Infamy
PS:The album cover looks REEAALLYYY BAD, albeit a sorta clever McCartney/Wings homage.
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)
OMGWTF?!!! Stones in Poison-covering shockah!
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/4131_11042_1.jpg
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)
Calling Billboard from tour rehearsals in Toronto, Jagger says the spirited play between he and Richards and switching up instruments helped bring a renewed energy to the album's creation.
"I was playing drums and all that sort of stuff I usually never do and that was fun," he says. "Happily for the fans, my drums never made it on the record apart from one or two little hits that were saved. Keith and I were just having a laugh with a lot of it."
Many of the tracks feature just Jagger, Richards and drummer Charlie Watts. Apart from guitarist Ron Wood, the only other musicians on the album are longtime Stones associates Darryl Jones (bass) and Chuck Leavell (keyboards).
"There's no hiding place if there's only three of you in the room," Jagger says. Or as Richards puts it, the album is "raw Stones."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
The day the Rolling Fucking Stones need a "gimmick" to hype a new rekkid is the day... er... right. Carry on then.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)
― The Original Jimmy Mod (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 30 July 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)
did bill wyman used to slip behind the mixing board unnoticed?
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)
13. Sweet Neo Con
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)
― Masked Gazza, Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)
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― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)
― plebian plebs (plebian), Sunday, 31 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)
It has just been announced that Metallica will be the special guest for the Rolling Stones as part of their "A Bigger Bang" World Tour at SBC Park in San Francisco on November 13th and 15th!
!!!
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 5 August 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)
http://www.productshopnyc.com/archives/rollingstonesbiggerbangstage
― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)
(Rough Justice was great live)
― =====--(?), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)
"Rough Justice" totally smokes though; didn't some idgit disparage it up there? who cares, can't check .. "She Saw Me Coming" is pretty fucking reet too. hmm.. they got pretty close on this one. Should have just been an 8 songer like the good old days of Black and Blue maybe
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)
he does still sound fantastic though.
The second half of this record is better than the first. Definitely a 'half-great'-er, not too shabby. again, they all sound great. it's just that half the songs kind of blow. but there are 16 songs so there you go. Fucking CD's man.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, I retract that position. Now that I've heard it about 25 times, it won't leave my brain (in a good way).
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)
I love "This Place is Empty," especially Mick's harmonies!
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)
Paul Morley was clearly right when apparently imploring Jagger to split the Stones in about 1979; if they'd done so then and returned now with this, their reputation would be stratospherically higher than it stands.
― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)
So far my favorite tracks are "Rough Justice," "Oh No Not You Again," "Laughing I Nearly Died," and "Look What the Cat Dragged In" (a Poison tribute, yes!) The alleged Condaleeza song (which seems as much a Bush song to me == did Mick say it was about her in an interview or something?) is, um, at least better than Steve Earle's Condaleeza song. Beyond that, I reserve judgement about it for now.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)
New tour pretty good -- they play three songs from the album: "Rough Justice", "Oh No Not You Again" and "Infamy". They also do "out of Control" from Bridges of Babylon, and "You Got Me Rocking" and "The Worst" from Voodoo Lounge. so that's 6 songs out of about 20 played, from their 90s-and-beyond period. so it's not really fair to accuse 'em of just going through the motions with their greatest hits..
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)
Anyway, cheer up, Pick Of The Pops with Dale Winton's back on Radio 2 next Sunday afternoon!
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)
As in you got it in fa' me. This reminds of of the Dave Matthews band for some reason! And for some reason I am hating it (slightly) less now, too.
Does "Look What The Cat Dragged In" have the same bassline as "Shakedown Street," "Nighttime in the Switching Yard," and "I Need You Tonight"? Or is it some other track? I gotta go back and check...
Tomorrow night, I see them live for my first time ever.
― xhuxk, Monday, 12 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)
― President Busch (dr g), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)
I'm pretty surprised, but then I suppose there's always the odd song I like here and there in their post-70s stuff. Maybe I should get that Forty Licks comp...
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)
"Let Me Down Slow" is a nice tune
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 February 2010 22:59 (fifteen years ago)
this one earned the BEST ALBUM SINCE 1934 plaudits.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)
wow I guess they really have been around forever haven't they
― dead clown handjob (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:14 (fifteen years ago)
They were the Munich house band when Chamberlain and Hitler signed their pact, I think.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)
nazism never sounded so funky
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:34 (fifteen years ago)
I hear Ernst Rohm used to hit on Jagger between sets
― dead clown handjob (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:56 (fifteen years ago)
"Have You Seen Your Fuhrer Baby Sieg Heiling in the Shadow"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:58 (fifteen years ago)
"(I Can't get No) Sauerbraten"
― François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)
"I'm Frei"
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)
"Gimme Scheisse"
― dead clown handjob (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)
"i am waiting (for the third reich to rise again)"
― ('_') (omar little), Friday, 26 February 2010 01:05 (fifteen years ago)
"Munich Hotel"
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)
"I rode a tank, held a general's rank when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank." Somebody should write a song!
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 26 February 2010 03:19 (fifteen years ago)
Loaded this onto my iPod last night after another marathon ripping session, stands up pretty well! I mean, lol old Stones, but I don't know, as a whole I'll probably take this over any of the 90s albums.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)
Still good!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 23 October 2023 15:07 (two years ago)