Out of Our Heads

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Out of Our Heads
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UK release
Studio album by
the Rolling Stones
Released30 July 1965 (1965-07-30)
Recorded2 November 1964 – 1965
Genre
Length33:24 (US)
29:21 (UK)
Label
Producer Andrew Loog Oldham
The Rolling Stones UK chronology
Got Live If You Want It!
(1965)		Out of Our Heads
(1965)		 Aftermath
(1966)
The Rolling Stones US chronology
The Rolling Stones, Now!
(1965)		Out of Our Heads
(1965)		 December's Children (And Everybody's)
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Entertainment Weekly B [7]
Music Story Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg[ citation needed ]
NME 7/10 [8]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [10]
Tom Hull UK: A−
US: A [11]

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 ) contained 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[ clarification needed ] as well as a track from the UK-only live EP Got Live If You Want It! . Six songs from it would be included on 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 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 previously released live track and recent hit singles (as singles rarely featured on albums in the UK in those times). Issued that September, Out of Our Heads reached number two on the UK chart 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.

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]

Garry Mulholland, writing retrospectively in Uncut , poses that the UK version of Out of Our Heads coheres as an album better than the US version, despite both versions being "cynical [hotchpotches] of recordings from the previous six months." He wrote of the UK version: "The covers of recent American deep soul classics that dominate showcase the band's sincere love of black balladry and dance music, while the four originals point the way, hesitantly, towards the stunning pop-art group who would soon emerge on Aftermath ." [5]

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

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

UK edition

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."She Said Yeah"
1:34
2."Mercy, Mercy"
2:45
3."Hitch Hike"
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
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Talkin' 'Bout You" Chuck Berry 2:31
2."Cry to Me" Bert Russel 3:09
3."Oh, Baby (We Got a Good Thing Going)" (Originally released on The Rolling Stones, Now! ) Barbara Lynn 2:08
4."Heart of Stone" (Originally released on The Rolling Stones, Now!) 2:50
5."The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" Nanker Phelge 3:07
6."I'm Free" 2:24
Total length:16:09

US edition

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mercy, Mercy"
2:45
2."Hitch Hike"
2:25
3."The Last Time" 3:41
4."That's How Strong My Love Is" Roosevelt Jamison 2:25
5."Good Times" Sam Cooke 1:58
6."I'm All Right" (originally released on Got Live If You Want It! EP) Bo Diddley 2:25
Total length:15:39
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" 3:42
2."Cry to Me" Bert Berns 3:09
3."The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" Nanker Phelge 3:07
4."Play with Fire"Nanker Phelge2:13
5."The Spider and the Fly" 3:39
6."One More Try" 1:58
Total length:17:48

Personnel

As per the American release:

The Rolling Stones

Additional personnel

Technical personnel

Charts

Chart (1965)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [18] 2
Finland (The Official Finnish Charts) [19] 2
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 2
UK Albums (OCC) [21] 2
US Billboard 200 [22] 1

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [23] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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