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Out of Our Heads is the 3rd British and 4th American 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, while Decca Records released its UK edition on 24 September 1965.

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Out of Our Heads
Original US release
Studio album by the Rolling Stones
Released	30 July 1965 (1965-07-30) (US) 24 September 1965 (1965-09-24) (UK)
Recorded	2 November 1964 – 1965
Genre	Blues rock British R&B
Length	33:24 (US) 29:21 (UK)
Label	London (US) Decca (UK)
Producer	Andrew Loog Oldham
The Rolling Stones UK chronology
The Rolling Stones No. 2 (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)
UK edition cover
UK release

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

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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[5]
Entertainment Weekly	B[6]
Music Story	[7]
NME	7/10[8]
Record Mirror	[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[10]
Tom Hull	UK: A− US: A[11]

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

US edition

UK edition

Personnel

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

• 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, marimba (on "Good Times")

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1965	UK Albums (OCC)[17]	2
1965	Billboard 200[2]	1
1965	French SNEP Albums Charts[18]	7
1965	Finland Soumen Virallinen LPs Chart[19]	2

Certifications

Country	Provider	Certification (sales thresholds)
United States	RIAA	Platinum

References

Further reading

• Smith, Sid. "Review of The Rolling Stones – Out Of Our Heads". BBC.

External links

• Out of Our Heads at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Out of Our Heads

Out of Our Heads ist das dritte in Großbritannien und das vierte in den USA erschienene Studioalbum der Rolling Stones. In den USA wurde es am 30. Juli und in Großbritannien am 24. September 1965 herausgegeben. Es ist die erste Veröffentlichung der Rolling Stones, die – mit Ausnahme des Stücks I’m Alright, das live in Großbritannien aufgenommen wurde[1] – ausschließlich Lieder enthält, die in amerikanischen Studios aufgenommen wurden.

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- [en] Out of Our Heads

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[es] Out of Our Heads

Out Of Our Heads —en español: Fuera de nuestras cabezas— es el tercer álbum de estudio de The Rolling Stones en el Reino Unido y su cuarto en los Estados Unidos, publicado en 1965 a través de sus distribuidores originales, Decca Records y London Records respectivamente, pero con diferencias significativas en ambos territorios.

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[ru] Out of Our Heads

Out of Our Heads — студийный альбом британской рок-группы The Rolling Stones. Это четвёртый альбом группы, вышедший в США и третий — в Великобритании. Версии альбома, изданные в США и в Великобритании, отличаются обложками и списком композиций. Американская версия альбома была издана 30 июля 1965 года лейблом London Records, а британская — 24 сентября 1965, лейблом Decca Records.

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