The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads - [CD]

Remastered USA version of their 1965 first number one album in America. The different cover art photo was shot by British fashion photographer David Bailey. The album featured "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as the opening track on side two of the LP, which was also their first number one single on the Billboard chart. This is a much more R&B oriented album, with less out and out blues. It also the first with more band originals than covers. Other key tracks include "The Last Time", "Play with Fire", & "Cry to Me". This one misses a golden opportunity by not including "Get Off of My Cloud" ("Just 'cause you feel so good, d'ya have to drive me out of my head?"), but that's about the only mistake it makes. In the few months since the release of Now!, the Stones' sound had grown harder; even a ballad like O.V. Wright's "That's How Strong My Love Is" attains a rumble that'll make you think a big truck is driving by your house. When Jagger drawled, "Buzz a while," in the middle of the group's debut the year before, he probably had no idea what his boys were soon to make of that command: "The Last Time," "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man," "Satisfaction." --Rickey Wright