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With the Beatles, Hendrix, and many others, the U.K. version is usually the preferred version, the one the band/artist personally sequenced or supervised themselves.

I'm wondering if this is true with "Out of Our Heads." The U.S. version came out shortly BEFORE the U.K. release. I think I read an interview once with Bill Wyman or Keith Richards, in response to a question about "Out of Our Heads," that at the time, they just wanted to get the music they had just recorded out. It wasn't clear if one was the band's "preferred" version.

Is there a "preferred" version as far as the Stones themselves are concerned? Did they sequence either version themselves?

I almost want to guess the U.K. version is preferred, simply because it seems more thematically unified, mostly r&b covers or originals mimicing the r&b hits of the time, while the U.S. version throws in a few more rock-oriented numbers.

Your question is an interesting one. While there is clearly a "preferred" version of The Beatles catalogue--the UK versions are thematically unified, give you more value for your money, etc.--the same isn't really true for the Stones. They released what they had when they had it. True, their US albums are alarmingly scattershot (the random live tracks that pop up are a prime example), but it isn't as if the UK albums show a slow and steady progression. The UK "Out of Our Heads" is a bit more unified than the US equivalent, but I don't particularly think this is due to design.