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come on eileen and hard to explain

― fhsddf, Monday, 3 November 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i always hated blur but i loved that song "the universal". Apart from the hideous chorus of course.

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Beyonce Knowles - "Crazy in Love"
Nirvana - "Lithium"

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 3 November 2003 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Beyonce Knowles - "Crazy in Love"

Shit chorus?!

― ddrake, Monday, 3 November 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

All it is is chorus!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Just about everything by Steely Dan. I usually like the verses, but hate the choruses due to things like the presence of people like the evil Michael McDonald.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i mostly disagree - but the chorus of "glamour profession" does go on too long.

― Annouschka (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ghetto Superstar"

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Good call on "The Universal". Other than that, I don't agree with anything mentioned on this thread apart from the odd Steely Dan song (though the Beyonce one is cause I don't like the chorus or verses ha).

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"all my life" by freeway. the chorus is sung by Nate Dog and i just don't like him.

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You're crazy JasonD. Nobody doesn't love Nate Dogg!

― rob geary (rgeary), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Kylie's What Do I Have to Do? - SAW at their best: even the first verse starts with a key change...the chorus is just dull.

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 3 November 2003 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

'Come on Eileen' has a shit chorus?! what does it take to please you people?!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 3 November 2003 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiny Dancer

― kdjfdke elekd, Monday, 3 November 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

nu-ILM is fucking bonkers these days! also, wouldn't "Ghetto Superstar" be more like "shit song, awesome guest appearance"?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 3 November 2003 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

usually I'll dislike a chorus if string arrangements are used as the driving force behind it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 November 2003 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops, I misread, Tiny Dancer is the opposite of what you're describing--great chorus, nondescript verses

― kdjfdke elekd, Monday, 3 November 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Stone Temple Pilots "Sex Type Thing". I do appreciate the rip-off of Kiss' "War Machine" in the riff tho

― dave q, Monday, 3 November 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nik Kershaw to thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ghetto Superstar" is great, my first exposure to the dirty one.

"We're altogether now in the hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood."

"Come On Eileen"'s verse are miles better than the chorus.

― Nick H, Monday, 3 November 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dream Academy: Life In a Northern Town

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Manics: "Crucifix Kiss"
Beatles: "Lucy in the SKy With Diamonds"

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sheryl Crow - "If It Makes You Happy" -

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 3 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

His Name is Alive - "Wishing Ring"

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the verses to madness's "our house" destroy the chorus, that said, the chorus is still pretty cool.

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

dido, "thank you"

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 3 November 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

stone roses "i am the resurrection"
madness "our house"

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

And in the Dido song, it's only even the first verse that's any good.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Way You Move".

― Simon H., Monday, 3 November 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i guess all i meant was that the verse on come on eileen is sooo much better than the chorus, yet everyone only knows the chorus.

― fksjlfdjkl, Monday, 3 November 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I might like Cher's "Believe" if it wasn't for it's awful chorus.

― Seb, Monday, 3 November 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The chorus of "I Am The Resurrection" is the best thing about the entire song.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, 'I Am the Resurrection' is great, especially the chorus. It has this trick that the Stone Roses often used (see also the first song on the second album), putting in a fake chorus that's decent enough to fool you, and leaving the real chorus to knock you out much much later in the song.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains." I don't think its "pour your misery down" chorus ever did anything for anybody.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

The Clash, "Garageland":

We're a garage band, oh-whoa-oh
We come from garageland, oh-whoa-oh

Pathetic. In fact the entire song is shite, worst thing on their debut. (UK and USA configurations both.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 12 September 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

Although of course I adore almost anything Saint Etienne has done, I have to admit that in some cases their choruses are a little weak. A few examples: "Who Do You Think You Are", "Lightning Strikes Twice" and "The Way I Fell For You" (in fact, if it wasn't for the so-so chorus, this would be one of my favourite songs ever).

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

is it a song without a chorus or a song without verses ?
rem - drive
most prince / elton john songs

― retroman, Monday, 12 September 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Ultravox - "Vienna"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 9 June 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains." I don't think its "pour your misery down" chorus ever did anything for anybody.

I like it okay.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 9 June 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

pavement - "billie"

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Girls Aloud - "Biology". I love the whole Yardbirdsy blues riff part, and the chorus is a letdown.

― musically (musically), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nelly Furtado "Maneater," kinda.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 9 June 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Kaiser Chiefs, Oh My God
Bodyrox, Yeah Yeah

― musically, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

Human League - "Don't You Want Me?"

― The Reverend, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bright Eyes - Four Winds for me..

― wesley useche, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Wedding Present: Montreal

― Cunga, Friday, 6 April 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado is a very good example.

― musically, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:12 (eighteen years ago)

Most songs have better verses nowadays..

S-U-C-K-S

― MRZBW, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, we ran out of good choruses in 1982.

― The Reverend, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

All the songs on Nick Cave's Henry's Dream

― bendy, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

One clear winner in this category: Don't Talk To Me About Love by Altered Images.

Fabulous verse with gorgeous tune, sexy, full of mystery. Then it's as though they ran out of ideas when they got to the chorus.

― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Nelly Furtado "Maneater," kinda.

-- Matthew C Perpetua

Also, Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado is a very good example.

-- musically

you should be shot out of a cannon

― gff, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

REM - Near Wild Heaven
Satchel - Mr Pink

I was listening to both of these yesterday. Loved the verses but the chorus' are just one great dud.

― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

Many of the songs on Phil Collins' "But Seriously" album could have been quite nice with proper choruses.

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 20 February 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

PJ Harvey - "Dress"

― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Sunday, 20 February 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

The Beatles - "Baby You're a Rich Man"

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:04 (fourteen years ago)

Lipps Inc - 'Funky Town'

― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Monday, 21 February 2011 23:35 (fourteen years ago)

Talking Heads - Warning Sign

it's not shit, but pretty much any chorus would sound shabby compared to the intensity of the verses (always makes my teeth grind involuntarily)

― Z S, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

"hard to explain" by the strokes?? the chorus is the best part of the song!

― charlie h, Monday, 21 February 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

girls on film-Duran Duran
thriller-Michael Jackson

― nakamura, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 07:40 (fourteen years ago)

Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart

― Moka, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 09:47 (fourteen years ago)

While maybe technically not much of a tune, I like the chorus of "Girls On Film". Partly because it's wonderfully arranged with some awesome flanged strings that are so typical of the new romantic style.

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 09:50 (fourteen years ago)

"Forever And Ever" - Slik

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 09:58 (fourteen years ago)

The Who - I Can See For Miles

― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:09 (fourteen years ago)

Feargal Sharkey - A good Heart

The verses are fine, the chorus is basically made up of verse off-cuts.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 11:55 (fourteen years ago)

Oh, but the entire winner of this question has to be a song that:

If it were left to the verses only, would be a fair story of an experience where a man, out of his comfort zone, experiences a strange land, the danger and threat of it, and the seductive nature of it, within a very short time frame.

Add the choruses, and it's a bunch of racial stereotyping bobbins. Unfortunately, it seems clear to me the chorus came first and the verses were added later.

Dreadlock Holiday, 10cc.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 11:57 (fourteen years ago)

Forever and Ever is a great shout. I'm sure that even at the tender age when I first heard that song I found it strange that that verse (gothic mystery) and that chorus (thudding glampop singalong) should have ended up in the same song.

― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 12:07 (fourteen years ago)

I Say A Little Prayer

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 12:47 (fourteen years ago)

I Say A Little Prayer

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:47 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No way, an exhilarating chorus.

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

It's always bothered me. The lines don't even fit, she is squeezed out on the 'how I love you'. For me it snaps back instantly on the returns to minor key.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 13:03 (fourteen years ago)

I like the fact that the lyrics seem squeezed, Aretha's breathless spontaneous charge into them is what makes it so exciting.

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 13:25 (fourteen years ago)

gnarls barkley - "crazy"

― richard melville hell (crüt), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 13:26 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjKArFexEQ

― LL Coolna (absolutely clean glasses), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago)

Simon and Garfunkel, "America" (I just decided, on another thread)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago)

from this year, clare maguire's "the last dance." i love the verses a ton but i wish i could send everyone involved back to the studio to redo that droning awful chorus.

― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago)

I was going to say "Dreadlock Holiday" but I see I already did...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:02 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not even sure if this song has a chorus, but the bits between the verses fall very flat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MrKtX-c3XU

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago)

I'll definitely second "America" and maybe "Dreadlock Holiday" and "At Seventeen."

― Onimosapien (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago)

Aztec Camera - Haywire

― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago)

REM - King Of Comedy

This song seems to be only half-written. Verses sound like they're heading somewhere really good, only for them to go into a disappointing, flat as a pancake non-chorus. The ending is really anti-climatic too.

― TechYes, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago)

At Seventeen doesn't have a chorus. I've never cared much for America but listening to it again now, it has a pretty amazing structure. I can't say anything to fault the songwriting there at all. But yeah, the chorus is intentionally unfulfilling.

Part of the Dreadlock Holiday verse is kind of a ripoff of Play That Funky Music, isn't it? It technically doesn't really have a chorus either.

― unmetalled world (wk), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago)

This thread is baffling. Come on Eileen? I Can See For Miles!? Say a Little Prayer!?!?! Whatever people.

― unmetalled world (wk), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago)

I like those songs you just mentioned plenty but I can see why people put them. But wait, "Say A Little Prayer"? Maybe the poster thought that the chorus was the part where she sings "I say a little prayer for you" and not the exciting "forever, whenever" part after the awesome trademark Bernie Purdie drum hit signaling the transition.

― Onimosapien (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago)

I would post "It's Only Rock and Roll" only the verse is not actually that great either.

― Onimosapien (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago)

I guess it's people who really focus on lyrics? Like sure, lyrically, I Can See For Miles is just the title repeated over and over again. And Say a Little Prayer doesn't use the title in the chorus, so maybe that's somehow unsatisfying for people?

― unmetalled world (wk), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

― charlie h, Monday, 19 May 2014 05:09 (eleven years ago)

Old Man

― JoeStork, Monday, 19 May 2014 05:22 (eleven years ago)

I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

― boner of a lonely horse (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 19 May 2014 11:57 (eleven years ago)

O Superman

― jamiesummerz, Monday, 19 May 2014 12:01 (eleven years ago)

eleven months pass...

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

― charlie h,

The Police are quite big on this - Don't Stand so... and De Do Do Do also fit the bill for me.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 15 May 2015 14:40 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

not that the verse is shit necessarily, but dionne farris i know has such amazing verses and a bridge, the chorus is a little softer - classic song all around

― ritual showdown (Ross), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:57 (six years ago)

Penny Royal Tea

REM's Diminished is, er, shit verse good chorus

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 23:16 (six years ago)

Actually, In Utero is pretty much good verse / shit chorus for most of the album

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 23:18 (six years ago)

Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart

― Moka

Hahaha this was the first song that came to mind and I see it’s my own post.

The verses sound like a Prince song and the chorus is too damn uplifting and it irritates me because it’s supposed to be a sad song.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 01:33 (six years ago)

I guess I feel the same about that Dido song. That damn chorus makes me want to drown puppies

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 01:34 (six years ago)

thriller-Michael Jackson
― nakamura, mardi 22 février 2011 08:40 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah ! I've always preferred the video version because the chorus only comes in at the end. After the tension builds up, verse after verse.
The chorus is not shit though. It just works better when it comes as a release, imo.

― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:28 (six years ago)

I feel like the Police were kind of the kings of this. Hell, there's like three or four perfect candidates just on Ghost in the Machine.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 15:44 (six years ago)

one year passes...

INXS - New Sensation. I mean, the chorus is a necessary break but it's not a patch on the verse.

― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Friday, 31 January 2020 22:56 (five years ago)

Beyonce Knowles - "Crazy in Love"
Nirvana - "Lithium"
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, November 2, 2003 10:10 PM bookmarkflaglink

Jfc this is such a bad answer

― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:00 (five years ago)

"Kids in America"

― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:00 (five years ago)

"Bonzo Goes To Bitburg"

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:03 (five years ago)

This entire thread is full of terrible examples

― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:09 (five years ago)

Xpost to self

― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:09 (five years ago)

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