― everything, Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago)
― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago)
Damn, edward, you got there first.
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago)
I'm sure there's a Smiths one that does this but I can't think which one.
― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago)
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 8 October 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 8 October 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago)
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 (twenty years ago)
― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 8 October 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago)
― wtin, Friday, 8 October 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:31 (twenty years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago)
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago)
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago)
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 (twenty years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago)
― debden, Friday, 8 October 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago)
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 (twenty years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― Morgen, Friday, 8 October 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)
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.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago)
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago)
― Shooz (shooz), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoidmandel, Friday, 8 October 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 October 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 October 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago)
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)
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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 (twenty years ago)
― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)
― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)
― Bjorn Deleuze (Ocelot Wildly), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)
-- 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 (twenty years ago)
― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)
Indeed. The most obvious example being "Maid of Orleans".
― Koens (Koens), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)
― dameron ciaz, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)
Bjork - Play DeadMetallica - Fade to Black
― chap, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago)
someone mentioned the smiths : "the boy with the thorn", "barbarism"...
― AleXTC, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago)
The White Stripes one that might fit the bill is Hand Springs
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
Well, if it does, so does Lithium.
― Mark G, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
99 Red Balloons
― ecuador_with_a_c, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago)
Ride - Howard Hughes
(awesome song, maybe their best)
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago)
Also, many other Ride/shoegaze in general songs
Massive Attack 'Angel'
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago)
prince "when doves cry"
― AleXTC, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago)
beatles "and your bird can sing"
― AleXTC, Monday, 27 October 2008 17:48 (sixteen years ago)
hercules & love affair - blind
― groovemaaan, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago)
Red Snapper - Sleepless
― chap, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago)
Doves - "When Prince Cries"
― henry s, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago)
Thunder Road
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
How about "Town Feeling" by Kevin Ayers?
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago)
"Message From Home" by Broadcast
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago)
Supernaut
― Bill Magill, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago)
Hymn 43: Jethro Tull
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago)
Swervedriver "Last Train to Satansville"
― Moodles, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago)
White Stripes "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
― Immovable Fiesta (Adept), Saturday, 22 November 2008 13:02 (sixteen years ago)
Steve Earle: "Guitar Town" and its obvious predecessor,Johnny Cash: "Tennessee Flat Top Box"
ftw.
― staggerlee, Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago)
Most of the songs on Phil Collins' "But Seriously" album.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 22 November 2008 18:09 (sixteen years ago)
Pink Floyd: Fearless
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)
Thin Lizzy - Emerald. Plus it just hammers.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:22 (sixteen years ago)
^Good Call! Jimi Hendrix "1983 a merman I should turn to be"
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:27 (sixteen years ago)
Flaming Lips, "Race for the Prize"
― max readroom (jaymc), Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:14 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
Gang Starr - "Who's Gonna Take The Weight"
― ∅ us (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 July 2009 05:55 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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
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No, that's a middle 8.
― Mark G, Friday, 17 July 2009 09:38 (sixteen years ago)
a million hip hop songs.
ballad of dorothy parker - prince.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 17 July 2009 09:49 (sixteen years ago)
Seam's Little Chang Big City
Lovely song as well.
― Bill A, Friday, 17 July 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)
Terrence Trent D'Arby - "Wishing Well"
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Friday, 17 July 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
Wham - Careless Whisper.
― EDB, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:11 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
ATB - 9PM (Till I Come)
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 July 2009 23:13 (sixteen years ago)
nas - it aint hard to tell
― the weinest of display names groanly (k3vin k.), Friday, 17 July 2009 23:15 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
UPTOWN FUCKIN' FUNKKK
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 January 2015 15:35 (ten years ago)
"Do It Again" - Sonic's Rendezvous Band
― thinking of a master plan (m coleman), Friday, 9 January 2015 16:04 (ten years ago)
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 (ten years ago)
Manfred Mann Chapter iii - "One Way Glass"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTExEWt7zN4
― Mark G, Friday, 9 January 2015 23:07 (ten years ago)
Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World
― cock chirea, Saturday, 10 January 2015 01:36 (ten years ago)
Guru Josh - Infinity
"Disconnect the Dots" - of Montreal
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 10 January 2015 02:02 (ten years ago)
Geto Boys - 'My Mind's Playing Tricks On Me'
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 10 January 2015 02:35 (ten years ago)
If we want to be nerdy, shouldn't it be "refrain" rather than "chorus" in the thread title?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 10 January 2015 03:10 (ten years ago)
Does R.E.M.'s "Belong" count here?
― the strawberries are for the entrepreneurs (SlimAndSlam), Saturday, 10 January 2015 03:49 (ten years ago)
SPOTTIEOTTIEDOPALISCIOUS
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Saturday, 10 January 2015 13:23 (ten years ago)
Pavement - Grounded
― Darvin H.A.M. (AlexPh), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:12 (ten years ago)
Yo La Tengo - From a Motel 6
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:38 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuqEbRzy_t8
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:59 (ten years ago)
War - "Low Rider"
― fan boy three (Lee626), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 23:52 (ten years ago)
Gary Numan - "Cars"
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 22 January 2015 03:29 (ten years ago)
David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 22 January 2015 04:09 (ten years ago)
A refrain is not the same as a chorus, "Living on the ceiling" has both..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 07:52 (ten years ago)
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 (ten years ago)
Iiiiitt kind of is, yeahhhh..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:28 (ten years ago)
If (chorus AND refrain)=0 AND (chorus OR refrain) = 1 THEN chorus=refrain
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 10:30 (ten years ago)
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 (ten years ago)
True, if the riff was left out, this is a song without a chorus.
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:16 (ten years ago)
The Beatles, "I'm Looking Through You"
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:58 (ten years ago)
^ where?
― fan boy three (Lee626), Friday, 23 January 2015 05:09 (ten years ago)
yeah, two chords on the farfisa is not a chorus.
― Mark G, Friday, 23 January 2015 11:53 (ten years ago)
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 (ten years ago)
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 (six years ago)
Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 13:50 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
For example "Party Fears Two" by The Associates
Also "Paper House" by The Associates.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:16 (six years ago)
That M83 song
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:20 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
UPTOWN FUCKIN' FUNKKKUh...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 9 May 2019 03:27 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
"21st Century Schizoid Man"
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 9 May 2019 08:31 (six years ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
You never, never know when the bridge falls apart.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 9 February 2024 03:36 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
Vocabulary is what we make it (but also lol completely otm)
― H.P, Friday, 9 February 2024 07:59 (one year ago)
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 (one year ago)
Paul Simon - Duncan
― Valentijn, Friday, 9 February 2024 11:16 (one year ago)
Depeche Mode - Shame
― Kim, Friday, 9 February 2024 14:16 (one year ago)
"Duncan" is a great one!
― budo jeru, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:47 (one year ago)
A ton of EDM songs I guess count here
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 February 2024 17:47 (one year ago)
Lodi
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 28 September 2025 13:22 (four days ago)
Blondie “Atomic”
― J. Sam, Sunday, 28 September 2025 14:11 (four days ago)