A Bigger Bang
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 9 June 2005
- Tracks on this edition
- 16
- Running time
- 64:37
The cover
Michael Nash Associates developed A Bigger Bang’s photographic concept with Nick Knight. In the designers’ recollections reproduced by IORR, Caravaggio’s The Supper at Emmaus helped shape the scene. Knight photographed the image in sections and assembled it with his retouching team.
Photographic concept: Michael Nash Associates (IORR archive account); Photography and image assembly: Nick Knight (IORR archive account); Clothes/styling: William Gilchrist (IORR archive account)
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
Artwork source and selected track edition are identified separately.
What critics said
Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s AllMusic review welcomes A Bigger Bang’s relaxed interplay and uncluttered production, with “Rough Justice” a particularly forceful opening. He hears convincing blues on “Back of My Hand” and a disco groove on “Rain Fall Down”. His enthusiasm has a boundary: the songs do not rival the band’s 1960s and 1970s standards.
Tracklist
XE edition · 9 June 2005
Select a song for details
- 1Rough Justice3:13
- 2Let Me Down Slow4:17
- 3It Won’t Take Long3:56
- 4Rain Fall Down4:55
- 5Streets of Love5:11
- 6Back of My Hand3:34
- 7She Saw Me Coming3:14
- 8Biggest Mistake4:07
- 9This Place Is Empty3:17
- 10Oh No, Not You Again3:48
- 11Dangerous Beauty3:49
- 12Laugh, I Nearly Died4:56
- 13Sweet Neo Con4:36
- 14Look What the Cat Dragged In3:59
- 15Driving Too Fast3:58
- 16Infamy3:47
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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