songs that have just one verse repeated multiple times

SOUL FINGER!!!

i walked with a zombie - roky erickson

Ramones, "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You"

Everly Bros.: "Walk Right Back" (they recorded it before Sonny Curtis was able to write the rest of the song)

Nirvana - "Something In The Way"

Neil Young: "Til The Morning Comes", "Cripple Creek Ferry" & "T-Bone"

Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me"

Mothers of invention, help i'm a rock?

QotSA - "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

Does Wiley's 'wearing my Rolex' count?

yes!

Oxide and Neutrino - "Remy on da Floor" iirc

no, but the way the chorus is a fugitive earworm thru the verses it does feel like it

plus there's "sheffield liverpool ipswich WHOA" to attend on

dancehall will have second verses more often than not. rare to find a third that isnt the first true but then these are trax as much as they are songs

The Beatles, "You Know My Name, Look Up The Number"

I'm definitely not talking about "third verse, same as the first" songs with a distinct 2nd verse.

"What You Do to Me" -- Teenage Fanclub

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

The Suburbs - "Chemistry Set"

Entire lyric: I'm into chemistry and that's about it - ooooooaaaawww!

Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya

I remember something that went "Every picture tells a story, don't it?" which is the entire lyric

The Who, "My Generation."

"My Generation" has two distinct verses

"mr. fantasy" by traffic

the church - under the milky way

oh, ha, totally, I was thinking in terms of chords/structure; it doesn't really have a chorus distinct from the verses, but yeah, different words in different verses.

xp

"My Generation" does change keys on almost every verse though, it's in four different keys altogether - that's a very unusual musical feature.

Yeah, there's three key changes; first two verses and the bass solo are in the same key, next verse modulates up, verse after that modulates up again, epochal outro modulates up yet again.

Who even does that anymore, especially on a song like that?

was gonna say "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" but I think the single version has a diff second verse after the backwards bridge?

julie grant's amazing cover of arthur alexander's "everyday i have to cry" is another great example of modulating up every verse (but not an example, sadly, of one verse repeated multiple times).

bleached, "electric chair"

Modest Mouse - Convenient Parking

dylan 'all the tired horses'

i guess that's more just a chorus on repeat rather

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

flipper

Jim O'Rourke - "Women of the World"

The Lemonheads - "Into Your Arms"

The Whigs - Put Your Right Hand On My Heart

Deux - "Game and Performance," "Decadence"

Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre - "Waiting All Night". Where all the verses and the chorus (and even the middle 8) are more or less the same in a - rudimental - way.

just realized Lupe Fiasco did this quite often on Food and Liquor. tho I like that album, it kinda pissed me off.

R.E.M. - 'Orange Crush'

good call with "Orange Crush." seems like a lot of big R.E.M. hits from that era either repeat verses or have lots of repeating/similar lines ("Pop Song 89," "Stand," "Everybody Hurts").

McAlmont / Butler - 'Yes'