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A Bigger Bang | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Rolling Stones
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $26.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 51838
Format: Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 30068
UPC: 094633006829
EAN: 0094633006829
ASIN: B000BP86LE
Release Date: November 22, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Rough Justice | | • | Let Me Down Slow | | • | It Won't Take Long | | • | Rain Fall Down | | • | Streets Of Love | | • | Back Of My Hand | | • | She Saw Me Coming | | • | Biggest Mistake | | • | This Place Is Empty | | • | Oh No Not You Again | | • | Dangerous Beauty | | • | Laugh, I Nearly Died | | • | Sweet Neo Con | | • | Look What The Cat Dragged In | | • | Driving Too Fast | | • | Infamy |
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Album Description
This Special Edition contains the full length CD of "A Bigger Bang" plus a Bonus DVD with 3 extra songs plus 4 videos. DVD tracklist: 1. Introduction to A Bigger Bang (Video) 2. Streets Of Love (Video) 3. Streets Of Love (TV Performance) 4. Rough Justice (TV Performance) 5. We Dona€™t Wanna Go Home (Audio) 6. Under The Radar (Audio) 7. Rain Fall Down (Ashley Beedle's "Heavy Disco" Vocal Re-Edit - Audio)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 kick A$$ June 5, 2007
wonderful album...in and out, Keith and Mick.
just buy it...you won't feel bad.
btw on the DVD of this special edition release there are 2 new unreleased songs...good stuff.
Second disc is DVD format only December 22, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is not really a review, just a heads up to potential buyers that the second disc is not dual format. You will not be able to play the two new tracks on standard CD players or easily import them into mp3 players like ipod.
You can't always get what you want! December 11, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Perhaps I am ignorant concerning marketing, but I would have released this special edition cd first for $26, and several weeks later the regular cd for $13. I am a Stones fanatic, and bought the regular cd the day of its release for $13 (I think it's a really good album too!). Then, two months later they come out with this. Well, I'm sure the thinking was- Those Rolling Stone fans will buy the regular cd, and two months later will get the special edition. Well, a lot will, but I won't. If they had released both together, I would have paid the $26 for the special edition. From reading over the other reviews (and I agree)..... If for some reason you don't already have a Bigger Bang, I would certainly buy this one. However, I already bought the regular cd, so I'm not willing to dish out the extra money for some (probably well worth watching) additonal material and videos. Perhaps "they" know what there doing, but I think it's a disreguard for the fans. In the long run I don't see how they could have made that much extra money out of this. I would rate the regular cd at least 4.5 stars, so the same would go for this, but it ends up with 3 stars for the shi__y way they did the fans.
A Somewhat Bigger Bang December 7, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This expanded edition of "A Bigger Bang", which might easily be dismissed as a ripoff, is from my perspective recommended, without reservation, to any Stones fan who has yet to buy the superb new studio album, released in September 2005. The 'regular' edition of "A Bigger Bang" captures the Stones comitted and focused, packed with 16 new original songs on a 65-minute CD (also available as a double vinyl album). The Stones' new album reached # 3 in the "Billboard" Top 200 chart, but despite impressive first week sales has received very little airplay (notwithstanding the massive and well received tour intended to promote it), certainly not enough to nudge it into true big hit status. One must assume there are many folks out there who own a decent Stones collection but have not yet picked up the group's fine new album. As many other reviews indicate, A.B.B posesses a vitality and authority doubters could hardly have expected; the high quality of the material, sense of committment and overall high energy level, make this one of the best rock albums of the year. As originally conceived and recorded ABB is remarkably lean, recalling "Some Girls", a 'comeback' from a long ago era - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ron Wood sound re-invigorated (especially coming after the rather slight quartet of new tracks included on 2002's "Forty Licks"), with the band playing most of the instruments and occasional contributions from bassist Darryl Jones and keyboardist Chuck Leavell. But "Bang" is most remarkable for its directness, energy, and concision - quite a contrast to the expansive sonic experimentation (and considerable cast of guest musicians and producers) of 1997's "Bridges To Babylon." "A Bigger Bang" is not a complacent work by the band. In fact, after 43 years one can see and hear the band still evolving. Mick Jagger plays guitar on nearly every track, plus harmonica, keyboards, and (on six tracks) bass - the latter a first. Keith Richards and Ron Wood may not display the rapport they once had, but both turn in terrific performances, as does Charlie Watts, who sounds unstoppable a year after his bout with throat cancer. There are wry explorations of blues themes ('Rough Justice') subtle ('Back Of My Hand', 'Dangerous Beauty') and not so subtle ('Neocon') social and political commentary, and the reflections on age and mortality one has come to expect from late-period Stones. The bulk of the material coheres, resonates, and rewards repeated listenings - if anything, there's a somewhat dark (occasionally darkly humorous) tone to the album, as befits the times we're living in.
As for the Bonus DVD, it contains two new songs, and both 'Don't Wanna Go Home' and especially "Under the Radar" are marvellous. And Ashley Beedle's remix of "Rain Fall Down" is deeply funky. I can understand fans' irritation, and even reluctance to re-buy a current album for a couple of new songs, but for anybody else interested in a terrific new work by The Rolling Stones, the Bonus/DVD edition expands on a fine new CD by a still great band, and since it is reasonably priced the best way to go, collecting all 18 new studio tracks issued this year (all but one - the bluesy charity single 'Hurricane' which is slated to appear on the upcoming DVD boxed set).
As for the rest of the DVD, the other supplementary material is entertaining but slight: A rather brief "making of" ABB documentary, with studio footage, three videos, lesser odds and ends of the , and a somewhat brief 'making of' type segment are worth a view or two, but are hardly essential.
 More Proof That The Stones Are Thieves December 7, 2005
16 out of 31 found this review helpful
Greedy thieves.
Ridiculous Ticket Prices
Ridiculous Number of Greatest Hits and Live albums
Now this insulting "bait and switch"
No conscience...shameful, absolutely shameful
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