Both of these Aerosmith songs have choruses that distinctly feature the songs' titles being sung! WTF!
-- 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
Massive Attack 'Angel'
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
prince "when doves cry"
― AleXTC, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
beatles "and your bird can sing"
― AleXTC, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hercules & love affair - blind
― groovemaaan, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Red Snapper - Sleepless
― chap, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Doves - "When Prince Cries"
― henry s, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Thunder Road
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
It seems like on many of these we are treating the main riff of a song as if it were the chorus. It's kind of a fuzzy definition.
Like is the little keyboard figure that comes up several times in "When Doves Cry" really the chorus?I always thought the chorus was the part that goes "How could you just leave me standing... etc."
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Isn't the chorus to "And Your Bird Can Sing" the part that goes "When your prized possiessions start to weigh you down..."?
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
How about "Town Feeling" by Kevin Ayers?
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"Message From Home" by Broadcast
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Supernaut
― Bill Magill, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Hymn 43: Jethro Tull
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Swervedriver "Last Train to Satansville"
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
White Stripes "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
― Immovable Fiesta (Adept), Saturday, 22 November 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Steve Earle: "Guitar Town" and its obvious predecessor,Johnny Cash: "Tennessee Flat Top Box"
ftw.
― staggerlee, Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Most of the songs on Phil Collins' "But Seriously" album.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Pink Floyd: Fearless
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Thin Lizzy - Emerald. Plus it just hammers.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
^Good Call! Jimi Hendrix "1983 a merman I should turn to be"
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Flaming Lips, "Race for the Prize"
― max readroom (jaymc), Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
on tenterhooks waiting for Geir to up the ante again and tell us the entirety of But Seriously does this
― surm? lol (sic), Friday, 17 July 2009 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Gang Starr - "Who's Gonna Take The Weight"
― ∅ us (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 July 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't remember now if 2Unlimited's 'Get Ready For This' had rapping or not, but the awesome main riff is definitely a chorus. It didn't have a video either, which is pretty cool for such a massive pop smash. (hated it at the time, obviously)
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 July 2009 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't the chorus to "And Your Bird Can Sing" the part that goes "When your prized possiessions start to weigh you down..."?― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:17 (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:17 (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
No, that's a middle 8.
― Mark G, Friday, 17 July 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
a million hip hop songs.
ballad of dorothy parker - prince.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 17 July 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Seam's Little Chang Big City
Lovely song as well.
― Bill A, Friday, 17 July 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Terrence Trent D'Arby - "Wishing Well"
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Friday, 17 July 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a tough one. I can see how that would fit the thread call. But isn't the "Wish me love a wishing wellTo kiss and tell" part the chorus (too?)?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 17 July 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Wham - Careless Whisper.
― EDB, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm never going to dance againThese guilty feet have got no rhythmThough it's easy to pretendI know you're not a foolI should have known better than to cheat a friendA wasted chance that I've been givenSo I'm never going to dance again...The way I danced with you
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ATB - 9PM (Till I Come)
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
nas - it aint hard to tell
― the weinest of display names groanly (k3vin k.), Friday, 17 July 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Xpost, achh, I wasn't sure if there was a vocal chorus or not, just remembered the saxophone.
― EDB, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
UPTOWN FUCKIN' FUNKKK
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
"Do It Again" - Sonic's Rendezvous Band
― thinking of a master plan (m coleman), Friday, 9 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 9 January 2015 22:12 (nine years 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