The Rolling Stones No. 2 – THE ROLLING STONES****

Everybody Needs Somebody To Love/Down Home Girl/You Can’t Catch Me/Time Is On My Side/What A Shame/ Grown Up Wrong/Down The Road Apiece/Under The Boardwalk/I Can’t Be Satisfied/Pain In My Heart/Off The Hook/Susie Q

The Rolling Stone's second UK LP topped the UK album chart. Most regrettably it is no longer available as the Stones' American releases were chosen instead for CD release. The album is very similar in style to their debut, mostly continuing their interpretation of R & B covers. The US only release single Time Is On My Side reached No. 6. (UK:1)

"The second Stones album is an improvement over the first, but it's still obvious that since albums weren't really a big deal at this point in time, the group were shoving some of the weaker songs they recorded onto their albums."

"Aside from having the worst album title in their history, the Rolling Stones No. 2 contains some of their best covers they ever released, with the best of these easily being Time Is On My Side."

"If you are a fan of the first album, you'll definitely enjoy this one. Unfortunately, the album doesn't hold up well compared to what The Stones produced after it, and though it's generally a good album, I would only recommend this for fans only."

"As an integral album it feels unfinished, and the blind man may be an apt analogy for this stage in The Stones’ development; here the five are feeling their way around different sorts of pop, rock, soul and blues, sometimes coming up with a collective answer, at other times failing rather badly. It is hard, for instance, to speak up in favour of their Under The Boardwalk which, as with several other covers here, is performed in too low a key with inevitable, problematic vocal consequences, despite a heavily-miked acoustic guitar solo dashed off by Jones."

"Time remains on their side, because they managed to make this timeless song. People will probably love this song forever. I know I will fifty years from now, long after their deaths, I'll still be playing this song."

"The Stones helped to turn on a whole generation of North American kids to the blues and they deserve credit for that, along with so many other UK bands, i.e. Yardbirds, Animals."