The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones No. 2

The Stones' second U.K. album on 180-gram mono vinyl!

The Rolling Stones No. 2 spent 10 weeks at No. 1 in early 1965, becoming one of the year's biggest sellers in the U.K. Their second U.K. album features "Off The Hook", the B-side of UK No.1 "Little Red Rooster," and "What A Shame," the B-side of US hit "Heart of Stone" - two of the three original Jagger/Richards compositions. Ian Stewart's brilliant brand of boogie-woogie piano is heard on "Down the Road Apiece." 180-gram mono LP.

By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title.

As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock. With his preening machismo and latent maliciousness, Mick Jagger became the prototypical rock frontman, tempering his macho showmanship with a detached, campy irony while Keith Richards and Brian Jones wrote the blueprint for sinewy, interlocking rhythm guitars. Backed by the strong yet subtly swinging rhythm section of bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts, the Stones became the breakout band of the British blues scene, eclipsing such contemporaries as the Animals and Them.

 

Side A

1. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

2. Down Home Girl

3. You Can't Catch Me

4. Time Is on My Side

5. What a Shame

6. Grown Up Wrong

Side B

1. Down the Road Apiece

2. Under the Boardwalk

3. I Can't Be Satisfied

4. Pain in My Heart

5. Off the Hook

6. Susie Q

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