''From Acid to Zen'' is the second compilation album by the
Norwegian rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
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band
BigBang. It is the band's first album released exclusively for the American market and consists mainly of previously released material, in addition to two new songs, "The One" and "Savior Soul". It was released on September 9, 2008.
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Reception
David Fricke of '' Rolling Stone'' chose the album as his "Fricke's Pick", calling it a "big step in a bigger gamble", and described it as a "shotgun buffet, like those early U.S. LPs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones that combined album tracks and singles from unrelated sessions, and it succeeds the same way: like an instant greatest-hits record".[Fricke, David, ''Rolling Stone'' (October 2008)]
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Track list
Personnel
Bigbang
* Øystein Greni
Øystein Greni (born 15 June 1974 in Oslo) is the singer and lead guitar player of the Norwegian rock and roll band BigBang.
Biography
Øystein Greni is the son of Thor Sigbjørn Greni, singer and songwriter of the Undertakers Circus, a 60/70s ...
– vocals, guitars, mixer
* Øyvind Hoel – bass, backing vocals
* Olaf Olsen – drums, backing vocals
Additional personnel
* Phil Nicolo – producer, mixer
* Christian Engfelt – engineer
* David Larring – engineer
* Sylvia Massy
Sylvia Lenore Massy is an American record producer, mixer, engineer, instructor and author. Massy is renowned for her multifaceted production/mixing and engineering skills, with her first major breakthrough occurring with 1993's '' Undertow'', th ...
– mixer
* Michael Ilbert – mixer
* Rich Veltrop – mixer
* Patricia Sullivan – mastering
References
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2008 albums
Bigbang (Norwegian band) albums
Oglio Records albums