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Continuing my trip back through the 1965 album charts.

05/12/65 : Out Of Our Heads - The Rolling Stones


Our thirteenth visit with The Rolling Stones and this is a peculiar one because I don't think I've ever even heard of it - I assume it's one of their early blues style efforts.

Yeah, it's fine but nothing really to write home about with no one track standing out for me, except for "I'm Free" which I already knew, but mostly through The Soupdragons' version (and it's the very last track, so I had to wait for it). The sound quality really isn't great either - although I'm not sure whether that's intentional or not. I think it falls into their "interesting because it's early Stones, but not actually that interesting" category - it's certainly short though, being only 26 minutes long.

We're at #4 in the charts this week on their eleventh week of a twenty week run, with it having peaked at #2 in its seventh week - which feels pretty generous when you compare it with some of the other albums around at the time. The rest of the top five were The Sound Of Music, Mary Poppins, The Beatles' Help! and Joan Baez and the highest new entry was The Beatles' Rubber Soul - there was no going straight in at #1 back in those days!

Wikipedia tells us this is their third album and has quite a lot of text on it, but most of it is just telling us that the UK and US versions are different - amongst other things, the US version had "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on it, which was their first #1 over there. There are some impressive names amongst the writers of the tracks including Sam Cooke, Sonny Bono, Marvin Gaye and Chuck Berry - and one interesting one who is Nanker Phelge, who pops up on several of their tracks in this period because "he" is a collection pseudonym for the members of the group. The critics were nice enough about it, although one declared it to be "a primitive template for what would later be tagged 'blue-eyed soul'", which feels like QUITE the stretch to me. Commercially it did well though, getting to #2 in a random selection of European countries (who even knew that Finland had a chart in '65) and #1 in the US.

"Customers also listened to" "no similar recommendations" again - which is a bit peculiar for it to happen again, but I'm not all that sure there's too many albums out there like these early Stones offerings - and I'm just not really a fan, I'm afraid.

28/11/65 - Interesting, but not loveable
12/12/65 - Very dated

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