It is primarily compiled from different released tracks from across the band's recording career up to that point, including the UK version of Out of Our Heads.

Bassist Bill Wyman quotes Jagger in 1968 calling the record "[not] an album, it's just a collection of songs."

The title of the album came from the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham (who facetiously credits it to "Lou Folk-Rock Adler" in his liner notes on the back cover).

[3] The front cover photo of the band, by Gered Mankowitz, had previously been used for the UK edition of Out of Our Heads.

1, Get Off of My Cloud, was the highest-charting single on the album, also a major chart topper in the band's native UK and several other markets.