The best No 1 records: the Rolling Stones – Get Off My Cloud

A lot of reactionary-sounding music made number one in 1965: the antiseptic folk of the Seekers (twice), the admittedly exquisite easy listening of Jackie Trent's Where Are You Now My Love? , Elvis Presley's schmaltzy Crying In The Chapel and Ken Dodd's Tears . Here's what a certain kind of record buyer was reacting against: the sound of the Rolling Stones ' songwriting finally catching up with their public image. An early example of the surly whatever-you-say-I-am-that's-what-I'm-not response to success, it was unquestionably the most pissed-off sounding No 1 to date , its fizzing misanthropy – "I was sick and tired, fed up with this" – amplified by the distortion of Andrew Loog Oldham's slightly cack-handed production job. Somewhere behind Mick Jagger's snarling complaints about advertising, the forces of authority – or at least traffic wardens – and neighbours demanding he turn it down, you can hear the sound of the generation gap being wrenched open. See all the No 1 singles from 1965