And a near-miss closer to what noodle vague has in mind: Double, "The Captain of Her Heart."
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 8 October 2004 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 8 October 2004 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― wtin, Friday, 8 October 2004 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
okay never mind; this song has like six thousand choruses and only one of them is instrumental.
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― debden, Friday, 8 October 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a White Stripes song like that -- I think it might be the first song on the album, but I swear I don't know because I swear I never had the album.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Morgen, Friday, 8 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
is a superb example because the sound is actually part of the lyric; "the third time we opened the capsule/everything went ..." WHOOOOOOOOSH.
i fucking LOVE that song. i haven't heard it for years either. must dig it out.
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― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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Aerosmith, "Sweet Emotion" -- Myonga Von Bontee (scottyfield...), October 8th, 2004 4:31 AM. (Myonga Von Bontee)
Both of these Aerosmith songs have choruses that distinctly feature the songs' titles being sung! WTF!
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bjorn Deleuze (Ocelot Wildly), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
-- gygax!
Yeah, you're right - dunno what I was thinking. I suppose I was considering "Sweet Emotion"'s heavy guitar part function as a chorus, just because it shows up after every verse.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Indeed. The most obvious example being "Maid of Orleans".
― Koens (Koens), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― dameron ciaz, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Bjork - Play DeadMetallica - Fade to Black
― chap, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
someone mentioned the smiths : "the boy with the thorn", "barbarism"...
― AleXTC, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
The White Stripes one that might fit the bill is Hand Springs
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Erm, Earl Brutus "Your Majesty, We Are Here" has an awesome chorus in which Nick (rest his soul) yells "YEAH YEAH YEEEEEAH" over the top...does this count?
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, if it does, so does Lithium.
― Mark G, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
He also yells "BABA BAAA BA-BA BA-BA/ BABA BAAAA BA BA BA/ BABA BAAAA/ BAAA BA BABA BAAAA", if that helps.
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
99 Red Balloons
― ecuador_with_a_c, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Ride - Howard Hughes
(awesome song, maybe their best)
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, many other Ride/shoegaze in general songs
Yo La Tengo - From a Motel 6
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqEbRzy_t8
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
War - "Low Rider"
― fan boy three (Lee626), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Gary Numan - "Cars"
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 22 January 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 22 January 2015 04:09 (nine years ago) link
A refrain is not the same as a chorus, "Living on the ceiling" has both..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 07:52 (nine years ago) link
A refrain is not the same as a chorus
it kind of is
― you've got no fans you've got no ground (anagram), Thursday, 22 January 2015 08:31 (nine years ago) link
Iiiiitt kind of is, yeahhhh..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:28 (nine years ago) link
If (chorus AND refrain)=0 AND (chorus OR refrain) = 1 THEN chorus=refrain
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:30 (nine years ago) link
The main riff in Ziggy Stardust is definitely the chorus, the "So where were the spiders?" bit is the pre-chorus
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
True, if the riff was left out, this is a song without a chorus.
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
The Beatles, "I'm Looking Through You"
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
^ where?
― fan boy three (Lee626), Friday, 23 January 2015 05:09 (nine years ago) link
yeah, two chords on the farfisa is not a chorus.
― Mark G, Friday, 23 January 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Given how loose people are being with terminology, I don't see why not. Where else is the chorus? The "Why, tell me why did you not treat me right?" part is a bridge/middle eight, and the entire verse builds to the four-bar organ/guitar part.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 23 January 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJ_wkSxiKA("if you ever change your mind..." is definitely the bridge)
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
I'm slightly hesitant to be the pedant here, but In that Squeeze song, isn't the "Never chew a pickle" bit the chorus?
― enochroot, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPeQGWL7fok
This one counts too, right? I mean, the "can't stop now, don't you know / I'll never let you go, don't go!" bit is cleary the pre-chorus, and the chorus melody only starts after it.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbaygmy30Z8
And Yazoo's other big hit is an even more obvious example of this.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
For example "Party Fears Two" by The Associates
Also "Paper House" by The Associates.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
That M83 song
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
Thin White Rope’s version of “some velvet morning” where they simply replace Nancy’s bit with dual lead guitars
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Does R.E.M.'s "Belong" count here?No, there are (wordless) vocals. Pavement - GroundedThe chorus is, “Boys are dyin’ on these streets...”
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 9 May 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
Geto Boys - 'My Mind's Playing Tricks On Me'The chorus (if it has one) is, “My mind is playin’ tricks on me...”
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 9 May 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
UPTOWN FUCKIN' FUNKKKUh...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 9 May 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
If the guitar bit in Grounded had vocals you - ok I - would definitely say it was the chorus, and 'boys are dying on these streets' the bridge, or the last line of it.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 9 May 2019 07:52 (four years ago) link
"21st Century Schizoid Man"
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 9 May 2019 08:31 (four years ago) link
Ivy - “Baker”I know this song very well but today it has me picturing a bleary eyed Baker Mayfield staring at the Cleveland skyline at 3am after finding out the Browns got Deshawn Watson.
― brimstead, Friday, 9 February 2024 00:24 (two months ago) link
xxp It couldn’t have vocals, it’s just a gtr riff! But even if he sang something over it, I’d still say “Boys are dyin’…” is part of the chorus. It’s certainly not the bridge(?)
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Friday, 9 February 2024 03:01 (two months ago) link
Pavement songs don’t often have bridges, IIRC… they’re lesson in, “only include a bridge if you really write a kickass one” (e.g., “Stereo”).
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Friday, 9 February 2024 03:04 (two months ago) link
You never, never know when the bridge falls apart.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 9 February 2024 03:36 (two months ago) link
these threads are kind of fascinating. it's amazing for a board that loves music how so many people don't seem to know what a chorus is
― budo jeru, Friday, 9 February 2024 05:46 (two months ago) link
Vocabulary is what we make it (but also lol completely otm)
― H.P, Friday, 9 February 2024 07:59 (two months ago) link
Kraftwerk, "Tour de France". Actually most (all?) Kraftwerk songs, I think?
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 9 February 2024 08:09 (two months ago) link
Paul Simon - Duncan
― Valentijn, Friday, 9 February 2024 11:16 (two months ago) link
Depeche Mode - Shame
― Kim, Friday, 9 February 2024 14:16 (two months ago) link
"Duncan" is a great one!
― budo jeru, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:47 (two months ago) link
A ton of EDM songs I guess count here
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2024 17:47 (two months ago) link