Just wondering if the Stones as a group or individuals or not at all decide the name of each album? Does the record company, or someone else?

Who came up with "Aftermath", "Between the Buttons", "Goat Heads Soup", "Sticky Fingers", etc...

Anyone have any info on this and or the origin of the name?

Here are some comments from Timeisonourside.com.


Andrew (Oldham) told me to do the drawings for the LP and said the title would be between the buttons. I thought he meant the title was Between The Buttons, so it stayed.

- Charlie Watts, 1967




Sticky Fingers was never meant to be the title. It's just what we called it while we were working on it. Usually though, the working titles stick.

- Keith Richards, 1971

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Keith has/had a cat named Voodoo that he adopted durring the recordings. Don't know if it was the cat's pillow it was named after, but the name was Voodoo so maybe.

mick

Great source is timeisonourside. Here are some examples:

VOODOO LOUNGE:

(The title comes f)rom the granny flat that I built for my mum. Immediately Keith moved in he did this hand-drawn sign, Doc's Office and Voodoo Lounge, and stuck it in the window.
- Ron Wood, 1994


The record company's screaming at us, We need a title, an angle, artwork. Then, suddenly, Mick turns around and says, Your sign.
- Keith Richards, July 1994

BRIDGES TO BABYLON:

We didn't have a title for the tour until we'd built the (bridge) model and I asked Tom Stoppard to come and look at it and to give his opinion as somebody from outside the rock world. It's funny how people can come in from other parts of theatre, take a look at something that you've been looking at for weeks and go You shouldn't have that thing in there. Tom started to talk about Babylon and came up with a number of incredibly long titles. I shortened one and ended up with the Bridges to Babylon title for the tour and the album.
- Mick Jagger, 2003

TATOO YOU:

(We called it Tattoo You b)ecause we had these paintings by that guy and we just didn't know what to call it... Some friend of mine from Pharoah Island did these paintings... they're actually photographs but with that tattoo painting on them. I saw him do some other stuff and we liked them so I gave him a couple of pictures and asked him to do them like that. Then we used them for the cover. We had lots of different titles but in the end we decided to call it that.
- Mick Jagger, 1981

Off topic but...
The Beatles were going to call one of their albums After Geography as a parody of Aftermath. Apparently Ringo's idea.

Goats Head Soup was recorded in Jamaica,and that soup is considered to be a bit of a delicacy out there.

flowerchild Wrote:
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> Sticky Fingers was never meant to be the title.
> It's just what we called it while we were working
> on it. Usually though, the working titles stick.
>
> - Keith Richards, 1971



wasnt "Sticky Fingers" one of the original titles for 'Let it Bleed' ?

terraplane Wrote:
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> Off topic but...
> The Beatles were going to call one of their albums
> After Geography as a parody of Aftermath.
> Apparently Ringo's idea.


Never knew that, but I liked the one where they were recording their final sessions and were planning on calling the album "Everest". The idea was that they would go to the Himalayas and pose for an album cover, but they couldnt be arsed so decided to call the album "Abbey Road" instead and just shot the album cover in the street outside the studio

Great info everyone,

How about the UK album "5x5" which one would assume is five songs by five musicians, but what about the US version of "12x5" which has 12 songs, why did the US version released two months later get seven more songs?

And how about "December's Children" any meanings behind that?

The Sicilian Wrote:
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> And how about "December's Children" any meanings behind that?

"It was our manager (Andrew Oldham)'s idea of hip. Beat poetry."
- Mick Jagger, 1995

This is fascinating - keep it up.

Is that really true about Abbey Road?

>> why did the US version released two months later get seven more songs? <<

because it was an LP rather than an EP.
the US market didn't get EPs, for whatever reason.

Gazza wrote: "wasnt "Sticky Fingers" one of the original titles for 'Let it Bleed' ?"
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Gazza, was that a rhetorical question? That explains the messed up sticky cake on LET IT BLEED. Seems to make sense now. Do you know..for sure?

Chuck writes down his thoughts, then sends it to Mick who tweaks it a bit. Keith doesn't care.

No, wait, that's the setlist.

danielb wrote:

This is fascinating - keep it up.

Is that really true about Abbey Road?

I don't know about the bit about posing for a picture in the Himalayas but I distinctly recall reading that Everest was suggested by John Lennon. Apparently, it was the name of a brand of cigarette. Somebody had a pack in his shirt pocket and when the Beatles were coming up with album names, Lennon spotted it.

After Geography eventually became Revolver.

When asked why 'Some Girls'? didn't Keith laugh and utter something like "because we forgot all their f---ing names" ??

anybody hear that interview? Not sure on the exact wording.

The interview is on Video Rewind.

I think Chuck actually picks the names... :-)

Some original titles:

'Exile On Main St'--'Eat It' 'Tropical Disease'
'Black & Blue'--'Hot Stuff'
'Some Girls'--'More Fast Numbers' 'April Fools'
'Tattoo You'--'Tattoo'

Bridges To Babylon - Blessed Poison

>> Do you know ... for sure? <<

smile: is that a rhetorical question? don't know about the cake allusion,
but yeah: Sticky Fingers was a working title for Let It Bleed.

Sorry for not knowing this, but can someone explain the European "EP"

explain what - the title of "5 x 5" ?

Jack Knife Wrote:
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> Some original titles:
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> 'Exile On Main St'--'Eat It' 'Tropical Disease'
> 'Black & Blue'--'Hot Stuff'
> 'Some Girls'--'More Fast Numbers' 'April Fools'
> 'Tattoo You'--'Tattoo'


"Yessireee" was another working title for "Exile"
"Dont Steal My Girlfriend" was another for "Some Girls"
"Triple X" and "Too Much Blood" were listed as titles for the album that became "Undercover"
"Stripped" was going to be called "Butt Naked"
"A Bigger Bang" was close to being called "Manhattan Beach"
"Satanic Majesties" was going to be called "Cosmic Christmas" and then "Her Satanic Majesty Requests" (a pun on the opening line of UK passports, "Her Britannic Majesty Requests", which Decca asked them to change as it was offensive to the Queen)

I've heard "Let it Bleed" was a hack on "Let it Be" b/c the Beatles broke up shortly after that album...

good one, Elmo....

stickyfingers101 Wrote:
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> I've heard "Let it Bleed" was a hack on "Let it
> Be" b/c the Beatles broke up shortly after that
> album...

it was released five months before the Beatles album and their break up around the same time...

What about the single "Let It Be"? Was that released before Let It Bleed? That might have been before even Abbey Road.

I also heard Chuck lays out everyone's clothes for the next day and then Mick tweaks it. Keith just wears the same thing, day after day after day.