The Rolling Stones - Complete CD-Maximun Collection (2002) (Volumes 1-10 of 31)

The Rolling Stones by CD-Maximum of Russia. 31 volumes featuring the Stones back-catalogue of Decca, London and Rolling Stones Records album releases with bonus tracks. The bonus tracks are best sounding studio or live recordings (soundboard/audience) previously released on several bootlegs. The artwork packaging is first rate. Each CD features the original album artwork plus additional album, singles, E.P. or bootleg artwork from various countries (UK, France, Germany, USA and Japan) and full color posters. The silver CD is silk-screened with the original album label too. Sound quality overall is either excellent mono or stereo.










The Rolling Stones is the debut album by the Rolling Stones, released by Decca Records in the UK on 16 April 1964. The American edition of the LP, with a slightly different track list, came out on London Records on 30 May 1964, with the added title England's Newest Hit Makers.

Recorded at Regent Sound Studios in London over the course of five days in January and February 1964, The Rolling Stones was produced by then-managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton. The album was originally released by Decca Records in the UK, while the US version appeared on the London Records label.

The majority of the tracks reflect the band's love for R&B. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (whose professional name until 1978 omitted the "s" in his surname) were fledgling songwriters during early 1964, contributing only one original composition to the album: "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)". Two songs are credited to "Nanker Phelge" – a pseudonym the band used for group compositions from 1963 to 1965. Phil Spector and Gene Pitney both contributed to the recording sessions, and are referred to as "Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene" in the subtitle of the Phelge instrumental "Now I've Got a Witness."

The album cover photo was taken by Nicholas Wright. The cover bears no title or identifying information other than the photo and the Decca logo - an "unheard of" design concept originated by manager Andrew Oldham.

Upon its release, The Rolling Stones became one of 1964's biggest sellers in the UK, staying at #1 for twelve weeks.

The release of the album in both the UK and US were only released in mono; no true stereo mix was ever made.

The British version of the Stones' first album has a nearly identical cover to its American equivalent, issued six weeks later, but a slightly different song lineup. Among these 12 songs, absent is "Not Fade Away," which was a hit single in England (where singles and LPs were usually kept separate), and in its place is the Stones' cover of Bo Diddley's "Mona (I Need You Baby)" (credited here as "I Need You Baby"), which had to wait until Rolling Stones Now!, a year later, for its U.S. release. It's not a big switch, a Bo Diddley-style cover of a Buddy Holly song bumping an actual Bo Diddley cover on the U.S. version. Otherwise, the main difference lies in the version of "Tell Me" included here, which sounds about two generations hotter than any edition of the song ever released in the U.S. – it's the long version, with the break that was cut from the single, but the British LP and the original late-'80s Decca U.K. compact disc (820 047-2) both contain a version without any fade, running the better part of a minute longer than the U.S. release of the song, until the band literally stops playing. Reviewed by Richie Unterberger allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. Route 66
02. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
03. Honest I Do
04. Mona
05. Now I've Got A Witness
06. Little By Little
07. I'm A King Bee
08. Carol
09. Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
10. Can I Get A Witness
11. You Can Make It If You Try
12. Walking The Dog

Bonus Tracks

13. Not Fade Away (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-01-10)
14. And Mr. Spector And Mr. Pitney Came Too (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-02-04)
15. Andrew's Blues (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-02-04)
16. Poison Ivy II (Decca Studios, London 1963-07-16)
17. Fortune Teller I (Decca Studios, London 1963-07-09)
18. It Should Be You I (Regent Sound Studios, London 1963-11-20)
19. Tell Me (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-02-25)
20. Fortune Teller II (Decca Studios, London 1963-07-09)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "Little by Little" and "I'm a King Bee", percussion
Keith Richards – guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – guitar, harmonica, percussion, organ, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals

Additional musicians

Ian Stewart – organ, piano
Gene Pitney – piano on "Little by Little"
Phil Spector – maracas on "Little by Little"


Album Released: April 16, 1964













The Rolling Stones, subtitled England's Newest Hit Makers, is the American debut album by the Rolling Stones, released by London Records on 30 May 1964.

The track "Not Fade Away" (the A-side of the band's third UK single) replaced "Mona (I Need You Baby)". Upon its release, England's Newest Hitmakers reached #11 in the US, going gold in the process. To date, this is the only of the Stones' American studio albums that failed to place in the top five on the Billboard album charts.

The British version of the Stones' first album has a nearly identical cover to its American equivalent, issued six weeks later, but a slightly different song lineup. Among these 12 songs, absent is "Not Fade Away," which was a hit single in England (where singles and LPs were usually kept separate), and in its place is the Stones' cover of Bo Diddley's "Mona (I Need You Baby)" (credited here as "I Need You Baby"), which had to wait until Rolling Stones Now!, a year later, for its U.S. release. It's not a big switch, a Bo Diddley-style cover of a Buddy Holly song bumping an actual Bo Diddley cover on the U.S. version. Otherwise, the main difference lies in the version of "Tell Me" included here, which sounds about two generations hotter than any edition of the song ever released in the U.S. – it's the long version, with the break that was cut from the single, but the British LP and the original late-'80s Decca U.K. compact disc (820 047-2) both contain a version without any fade, running the better part of a minute longer than the U.S. release of the song, until the band literally stops playing. Reviewed by Richie Unterberger allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. Not Fade Away
02. Route 66
03. I Just Want To Make Love To You
04. Honest I Do
05. Now I've Got A Witness
06. Little By Little
07. I'm A King Bee
08. Carol
09. Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
10. Can I Get A Witness
11. You Can Make It If You Try
12. Walking The Dog

Bonus Tracks

13. Diddley Daddy (IBC Studios, London 1963-03-11)
14. Road Runner (IBC Studios, London 1963-03-11)
15. Bright Lights, Big City (IBC Studios, London 1963-03-11)
16. I Want To Be Loved (IBC Studios, London 1963-03-11)
17. Baby What's Wrong (IBC Studios, London 1963-03-11)
18. Stewed And Keefed (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-10)
19. High-Heeled Sneakers (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-11)
20. Tell Me Baby (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-10)
21. Meet Me In The Bottom (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-11)
22. Looking Tired (RCA Studios, Los Angeles 1965-09-05,06)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "Little by Little" and "I'm a King Bee", percussion
Keith Richards – guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – guitar, harmonica, percussion, organ, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals

Additional musicians

Ian Stewart – organ, piano
Gene Pitney – piano on "Little by Little"
Phil Spector – maracas on "Little by Little"


Album Released: May 30, 1964













12 X 5 is the second American album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1964 following the massive success of their debut The Rolling Stones in the UK and the promising sales of its American substitute, The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hit Makers), sometimes titled as England's Newest Hit Makers or just The Rolling Stones.

The album, like its predecessor, largely featured R&B covers; however, it does contain three compositions from the still-developing Mick Jagger/Keith Richards songwriting team, as well as two group compositions under the pseudonym of "Nanker Phelge". 12 X 5 is notable for featuring the first, and less-often-heard, of the Stones' two versions of Jerry Ragovoy's "Time Is On My Side", with a prominent electronic organ part instead of the better-known version's electric guitar.

After a series of sessions in Chicago in June 1964, The Rolling Stones' UK label Decca Records released the five-song EP Five by Five. Because EPs were never a lucrative format in the US, London Records—their American distributor at the time—spread the EP songs across an entire album, adding seven new recordings to create a release of 12 songs by five musicians, hence the album's title. The rest of the songs were singles "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is On My Side" with their B-sides, plus three songs that were later included on The Rolling Stones No. 2 album. Decca would use the same cover (minus the lettering) for The Rolling Stones' second UK album The Rolling Stones No. 2 in early 1965.

12 X 5 proved to be a faster seller than England's Newest Hit Makers, reaching #3 and going gold quickly.

The evolution from blues to rock accelerated with the Rolling Stones' second American LP. They turned soul into guitar rock for the hits "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is on My Side" (the latter of which was their first American Top Ten single). "2120 South Michigan Avenue" is a great instrumental blues-rock jam; "Around and Around" is one of their best Chuck Berry covers; and "If You Need Me" reflects an increasing contemporary soul influence. On the other hand, the group originals (except for the propulsive "Empty Heart") are weak and derivative, indicating that the band still had a way to go before it could truly challenge the Beatles' throne. Reviewed by Richie Unterberger allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. Around And Around
02. Confessin' The Blues
03. Empty Heart
04. Time Is On My Side
05. Good Times, Bad Times
06. It's All Over Now
07. 2120 South Michigan Avenue
08. Under The Boardwalk
09. Congratulatio.s
10. Grown Up Wrong
11. If You Need Me
12. Suzie Q

Bonus Tracks

13. Not Fade Away (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-01-10)
14. Andrews Blues (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-02-04)
15. Hi-Heel Sneakers (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-11)
16. Look What You've Done (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-11)
17. Tell Me Baby, How Many More Times (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-11)
18. Meet Me In The Bottom (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-11)
19. We're Wastin' Time (Decca Studios, London 1964)
20. Sleepy City (Decca Studios, London 1964)
21. Try A Little Harder (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-02-13)
22. Somethings Just Stick In Your Mind (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-02-13)
23. As Tears Go By (IBC Studios, London 1965-10-26)
24. Blues Turn To Grey (RCA Studios, Los Angeles 1965-09-06)
25. Looking Tired (RCA Studios, Los Angeles 1965-09-06)
26. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows #2 (IBC Studios, London 1966-08-31)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, and percussion
Keith Richards – acoustic and electric guitar, and backing vocals
Brian Jones – electric and acoustic guitar, harmonica, tambourine, maracas, organ on "If You Need Me", and backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums and tambourine
Bill Wyman – bass guitar and backing vocals

Additional musicians

Ian Stewart – organ, piano


Album Released: October 17, 1964













The Rolling Stones No. 2 is the second UK album by the Rolling Stones released in 1965 following the massive success of 1964's debut The Rolling Stones. Not surprisingly, The Rolling Stones No. 2 followed its predecessor's tendency to largely feature R&B covers. However, it does contain three compositions from the still-developing Mick Jagger/Keith Richards songwriting team. Interesting note: on the front of the (vinyl) album cover the title is: The Rolling Stones Vol. 2, the back of the album cover says The Rolling Stones No. 2.

Using the cover shot for 12 X 5, the second US-released album in October 1964, The Rolling Stones No. 2's tracklisting would largely be emulated on the upcoming US release of The Rolling Stones, Now!. While Eric Easton was co-credited as producer alongside Andrew Loog Oldham on The Rolling Stones' debut album, Oldham takes full production duties for The Rolling Stones No, 2, which was recorded sporadically in the UK and US during 1964.

A huge hit in the UK upon release, The Rolling Stones No. 2 spent 10 weeks at #1 in early 1965, becoming one of the year's biggest sellers in the UK.

According to Bill Wyman in his book Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock'N'Roll Band, John Lennon said of The Rolling Stones No. 2: "The album's great, but I don't like five-minute numbers."

Due to the preference towards the American albums, ABKCO Records overlooked both The Rolling Stones and The Rolling Stones No. 2 for CD release in 1986 and during its remastering series in 2002. Consequently, the album was out of print for many years and was thus widely bootlegged by collectors.

The group's second British album actually appeared after their second U.S. LP, mostly owing to the fact that the British rock & roll audience wasn't focused on the long-player as a medium (singles and EPs were the driving force of the business in England then). It uses the same David Bailey cover shot that had graced the U.S.-issued 12 X 5 album two and a half months earlier, but only four songs – "Under the Boardwalk," "Suzie Q," "Grown Up Wrong," and "Time Is on My Side" – overlap on the two albums. Rather, Rolling Stones No. 2 offered seven songs that weren't to make it out in America until four months later on The Rolling Stones Now!, and they're all solid numbers: "Off the Hook," "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," "Down Home Girl," "You Can't Catch Me," "What a Shame," "Pain in My Heart," and "Down the Road Apiece," plus one of the group's best blues covers, their version of Muddy Waters' "I Can't Be Satisfied," which wasn't released in America until 1973 and features some killer slide playing by Brian Jones. The U.K. LP also had the advantage of only being released in mono, so there are no "rechanneled stereo" copies with which to concern oneself. Reviewed by Bruce Eder allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
02. Down Home Girl
03. You Can't Catch Me
04. Time Is On My Side
05. What A Shame
06. Grown Up Wrong
07. Down The Road Apiece
08. Under The Boardwalk
09. I Can't Be Satisfied
10. Pain In My Heart
11. Off The Hook
12. Suzie-Q

Bonus Tracks

13. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (RCA Studios, Los Angeles 1964-11-02)
14. Time Is On My Side (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-06-24)
15. Surprise, Surprise (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-09-29)
16. Try A Little Harder (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-02-13)
17. Congratulations (Regent Sound Studios, London 1964-05-12)
18. Look What You've Done (Chess Studios, Chicago 1964-06-11)
19. Kellogs Rice Krispies (Pye Studios, London 1964-02-06)
20. As Time Goes By (De Lane Lea Studios, London 1964-03-11)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine, percussion
Keith Richards – electric guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – electric and slide guitars, keyboards, harmonica, percussion, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals


Additional musicians

Jack Nitzsche – piano, sound effects ('Nitzsche' phone), tambourine
Ian Stewart – piano


Album Released: January 15, 1965













The Rolling Stones, Now! is the third American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released in 1965 by their initial American distributor, London Records.

The album contained seven tracks from their second UK album The Rolling Stones No. 2, the recent US Top 20 hit "Heart of Stone", the recent UK #1 hit single "Little Red Rooster", "Surprise, Surprise" which wouldn't be issued in the UK until 1970 as a B-side of "Street Fighting Man", "Mona (I Need You Baby)" from The Rolling Stones and "Oh Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin')" which would appear on the UK edition of the Stones' next album Out of Our Heads later in 1965. The album contains a different, and shorter, version of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" than the recording on The Rolling Stones No. 2, although the latter version was accidentally used on the 1986 CD of "The Rolling Stones Now." The 2002 CD includes the shorter version, as heard on the original LP. Four of the songs on The Rolling Stones, Now! were penned by the songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (who dropped the "s" from his surname until 1978).

For the back cover, London Records simply took the back cover of The Rolling Stones No. 2 and amended the tracklisting and label information. Where the UK liner cover said "No. 2" after 'THE ROLLING STONES' was simply whited out for the American cover. One thing that was overlooked, however, was a mention of Ian Stewart playing organ on "Time Is On My Side," which made no sense on The Rolling Stones, Now! as the song was not on that album. This credit was deleted from the 1986 and 2002 reissues. The liner notes on initial pressings contained Andrew Loog Oldham's advice to the record buying public, which was quickly temporarily removed from some subsequent pressings:

"(This is THE STONES new disc within. Cast deep in your pockets for the loot to buy this disc of groovies and fancy words. If you don't have the bread, see that blind man knock him on the head, steal his wallet and low and behold you have the loot, if you put in the boot, good, another one sold!)"

The Rolling Stones, Now! is generally considered a very strong album and a highlight of their early American releases. Upon its February issuing, The Rolling Stones, Now! reached #5 in the US and became another gold seller for The Rolling Stones. In 2012, the album was ranked number 140 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Although their third American album was patched together (in the usual British Invasion tradition) from a variety of sources, it's their best early R&B-oriented effort. Most of the Stones' early albums suffer from three or four very weak cuts; Now! is almost uniformly strong start-to-finish, the emphasis on some of their blackest material. The covers of "Down Home Girl," Bo Diddley's vibrating "Mona," Otis Redding's "Pain in My Heart," and Barbara Lynn's "Oh Baby" are all among the group's best R&B interpretations. The best gem is "Little Red Rooster," a pure blues with wonderful slide guitar from Brian Jones (and a number one single in Britain, although it was only an album track in the U.S.). As songwriters, Jagger and Richards are still struggling, but they come up with one of their first winners (and an American Top 20 hit) with the yearning, soulful "Heart of Stone." Reviewed by Richie Unterberger allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
02. Down Home Girl
03. You Can't Catch Me
04. Heart Of Stone
05. What A Shame
06. I Need You Baby
07. Down The Road A Piece
08. Off The Hook
09. Pain In My Heart
10. Oh Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin')
11. Little Red Rooster
12. Surprise, Surprise

Bonus Tracks

13. Come On (Maida Vale Studios, London 'Saturday Club' 1963-09-23)
14. Memphis (Maida Vale Studios, London 'Saturday Club' 1963-09-23)
15. Roll Over Beethoven (Maida Vale Studios, London 'Saturday Club' 1963-09-23)
16. Route 66 (Camden Theatre, London 'Blues In Rhythm' 1964-03-19)
17. Cops And Robbers (Camden Theatre, London 'Blues In Rhythm' 1964-03-19)
18. You Better Move On (Camden Theatre, London 'Blues In Rhythm' 1964-03-19)
19. Mona (Camden Theatre, London 'Blues In Rhythm' 1964-03-19)
20. Not Fade Away (London 'Saturday Club' 1964-04-13)
21. Walking The Dog (London 'Saturday Club' 1964-04-13)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine, percussion
Keith Richards – electric guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – electric and slide guitars, harmonica, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals


Additional musicians

Jack Nitzsche – piano, sound effects ('Nitzsche' phone), tambourine
Ian Stewart – piano


Album Released: February 13, 1965













Initially issued in July 1965 in America (featuring a 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 mixture of recordings made over a six-month period, including the Top 10 hit "The Last Time" and the worldwide number 1 "(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 will 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 #1 album, eventually going platinum.

In 2003 the US edition was listed as number 114 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

In 1965, the Stones finally proved themselves capable of writing classic rock singles that mined their R&B/blues roots, but updated them into a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context. The first enduring Jagger-Richards classics are here – "The Last Time," its menacing, folky B-side "Play With Fire," and the riff-driven "Satisfaction," which made them superstars in the States and defined their sound and rebellious attitude better than any other single song. On the rest of the album, they largely opted for mid-'60s soul covers, Marvin Gaye's "Hitch Hike," Solomon Burke's "Cry to Me," and Sam Cooke's "Good Times" being particular standouts. "I'm All Right" (based on a Bo Diddley sound) showed their 1965 sound at its rawest, and there are a couple of fun, though derivative, bluesy originals in "The Spider and the Fly" and "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man." Reviewed by Richie Unterberger allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. Mercy, Mercy
02. Hitch Hike
03. The Last Time
04. That's How Strong My Love Is
05. Good Times
06. I'm All Right
07. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
08. Cry To Me
09. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
10. Play With Fire
11. The Spider And The Fly
12. One More Try

Bonus Tracks

13. 2120 South Michigan Avenue (London 'Rhythm And Blues' 1964-10-08)
14. Down The Road Apiece (Playhouse Theatre Studios, London 'Top Gear' 1965-03-01)
15. Interview (Playhouse Theatre Studios, London 'Top Gear' 1965-03-01)
16. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Playhouse Theatre Studios, London 'Top Gear' 1965-03-01)
17. The Last Time (Playhouse Theatre Studios, London 'Top Gear' 1965-03-01)
18. Mercy, Mercy (London 'Yeh! Yeh!' 1965-08-20)
19. Oh, Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin') (London 'Yeh! Yeh!' 1965-08-20)
20. The Spider And The Fly (London 'Yeh! Yeh!' 1965-08-20)
21. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (London 'Yeh! Yeh!' 1965-08-20)
22. Cry To Me (London 'Saturday Club' 1965-08-20)
23. Fanny Mae (London 'Saturday Club' 1965-08-20)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Keith Richards – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Brian Jones – electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica, organ, backing vocals, percussion
Charlie Watts – drums and percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals


Additional musicians

Jack Nitzsche – harpsichord, percussion
Phil Spector – detuned "bass" guitar on "Play with Fire"
Ian Stewart – piano


Album Released: July 30, 1965













Out of Our Heads is the Rolling Stones' third British album and their fourth in the United States. It was released in 1965 through London Records in the US on 30 July 1965, and Decca Records in the UK on 24 September 1965 (in both mono – catalogue number LL3429; and in stereo—PS429), with significant track listing differences between territories.

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 #2 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.

In 1965, the Stones finally proved themselves capable of writing classic rock singles that mined their R&B/blues roots, but updated them into a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context. The first enduring Jagger-Richards classics are here – "The Last Time," its menacing, folky B-side "Play With Fire," and the riff-driven "Satisfaction," which made them superstars in the States and defined their sound and rebellious attitude better than any other single song. On the rest of the album, they largely opted for mid-'60s soul covers, Marvin Gaye's "Hitch Hike," Solomon Burke's "Cry to Me," and Sam Cooke's "Good Times" being particular standouts. "I'm All Right" (based on a Bo Diddley sound) showed their 1965 sound at its rawest, and there are a couple of fun, though derivative, bluesy originals in "The Spider and the Fly" and "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man." Reviewed by Richie Unterberger allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. She Said Yeah
02. Mercy, Mercy
03. Hitch Hike
04. That's How Strong My Love Is
05. Good Times
06. Gotta Get Away
07. Talkin' 'Bout You
08. Cry To Me
09. Oh, Baby (We Got A Good Thing Going)
10. Heart Of Stone
11. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
12. I'm Free

Bonus Tracks

13. Get Off Of My Cloud (Mono Single Mix)
14. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Mono Single Mix)
15. The Spider And The Fly (Mono B-Side)
16. The Last Time (Mono Single Mix)
17. Play With Fire (Mono B-Side)
18. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Outtake From 'Out Of Our Head' Sessions)
19. Blue Turns To Grey
20. The Singer Not The Song (Mono B-Side)
21. One More Try
22. 19th Nervous Breakdown (Mono Single Mix)
23. As Tears Go By (B-Side)
24. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Backing Track)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Keith Richards – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Brian Jones – electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica, organ, backing vocals, percussion
Charlie Watts – drums and percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals


Additional musicians

Jack Nitzsche – harpsichord, percussion
Ian Stewart – piano


Album Released: September 24, 1965













December's Children (And Everybody's) is the fifth American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in late 1965. Drawn largely from two days of sessions recorded in September to finish the British edition of Out of Our Heads and to record their new single—"Get Off Of My Cloud"—December's Children (And Everybody's) also included tracks recorded as early as 1963.

Half of the songs appearing on the album were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, as they penned strong album cuts like "I'm Free" and "The Singer Not the Song" as well as such major hits as "As Tears Go By" and "Get off of My Cloud".December's Children (And Everybody's) reached #4 in the US and went gold. Bassist Bill Wyman quotes Jagger in 1968 calling the record "[not] an album, it's just a collection of songs." Accordingly, it is only briefly detailed in his otherwise exhaustive book Rolling With the Stones.

The title of the album came from the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. According to Jagger, it was Oldham's idea of hip, Beat poetry.

The last Stones album in which cover material accounted for 50 percent of the content was thrown together from a variety of singles, British LP tracks, outtakes, and a cut from an early 1964 U.K. EP. Haphazard assembly aside, much of it's great, including the huge hit "Get Off of My Cloud" and the controversial, string-laden acoustic ballad "As Tears Go By" (a Top Ten item in America). Raiding the R&B closet for the last time, they also offered a breathless run-through of Larry Williams' "She Said Yeah," a sultry Chuck Berry cover ("Talkin' About You"), and exciting live versions of "Route 66" and Hank Snow's "I'm Moving On." More importantly, Jagger-Richards' songwriting partnership had now developed to the extent that several non-A-side tracks were reasonably strong in their own right, such as "I'm Free" and "The Singer Not the Song." And the version of "You Better Move On" (which had been featured on a British EP at the beginning of 1964) was one of their best and most tender soul covers. Reviewed by Richie Unterberger allmusic.com

Track Listing

01. She Said Yeah
02. Talkin' About You
03. You Better Move On
04. Look What You've Done
05. The Singer Not The Song
06. Route 66
07. Get Off Of My Cloud
08. I'm Free
09. As Tears Go By
10. Gotta Get Away
11. Blue Turns To Grey
12. I'm Moving On

Bonus Tracks

13. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (ABC TV 'The Hollywood Palace' 1964-06-03)
14. Around And Around (CBS TV 'The Ed Sullivan Show' 1964-10-25)
15. Time Is On My Side (CBS TV 'The Ed Sullivan Show' 1964-10-25)
16. Oh Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin') (Haliford Studios, Shepperton 1964-12-15)
17. Down The Road Apiece (Haliford Studios, Shepperton 1964-12-15)
18. Introduction (Wembley, Empire Pool 1965-04-11)
19. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love-Pain In My Heart (Wembley, Empire Pool 1965-04-11)
20. Around And Around (Wembley, Empire Pool 1965-04-11)
21. The Last Time (Wembley, Empire Pool 1965-04-11)
22. Little Red Rooster (CBS TV 'The Ed Sullivan Show' 1965-05-02)
23. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (CBS TV 'The Ed Sullivan Show' 1965-05-02)
24. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (CBS TV 'The Ed Sullivan Show' 1966-02-13)
25. Lady Jane (CBS TV 'The Ed Sullivan Show' 1966-02-13)
26. 19Th Nervous Breakdown (CBS TV 'The Ed Sullivan Show' 1966-02-13)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica on "I'm Moving On," percussion
Keith Richards – guitars, backing vocals
Brian Jones – guitars, backing vocals, harmonica on "Look What You've Done," piano, and organ
Charlie Watts – drums and percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar and backing vocals


Additional musicians

Ian Stewart – piano, organ
Mike Leander – string arrangement
Jack Nitzsche – organ and percussion


Album Released: December 4, 1965













Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is the first official compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released on 28 March 1966, on London Records in the US and on 4 November 1966, by Decca Records in the UK. The two releases featured different cover art and track listing. The front cover for the American release was used for the rear photo on the UK edition.The album cover photo (US edition) was shot at Franklin Canyon Park in Los Angeles, California.Reaching #3 on the US charts, where it remained for two years, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) proved to be a big smash and currently remains a popular Rolling Stones retrospective.

The UK Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) includes tracks released after the American edition appeared. The Rolling Stones' debut 1963 single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On", was included, but its more successful follow-up, "I Wanna Be Your Man" — composed by rivals (although in reality as friends) Lennon–McCartney — was left off the album.

Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) reached no. 4 in the UK charts.




Track Listing

01. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction)
02. The Last Time
03. As Tears Go By
04. Time Is On My Side
05. It's All Over Now
06. Tell Me
07. 19Th Nervous Breakdown
08. Heart Of Stone
09. Get Off Of My Cloud
10. Not Fade Away
11. Good Times, Bad Times
12. Play With Fire

Bonus Tracks

13. Sympathy For The Devil (Olympic Sound Studios, London, Mono Alternate Mix 1968 05-06)
14. Country Honk I (Olympic Sound Studios, London, Early Version 1969-05-12)
15. Gimme Shelter (Alternate Mix 1969)
16. Lovin' Cup (Early Version, Olympic Sound Studios, London, Let It Bleed Sessions 1969)
17. Honky Tonk Woman (Early Version, Olympic Sound Studios, London, Let It Bleed Sessions 1969)
18. Brown Sugar I (Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Alabama 1969-12-03)
19. Bitch (Alternate Version, Olympic Sound Studios, London 1970-10)
20. Schoolboy Blues (Newbury, Stargroves, Mick Jagger's House 1970 03-05)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – harmonica, lead vocals, percussion
Brian Jones – guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, appalachian dulcimer, sitar, organ, backing vocals, keyboards
Keith Richards – guitar, backing vocals
Charlie Watts – drums
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals


Additional musicians

Jack Nitzsche – percussion, keyboards
Phil Spector – percussion
Ian Stewart – keyboards


Album Released: March 28, 1966













Aftermath, released April 1966 by Decca Records, is the fourth British studio album by the Rolling Stones. It was released in the United States in June 1966 by London Records as their sixth American album. The album is considered an artistic breakthrough for the band, being the first full-length release to consist entirely of Mick Jagger/Keith Richards compositions. Brian Jones played a variety of instruments not usually associated with rock music—including sitar on "Paint It, Black" and "Mother's Little Helper", the Appalachian dulcimer on "Lady Jane" and "I Am Waiting", the marimbas (African xylophone) on "Under My Thumb" and "Out of Time", harmonica on "High and Dry" and "Goin' Home", as well as guitar and keyboards. Much of the music was still rooted in Chicago electric blues.

It was the first Rolling Stones album to be recorded entirely in the US, at the RCA Studios in California, and their first album released in true stereo. As with all the Stones pre-1967 LPs, different editions were released in the UK and the US. This was a common feature of British pop albums at that time—the same practice was applied to all the Beatles albums prior to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band—because UK albums typically did not include tracks that had already been released as singles, and because British pop albums generally included 13 or 14 tracks, while American albums usually featured 11 or 12 tracks.

The original British version of Aftermath was issued in April 1966 as a fourteen-track LP. Issued between the non-LP single releases of "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "Paint It, Black", Aftermath was a major hit in the UK, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on the UK album chart.A recording of the song "Take It or Leave It" was released by The Searchers on a single a few days before this album.




Track Listing

01. Mother's Little Helper
02. Stupid Girl
03. Lady Jane
04. Under My Thumb
05. Doncha Bother Me
06. Goin' Home
07. Flight 505
08. High And Dry
09. Out Of Time
10. It's Not Easy
11. I Am Waiting
12. Take It Or Leave It
13. Think
14. What To Do

Bonus Tracks

15. Paint It, Black (Mono Single Mix)
16. Ride On, Baby (Aftermath Sessions 1965)
17. Sittin' On A Fence (Aftermath Sessions 1965)
18. Long, Long While (B-Side)
19. My Girl (Aftermath Sessions 1966)
20. Looking Tired (Aftermath Sessions 1965)


The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica on "Doncha Bother Me" (along with Brian Jones), percussion, lighting
Keith Richards – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones – electric, acoustic, and slide guitars, harmonica, backing vocals, marimbas on "Under My Thumb" and "Out of Time", bells, Appalachian dulcimer on "Lady Jane" and "I Am Waiting," sitar on "Paint It, Black", koto on "Take It Or Leave It", tenor saxophone on "Flight 505", keyboards on "It's Not Easy", "What To Do", "Out of Time" and "Take It or Leave It", percussion
Charlie Watts – drums, percussion
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, backing vocals, organ, piano on "Doncha Bother Me"



Additional musicians

Jack Nitzsche – percussion on "Goin' Home", electric piano on "Stupid Girl"
Ian Stewart – piano, organ


Album Released: April 15, 1966