BigBang

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norwegian, rock, norsk, indie, alternative rock

** There are two artists called BigBang
- Norwegian retro rock band BigBang
- Korean hip-hop group Big Bang (빅뱅; Big Bang)

* Number 1
Bigbang play retro-rock, in ’70s style, but also acoustic folk ballads such as Chocolate Factory and Old People, all sung in English.

The album Clouds Rolling By from 2000 was the beginning of their commercial success, thanks to the hit Girl In Oslo, released in many compilations by that time.

Øystein’s father, Thor S. Greni was a performer in the Undertakers Circus 1960/70s soul band. The songs were sung in Norwegian except two Curtis Mayfield covers included in the debut album.

Young Greni grew up with the intimate conviction that ” was born to do that”, he was influenced not only by his own father’s work but also by other 60/70s Norwegian bands as well as British and American artists like The Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Cream and The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd or Eric Clapton’s Blind Faith cult band. As a skateboarder he was into Punk rock energetic music like The Jam, Dinosaur Jr. or Hüsker Dü and American 80s alternative, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Tom Petty. He was also into Bob Dylan and Neil Young’s folk-rock though, hence a sounding resemblance with acts such as Pearl Jam (To the Mountains) or R.E.M. (Spiritual Heart Surgery).

Bigbang’s classic Long Distance Man is actually the English adaptation (with totally different lyrics) of a Norwegian sung Undertakers Circus 1973 tune. The band often covers their favourite tracks on stage, including almost all previously mentioned bands and even an instrumental partial cover of James Brown’s ‘There Was A Time’.

1	i Don't Wanna	66
2	Wild Bird	58
3	Girl in Oslo	48
3	Saturn Freeway	48
5	Long Distance Man	47
6	Early December	40
7	Something Special	39
7	We Belong Together	39
9	To the Mountains	35
10	Hurricane Boy	32
10	Right Beside You	32
12	All The Time	30
13	My First Time	29
14	마지막 인사	27
14	Summer Rain	27

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kevincompton wrote:
last month

The Korean bigbang is bullshit at its shittiest. Give me the REAL BigBang from Norway pls.

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TVfXQ wrote:
last month

Actually Sakkle, their name is written BIGBANG officially... no space, all caps ... Unless written in hangul (빅뱅), or kana (ピッグパン) for the japanese releases. I'm not messing up my tags... They need to find a way to distinguish against caps and sh*t.

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Sakkle wrote:
May 2008

Been over this before... this is the Norwegian group page. The Korean has a space in the name... clean up your tags ppl

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nick7654 wrote:
May 2008

can someone please upload the big bang albums? my friend from korea sent me the fist mini album and i love it. i only have that album and random mp3's that i got from myspace. i can't buy big bang cd's where i live :( lol

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jk90 wrote:
May 2008

Someone should change Similar Artists.

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orangethirteen wrote:
May 2008

Okay there seems to be 3 groups of this name Big bang. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Big+Bang Nujazz/electronica........ HELP!

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theOtherNils wrote:
May 2008

Because of the norwegian rock-trio BigBang :P

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kimishim wrote:
May 2008

why are the words big bang together? :/

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gypsy_eyes1982 wrote:
March 2008

great sound! (for the norwegian guys of course)

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veselipastir wrote:
March 2008

and for the Hurricane Boy ---- great songs

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veselipastir wrote:
March 2008

does anyone have lryics for the new glow i've searched whole net, had no luck :( pls send if you have them pleaseeeeeeee

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dir4you wrote:
February 2008

좀 화가 나는군요-_- 그동안 big bang으로 테그가 되어있어도 강제적으로 bigbang으로 스크로블되었으면 계속 놔두던가 고쳐졌으면 기존테그들도 정리를 해준다거나 해줘야지 어느날 갑자기 bin bang으로 잘나오면 그동안 쌓인 스크로블순위가 뭐가되냐고-_-;;

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Rotuhiiri wrote:
February 2008

거짓말없는 번호

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Skipbeatskipper wrote:
February 2008

@Politik Same here lol...

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palok wrote:
February 2008

Ah, iTunes tagged my BigBang album as Big Bang and suddenly I was listening to Korean Hip-hop (jeezus). Anyhow, corrected now. :) Love these guys!

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Politik wrote:
January 2008

It seems like they fixed the Big Bang vs. BigBang problem. Now MY problem is that I have never listened to BigBang before, yet they're in my top 10 lol.

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stella0tess wrote:
January 2008

to. global family drop that beat!!! shut up and just listen

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josecharts wrote:
January 2008

Is their website still working? i tried to access tonight and i wasn't able to enter... :(

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josecharts wrote:
January 2008

Thanks, now i got it and love it :D

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josecharts wrote:
January 2008

People does anyone have heard the new Bigbang (Norway) song? IN YOUR HEART??? I have seen it in the radio charts... please it is not in the album, where can i get it!

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