December's Children
Dig how even a tossed-together cash-in by the Stones' U.S. label--the  group's third American album of 1965--ends up smoking like all but their very  best. They invent thrash with the opener, "She Said Yeah" (a Specialty  Records obscurity penned, under a pseudonym, by Sonny Bono!) before laying down  a leering "Talkin' 'Bout You," a frenetic "I'm Movin' On"  and their most consistent, varied list of originals yet. Dig, too, how even  "As Tears Go By" sounds like a sneer in the midst of "Get Off of  My Cloud," "Gotta Get Away," "I'm Free" and the dourly  off-key "Blue Turns to Grey."--Rickey Wright