Songs without verses

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i was glad that someone mentioned Polyphonic Spree as 'soldier girl' has grown on me to the point that stopping myself singing it would require trepanning. But it struck me that I'm rarely taken with choruses ('soldier girl' consists of just one refrain)-so much of the music I love has no chorus or recurring instrumental hook. choruses are just so... unsophisticated sometimes, a meaningless scarf-waving lager-spilling vomit-staining mate-hugging celebration of nothing. that said, a fantastic chorus makes verses seem like thinking about margaret Thatcher to delay orgasm.

anyway, soldier girl is great, and i was wondering of your thoughts on songs without verses. has popular dance music killed the verse (only for it be resurrected by digital love) or was the traditional song pattern flawed all along with its fetish for the unnecessary? somehow ironically hip hop seems to be the current keeper of the traditional song format flame, and will its command over the type force the rock consensus towards less linear plains?

― Barnaby the pseud, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who let the dogs out? Repeat X 100

If that song has a verse I havn't heard it.

― Marc, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's verses, alright. Just can't make out the words (think one of them says 'dirty mongrel' at some point).

And Soldier Girl is indeed fan-bloody-tastic.

― Mr Swygart, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is a verse. Something like "A doggy's not a doggy if it isn't in a kennel".

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beyond Belief?

― Prude, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Popular dance music has more or less killed the chorus too (at least, techno/progressive/trance/hardstyle/drum 'n bass/etc).

― Siegbran Hetteson, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it true that "soldier girl" is going to be issued as a single by Fierce Panda? Bizarre.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bet only 1/10 of you can remember the how the verse to the Youngbloods' "Get Together" goes. (yes, there definitely is one! it's so forgetable that no one remembers that it even exists)

― Manny Parsons, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Soldier Girl comes out on the 29th July. If either it, McAlmont & Butler or Gemma Hayes are nto number 1 the following Sunday, I will weep openly.

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i wish 'funkytown' didn't have those totally un-funky verses in between the super funky choruses.

― ddd, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish "We Are Family" didn't have that unfunky chorus breaking up those funky verses.

― Dave225, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Pump Up The Volume"?

― Dan Perry, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just going through my MP3s I realized the La's "There She Goes" is essentially just a chorus, no verses, but I've never thought of it that way.

― Vinnie, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Satisafaction" by u know who

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cat Power?

― Marc, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

"Saturday Night" by Whigfield!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 19 August 2002 15:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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