| The Big Bang: The Essential Collection | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | TNT |
| Cover: | TNT The Big Bang.jpg |
| Released: | 2003 |
| Recorded: | 1982–2003 |
| Genre: | Hard rock, heavy metal, glam metal |
| Length: | 78:08 |
| Label: | Universal |
| Producer: | Bjørn Nessjø, Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø |
| Prev Title: | Transistor |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | My Religion |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
The Big Bang: The Essential Collection is a compilation album by the Norwegian 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. No material was included from the band's most recent albums at the time, Firefly (1997) and Transistor (1999). The compilation also includes two newly recorded tracks, "Hey Love" and "Satellite", and an outtake from the Tell No Tales sessions, "Destiny".
The compilation went gold in Norway.[2]