The Rolling Stones
A Bigger Bang

THE REVIEW

Music has returned to planet earth.
Jagger, Richards, Wood, Watts... the Rolling Stones are back.

After eight years of absence and with over forty years of career behind them, the Stones release "A Bigger Bang", an album that hits you from the first notes of "Rough Justice", a simply rock and roll song branded Jagger/Richards, like all the 15 tracks composing the CD. "Let Me Slow Down" and "It Won't Take Long" maintain the pace, proving very enjoyable for the listener. Meanwhile, in "Rain Fall Down" the bass and the more funky guitar are immediately noticeable, supported by Jagger's voice and the drums, resulting, however, in a repetitive song with a long and unnecessary ending.

"Streets Of Love" is the first single released, a true rock ballad, with a chorus sung in falsetto like the best Stones: certainly one of the best pieces of the entire LP. The sonorities change once again in "Back Of My Hand", a great blues with Mick finding himself playing slide guitar, harmonica, percussion, and bass, proving once again his greatness.
"She Saw Me Coming" and "Biggest Mistake" are two rock pieces without too many pretensions, but "This Place Is Empty" is a great song, sung by Keith Richards with the backing vocals of Jagger.
For lovers of classic rock "Oh No Not You Again" and "Dangerous Beauty", two true rock rides that grab you and sweep you away until "Laugh I Nearly Died" starts, where the sonorities become more cautious again.

We reach track number thirteen, one of the most talked-about songs of the year, "Sweet Neo Con", with lyrics "dedicated" by the group to the president of the United States of America George Bush, in which, besides criticizing his foreign policy, something almost everyone has done in recent years, they express their viewpoint on the person debuting with the following words:

"You call yourself a Christian
think yourself a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of shit"

Despite the strong lyrics, the song is not one of the best on the album.

With "Look What The Cat Dragged In" and "Driving Too Fast", the Stones return once again with rock tracks before arriving at "Infamy", a piece sung again by Keith Richards, touching once more blues chords, also thanks to his voice.

Many years have passed since "Sticky Fingers", but the group seems unfazed by them, and they return with a very beautiful album that once again confirms Jagger & Co. as the best in their genre, the true revolutionaries of modern rock music.