1. Music

2. Release and reception

3. Track listing

4. {{Anchor|United States release}} American release
    Track listing 

5. Personnel

6. Chart positions

7. Certifications

8. References

9. External links

• Rock and roll
• rhythm and blues

Out of Our Heads is the Rolling Stones' third British studio album and their fourth in the United States. Although they share the same title, the two have significant differences in the track listings. In the US, London Records released it on 30 July 1965 and it became the group's first number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. Decca Records released it in the UK on 24 September 1965, where it reached number two.

As with the prior two albums, it consists mostly of covers of American blues, soul and R&B songs, though the band 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, and being ranked as the second greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone. 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, and frequent collaborator Jack Nitzsche. It was produced by the band's manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

Music

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 soul covers and its "classic rock singles" originals, 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."^[2] Kent H. Benjamin of The Austin Chronicle wrote that the album was "the culmination of the Stones' early soul/R&B sound".^[2] In his review of the album's UK edition, Allmusic's Bruce Eder characterised it as rock and roll and R&B.^[3]

Release and reception

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 R&B 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 Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).^[11] In 2003, this edition was also listed at number 116 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.^[12]

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.^[13]

Track listing

{{Anchor|United States release}} American release

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.

Track listing

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

As per the American release:

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (1–3, 5, 7, 12), harmonica (11, 12), tambourine (10)

• Keith Richards – electric guitar (all but 10), backing vocals (1–3, 5–7, 12), acoustic guitar (3, 10)

• Brian Jones – electric guitar (1–3, 6, 8, 11, 12), acoustic guitar (5, 7), harmonica (9)

• Bill Wyman – bass guitar (all but 10), backing vocals (3)

• Charlie Watts – drums (all but 10)

Additional personnel

• Jack Nitzsche – percussion (3, 7, 10), piano (7), organ (8), harpsichord (10)

• Phil Spector – tuned-down electric guitar (10)

• Ian Stewart – piano (3, 4, 8, 9, 12), marimba (5)

Chart positions

Album

Certifications

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