Out of Our Heads is the third studio 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 fourth American album,while Decca Records released its UK edition on 24 September 1965 as the third British album.
As with the previous 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 US 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;in 2004 it was 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
The majority of the songs were written and previously recorded by American rhythm and blues artists.[1] According to music critic Richie Unterberger,the US edition largely had mid-1960s soul covers and "classic rock singles" written by the band,including "The Last Time","Play with Fire",and "Satisfaction",that 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 UK edition,AllMusic's Bruce Eder characterised it as rock and roll and R&B.[4] The music critic Gary Mulholland writes that the UK version begins with a key proto-punk song –the band's speedy cover of "She Said Yeah" –but otherwise,the majority of the album is "a primitive template for what would later be tagged 'blue-eyed soul'",also noting that "That's How Strong My Love Is" is a sincere deep soul track.[5]
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 EPGot 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.
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 SACDdigipak by ABKCO Records.[16]
Mick Jagger– lead vocals, backing vocals, harmonica (on "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" and "The Spider and the Fly"[17]), 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"[18]), piano, organ
↑ Evans, Paul (1983). "The Rolling Stones". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Random House. p.599. ISBN0679737294.
↑ Stones Complete Recordings Sessions – Martin Elliott
↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
↑ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.
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