Hope you know what i mean. So lets go:

Their satanic majesties request was cosmic christmas

Aftermath could you walk on the water

Exile on main Street Tropical desease

A bigger Bang Manhatten Beach

You know some more???

The only other one I can think of is Let It Bleed, which was originally titled Automatic Changer.

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The only other one I can think of is Let It Bleed, which was originally titled Automatic Changer.

i feel like the history of the band would have been completely different if they had stuck with that (horrible) title..

Some Girls - Lies Detector

Emotional Rescue - Lonely At The Top

Bridges To Babylon - Blessed Poison

Some Girls - No More Fast Songs

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Tattoo You was "Tattoo" or "Vagina" at different points
Dirty Work was 19 Stitches
Blasphemy and Flip the Switch were also working titles for BABYLON



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Some Girls was @More fast numbers' wasn't it?

Some Girls was also allegedly Don't Steal My Girlfriend very early on (although that always sounded like a joke)

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Hope you know what i mean. So lets go:

Their satanic majesties request was cosmic christmas

Aftermath could you walk on the water

Exile on main Street Tropical desease

A bigger Bang Manhatten Beach

You know some more???

I like each of the alternates as titles...particularly Cosmic Christmas and Manhattan Beach.

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Bridges To Babylon - Blessed Poison

Oh Blessed Poison. Me likes.

Dirt Work - Why Are we Working These Songs

19 STITCHES was bandied about at a time when nine other tracks were under consideration at the first mixing sessions in late summer 1985. I always wondered if a possible double album was planned. The weird thing is just how many Keith lead vocals we would have had. The other nine tracks listed at the time were: Strictly Memphis, Nobody's Perfect, Deep Love, Crushed Pearl, You're Too Much, Treat Me Like a Fool, Some of Us Are On Our Knees, Your Love, and I Can't See Nobody. Granted some of the outtakes sung by Keith might have also had Mick vocals by the mixing stage. Still, I'd love to hear the finished (or nearly finished versions) of these tracks.

"Sucking in the Seventies" was originally "Sensational in the Seventies" until they listened to the selections and decided a name change was in order.

bill: "they're pretty 'orrible aren't they?"
charlie: "wot?"
bill: "the songs. 'orrible."
charlie: "oh yes, i suppose they are"
keith: "yeah man they suck i would've never released half of them if i'd been sober"
mick: "that's it!"
ronnie: "um"
all: "shut up ronnie"
keith: "what's that you were saying brenda?"
mick: "we'll not call it sensational in the seventies, let's call it..."
all: "sucking in the seventies!!!"

Let It Bleed's working title, other than Automatic Changer, was Sticky Fingers.

Dirty Work--Sucking in the Eighties

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19 STITCHES was bandied about at a time when nine other tracks were under consideration at the first mixing sessions in late summer 1985. I always wondered if a possible double album was planned. The weird thing is just how many Keith lead vocals we would have had. The other nine tracks listed at the time were: Strictly Memphis, Nobody's Perfect, Deep Love, Crushed Pearl, You're Too Much, Treat Me Like a Fool, Some of Us Are On Our Knees, Your Love, and I Can't See Nobody. Granted some of the outtakes sung by Keith might have also had Mick vocals by the mixing stage. Still, I'd love to hear the finished (or nearly finished versions) of these tracks.

Reading about this for the 1st time now, I get the feeling they threw out the wrong songs and "Dirty Work" could have been a better album had they chosen some of the other tracks for it.

It's too bad this is not a famous record or we would get to hear all of those sooner or later on an expanded reissue. I think they would be worth releasing anyway. Or maybe I'm just curious.

Next one: L'arlesienne! ><

Wasn't one of them (possibly Bridges to Babylon) going to be Malibu Drive or something like that?



"I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon."

@Rocky Dijon - was 19 Stitches and the tracklist from German's BB ?

Tattoo You was "Fall Fire" or was it the code name of the Stones for the sessions?

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Exile was going to be called Eat It at one point. Black And Blue was going to be called Cocroaches at one point. They used that name as a pseudonym for secret gigs instead. That name for Black And Blue comes from an interview with Keith in a British mag and Keith also said Wayne Perkins was probably the new guitar player.

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@Rocky Dijon - was 19 Stitches and the tracklist from German's BB ?

I am not Rocky but I can confirm that Bill German came up with the title in his fanzine in 1985 (I still have it somewhere).

Working titles for songs are also funny:

Dogshit = early Pretty Beat Up
Wally's Whistling Saw = Following The River
Old King Cole = We Love You
Bill's Tune = Acid In The Grass = In Another Land
Loose Woman = 2000 Light Years From Home
Vagina = Slave
Bent Green Needles = Sweet Black Angel
Bulldog = Little T&A
Cow Girl Blues = Break The Spell
Hot Line = High Wire



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The backing track to "Break the Spell" was "Call Girl Blues." "Dogshit" was Keith's mean-spirited notation on the session log for the embryonic "Pretty Beat Up" which Mick called "Ronnie's Idea." You'll note Keith returned to this title while slagging off GODDESS IN THE DOORWAY.

Talk Is Cheap first was a Dirty Work outtake and became the title of Keith's first solo album.
Dogshit In The Doorway would have sold more copies with this title.

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Rocky Dijon
19 STITCHES was bandied about at a time when nine other tracks were under consideration at the first mixing sessions in late summer 1985. I always wondered if a possible double album was planned. The weird thing is just how many Keith lead vocals we would have had. The other nine tracks listed at the time were: Strictly Memphis, Nobody's Perfect, Deep Love, Crushed Pearl, You're Too Much, Treat Me Like a Fool, Some of Us Are On Our Knees, Your Love, and I Can't See Nobody. Granted some of the outtakes sung by Keith might have also had Mick vocals by the mixing stage. Still, I'd love to hear the finished (or nearly finished versions) of these tracks.

Reading about this for the 1st time now, I get the feeling they threw out the wrong songs and "Dirty Work" could have been a better album had they chosen some of the other tracks for it.

It's too bad this is not a famous record or we would get to hear all of those sooner or later on an expanded reissue. I think they would be worth releasing anyway. Or maybe I'm just curious.

Even if there were a demand for an expanded Dirty Work reissue, I doubt that Mick would want to commit to it. A lot of those outtakes were rough Keith demos, and an alternate version of the album would be mainly a Keith solo release.

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Working titles for songs are also funny:

Dogshit = early Pretty Beat Up
Wally's Whistling Saw = Following The River
Old King Cole = We Love You
Bill's Tune = Acid In The Grass = In Another Land
Loose Woman = 2000 Light Years From Home
Vagina = Slave
Bent Green Needles = Sweet Black Angel
Bulldog = Little T&A
Cow Girl Blues = Break The Spell
Hot Line = High Wire

Short And Curlies was originally called Cut Yer Balls Off.



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Working titles for songs are also funny:

Dogshit = early Pretty Beat Up
Wally's Whistling Saw = Following The River
Old King Cole = We Love You
Bill's Tune = Acid In The Grass = In Another Land
Loose Woman = 2000 Light Years From Home
Vagina = Slave
Bent Green Needles = Sweet Black Angel
Bulldog = Little T&A
Cow Girl Blues = Break The Spell
Hot Line = High Wire

Short And Curlies was originally called Cut Yer Balls Off.

>< Hahahahahahaha. Never heard of this one.

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Talk Is Cheap first was a Dirty Work outtake and became the title of Keith's first solo album.
Dogshit In The Doorway would have sold more copies with this title.

This makes me think of a DIRTY WORK DELUXE release.