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Frontside Rock'n'Roll

Frontside Rock'n'Roll
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Studio album by BigBang
Released 2002
Recorded December 2001, January 2002
Genre Rock and roll
Length 45:26
Label Warner Music Group
BigBang chronology
Clouds Rolling By
(2000)Clouds Rolling By2000
Frontside Rock'n'Roll
(2002)
Radio Radio TV Sleep
(2003)Radio Radio TV Sleep2003
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Dagbladet 4/6 stars
Aftenposten 5/6 stars

Frontside Rock'n'Roll is the fourth album by the Norwegian rock band BigBang, which was released in 2002.

This is the first album to be published outside Norway. Warner Music Germany also re-released the previous full-length Clouds Rolling By in the country. The first record to be released in Germany was actually Girl In Oslo EP '01 edition, also known as "Girl In Oslo (Europe)".

Øystein Greni wrote the song "Frontside Rock 'n' Roll" as a tribute to two of his skater friends, who had died the same year. "Frontside Rock 'n' Roll" is also the name of a skateboard trick, a discipline which Greni is a former European champion of. The song uses various skateboard trick references.

"Fire & Oil" is a song co-written with Nikolai Eilertsen and documenting on the 11th of September 2001 events from the point of view of a kamikaze pilot. "Earphones" is an homage to Ray Charles. "One of a Kind" is dedicated to his friend the Norwegian film director Joachim Trier (hence the line "for my fiend Jo"). "Mercedes" is dedicated to 'M.E.O.' (Maria Eva Orieta) a performer from Argentina and Greni's then fiancee.


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