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Out of Our Heads (1965)

Where the lyrics of Out of Our Heads take you, and where it was really made.

Two editions of this album exist with different covers and track listings, and the US edition gave the Rolling Stones their first number one album in America.

Key places

Recording site: RCA Studios (1965)

Recording site RCA Studios — RCA Studios is the recording location listed for this album. The source gives no exact recording date for this studio, and the songs were recorded over six months. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Third studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones
• Released in two editions with different covers and track listings
• US edition: London Records, July 1965, the band's fourth American album
• UK edition: Decca Records, 24 September 1965, the third British album
• Produced by the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham
• Most songs are covers of American blues, soul and rhythm and blues songs
• Original songs: four of 12 tracks on the UK version, six of 12 on the US version

Background

• Key members: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts
• Former member Ian Stewart contributes musically
• Continues the cover-based approach of the band's previous two albums
• US edition includes "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", the band's first US number one hit
• Songs on the US edition include "The Last Time", "Play with Fire" and "Satisfaction"

Recording

• Recordings for the album were made over a period of six months
• Recording location is listed as RCA Studios
• Six songs from the US edition also appear on the UK version

Cover

• The US cover uses a shot from the same photo session as the covers of 12 X 5 and The Rolling Stones No. 2
• Photography credited to Gered Mankowitz

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in London in 1962 as an English rock band; their first stable line-up was Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts.
• Jones named the band after a Muddy Waters song; they were rooted in blues and rock and roll.
• Manager Andrew Loog Oldham encouraged them to write their own songs, and the Jagger–Richards partnership became their main creative force.

Members

• Current: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood (joined 1975).
• Former: Brian Jones (died 1969), Mick Taylor (1969–1974), Bill Wyman (1962–1993), Charlie Watts (1963–2021, died 2021).
• Steve Jordan became their drummer after Watts' death.

Career

• Hits included "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965), "Paint It Black" (1966) and "Start Me Up" (1981).
• Their 1969 Hyde Park show and Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. are key points of their career.
• Formed Rolling Stones Records in 1970, whose tongue-and-lips logo became their band logo.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989; the band has sold more than 250 million albums.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released in July 1965 in the US, where it included "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
• Bruce Eder of AllMusic described the UK edition as rock and roll and R&B
• Kent H. Benjamin of The Austin Chronicle wrote that the album is "the culmination of the Stones' early soul/R&B sound"
• Reached number two on the UK chart, behind the Beatles' Help!

Reappraisal

• Garry Mulholland, writing retrospectively in Uncut, argued that the UK version coheres as an album better than the US version
• Mulholland noted that the UK version opens with the band's speedy cover of "She Said Yeah"
• Mulholland described most of the album as a primitive template for what would later be tagged blue-eyed soul
• Robert Christgau included the US edition in his Basic Record Library of 1950s and 1960s recordings
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list placed the US edition at number 114 in 2003 and number 116 in the 2012 revised list

Records

• First number one album for the band on the American Billboard 200 chart
• Peaked at number two on the UK album chart
• Went platinum in the US
• Its first US number one status came on the wave of "Satisfaction"'s success

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Out of Our Heads became the Rolling Stones' first US number one album, eventually going platinum.
• "One More Try" is an original that was not released in the UK until 1971's Stone Age.
• In 2004 Rolling Stone ranked "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as the second greatest song of all time.
• The forthcoming Aftermath was entirely composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and this album was the band's last UK album relying on rhythm and blues covers.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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