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1965 studio album by the Rolling Stones

Out of Our Heads is a 1965 album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in two editions with different covers and track listings. In the US, London Records released it on 30 July 1965 as the band’s 4th American album, while Decca Records released its UK edition on 24 September 1965 as the 3rd British album.

Besides the key band members of singer Mick Jagger, guitarists Brian Jones and Keith Richards, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts, the album also contains musical contributions from former Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart. It was produced by the group’s manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

As with the prior two albums, it consists mostly of covers of American blues, soul and rhythm and blues songs, though the group wrote some of their own material for this album (4 out of the 12 tracks on the UK version, and 6 out of 12 for the USA version). The American version contains “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, which would be the band’s first number one US hit, and would go on to top the charts in 10 other countries, including the band’s native UK, and being ranked as the second greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone.

Out of Our Heads became the group’s first number one on the American Billboard 200 album chart; in the UK it charted at number two.

Musical style[edit]

The majority of the songs on Out of Our Heads were written and previously recorded by American rhythm and blues artists.[1] According to music critic Richie Unterberger, the album’s US release largely had mid-1960s soul covers and “classic rock singles” written by the band, including “The Last Time”, “Play with Fire”, and “Satisfaction”, still drew on the band’s R&B and blues roots, but were updated to “a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context.” Among the soul covers were Marvin Gaye’s “Hitch Hike”, Solomon Burke’s “Cry to Me”, and Sam Cooke’s “Good Times”.[2] Kent H. Benjamin of The Austin Chronicle wrote that the album is “the culmination of the Stones’ early soul/R&B sound”.[3] Writing of the album’s UK edition, AllMusic’s Bruce Eder characterised it as rock and roll and R&B.[4]

Release and reception[edit]

The British Out of Our Heads – with a different cover – added songs that would surface later in the US on December’s Children (And Everybody’s) and others that had not been released in the UK thus far (such as “Heart of Stone”) instead of the already-released live track and recent hit singles (as singles rarely featured on albums in the UK in those times). Issued later that September, Out of Our Heads reached number two in the UK charts behind the Beatles’ Help!. It was the Rolling Stones’ last UK album to rely upon rhythm and blues covers; the forthcoming Aftermath was entirely composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Initially issued in July 1965 in the US, Out of Our Heads (featuring a shot from the same photo session that was used for the cover of 12 X 5 and The Rolling Stones No. 2) was a mixture of recordings made over a six-month period, including the Top 10 hit “The Last Time” and the worldwide number one “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” with B-sides as well as a track from the UK-only live EP Got Live If You Want It!. Six songs would be included in the UK version of the album. “One More Try” is an original that was not released in the UK until 1971’s Stone Age. Riding the wave of “Satisfaction”‘s success, Out of Our Heads became the Rolling Stones’ first US number one album, eventually going platinum.

The US edition of the album was included in Robert Christgau’s “Basic Record Library” of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).[12] In 2003, this edition was also listed at number 114 on the list of Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[13] then was re-ranked at number 116 in the 2012 revised list.[14]

In August 2002 both the US and UK editions of Out of Our Heads were reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.[15]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted

US edition[edit]

UK edition[edit]

Side one
Title Writer(s)
1. “She Said Yeah” 1:34
2. “Mercy, Mercy” 2:45
3. “Hitch Hike”
  • Marvin Gaye
  • Clarence Paul
  • William “Mickey” Stevenson
 2:25
4. “That’s How Strong My Love Is” Roosevelt Jamison 2:25
5. “Good Times” Sam Cooke 1:58
6. “Gotta Get Away”   2:06
Total length: 13:13

Personnel[edit]

The Rolling Stones

As per the American release:

  • Mick Jagger – lead vocals, backing vocals, harmonica (on “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man”), tambourine (on “Play with Fire”)
  • Keith Richards – electric guitar, backing vocals, acoustic guitar (on “The Last Time” and “Play with Fire”)
  • Brian Jones – electric guitar, acoustic guitar (on “Good Times” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”), harmonica (on “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man” and “One More Try” [16]), backing vocals
  • Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Charlie Watts – drums
Additional personnel

Certifications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Strickler, Yancey (2 April 2008). “The Rolling Stones, Out of Our Heads”. eMusic. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  2. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. “Out of Our Heads (US) – The Rolling Stones”. AllMusic. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. ^ “Review: The Rolling Stones”. The Austin Chronicle. 13 December 2002. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  4. ^ Eder, Bruce. “Out of Our Heads [UK]”. Allmusic. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  5. ^ “Out of Our Heads”. acclaimedmusic.net. Archived from the original on 20 May 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  6. ^ Browne, David (20 September 2002). “Satisfaction?”. Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  7. ^ “Acclaimed Music”. Acclaimedmusic.net. Archived from the original on 20 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  8. ^ “Review: Out of Our Heads”. NME. London: 46. 8 July 1995.
  9. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (25 September 1965). “The Rolling Stones: Out Of Our Heads“ (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 237. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  10. ^ “Acclaimed Music – Out of Our Heads”. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  11. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). “Grade List: The Rolling Stones”. tomhull.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  12. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). “A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties”. Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0-89919-025-1. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  13. ^ “Out of Our Heads ranked 114th by Rolling Stone in 2003”. Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  14. ^ “500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone’s definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time”. Rolling Stone. 2012. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  15. ^ Walsh, Christopher (24 August 2002). “Super audio CDs: The Rolling Stones Remastered”. Billboard. p. 27.
  16. ^ Stones Complete Recordings Sessions – Martin Elliott
  17. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  18. ^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  19. ^ “Offiziellecharts.de – The Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads” (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  20. ^ “The Rolling Stones | Artist | Official Charts”. UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  21. ^ “The Rolling Stones Chart History (Billboard 200)”. Billboard. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  22. ^ “American album certifications – The Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads”. Recording Industry Association of America.

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