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Tracklisting & More Information
The group's second British album actually appeared after their second US 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 US issued '12 X 5' album two 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!' It also includes 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 UK LP was originally released in mono only.
Apart from a limited Japanese release, this has still to be released on CD in this format, which is almost impossible to believe for a band as big as The Stones.
Condition :-
The sleeve shows just a little laminate lift at the spine, with perfectly legible spine print. The back of the sleeve is still a nice off-white with only the faintest sign of age.
The original back design carried sleeve notes that included the text:
"If you don’t have 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!"
Not one of Mr Loog Oldham's wisest lyrical outpourings (or a shrewd marketing move!) and they naturally caused uproar in January 1965, even to the extent of being debated in the UK Parliament.
This was a bit too much for Decca and an alternate version of the back artwork was hastily prepared & the few they had left in the factories were overpasted with the new artwork.
Most first issue sleeves continued to carry the text as they were already in the shops. This was only ever a temporary solution until the text was finally removed from later printings of the album sleeve. The small amount that were overpasted to censor the lyrics are extremely rare. If you look at the back, you can clearly see that the original sleeve notes extended beyond the modified, more politically correct, version.
This sleeve is beautiful, with almost no shelfwear to speak of. There is a little bit of curl at the opening as a result of the pasted glue and the laminate shrinking in alternate directions over the last fifty years, but that's pretty much it.
The back slick is still very white with few signs of handling and the front is still bright & clean.
The labels are red with unboxed, open Decca logo and ffrr 'ear', with the deep grooves that were omitted from later pressings.
This is the fourth label variant used on the first issue of No2 as it has the longer 'Made In England The Decca Record Co. Ltd' top text. This puts the timing, as you would expect, just after the first batch had been distributed, so probably mid to late 1965. The K/T tax code is just above the catalogue number on the right side, with the copyright 'BIEM/NCB' below it.
The matrix numbers are machine stamped into the 'dead wax' areas. They are as follows:
Side One XARL-6619-2A
Side Two XARL-6620-2A
The vinyl is astonishing and remains near 'as new' with almost no sign of play. This has obviously either been played very little or extremely carefully on very good equipment. The degree of care that has been taken with this record over the last fifty years is evident in both the sleeve & the vinyl.
The correct period poly lined inner is also present.
A fantastic one owner copy of the rarest UK variant of this album. The only possible way to improve on this copy would be to to magic back 1965 again !
Tracklisting:
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
LP RECORD
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