12 × 5 by The Rolling Stones

12 × 5, the Rolling Stones' second American album, came out on London Records in 1964 with Andrew Loog Oldham producing, hot on the heels of England's Newest Hit Makers. It's really the British Five by Five EP stretched to album length: those five songs plus seven more.

The extras are the draw. There's "It's All Over Now", the Bobby Womack cover that had given the band their first UK number one as a single, an alternate take of "Time Is on My Side" that differs from the version most people know, and three early Jagger/Richards originals, a sign of the songwriting partnership to come. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, with Ian Stewart on keys, play it raw and rhythm-heavy, a young band still learning the trade and already sounding meaner than the competition.

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