I legit can barely remember the chorus to the Breeders' "Cannonball" but I think most people remember that bouncing ball bass line in the verses.
― President Keyes, Monday, 9 October 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
good one. Hey Ya as well.
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
David Bowie - Let's Dance
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 9 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
'Invisible Sun' very much fits the bill.
"Can't Stand Losing You" is the one I thought about first. What kind of chorus is that anyway.
― frogbs, Monday, 9 October 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
Let's Dance is the best answer yet.
― Matt DC, Monday, 9 October 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
Uptown Girl as well.
― Matt DC, Monday, 9 October 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
― Matt DC, Monday, October 9, 2017 11:05 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I literally couldn't remember if this song even had a chorus and had to look it up.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
Beatles - If I Needed Someone (seeing the "Had you come some other day" part as the chorus)
― Valentijn, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
The Who - I Can See For Miles
^ both of these have awesome verses that really build in tension followed by disappointingly weedy choruses
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Saturday, October 7, 2017 6:46 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I always thought the chorus of "I Can See For Miles" was brilliantly soaring -- surely more memorable than the verses (which indeed build tension like crazy).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 9 October 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
I like the verses to Pour Some Sugar on Me, kinda hate the chorus
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
ah yes, what a hookless, forgotten chorus
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
read the original post. the criteria is merely verse > chorus
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
a lot of grateful dead does this for me, they'll get a nice choogle going (bertha) or groove (eyes of the world) and then have a really lame chorus like they put it in because songs need to have choruses
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 9 October 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
Erykah Badu - ... & On
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 9 October 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
― rip van wanko, Monday, October 9, 2017 12:45 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes but it also says "unmemorable by comparison," which...well the song is called pour some sugar on me not hit me like a bomb
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 October 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
or love is like a bomb
whatever.
acually the "take the bottle" refrain is the strongest hook imo
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
I suspect a lot of Smiths songs might qualify.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 October 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
"This Charming Man" arguably does, if you consider the "a jumped-up pantry boy..." section to be the chorus.
― JRN, Monday, 9 October 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
a lot of Smiths songs have the primary hooks in the verses, or don't have choruses so much as variations on the verse melodies (Cemetry Gates, Boy with the Thorn in His Side, Barbarism Begins at Home, What She Said, How Soon is Now).
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
I mean "What She Said" is essentially a loop, save for the instrumental breaks at ~:48 & ~1:48
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
The Smiths have no hooks. Their music is just frantic rhythm guitar with Morissey sort of meandering between the third and fifth notes of the chord.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, 9 October 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/aUy629N.gif
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
there is a light
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
Girlfriend in a Coma for sure. “Do you really think she’ll pull through?” memorable but not as much as the verse. Though this may be an easy one because I think generally whatever section of the song has the title in it will be more memorable.Another one: “Under Pressure”
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 October 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
thread title is more interesting to me than just "verse I like better than chorus" but clearly the tide is against me on this one
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 October 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
Def Leppard - "Photograph"
― henry s, Monday, 9 October 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
No
― President Keyes, Monday, 9 October 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
That has to be the single wrongest answer here!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
WTF...the chorus to Photograph is the payoff!
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 08:03 (six years ago) link
The verses p much dont work if the chorus fails with that song
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link
Did u perhaps mean Nickleback
It's spelled Nickelbakc
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
Although the chorus of Talking Heads' Once In A Lifetime is gorgeous, I suspect that the verses are far better known, no?I know I came across references to lines from the verses often. (I've even seen Spider-Man say "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" in a comic once.) but I can't remember ever seeing the chorus referenced outside of the song.
― Valentijn, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link
I'd say that one is about 50/50. The parts people quote are from the verses but the chorus is really really catchy
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
What did you think the song was called when you first heard it (unless you knew already)?
"You may ask yourself""Letting the days go by"or "After the money's gone"or "Once in a lifetime"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link
or "Same as it ever was" (missed that one out)
"Ugly House, Wife"
― nashwan, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
Oh, that takes me back, I must have first heard the song in my early teenage years, seeing the video on MTV... But yes, I do remember being drawn to the chorus, probably the "Water flowing underground" line stayed with me most back then.
― Valentijn, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 11:15 (six years ago) link
"Lucky You" by the Lightning Seeds
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
I kinda feel like "Money for Nothing" counts here? If the "We got to install microwave ovens...we got to move these color tvs" parts are the chorus.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
The real hook in 'Money for Nothing' is not the verse or the chorus: it's the riff, same as the real hook in 'Under Pressure' isn't the verse or the chorus, it's the bass riff.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
I feel that way about "Cherub Rock" too.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
Yep, 'Cherub Rock' too.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
same as the real hook in 'Under Pressure' isn't the verse or the chorus, it's the bass riff.
Yeah, the bass riff in the chorus.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
yeah, that's another category "songs where the riff/instrumental part is the chorus".I was thinking about "Enola Gay" also.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the bass riff in the chorus.― Matt DC, Tuesday, October 10, 2017 2:36 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Matt DC, Tuesday, October 10, 2017 2:36 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The "it's the terror of knowing..." etc. part? Nah.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
I don't know what AlXTC from Paris is on about either - that doesn't apply to UP.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
yeah, I may have been wrong about that one since the bass riff might be the most memorable part of "UP" but it's not the same thing as the instrumental chorus/riff songs like "Enola Gay".
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
"Midnight City" too
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link