Definitely one of the finest debut albums of all time. At first, I was one of those Beatles vs Stones fans (choosing the Beatles), but around 1966 I realized I didn't have to chose one over the other, I could be a fan of both. And have been that ever since.

I would like to see The Who, Kinks, Yardbirds and Hollies get a guest spot some time. Edit: I'd be remiss to not mention Gerry and the Pacemakers or the Searchers. Plus other Cavern groups too.

Something I’ve noticed about this great album is the high quality of the pressing. The copy I bought in ‘64 plays as well now as it did when it first landed on my turntable six decades ago, despite being played hundreds of times on equipment of wildly varying quality!

Good to see some Stones on the channel. Funnily enough I was in Regent Sound Studio only yesterday. It's a small music shop now so it's good that music is still being played there in some form. There's a small advert from the 60s in the window acknowledging that the Stones recorded Not Fade Away there. Nice that some parts of London are holding on to their musical heritage if they can despite developers having other ideas!

I love this album. I still play it

It opened up the world of the blues for me.............

I have an original copy of the LP personally signed by Bill Wyman to my mother in law who used to hang out with band.

For my entire life I've never understood the whole Beatles vs. Stones rivalry bit. I liked them both in 1964, and I still do. Never saw a reason not to like either, and never needed them to be more like one another. I never believed I had to choose one over the other. Why would I? I liked the Beatles for their innovative outlook and their songwriting. I liked the Stones for their take on the blues and R&B - I liked both bands because I love guitars. Then I kept adding bands: The Animals, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Who, etc, etc, etc. My love of music just kept expanding and the new stuff never negated the old. I don't care who is The Greatest of All Time. Music isn't a competition to me.

Totally agree. I was 14 years old when I picked up that album in the USA the week it came out. Needless to say, I was a Stones guy 😎

Andrew, while I am not a Stones collector, I certainly enjoyed the video. I am here for the Beatles content, but I can surely understand your channel may need a bit of diversification. Whatever keeps the Beatles content coming is fine by me! Thanks mate and cheers!

I bought the album the day it came out and still have it today! Loved it then, love it now.

Andrew, great video, really interesting, loved it. I'm a huge Stones fan, have been since 1971 when I purchased "Sticky Fingers" at the age of 13 and simply fell in love with this band. They were, back then, in the middle of their incredible run of great albums. I soon delved into their back catalog and realized how different this band was right from the begining. Yes, the debut album you've reviewed was a a precursor of what would come from them, and demonstrated their unique and bluesy sound that still stands up today. Your video taught me things I did not know and I truly appreciate this. Please, please do more Stones stuff. Their history is so fascinating. Thank you for your well-researched information, really great video.

Great to see some love for this truly underrated LP. This and the 2nd album are some of the best 60s UK R n B stuff and really evocative of what they must have been like in a club. Imagine it! Got flipback LPs of both. Love 'em.

I believe Charlie Watts is one of the most underrated drummers of rock. All the attention to drummers of the English Invasion seem to be on Ringo Starr. But I recently listened to some early Rolling Stones tracks and was amazed by Watts' subtle style that graced the Stones' music.

I was a teenager when this album (LP in my day!) came out and it was unique at the time. I had never heard of Bo Diddley and the guitar work they did on Mona was just amazing to me - never heard anything like it! Great music which for a lot of teenagers then opened a door to the blues. Of all their LPs I love their second album best as to me it shows their great guitar work even more. Please cover No.2 🙂

Great video as always! I'd love to see a video about Monkees' Headquarters album, since it has such a interesting history behind

Hi Andrew great video. Great to see someone at last show love for such a classic debut album. So many Stones fans don’t seem to appreciate how great this album is. This album got me into listening to Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, etc. All the Stones covers on this album are excellent and I love the raw mono sound. I’m a fan of both The Beatles and Stones, as well as the rest of the classic 60’s British bands like The Who, Kinks, Small Faces, Yardbirds, Pretty Things, The Animals, The Move, etc. It would be great if you could feature some of these bands as well.

Excellent production as always! I’d definitely love to see some more Stones content, but your Beatles videos are always welcome!

Great video as ever Andrew We know so much of the stones today. It's easy to forget how good there first 3 may 4 albums are with a much more bluesy sound.

Enjoyable video, Andrew! I adore the Stones, particularly their early years. You also know what a huge Kinks fan I am. I personally would enjoy seeing a break from Beatles videos for looks at the works of the Stones, Kinks and The Who. If anyone can teach me new things about those three bands I don't already know, it's you.

While the Beatles were my first favourite band, by the time the 1980s rolled around, I was spending more time delving into the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and eventually the Hollies and beyond. While I rarely get the urge to listen to Please Please Me (the album), the Stones' debut still feels fresh and exciting. Last December, I went to Arizona for the first time, and as soon as we hit Route 66, I put in the Stones' version and cranked it, it was a perfect musical moment.

A Great and very informative video. Please, please us with more videos featuring other groups of the era. The Moodies, The Animals, and even The Zombies have a history worth a few episodes.

Wonderful video about the album, definitely hope you cover the other 60s albums of the Stones as well as many other acts of the time.

Love your channel! Keep up the good work my friend!❤

Thank you Andrew! More stones would be great!

I've got the mono box set. A truly fine pressing of a great debut album. I started as a 'Beatles' person in the early 70s, but by the end of the decade I was listening to a lot more Rolling Stones. The fact that the Stones were still putting out good records at the end of their second decade didn't hurt.

Hi, great work and yes, more Stones please. Thank you.

Another excellent video.A great album.More Stones please Andrew.Thanks,Ian

Great video, Andrew! I have a 1A pressing but it was pressed in Canada, so I have the longer version of Tell Me.

Great!! More please! I am a great Beatles fan but I like the Stones too. I would like to know more of their albums & different pressings. Regards Rob Netherlands

Hi, Andrew! That was my second Stones album in my collection. The first one was Out of Our Heads (US version). Love both, the Stones and the Beatles. Cheers, Nelio,

Great video! I love the Stones' 60s albums, please do more videos on those. I have an early UK edition of the debut album with flipbacks! But side 2 is 4A, so it has the long Tell Me. The record has multiple scuffs and scratches, but surprsingly it sounds great!

A fascinating piece as always Andrew, it’s obvious that you have done your homework on this release!

It was a great debut album. I’m also a stones fan, so more than happy to see more of them. Another great video, Andrew.

Interesting video. And, yes, more Rolling Stones please. Am a much bigger fan of The Stones, but whatever you do I always find very watchable 👍

Big fan of this channel. More Stones please.

Love your videos. And yes, MORE STONES PLEASE!

That was excellent, your knowledge is impressive and I always learn something from your excellent presentations. I also like that you give the Stones some respect when you cover them. I would like more videos on them.

Great video. I´d like to see a video about the Kinks and The Who debut albuns in UK. Tks a lot in advance

The Stones being my second favorite band, I would love to see more content. Thank you, Andrew!!! - Roger

Awesome video (and album). Here hoping for more Stones, Who, Kinks!

Really enjoyed this video, Andrew and would like to see you cover more Stones content, told in your own inimitable and fascinating way! Keep covering the Beatles though!

I would love to see more content on the stones!

I love this album. I’m not sure which version I have but I’m definitely going to check.

Andrew, your Beatles videos are a must-see in my opinion. That being said, variety is indeed the spice of life. I enjoyed this foray into Stones history. If I might suggest that a journey into the rich history of the Animals would be most welcome by this viewer. The profound link between Jimi Hendrix and Chas Chandler would also make an engaging video. Cheers

Hi! More about the Rolling Stones. Thank you!

Please do more early stones! Can tell your a huge fan!

Thanks and have a great week✌️

hi andrew great to meet ya hope ya interview at abbey rd went well thanks for the tip cant believe i met ya wots the chances a

THANK YOU..EXCELLENT REVIEW ! !

A great LP! Love the feel of the music! Route 66 is awesome! I saw a lots of local cover bands in the early 90s, and they all played that song. I think i'll give the album a spin tonight! Love the cover too. I must admit I love the A Hard Days Night album too! Thanks for an awesome video Andrew 😊

Variety is the spice of life! The Beatles are always going to be #1 for me, but its nice to hear about other bands too. As always, another great video Andrew. Thank you!

Great knowledge, you made me pull my copy out while watching. very interesting facts, mines a 4A. I have a CD version as well, and see that that cover came from the USA cover with `England`s newest hit makers on it`.

Excellent video as always Andrew. A change is as good as a rest as they say. It would be nice to visit other albums or things about the 60s. It was a great decade for music and with your level of research would make it just as interesting as your Beatles content. Many thanks as always Andrew for a fascinating film. Mick

Great story Andrew ! It's nice to know a bit of Stones history too ! Cheers from Quebec Canada !

Still got it upstairs , brilliant !

Excellent video Andrew! I’m a Beatles fan, but I also appreciate the Stones and I do own some original pressings (bought mostly from you!), I really do like their debut album as well. Thanks for the detour!😊

Great video, Andrew - very interesting. You sent me scurrying to check the matrix details on side 2 of my copy - sadly, it is 5A, but the cover has all the features (flipbacks and errors) you pointed out on yours. I think I read somewhere that the very earliest pressings didn't have the K/T tax code printed on the label, as yours and my copies do.

It would be great seeing the Stones other lp's from the past............

My Dad had this and the no2 album which I played to death as a teenager in the 80’s.. quite hard to get a really good quality original press at a reasonable price,so I was lucky to get a 1990 reissue a few years back in near mint condition.. brought back so many good memories and a fine album.Thankyou Andrew for a great video ! Would love a video on the no2 album if you could(?)

Great Video as always.. I know I have asked before... But could we please get more solo Beatle Albums and something on Yoko and her albums?

Excellent mate!! Really enjoy the early mono Stones. Not much into their later stuff after 1965 or 1966, but I do enjoy Can't Always Get What You Want from the Global Initiative broadcast!

A great video. I love these early Decca Stones albums. Consider doing videos about other sixties's groups: Animals, Kinks, Yardbirds, Who, DC5, Hoĺlies, among others. Thanks.

Definitely would like to see more like this.

I love me some Rolling Stones videos! Really appreciated.

Great video, Andrew. Totally fine with me if you do some branching out with videos on other ‘60s acts, such as the Stones, Animals, Kinks, Hollies, etc.

Excellent. Thank you. More Stones would be great. Really good program for us "nerds"! 😃

Loved this insight into the Stones debut album and would love more Stones coverage ( if only the Decca albums). Also I think The Small Faces output would be another good deflection from time to time

Thanks for throwing the Stones a bone. They are a part of the music history we all love. I would love to hear about the back story of the Pepper/ Majesty’s Request albums copycat controversy.

Changed my life. Still play it and play along with it on guitar. Just less than a bar of any of the tracks and it transports me sixty years. Was so obsessed I travelled to London in 1966 to work in the music scene. Got a job as a teaboy in a studio just down the road apiece from Decca on Broadhurst Gardens. Visited the Tin Pan Alley studio to pay homage!Thankyou for the review.

Great episode Andrew! Honestly the second 45 I ever bought was the Stones ‘Time Is On My Side’. When my parents and school were still yelling about the Beatles long hair! I bought it as a testament (Can I get a witness?!?) that long hair…was getting longer! That scared the folks in believing the Beatles were thoroughly more “clean cut” than those Rolling Stones! What a hoot! I checked my CD version of the album and Tell Me is the long version but clocks in at 4:09 minutes. “I Just Wanna Make Love To You” appears like that on CD surface, however, it’s “I Just Want To Make Love To You” on back inlay. Cover is same as original UK but has Red banner at left stating ‘Digitally Re-Mastered’. All Stones LP’s are welcomed by me up to ‘Their Satanic Majesty’s Request’. Maybe slide ‘Beggars Banquet’ in there somehow. Between that album and The Beatles White Album I was in music heaven for the next 50 years of my life! 5 Thumbs up, Andrew!

Yes Andrew, please include other groups occasionally. I'm not going to repeat other groups that I've seen in some of the comments, but a video on these would be great. I'm curious about Manfred Mann's 'Soul Of Man' album. I own a mono/stereo CD of this and I'd like to learn more. I love the album ! nice work on The Rolling Stones' first album. even in fake stereo, as my London pressing is, it's one of my favorite albums.

One just sold on ebay for $2368. It was in France. Great info on rare albums!

This was excellent. Subscribed.

Buen video Andrew! Me gustaría que hagas videos con los álbums "Aftermath" y "Between the buttons". Saludos!

Great vid! Maybe something on The Pretty Things sometime?

I agree 100%. Unfortunately, it rarely gets this kind of praise it deserves, at least here on KZfaq, at least that’s my impression. I can think of four Stores album rankings here where it was positioned somewhere near the bottom, which is just ridiculous. Thanks so much for this video.

A very nice video, Andrew! I’ve been looking forward to you doing more reviews of non-Beatles releases. When can we expect your take on Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd and solo work? Thanks so much, as always.

This was a brilliant video! Definitely do more on the Rolling Stones. Perhaps The Who and The Kinks as well. Abcko seems to have strong desire for the American version as they want to keep this one in print.

Thanks now I know which version of Tell Me to use in my playlist of the American release, though bummed its not the longer version

I would love to see you cover the Moody Blues in a video here. Thank you for this incredible Rolling Stones review and history.

Loving all this, at 76, orig Beatles fan. Feel 14 again on here,lol.x

I really love all your videos! You should make a similar video about Simon & Garfunkel's debut, Wednesday Morning 3, AM. I truly think it's the most overlooked album that deserves so much more love than it gets.

Great video! I love the Beatles vids, but your non-Fab choices have been perfect (Kinks, Hollies, Stones). I would love to know more about the alternate mixes on the early pressing of "Hot Rocks," or how the fourth side of rarities was compiled for "More Hot Rocks."

Loved this album since I was a little kid. Songs speed up, backing vocals are off-key at times, distortion intrudes and levels of instruments audibly change (Keith's solo in 'Now I've Got A Witness' is noticeably whacked down by a panicked engineer) and yet it all adds to the excitement, rather than detract from it. The sheer energy of the performances generates a fantastic vibe and all in upfront Mono as it should be, which is the only way to hear early Stones. I have my dad's original vinyl copy, with 'Mona' on the sleeve and the missing word on Track 5, Side 2 and despite the years and incessant playing (the grooves are almost grey now), the sound still leaps out the speakers in a way that the CD mastering's has never quite managed to replicate.

Really pleased that you did this feature Andrew in time for this ground breaking album's 60th Anniversary. I've actually been listening to it a lot recently, to mark the occasion, and it really is 33 & a half minutes of perfection! I've never understood the rivalry between the Stones & The Beatles (mainly a concoction of the popular press of the time); I and most people I knew loved both bands as well as several others that were supposed to be rivals of The Beatles such as The Beach Boys, Kinks, Animals, Yardbirds, Who etc - it was just an epic time for music and so exciting to experience it growing up in London listening to Pirate Radio and watching great pop shows on television like Ready Steady Go! I'd love you to do more Stones features - their UK Decca output (1963-70) is particularly fascinating and not one single A-side of the 15 singles that they released during that time were lifted from any of the bands 8 UK studio albums (although they did squeeze in two Greatest Hits compilations - ripe for more analysis) and unlike The Beatles only released three EP's; all containing new material rather than album highlights. It was also interesting that after the band departed for Atlantic to release records on their own label at the start of the 70's, that Decca tried to maintain the illusion that the Stones were still with the label and released no less than 7 compilation albums (in the UK) between 1971 & 75; described by Roy Carr in his Illustrated Record book on the band as the worst reissue programme ever but I would still love to see even those records receive some further attention. Please keep up the good work Andrew! Great Stuff!!

I really enjoy diversions like this one and fully welcome discussions about other artists. I wouldn't be mad if that included the fantastic "Days of Future Passed" by the Moody Blues or any of their albums from the late 60s. As for the Stones, I would love to know how the US pressings hold up sonically to their UK counterparts. Thanks as always Andrew for your commitment to fantastic content and production standards.

Hi Andrew I would be delighted for you to cover the Rolling Stones on your wonderful channel.

I would love to see more videos like this on other beat bands! Gerry and the pacemakers, the swinging blue jeans, the Dave Clark five, the searchers, Brian Poole and the tremeloes??? Great content!

Excellent, I can get a bit Beatled out so other bands of that vintage are welcome. Ran to my original copy, side 2 is a 3A :( Btw Phelge was James Phelge who lived with Mick, Keith and Brian in Chelsea. He wrote a book about it and I met him at a book signing in Chicago about 20 years ago. Stones were playing, he didn't go to the show.

Yes, more Stones, please!

Hi again Andrew. A little variety is always welcome, I was eleven when this disc came out and wasn't really aware of LPs at the time, unless I happened to see them in shop windows of retailers of electical goods. It was really all about singles back then (as LPs were so pricey.) It was a real event hearing the newest discs on the BBC Light Programme , Top of the Pops or Ready Steady Go. My two favourite bands from the autumn of '63 onwards were the Beatles and the Hollies, but I was pretty much also a fan of every other band (except for acts like the Bachelors, and slow and soppy ballads.) Most of us back then just enjoyed pop songs and beat music and judged it by the sound. So I was really thrilled when 'It's All over now' came out in June '64. Your excellent review of the album is pretty comprehensive . I would add that the Stones really speede up 'I Just Want To make Love To You' and added a Bo Diddley feel to it. Also, the song title 'I Need You Baby' sounds incomplete without 'Mona' includedin it.

My grandfather was on the Rolling Stones side in the UK during the 60s

Great video Andrew. I love my colored vinyl version in the mono box. It sounds fantastic. I like videos like this so maybe some more stones and perhaps some Who albums??

Some of those songs that were released on the Rolling Stones EP in 1964 were later finally released on More Hot Rocks in 1972

I had all the singles , the EP and somehow managed to buy the LP ( the expense of an LP in those days was enormous ) ……..all lost . Thanks for your review , memories , memories .

Great video again, Andrew! Love the Stones - maybe not as much as The Beatles! My dad did some painting and decorating work for Charlie Watts, who was, let's not forget, a Wembley boy!

There is a 2:39 version of Tell Me on The Rolling Stones Singles Collection 1963-1965 box set but I think it is just the long version with the guitar solo edited out.

I had that Stones album, it was a great album, I wish I still had it.

Yes, I'd love to see you cover more 60s era bands, US or UK based.