I Think I Just Made the Biggest Mistake of My Life

After listen to Eric Clapton grow gracefully on his latest album (scroll down for a review), it make the latest Rolling Stones album, A Bigger Bang sound even worse. Granted Clapton has been pumping out great albums for the last couple years whereas The Stones seem to slap some song together just as an excuse to tour. Yet everyone knows they will be playing Jumping Jack Flash over any songs on that album. A Bigger Bang is no exception.

The album title itself sound like a shot at the recent hubbub of Intellectual Design by naming the album after a theory that contradicts it, the Big Bang. And that would usher in a more political Stones most prominently heard on the song that has already come under fire by Fox New, Sweet Neo-Con. If you haven’t heard already, the song rails against Bush calling him a hypocrite and blasting him about prisons without trial and Haliburton. And people said Eminem was late to comment on the elections. At least Mosh was catchy; Sweet Neo-Con is just painful to listen to.

But then again A Bigger Bang could be a sexual reference, this is The Rolling Stones. Even when the boys getting up their in age, they still like their suggestive lyrics, “Once upon a time I was your rooster, now I’m just one of your cocks.” (Rough Justice) It’s nice to see Jagger can still write those double entendres. Wait, no it isn’t, it’s kind of sad he still does. But wait, there’s more, in the appropriately titled Oh No, It’s You Again, Jagger sings that he’s, “staring down your tits.” Ladies, it’s time to lock up your granddaughters.

Elsewhere on the album, there is the Angie rip off, Streets of Love, but it’s not as emotional as the original. The king of the cheesy songs goes to Laugh, I Nearly Died, which could describe anyone who makes it through the whole album. This especially goes for the songs wear they let Keith Richards sings. There are a few, and I mean very few, rays of sunshine on the album, including a funky riff on Rain Fall Down and Back of My Hand has a cool , down home bluesy feel to it, but they never come close to redeeming the set of songs. Hopefully the next time The Rolling Stones get a feeling to tour, some one tells them they can actually do it without having to release an album to do so.

Song to Download – Back of My Hand

A Bigger Bang gets a on my Terror Alert Scale.