Bridges to Babylon
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 27 September 1997
- Tracks on this edition
- 13
- Running time
- 62:19
The cover
Bridges to Babylon places an Assyrian lion inside an ornamental slipcase, with a desert panorama across the interior. Stefan Sagmeister’s project page credits him with creative direction, Hjalti Karlsson with design and Max Vadukul with photography.
Creative direction: Stefan Sagmeister; Design: Hjalti Karlsson; Photography: Max Vadukul
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What critics said
Nick DeRiso’s Ultimate Classic Rock retrospective finds Bridges to Babylon’s electronic experiments dated and intrusive, particularly on “Might as Well Get Juiced” and “Saint of Me”. He is warmer about Keith Richards’s material, praising “You Don’t Have to Mean It”, “Thief in the Night” and “How Can I Stop”, although those songs do not restore the album’s balance for him.
Tracklist
UK edition · 27 September 1997
Select a song for details
- 1Flip the Switch3:27
- 2Anybody Seen My Baby?4:31
- 3Low Down4:24
- 4Already Over Me5:24
- 5Gunface5:02
- 6You Don’t Have to Mean It3:43
- 7Out of Control4:43
- 8Saint of Me5:15
- 9Might as Well Get Juiced5:23
- 10Always Suffering4:44
- 11Too Tight3:32
- 12Thief in the Night5:16
- 13How Can I Stop6:54
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.
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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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