Songs that you would change the title
 

"Ooh My Love" has got to be one of Stevie's worst titles for a song. I think that "Castle Walls" would be a great title for the same song, and is appropriately Stevie sounding.

A small change: "Crystalline" sounds prettier to me than "Crystal"

I have always liked the subtitle "Go Ahead Lily" better than "Rock a Little". When I first bought the album Rock a Little, I was thinking the title song would be some loud yelling song. It wasn't at all. And having been inspired by Lillian Hellman, I think it is a more powerful by itself.

The thought of "Everybody Finds Out" having been called "Monica" tickles my funnybone.

"Alice" should have been called "The Other Side of the Mirror". I always like for there to be a song on each album that matches the album title.

And then there is the issue of:
"Designs of Love" versus "That's Alright"
"You Could Forget" versus "Garbo"
"Nomad" versus "Candlebright"
"No Light" versus "Planets of the Universe"
"The Tower" versus "Goodbye Baby"

What is this about "Monica" & Everybody Finds Out? This is preposterous, this is mad, this is unspeakable.

I thought this was a running gag here on the ledge.

Thunder only happens when it's raining instead of dreams so PEOPLE WILL GET IT RIGHT!!!

Monica? Ewww.

Hey David, your sig pics are awesome.

HAEWAFY (cuz it's so damn long): (This is) Your Song.

RTTG: Toxic Garden

some of these alternate titles are like swords through my heart...you can't change Ooh My Love, Rock A Little, Alice or Garbo - the others I'll let you have

Really? I like the title quite a bit.
Alice should have been called "This Is Going Straight to the Trash Heap" and should have followed it's own sage advice. :)
That's how I like 'em.

:lol: fo sho! or Has Anyone Ever?

similar to Brandy's Have You Ever?

Good idea. I like that better also. If only it didn't seem like she were copying Elton John that way.

Thanks, KG! My shots are blurry, but they are suffused with heart & icono-visual musicality.

Well, those were the old days... before fancy digial cams... i'm surprised the pics are in color! :shocked:

How about "In the Still of the Night" instead of How Still My Love. I mean, that's what Stevie calls it anyway.

hmmm
 

I think I would change Kind of Woman and Kick It.. and uh, Love Is Like A River (is it??? really???)

but I'm not sure what to change them to...



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Would be confused with the Five Satins' classic '50's doo-wop song.

I smell some trash heap and it aint alice.

Couldn't agree more. I dislike "Ooh My Love," though I'm not wild about Castle Walls, either. :o I guess it is the only real alternative title there could be, though.


Rock a Little is one of my favourite titles ever - for the album and the song. I actually think it's perfect - doesn't connote a screaming rock song at ALL to me. She's rocking a little...

That's how I like those...

How about just dropping the silly "ooh" and renaming it "My Love"? That's what I call it because I can't bring myself to say the name "Ooh My Love."

Forget that. Stevie should have went straight to the heart of it all:
Rappaccini’s Daughter

Most people woul have just been WTF? Unless they were super literate on Nathaniel Hawthorne. But really......I prefer 'Running Through The Garden.' It just sounds so wonderful. Yeah.... in brilliant colors!

Stevie did say, in Performing Songwriter, that she considered calling RTTG "Rappaccinis's Daughter" but they felt she would have to deal with copywrite issues and whatnot, so they went with RTTG instead.