Bridges to Babylon
by The Rolling Stones
- Type: Album
- Released: 29 September 1997
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:02:23
- Community rating: 2.54/5 from 4 ratings
Artists on this release: Darryl Jones, Wayne Shorter, Blondie Chaplin, Waddy Wachtel, Jeff Sarli, Jamie Muhoberac, Ron Wood, Clinton Clifford, Ben Mink, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Benmont Tench, Joe Sublett, Bernard Fowler, Darrell Leonard, Keith Richards, Jagger-Richards, Me'Shell Ndeg茅Ocello, Jim Keltner, K.D. Lang, Doug Wimbish
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Bridges to Babylon' finds The Rolling Stones attempting to modernize their classic sound with sleek 90s production and an eclectic mix of producers. The album balances energetic, rhythmic pop-rock experiments with raw, passionate blues-rock ballads centered on heartache.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, breakup, melodic
Tracklist
- Flip The Switch (3:27)
- Anybody Seen My Baby? (4:31)
- Low Down (4:24)
- Already Over Me (5:24)
- Gunface (5:02)
- You Don't Have To Mean It (3:43)
- Out Of Control (4:43)
- Saint Of Me (5:14)
- Might As Well Get Juiced (5:23)
- Always Suffering (4:43)
- Too Tight (3:34)
- Thief In The Night (5:16)
- How Can I Stop (6:53)
Credits
- The Rolling Stones - primary artist
- Bernard Fowler - backing vocals
- Blondie Chaplin - backing vocals, piano, tambourine, shaker, bass, maracas
- Keith Richards - backing vocals, electric guitar, guitar, handclaps [hands], guitar, lead vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, lead vocals
- Darryl Jones - bass, backing vocals
- Sagmeister Inc. - design [packaging]
- Charlie Watts - drums, backing vocals
- Ron Boustead - edited by [digitally]
- Ron Wood - electric guitar, slide guitar, dobro, baritone guitar, pedal steel guitar
- Waddy Wachtel - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Alan Sanderson - engineer [assistant], mixed by [assisted by]
- Charles Goodan - engineer [assistant]
- John Sorenson - engineer [assistant], engineer [mix]
- Don Was - executive-producer, keyboards, bass, keyboards, electric piano [wurlitzer]
- The Glimmer Twins - executive-producer
- Pierre de Beauport - executive-producer [minister of production], bass [six], electric piano [fender rhodes], electric piano [wurlitzer], mixed by, written-by
- Alan Ayers - illustration [additional illustrations]
- Gerard Howland - illustration [desert illustration]
- Kevin Murphy - illustration [lion illustration]
- Jamie Muhoberac - keyboards, bass
- Mick Jagger - lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, guitar [wah wah], shaker, harmonica, acoustic guitar, keyboards, harmonica, keyboards
- Stephen Marcussen - mastered by
- Jim Keltner - percussion, shaker, backing vocals
- Max Vadukul - photography by [band]
- Joe Sublett - saxophone, baritone saxophone
- Jason Rankins - technician [studio assistant]
- Mike Ellis - technician [studio assistant]
- Chuch Magee - technician [technical support]
- Dave Rouze - technician [technical support]
- Darrell Leonard - trumpet
- Jagger-Richards - written-by
- Jeff Sarli - bass, acoustic bass
- Tom Lord-Alge - mixed by
- Mauricio "Veto" Iragorri - mixed by [assisted by]
- Dan Bosworth - recorded by
- Rob Fraboni - recorded by, mixed by, producer
- The Dust Brothers - producer, recorded by
- Ben Mink - written-by
- K.D. Lang - written-by
- Benmont Tench - keyboards, electric organ [hammond b-3], piano, electric organ [hammond b-3]
- Bob Clearmountain - mixed by
- Ryan Freeland - mixed by [assisted by]
- Kenny Aronoff - percussion [bucket]
- John X Volaitis - recorded by, mixed by
- Danny Saber - bass, guitar, keyboards, producer, bass, clavinet, effects [reality manipulations], mixed by
- Robi Banerji - engineer [mix, assisted by], engineer [mixed, assisted by]
- Clinton Clifford - piano, electric organ [hammond b-3]
- Wally Gagel - mixed by
- Me'Shell Ndeg茅Ocello - bass
- Billy Preston - electric organ [hammond b-3]
- Doug Wimbish - bass, backing vocals
- Richard Lowe - mixed by
- Ed Cherney - recorded by, mixed by
- Stuart Brawley - mixed by [assisted by]
- Jim Scott - recorded by
- George Fullan - mixed by [assisted by]
- Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone