Out of Our Heads
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| Released | 30 July 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 2 November 1964 – 1965 | |||
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| Length | 33:24 (US) 29:21 (UK) | |||
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| Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
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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.
Besides the key band members of singer Mick Jagger, guitarists Brian Jones and Keith Richards, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts, the album contains musical contributions from former Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart. It was produced by the group's manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
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
[edit]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]
Release and reception
[edit] | This section needs additional citations for verification. (March 2023) |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [6] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[7] |
| Music Story | [citation needed] |
| NME | 7/10[8] |
| Record Mirror | [9] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [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
[edit]All songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted
US edition
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(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 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(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 Phelge | 2:13 |
| 5. | "The Spider and the Fly" | 3:39 | |
| 6. | "One More Try" | 1:58 | |
| Total length: | 17:48 | ||
UK edition
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(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 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Talkin' 'Bout You" | Chuck Berry | 2:31 |
| 2. | "Cry to Me" | Bert Russell | 3:09 |
| 3. | "Oh, Baby (We Got a Good Thing Going)" (Originally released on The Rolling Stones, Now!) | Barbara Lynn Ozen | 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 | ||
Personnel
[edit]As per the American release:
The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger – lead vocals, backing vocals, harmonica (on "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" and "The Spider and the Fly"[16]), 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"[17]), piano, organ
- Bill Wyman – bass guitar
- Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
Additional personnel
- Jack Nitzsche – percussion, piano (on "Satisfaction"), organ (on "Cry to Me"), harpsichord (on "Play with Fire")[citation needed]
- Phil Spector – tuned-down electric guitar (on "Play with Fire")[citation needed]
- Ian Stewart – piano, organ, marimba (on "Good Times")
- J.W. Alexander – percussion
Technical personnel
- Andrew Loog Oldham – producer
- David Hassinger – engineer
- Ron Malo – engineer
- Gered Mankowitz – photography
Charts
[edit]| 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
[edit]| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA)[23] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Review: The Rolling Stones". The Austin Chronicle. 13 December 2002. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "Out of Our Heads [UK]". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
- ^ a b Mulholland, Garry (2021). "Out of Our Heads". Uncut Ultimate Music Guide: The Rolling Stones. London: BandLab UK Limited: 16.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). "Rolling Stones". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. p. 1197. ISBN 9781846098567.
- ^ Browne, David (20 September 2002). "Satisfaction?". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ "Review: Out of Our Heads". NME. London: 46. 8 July 1995.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. ISBN 0679737294.
- ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Grade List: The Rolling Stones". tomhull.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Walsh, Christopher (24 August 2002). "Super audio CDs: The Rolling Stones Remastered". Billboard. p. 27.
- ^ Margotin & Guesdon 2016, p. 121.
- ^ Stones Complete Recordings Sessions – Martin Elliott
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "The Rolling Stones | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "The Rolling Stones Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ "American album certifications – The Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads". Recording Industry Association of America.
Further reading
[edit]- Smith, Sid. "Review of The Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads". BBC.
- Margotin, Philippe; Guesdon, Jean-Michel (2016). The Rolling Stones All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. ISBN 978-0-316-31774-0.
External links
[edit]- Out of Our Heads at Discogs (list of releases)
