The Big Bang – The Essential Collection

The Big Bang – The Essential Collection is a compilation album by the Norwegian hard rock band TNT, released in 2003. The compilation mainly focuses on the studio albums the band released in the 1980s, from TNT (1982) to Intuition (1989).^[1] Guitarist Ronni Le Tekrø had suggested for the inclusion of several tracks from the 1992 album Realized Fantasies, however only the single "Downhill Racer" was included.^[1] No material was included from the band's most recent albums at the time, Firefly (1997) and Transistor (1999).^[1] The compilation also includes two newly recorded tracks, "Hey Love" and "Satelitte", and an outtake from the Tell No Tales sessions, "Destiny".^[1]

The compilation went gold in Norway.^[2]

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
- 2.1 Band
- 2.2 Additional personnel
3 Album credits
4 Sources
5 References

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Harley-Davidson" (UK version)	Dag Ingebrigtsen, Gustav Alfheim, Steel	4:06
2.	"Eddie" (US version)	Dag Ingebrigtsen, Steel, TNT	4:44
3.	"10,000 Lovers (In One)"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø, Morten "Diesel" Dahl	2:56
4.	"Intuition"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	4:18
5.	"As Far as the Eye Can See"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	3:44
6.	"Tonight I'm Falling"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	3:54
7.	"Everyone's a Star"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	3:22
8.	"Take Me Down (Fallen Angel)"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	4:26
9.	"Seven Seas"	TNT	4:16
10.	"Downhill Racer"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø, Morty Black	4:49
11.	"Forever Shine On"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø, Morty Black	4:47
12.	"Break the Ice"	Dag Ingebrigtsen, Tony Harnell, Morten "Diesel" Dahl	2:24
13.	"Listen to Your Heart"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	3:18
14.	"Last Summer's Evil"	TNT, Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	2:36
15.	"Caught Between the Tigers"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	4:14
16.	"Knights of the Thunder"	TNT, Tony Harnell, Morten "Diesel" Dahl	4:11
17.	"Sapphire" (instrumental)	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	1:16
18.	"End of the Line"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	4:20
19.	"Hey Love"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø, Anne Vada, Amund Enger	3:44
20.	"Satellite"	Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø	3:01
21.	"Destiny"	TNT	3:42

Personnel

Band

Dag Ingebrigtsen – vocals and guitars
Tony Harnell – vocals
Ronni Le Tekrø – guitars, guitar synthesizer, keyboards, 1/4 stepper guitar
Steinar Eikum – bass guitar
Morty Black – bass guitar, pedal synthesizer, fretless bass with reverb and chorus effect on "Forever Shine On"
Morten "Diesel" Dahl – drums, percussion
Kenneth Odiin – drums, percussion
John Macaluso – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Bård Svendsen – keyboards, programming and background vocals
Håkon Iversen – background vocals
Bjørn Nessjø – keyboards and programming
Carlos Waadeland – keyboards and programming
Kjetil Bjerkestrand – keyboards
Joe Lynn Turner – background vocals
Dag Stokke – keyboards
Rich Tancredi – keyboards
T.J. Kopetic – keyboards

Album credits

Bjørn Nessjø – producer (tracks 1-18)
Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø – producers (tracks 19-20)
Rune Nordahl – engineer
Björn Engelmann at Cutting Room Studios – mastering, remastering
Tommy Hansen – mixing
John Cappadona – front cover artwork
Tor-Erik Ledang – cover design and additional artwork

Sources

http://www.ronniletekro.com/discography-album-18.html

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dahle, Jan (April 2003). "Nye eksplosiver fra den gamle gjengen" (in Norwegian). Scream Magazine (75): pp. 4–5.
^ "Puls - TNT: The Big Bang - The Essential Collection" (in Norwegian). puls.no. http://www.puls.no/10873.html. Retrieved 2011-03-21.

TNT

Ronni Le Tekrø • Morten "Diesel" Dahl • Victor Borge • Tony Mills Steinar Eikum • Dag Ingebrigtsen • Kenneth Odiin • John Macaluso • Morty Black • Tony Harnell

Studio albums	TNT • Knights of the New Thunder • Tell No Tales • Intuition • Realized Fantasies • Firefly • Transistor • My Religion • All the Way to the Sun • The New Territory • Atlantis • A Farewell to Arms

Compilations	Till Next Time – The Best of TNT • Firefly and Live! • The Big Bang – The Essential Collection

Live albums	Three Nights in Tokyo • Live in Madrid

Videography	The Collection: Volume 1

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