Here's a handy list of Stones song titles' acronyms. Sure, you don't have to think about it much you read "JJF" or "HTW" or "YCAGWYW" or even "CYHMK" in a post... But sometimes do the acronyms find you scratching your head? Do YOU know what song "SS" refers to? (It's a trick question... It could be "Surprise Surprise", "Soul Survivor" or "Star Star". Similar ambiguities are noted below.)

NOTES:

* "Get Off Of My Cloud" can be written as GOMC or GOOMC; similarly
*** "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" is universally written as IORR (not IORNR.)
** IGD can refer to "I'm Going Down" or "I'm Gonna Drive "
**** MM can refer to "Memory Motel," "Mercy Mercy," "Monkey Man," or "Moonlight Mile"
***** OOT can refer to "Out of Tears" or "Out of Time"
******* SS can refer to "Soul Survivor" "Surprise Surprise" or "Star Star"
******** SSS refer to "Sad Sad Sad" or "She Smiled Sweetly"

(#) Song titles consisting of a single word are generally not abbreviated. (Examples: "Sway", "Angie" )

(^) Song titles containing numbers or special characters can create special considerations. (Examples: "2000 Man" can be written as 2000M or TTM or even 2KM. "Short And Curlies" can be SAC or S&C.)

I still can't figure out what to do about "Little T & A".


ATPTB...........Ain't Too Proud To Beg
AAY.............All About You
ADTL............All Down The Line
ASO.............All Sold Out
ATWD............All the Way Down
AHYS............Almost Hear You Sigh
AOM.............Already Over Me
AS..............Always Suffering
A...................Angie (#)
ASMB............Anybody Seen My Baby?
AYLAI...........Anyway You Look At It
AAA (or A&A)....Around And Around
ATGB............As Tears Go By
BBID............Baby Break It Down
BOMH............Back Of My Hand
BSG.............Back Street Girl
BTZ (BT0).......Back To Zero
BOB.............Beast Of Burden
BTMMR...........Before They Make Me Run
BM..............Biggest Mistake
B...................Bitch (#)
BL..............Black Limousine
BBL.............Blinded By Love
BBR.............Blinded By Rainbows
BTTG............Blue Turns To Grey
BNC.............Brand New Car
BTS.............Break The Spell
BS..............Brown Sugar
BBJ.............Bye Bye Johnny
CIGAW...........Can I Get a Witness
CBS.............Can't Be Seen
CYHMK...........Can't You Hear Me Knocking
CYHTM...........Can You Hear The Music
C...................Carol
CB..............Casino Boogie
COB.............Cherry Oh Baby
COTM............Child Of The Moon
C...................Citadel (#)
CO..............Come On
CDA.............Coming Down Again
C...................Complicated
CTB.............Confessin' The Blues
C................Congratulations (#)
C................Connection (#)
CD..............Continental Drift
CCB.............Cook Cook Blues
CCC (or CC&C)....Cool, Calm And Collected
CH..............Country Honk
C...................Corinna
CU..............Crackin' Up
CM..............Crazy Mama
CTM.............Cry To Me
D...................Dance (#)
DLS.............Dance Little Sister
DWMD............Dancing With Mr. D
D...................Dandelion (#)
DB..............Dangerous Beauty
DF..............Dead Flowers
DD..............Dear Doctor
DW..............Dirty Work
DBM.............Doncha Bother Me
DLTM............Don't Lie To Me
DS..............Don't Stop
DWGH............Don't Wanna Go Home
DDDDD...........Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
DHG.............Down Home Girl
DITH............Down In The Hole
DTRA............Down The Road Apiece
DS..............Downtown Suzie
DTF.............Driving Too Fast
ER..............Emotional Rescue
EH..............Empty Heart
ENSTL...........Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
EITTG...........Everything Is Turning To Gold
EWG.............Extreme Western Grip
FG..............Factory Girl
F...................Family (#)
FMB.............Fancy Man Blues
FAE.............Far Away Eyes
FOB.............Feel On Baby
F...................Fight (#)
FF..............Fingerprint File
F505............Flight 505
FTS.............Flip The Switch
FTC.............Fool To Cry
FT..............Fortune Teller
GOOMC*..........Get Off Of My Cloud
GS..............Gimmie Shelter
GH..............Going Home
GTAGG...........Going to A Go-Go
G...................Gomper (#)
GT..............Good Times
GTBT............Good Times, Bad Times
GGA.............Gotta Get Away
GUW.............Grown Up Wrong
G...................Gunface (#)
HIWY............Had It With You
HOF.............Hand Of Fate
HF..............Hang Fire
H................Happy (#)
HS..............Harlem Shuffle
HYSYMBSITS?.....Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
HOS.............Heart Of Stone
HFS.............Hearts For Sale
H...................Heaven (#)
HN..............Hey Negrita
HYL.............Hide Your Love
HAD.............High And Dry
H...................Highwire (#)
HH..............Hitch Hike
HB..............Hold Back
HOTYH...........Hold On To Your Hat
HID.............Honest I Do
HTW.............Honky Tonk Women
HS..............Hot Stuff
HCIS............How Can I Stop
H...................Hurricane (#)
IAW.............I Am Waiting
ICBS............I Can't Be Satisfied
ICTYL...........I Can't Turn You Loose
IDKW............I Don't Know Why
IIWAD...........If I Was A Dancer
IYCRM...........If You Can't Rock Me
IYLM............If You Let Me
IYNM............If You Need Me
IYRWTBMF........If You Really Want To Be My Friend
IGTB............I Got The Blues
IGW.............I Go Wild
IJWMLTY.........I Just Want To Make Love To You
IJWSHF..........I Just Want To See His Face
IAKB............I'm A King Bee
IAR.............I'm All Right
IF..............I'm Free
IGD**...........I'm Going Down
IGD**...........I'm Gonna Drive
IMO.............I'm Moving On
IAL.............In Another Land
IG..............Indian Girl
I...................Infamy (#)
IMBH............It Must Be Hell
IAON............It's All Over Now
INE.............It's Not Easy
IORR***.........It's Only Rock 'n Roll
IWTL............It Won't Take Long
IBLYTL..........I've Been Loving You Too Long
IWBYM...........I Wanna Be Your Man
IWTBL...........I Want To Be Loved
JP..............Jigsaw Puzzle
JSF.............Jiving Sister Fanny
JJF.............Jumpin' Jack Flash
JOTOM...........Jump On Top Of Me
JMI.............Just My Imagination
KTYL............Keys To Your Love
LJ..............Lady Jane
LIND............Laugh, I Nearly Died
LIB.............Let It Bleed
LIL.............Let It Loose
LIR.............Let It Rock
LMDS............Let Me Down Slow
LMG.............Let Me Go
LSTNT...........Let's Spend the Night Together
L...................Lies (#)
LARS............Like A Rolling Stone
LB..............Little Baby
LBL.............Little By Little
LQ..............Little Queenie
LRL.............Little Red Rooster
LT&A............Little T&A
LWM.............Live With Me
LLW.............Long Long While
LWTCDI..........Look What The Cat Dragged In
LWYD............Look What You've Done
LMT.............Losing My Touch
LIV.............Love In Vain
LIS.............Love Is Strong
LT..............Love Train
LC..............Loving Cup
LD..............Low Down
L...................Luxury (#)
MB..............Mannish Boy
MD..............Mean Disposition
M...................Melody (#)
MFT.............Memo From Turner
MM****..........Memory Motel
MM****..........Mercy Mercy
MR..............Midnight Rambler
MAWGJ...........Might As Well Get Juiced
MAJ.............Miss Amanda Jones
MY..............Miss You
ME..............Mixed Emotions
M...................Mona (#)
M...................Money (#)
MM****..........Monkey Man
MIU.............Moon Is Up
MM****..........Moonlight Mile
MLH.............Mother's Little Helper
MG..............My Girl
MO..............My Obsession
N...................Neighbors (#)
NF..............New Faces
NNB (19NB )....19th Nervous Breakdown
NE..............No Expectations
NFA.............Not Fade Away
NUIC............No Use In Crying
NIGAW...........Now I've Got A Witness
OTH.............Off The Hook
OB..............Oh Baby
ONNYA...........Oh No, Not You Again
OHTTB...........One Hit (To The Body)
100YA (OHYA)....100 Years Ago
OMT.............One More Try
OWTS............On with The Show
OOC.............Out Of Control
OOT*****........Out Of Tears
OOT*****........Out Of Time
PIMH............Pain In My Heart
PIB.............Paint It Black
PW..............Parachute Woman
PTCTBTB.........Paying The Cost To Be The Boss
PWF.............Play With Fire
PGH.............Please Go Home
PI..............Poison Ivy
PBU.............Pretty Beat Up
PS..............Prodigal Son
RFD.............Rain Fall Down
R...................Respectable (#)
ROB.............Ride On Baby
RTJ.............Rip This Joint
RAAHP...........Rock And A Hard Place
RMB.............Rock Me Baby
RO..............Rocks Off
RJ..............Rough Justice
R66.............Route 66
RT..............Ruby Tuesday
SD..............Sad Day
SSS.............Sad Sad Sad
SOM.............Saint Of Me
SOTA............Salt Of The Earth
S...................Satisfaction (#)
SITM............Send It To Me
SD..............Sex Drive
SYH.............Shake Your Hips
S................Shattered (#)
SSY.............She Said Yeah
SAR.............She's A Rainbow
SSMC............She Saw Me Coming
SSS.............She Smiled Sweetly
SSC.............She's So Cold
SWH.............She Was Hot
SAL.............Shine A Light
SAC (or S&C)....Short And Curlies
ST..............Silver Train
STST............Sing This Song Together
STSTSWH.........Sing This Song Together (See What Happens)
SM..............Sister Morphine
SOAF............Sittin' On A Fence
S...................Slave (#)
ST..............Sleep Tonight
SA..............Slipping Away
SG..............Some Girls
SHTMY...........Something Happened To Me Yesterday
SS*******.......Soul Survivor
SY..............So Young
SWF.............Sparks Will Fly
SS*******.......Star Star
SMU.............Start Me Up
SMH.............Stealing My Heart
S................Stoned (#)
SBD.............Stop Breaking Down
SCB.............Stray Cat Blues
SFM.............Street Fighting Man
SOL.............Streets Of Love
SG..............Stupid Girl
SOTJ............Suck On The Jugular
SR..............Summer Romance
SS*******.......Surprise, Surprise
SQ..............Susie Q
S...................Sway (#)
SBA.............Sweet Black Angel
ST..............Sweethearts Together
SNC.............Sweet Neo Con
SV..............Sweet Virginia
SFTD............Sympathy For The Devil
TIOLI...........Take It Or Leave It
TBY.............Talkin' 'Bout You
TM..............Tell Me
T................Terrifying (#)
THSMLI..........That's How Strong My Love Is
TL..............The Lantern
TLT.............The Last Time
TNOY............The Nearness Of You
TSNTS...........The Singer Not the Song
TSATF...........The Spider And The Fly
TS..............The Storm
TUAWCPM.........The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
TW..............The Worst
TITN............Thief In The Night
T................Think (#)
TIGM............Think I'm Going Mad
TPIE............This Place Is Empty
TTLN............Through The Lonely Nights
TAT.............Thru And Thru
TYU.............Tie You Up
TTNG............Till The Next Goodbye
TIOMS...........Time Is On My Side
TWFNO...........Time Waits For No One
TMB.............Too Much Blood
TR..............Too Rude
TT..............Too Tight
TT..............Too Tough
T................Tops (#)
TAF (or T&F)....Torn And Frayed
TD..............Tumbling Dice
TOTR............Turd On The Run
TFR.............Twenty Flight Rock
2120SMA .........2120 South Michigan Avenue
2000LYFH (also TTLYFH, 2KLYFH)^..2000 Light Years from Home
2000M (also TTM, 2KM)^......2000 Man
UOTN............Undercover Of The Night
UMT.............Under My Thumb
UTB.............Under The Boardwalk
UTR.............Under The Radar
VB..............Ventilator Blues
WOAF............Waiting On A Friend
WTD.............Walking The Dog
WHY.............Wanna Hold You
WW..............Well Well
WLY.............We Love You
WAS.............What A Shame
WTD.............What To Do
WTWCD...........When The Whip Comes Down
WTBG............Where the Boys Go
WBSH............Who's Been Sleeping Here?
WDYP............Who's Driving Your Plane?
WH..............Wild Horses
WU..............Winning Ugly
W................Winter (#)
WINMY...........Wish I'd Never Met You
WAY.............Worried About You
YP..............Yesterday's Papers
YBMO............You Better Move On
YCMIIYT.........You Can Make It If You Try
YCAGWYW.........You Can't Always Get What You Want
YCCM............You Can't Catch Me
YDHTMI..........You Don't Have To Mean It
YGMR............You Got Me Rocking
YGM.............You Gotta Move
YGTS............You Got The Silver



Edited 12 time(s). Last edit at 2023-10-19 16:45 by schillid.

wow......isn't there a T-shirt to be designed somewhere schillid? (smile)

Personally, I get annoyed quickly by the use of acronyms....and I've let people on this forum know that at times.

I remember not long after beelyboy joined this forum, he was praising BTB quite generously on several posts. He thought he was praising Between The Buttons, while the rest of us thought he meant Bridges To Babylon. That was funny.

smile: i agree with beelyboy (who as a BB himself ought to know!):
BtB is Buttons, B2B is Bridges

Yeah, unless you are compiling a list, just spell em out.....to much computer speak....

GET YOUR YA YAs OUT...ha thats a good one---GYYYO

JR

oh gosh i remember that; how embarassing.
btb is one of my favorite albums of all time...
brian wilson watching some of the sessions...jack nitsche on piano and arrangments a lot of the time, I THEENK,
( with sssoul or Erik or Mathijs or one of our other scholars would know.)

...great great great material and performances...
the drums are incredible thruout...everything is...keith's work on git and harmonies is incredible etc..etc...
so i was talking about this fine perennial:

1. Let's Spend the Night Together
2. Yesterday's Papers
3. Ruby Tuesday
4. Connection
5. She Smiled Sweetly
6. Cool, Calm and Collected
7. All Sold Out
8. My Obsession
9. Who's Been Sleeping Here
10. Complicated
11. Miss Amanda Jones
12. Something Happened to Me Yesterday

which i still enjoy and highlight as a top album...i mean 'aftermath' level quality, as far as my tastes go...

dang, all sold out should be in the live set...so should miss amanda jones...
'my obsession' a total balls out killer...driving...

they are sooo great; easily on par with the great stuff in a lot of their live work imo...
#'s 1,3,4 they've done live...#1 quite a bit. #'s 7,8 & 11 are total classics imo; totally so. regardless of their being mostly ignored...
the rest of is merely just super great...imo...

and peeps thought i was talking about b2b,

1. Flip The Switch
2. Anybody Seen My Baby?
3. Low Down
4. Already Over Me
5. Gunface
6. You Don't Have To Mean It
7. Out Of Control
8. Saint Of Me
9. Might As Well Get Juiced
10. Always Suffering
11. Too Tight
12. Thief In The Night
13. How Can I Stop

which i personally listened to maybe once and never bothered with again, except for 'asmb' heh heh...'anybody seen my baby' which i dug very much...and i would go to 'som' heh heh...'saint of me' sometimes as well for a weak rush; 'out of control is good...others too...
but i've never considered it worth the breathless fan praise i still give buttons at the drop of a hat...

in fact, i think i will...
dang, all sold out should be in the live set...so should miss amanda jones...
'my obsession' a total balls out killer...driving...

with b2b (above track listing); i liked #2, and a bit and a couple of others i could sort of appreciate...but i could never come even close to fairly equating the impact of these two efforts...so it was confusing here a new member, not that i don't still get confused, cause i obviously do...

i mean to this day, i don't want anyone to think that babylon is something i consider a major work...jeezum no.

i don't hate it; i just don't listen to it for some reason...dunno why...
don't grab me particularly; maybe some others there will grab me in time, could be...but i never took babylon thing too seriously and had the feeling they didn't either...

VL DID turn me on; majorly so; so it's not a generational thing...just the way it is in my punkinhaid for whatever reasons...

haaaa, Luke and with sssoul; thanks for remembering; that was awful...gosh...
i felt so stupid and exposed. now that everybody already knows i'm stupid and exposed, it's not so painful anymore.

and now, (mom was right, rest her soul, 'be careful the company you keep')because now i'm as bad as the rest of you, often raving about steve earle closing shows with btmmr, and on it goes....yeh, Lukester, thanks a lot for bringing that up. dohhh...
:-)
but truly, Between the Buttons, from the artwork front and back, (Charlie's little comic strip drawings) to each and every song, totally captivated me.
i listened to the album all the way through dozens and dozens and dozens of times...not one good reason to ever stop any of it...

Still have two vinyl versions... that's funny when i look back on what of my once several thousands of albums have survived. (complete vinyl catalogs, sometimes including imports, on kinks, who, stones, little richard, dion, dylan), on certain albums, like The Who Sell Out, or certain stones albums like Aftermath, i find i have two copies...

....something in my teenybop lizard brain figured out, 'that one's so good buy it twice and just play one'...or something...

i mean that actually occurred to me as a kid, such was my love for the band, and btb particularly in many ways...also 'flowers' another of my top faves that is for the most part totally ignored by other fans, inexplicably, or perhaps just as matter of function with passing time and such a huge catalog...
also i guess a lot of that stuff had already been released in the UK but it was our first crack at a lot of those songs here in the states...

...and i have a particular weakness for all the London stuff actually; i don't think they made a bad, or even medoicore album thruout those first dozen or more studio albums. incredible. just incredible.

she smiled sweetly and said don't worry no no no no