the CVC formula: songs with choruses as intros

thinking about specific tunes where the chorus or pre-chorus comes early in the song just before the first verse. obviously the beatles were masters of the craft (she loves you, good day sunshine, nowhere man, don't let me down). i also noticed this late 80s thing with introductory acapella choruses: heaven is a place on earth, you give love a bad name, got my mind set on you (kind of), buncha remixes, etc. what else?

do you mean the kind where there's just kind of a 'teaser' of the chorus with a couple lines of it that launch into the first verse, or like a full chorus right at the top? or either?

guided by voices - glad girls

Al b sure - night and day

do you mean the kind where there's just kind of a 'teaser' of the chorus with a couple lines of it that launch into the first verse, or like a full chorus right at the top? or either?

prob not too many songs with full choruses right at the intro, so a couple lines would be just fine. most choruses have the same phrase repeated over and over anyway, so i'm cool w/ any combination.

phil collins - one more night
taylor dayne - prove your love

beatles - bungalow bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk0iT7egdd4

great!

culture club - miss me blind

Journey - Any Way You Want It

Pavement - Cut Your Hair

erasure - oh l'amour

Beach Boys - I Get Around

Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son

you are the sunshine of my life
ain't no sunshine
everybody loves the sunshine
powder your face with sunshine (smile, smile, smile)

XTC - Crocodile

Letters to Cleo - Anchor
Liz Phair - Never Said
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out

Abba! Masters of the scene, they did it a lot (taking their cue from the Beatles??).
Dancing Queen, Take A Chance On Me, Super Trouper, Summer Night City...
They la-la-la and ah-ah-ah the chorus to One Of Us in the intro as well, if that counts.
Honey Honey comes right out of the blocks with the title phrase, but can it even be called a chorus if there are no real verses, just a repeated bridge later on?

Yeah, I'd say that it sounds more like a verse (or the first part of the verse) and that there's no chorus.

I was going to say "Help!" as one of the Beatles examples, but it doesn't actually start with the chorus -- it starts with a section that has the same CHORDS as the chorus, but held half as long, and that section doesn't repeat anywhere else in the song.

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls / Bicycle Race (AA example)

also: Son And Daughter, You're My Best Friend, The Invisible Man, I Want It All, Headlong

Brian May - Let Your Heart Rule Your Head

Bowie - Bombers

ladies leave your man at home
the club is full of ballers and they pockets full grown
and all you fellas leave your girl with her friends
cuz it's 11.30 and the club is JUMPIN' JUMPIN'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjw92oUduEM&ob=av2e

actually this was a bit of a DC trick

say my name, say my name
when no one is around you
say baby i love you
if you ain't runnin games
say my name, say my name
you actin kinda shady
and callin me baby
why this sudden change?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQgd6MccwZc&ob=av2e

also "bug a boo" and "lose my breath"

it's funny, the verses on jumpin' jumpin' feel like the actual hooks in the song probably more than the chorus itself. in fact, they could've inverted the chorus/verse sequence and the transitional part ("so you say you've got a girl?/yes, do you got a man?") would have made for a strong opening chorus, or simply a pre-chorus if you like.

the entire chorus as intro!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2UIC5nM2I

you didn't mention the most stunning Beatles example -- Eleanor Rigby

at what point are people going to realize that this thread is so broad as to include like a quarter of all pop songs

The Kinks - Tired of Waiting For You