The Big Bang: The Essential Collection

The Big Bang: The Essential Collection
Greatest hits album by
Released2003
Recorded1982–2003
GenreHard rock, heavy metal, glam metal
Length78:08
LabelUniversal
ProducerBjørn Nessjø, Tony Harnell, Ronni Le Tekrø
TNT chronology
Transistor
(1999)
The Big Bang: The Essential Collection
(2003)
My Religion
(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). 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.