114) Out of Our Heads : Rolling Stone

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Here's where the Stones started to leave the R&B and blues covers behind. Their fourth album in America -- where the Stones' label happily disemboweled their U.K. releases to eke out more product -- featured three defining Jagger-Richards originals, each a masterpiece of libidinal menace: "The Last Time," the gently vicious "Play With Fire" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," a song that is the very definition of riff. Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and Don Covay numbers helped to fill out the LP's playing time, but for the first instance on album, the Stones were building an original songbook as hard and dark as they were.

Total album sales: 1.2 million

Peak chart position: 1

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