Out of Our Heads

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Out of Our Heads

Studio album by The Rolling Stones
Released	24 September 1965 (UK) 26 July 1965 (US)
Recorded	2 November 1964 - 6 September 1965 (UK) 2 November 1964 - 12 May 1965 (US)
Genre	Rock
Length	29:36 (UK) 33:38 (US)
Label	Decca/ABKCO (UK) ABKCO (US)
Producer(s)	Andrew Loog Oldham
All Music Guide link
The Rolling Stones chronology
The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965 UK) The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965 US)	Out of Our Heads (1965)	Aftermath (1966 UK) December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965 US)
Alternate cover

American album cover

Out of Our Heads is The Rolling Stones' third UK album and their fourth in the US. It was released in 1965 through their original distributors (Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the US), but with significant differences in both territories.

Initially issued in July 1965 in America (featuring an alternate shot from the same photo session that graced the cover of 12 X 5 and The Rolling Stones No. 2), Out of Our Heads was a mish-mash of studio recordings over a six month period, including recent hit single "The Last Time" and current worldwide smash "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as well as a sampling from the UK-only live EP got LIVE if you want it!. Riding the wave of "Satisfaction"'s success, Out of Our Heads became The Rolling Stones' first US #1 album, eventually going platinum. In 2002, this US edition was listed as number 114 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

With the benefit of new songs being recorded that September, the British Out of Our Heads - with a different album cover - dropped the live track and recent hit singles (as singles rarely featured on albums in the UK in those times), and added exclusive songs that would surface later in 1965 in the US on December's Children (And Everybody's), in addition to songs that hadn't been released in the UK thus far. Issued later that September, Out of Our Heads reached #2 in the UK charts behind The Beatles' Help!. It would also be The Rolling Stones' last UK album to predominantly feature R&B covers, with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards becoming far more prolific writers before 1965 was out.

In August 2002 both the UK and US editions of Out of Our Heads were reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.

1 UK release
- 1.1 Side 1
- 1.2 Side 2
2 US release
- 2.1 Side 1
- 2.2 Side 2
3 Personnel
4 External links

"She Said Yeah" (Sonny Christy/Roddy Jackson) – 1:34
"Mercy, Mercy" (Don Covay/Ronnie Miller) – 2:45
"Hitch Hike" (Marvin Gaye/William Stevenson/Clarence Paul) – 2:25
"That's How Strong My Love Is" (Roosevelt Jamison) – 2:25
"Good Times" (Sam Cooke) – 1:58
"Gotta Get Away" (Jagger/Richards) – 2:06

"Talkin' 'Bout You" (Chuck Berry) – 2:31
"Cry To Me" (Bert Russell) – 3:09
"Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin')" (Barbara Lynn Ozen) – 2:08
"Heart of Stone" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:50
"The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (Nanker Phelge) – 3:07
- The last Rolling Stones song to use the pseudonym of "Nanker Phelge"
"I'm Free" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:24

"Mercy, Mercy" – 2:45
"Hitch Hike" – 2:25
"The Last Time" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 3:41
"That's How Strong My Love Is" – 2:25
"Good Times" – 1:58
"I'm All Right (Live)" [(Nanker Phelge)] – 2:23
- Recorded live in March 1965 in England and first released that June on the got LIVE if you want it! EP

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 3:43
"Cry to Me" – 3:09
"The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (Nanker Phelge) – 3:07
"Play with Fire" [(Nanker Phelge)] – 2:14
- Released as the B-Side of "The Last Time" in the UK and US
"The Spider and the Fly" [(Nanker Phelge)] – 3:38
- Released as the B-Side of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in the UK
"One More Try" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 1:58
- This track would not be released in the UK until 1971

Mick Jagger - Lead Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion
Keith Richards - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, backing vocals
Brian Jones - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Harmonica, Organ on "That's How Strong My Love Is" and backing vocals (U.S. Album only) on "I'm Alright [briefly]
Charlie Watts - Drums and Percussion
Bill Wyman - Bass guitar

with

Ian Stewart - Piano, Organ and Marimbas on "Good Times"
Jack Nietzsche - Piano, Organ, Percussion and Harpsichord (U.S. album only) on "Play With Fire"
J. W. Alexander (musician) - Percussion
Phil Spector - Guitar (U.S. album only) on "Play With Fire"

Out Of Our Heads

v • d • e Albums by The Rolling Stones
UK studio albums 1964-1967	The Rolling Stones \| The Rolling Stones No. 2 \| Out of Our Heads \| Aftermath \| Between the Buttons
US studio albums 1964-1967	England's Newest Hitmakers \| 12 X 5 \| The Rolling Stones, Now! \| Out of Our Heads \| December's Children (And Everybody's) \| Aftermath \| Between the Buttons \| Flowers
Studio albums 1967-present	Their Satanic Majesties Request \| Beggars Banquet \| Let It Bleed \| Sticky Fingers \| Exile on Main St. \| Goats Head Soup \| It's Only Rock'n Roll \| Black and Blue \| Some Girls \| Emotional Rescue \| Tattoo You \| Undercover \| Dirty Work \| Steel Wheels \| Voodoo Lounge \| Bridges to Babylon \| A Bigger Bang
UK EPs	The Rolling Stones \| Five by Five \| got LIVE if you want it!
Live albums	Got Live if You Want It! \| Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert \| Love You Live \| "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) \| Flashpoint \| Stripped \| No Security \| Live Licks
Compilations	Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) \| Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) \| Made in the Shade \| Sucking in the Seventies \| Rewind (1971-1984) \| Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones \| Forty Licks \| Rarities 1971-2003
Post-contract ABKCO albums	Hot Rocks 1964-1971 \| More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) \| Metamorphosis \| Singles Collection: The London Years\| The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus \| Singles 1963-1965 \| Singles 1965-1967 \| Singles 1968-1971
Miscellaneous	Jamming with Edward