In class we listened to some of the Rolling Stones' first album, .... and it wasn't too pretty.  They had a few decent sounding songs but my problem with the rest of them was the way it sounded; unbalanced, gritty (not in a good way), Jagger's voice comes across as plain but this might be a result of being it being drowned out by everything else and vice versa, making music that might have sounded at least clearer and defined to one large cluster of noise that overwhelms the human ear.  There were times however, where a certain song came on and it made you snap out of the zoned out trance of resulted of listening to the stones and you enjoyed the music because it sounded different, such a time was when they covered Chuck Berry's "Carol", the very first thing to wake you up is the way the guitar sounds and excites you for what's to come. For a first album it sounds okay but if you compare with later albums you'll be glad to hear they improve and find their sound with their own songs.