Songs that don't have a chorus 

HEEL YEAH! BY THE END OF THE YEAR NOBODY WILL KNOW THE NAME "QUEEN"

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@@andregalvao5739 YOU WILL FOREVER BE KNOWN AS THE MAN WHO LOST QUEEN

@@Ronythethird I love it nontheless

@@Ronythethird because it’s not the most overrated song of all time

Several decades of compression technology and dynamic Standards later...

That's funny, I almost burst into tears, it's so sad to see the dynamic range just destroyed like that

@Absolute Zero as a rock producer, I fully agree!! But some mastering engineers truly go overboard. I don’t think Jesus of Suburbia suffers from this tho

@Absolute Zero I agree I think it goes well with the genre :)

Me too 😂

You could also add Somebody to Love and Love of my Life to that list of chorusless Queen songs, but there’s also probably more I haven’t hear yet.

If I remember correctly, Innuendo has a relatively normal AABA structure, A being a verse and a chorus; and B being the bridge, except it is very long and has a Spanish guitar solo

Queen has a lot of example but Prophet's song starts with the actual chorus and repeat it several times. All instances has little variations but it sounds like a chorus.

My Fairy King is another example (and one of their finest moments).

@@SnowghostFilmsYou can say the “somebody, ooh somebody, could anybody find me somebody to love” is the chorus

In a nutshell that's what nutshell is

Good example , I thought about nutshell when I first clicked this video

I would say that this "ooh" part could be classified as chorus

@@KursedEarth79 same. im not even lying that song is why i thought this video was in my recomended lmao. the build up to the guitar solo outro is all the energy it needs to stay interesting

Interstate Love Song - STP

According to my music dictionary, rhapsody means: a free-style composition usually in one movement, often based on folk melodies

@@kaimcmanus9608 isnt that the same

Dematotic shuttupp

@@kaimcmanus9608 so technically, Bohemian Rhapsody isnt even a rhapsody at all.

@@kitsune630 Every Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody has at least 3 movements with the second one repeating once. Isn’t that cool

I usually thought the last line of each verse was a Chorus.

@@42069TV No, that's called a Refrain

@@malimusimu5641 oh okay.

Also "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" and "Scarborough Fair". I'm not sure about "Paint It Black" though...what category is that song? It's pretty repetitive...

Megadeth's "In My Darkest Hour" doesn't have a chorus either, 5 verses, not even a single repeated vocal part ever

"I thought that I heard you laughing" is probably the "chorus"

Weve played that in our school band recently and i know what you mean. Though both lyrically and musically there is a chorus, i doesnt feel much like one

I love REM and I've noticed quite a few songs of theirs that don't have a clear-cut chorus. Some of my favourites are Find The River, We Walk and Tongue.

​​@Dustin Void I think it's because the non-verse parts are so short and there's no dynamic/chord shift between them and the verse, so it feels like one continuous verse looping back on itself that just happens to end with the same lines.

Losing My Religion does something really cool to obscure its structure. The verse is broken into two sections. The second verse puts the two seconds in reverse order. Then there's a mini-post-chorus, half a verse, the chorus, and the mini-post-chours.

It has that instrumental chorus

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That really surprised me. Neither the song nor the album sound flat or distorted imo, but it looks like a deafening wall of sound here!

I saw it live, we initially had rafters seats, but we snuck down to the mosh pit and this song started playing the second we got down there, it was truly amazing

@@LRM12o8 From about 2000 much rock music released heavily used level compression so the dynamic range was maxed out throughout despite quieter sections being in the raw recording. Thankfully I think that production trend has abated somewhat since then

@@nicktreleaven4119 think anything by Metallica post-2000

Hello there

Seriously, pink floyd was in my head throughout, they have tons of examples

Lol

@@progisloveprogislife4501 atom heart mother!! (my favourite album)

@@mumflrfumperdink8416 Like all of _Animals._

My brain went to Kashmir and then Stairway to Heaven first

And of course they're still looking for that confounded bridge.

'Over the Hills and Far Away'?

That song came to my mind too

Sad he passed away yesterday. 😭💔

The music was the chorus as it was repeated

@@steveklemetti8035 repetition isn't the only criteria for a chorus lmao

Good example! Also, it is in danger of falling victim to the same issue as Squeeze's "Up The Junction" (another story song that David points out in the video) - that being the repetition of the same bars over and over again becoming boring. I grew to appreciate TWOTEF over the years, but as a kid I'd turn the dial whenever it came on the radio, bc I got sick of that same cadence in every lyric.

This feels like illegal information

The most confusing part is that it's a six-minute song...

@@nigeldepledge3790 A minute spent trying to figure it out.

the contrast with bohemian rhapsody's waveform is so harsh its funny

Still not as bad as Californication

@@Christopher-md7tf every RHCP is compressed as f**k, I don't understand it

@@castrucciocastracani0 I'm not sure I agree. Californication and By the Way are veeery bad in that regard (which is frustrating because the music itself is amazing), you can really hear the clipping all over the place. Stadium Arcadium sounds *much* better and BSSM is an absolute masterpiece production-wise. The rest of their catalogue I don't really listen to tbh, but I can't imagine that the first couple of records were that heavily compressed, since they still came out in the 80s.

@@Christopher-md7tf It wasn't until they started working with Rick Rubin on Blood Sugar Sex Magik. I don't know what changed with Stadium Arcadium but it definitely has the beset production

I agree; I think the tension is released with "teenage wastland" at the end, but I don't think that's a chorus either

It has nothing to with the length of the song.

@@nobodyqwertyu It was a joke.

what "episodic" really means is "songs that will probably be accused of being progressive rock"

@@the_most_ever_company Listen to The Decline by NOFX. 18 freakin minutes long. no chorus, episodic narrative style. Not quite prog rock... (but as progressive as punk gets i guess).

@@TheChrisSimpson Listen to Bring The Sun by Swans

I always thought that the first lines were the chorus and also when that part repeats later on

Yeah, lots of other folk songs are like that.

Watch out for the 2nd inversion F7. I've only ever heard it in the Animals' cover, and never in pub bands'. Alan Price was master of his Vox continental Mk 2.

Why so popular, why still rememberd after so many years…… it is soooooo ggggod…

This was in his list of folk songs.

Most Pink Floyd songs

@@ikenshnikenable yeah they don't give a shit

I would say that one arguably does have a chorus, although the lyrics of the choruses are different.

Sheep

God would I love him to analyze the 37 different parts of Dogs! Or Shine On [full 25 minutes].

Yeah, I was quite surprised by that! Product of the "loudness wars" I imagine! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Hah. I was about to comment, HOLY HYPER COMPRESSION BATMAN! and see it's been dutifully noticed. Good job, internet.

First thing to spring in my mind as well!! How am I to know where one section ends and the other begins!!

I didn't expect paranoid android to have so many over compressed moments

That's 2005 baby!

Doesn't Mr Blue Sky have a clear chorus with the "Mr Blue Sky please tell us why" section?

@@jorgito93700 I don't know if a chorus can be one single line that repeats, and not in regular periods

@@10thdoctor15 I mean there's plenty of songs with a chorus that's just one line that repeats, often being the title. We Will Rock You by Queen is the first one that comes to my mind.

@@jorgito93700 That chorus is the line twice, which is sung three times; I'm talking about a line that just appears more than once in the song, not a whole chorus.

Blue Monday definitely has a chorus.

David happened to make a video on this

Five Years by David Bowie also takes a while to build up to the chorus.

Not exactly the same extent, but Got to Get You Into My Life by the Beatles always makes me think they’re gonna scream “GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE” after that first verse, and that makes that line hit so much harder

Replace everytime he says 'tiny dancer' with 'Tony Danza'

@@moneywiz9470 ok Pheobe

I was just going to say that Im surprised he didn't mention it.

In Dreams - Roy Orbison

Of course!

Great song and great example! I often think that song is over way too quick! The "When the men on the chessboard ..." section could have easily been a chorus if the song had a longer structure! 😀

Monotonically or maniacally?

I always thought of stairway having two semi-choruses, being: "and she's buying a stairway to heaven" and "and it makes me wonder" because these two phrases are repeatet that often.

Marty robbins also had el paso

@@nr1229 I think that would be classified as more of a bridge. I’m not very knowledgeable of music but that’s what I believe it would be called, because it is written to lead into a chorus, which is what a bridge does, but instead continues the song instead of hitting a chorus

"Tomorrow Never Knows" & "A Day in the Life."

"After the Gold Rush" & "White Moon."

What do you mean like they keep the same rhyme skeme and just change the words or completely change the chorus

​@@wigsplitter777i guess the person said they change just the words but i may be wrong

​@@lele-qr4cy Yes, mostly only the lyics change

can you give song titles that are examples of this?

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One of my favorite songs is "You Never Give Me Your Money" from the Beatles and its the wierdest but coolest song ever!

You can still tell a story with a chorus, it can be foreshadowing then later explained, it can change meaning after every verse, stuff like that

I've made quite a few songs without a chorus (or any repeating section) and most of them dont have one because they are meant to be played on a rhythm game, and having a chorus or a repeating section doesnt make a lot of sense in that context.

@@CoingamerFL That's really awesome dude. I've only just started songwriting but I'd love to create a song like this. Any tips maybe?

@@abbeybelanger8118 i love this song, but it's hard to seperate it from the entire medley, "mean mr mustard" and polethene pam" are also two quircky gems

Me too. I almost think the A section in these songs would work as a traditional chorus.

Me too, and I like your first name

Technically considered Chorus Chorus Bridge Chorus, because the Verse is actually “when all the world...” that you usually don’t hear performed outside the musical

I believe (and I could be wrong) that the line “Somewhere over the rainbow” is actually considered a “refrain” which is a word or phrase that is repeated but not in a way of a chorus since the following lines are changed. “Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high” “Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly” It’s debatable though

@@sean_mccadden Yeah, refrains are typically short phrases and such like in blues songs, so your calling the phrase a refrain I'm tempted to agree. But the whole 8-bar sections would be the choruses

Fade to Black by Metallica also has an instrumental chorus.

I feel like when they end each set of lyrics with "we are the Sultans of Swing", that is sort of a low-key chorus. I would be fine to be wrong there.

@@heelbradley7407 Yeah I guess you could say that, but to be honest he only uses the phrase "Sultans of Swing" once if I recall correctly. The other times he says "they play creole" and "London town". But in any case, I would say it is more or less instrumental since it just a phrase of 2 syllables between the pre chorus and chorus

​@@jamiepacemizzi2822yeah. "way on down south, London town", "The Sultans, they play Creole", and "we are the Sultans of Swing"

the piano section does kinda serve the purpose of a chorus. i love that song though

@@Croix1 oh yeah, forgot it was in there twice lol

Isn't the "Da da da da da da da da" part of Rocky Racoon the Chorus?

I think that's the instrumental chorus he's talking about. Hey Jude and Day in the Life were the first ones that I thought of.

My favourite Beatles track of all time!

There it is! Thanks CJ

Definitely one of the best song ever written

Pretty much the form of a Child ballad (albeit with fewer verses)

It does have an intro and outro, and while no chorus it’s verse does have two distinct sections that adds contrast and variety

@@walrusgumboot - Please explain about the intro and outro - it just starts immediately with the singing.

A boy named sue is a good example, being a song telling a story. It also has the factor of the constant repetition of the verse "life ain't easy for a boy named sue" during the first half. But the song isn't Johnny's, it's actualy a cover. Don't remember who did the original, though.

@@lucasduque8289 You are totally right. It was written by Shel Silverstein

Dylan as well

Several Harry Chapin song also are story telling songs without a chorus.

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While I LOVE the song I am not sure it fits this. It does seem to have a chorus despite the lyrics not being repeated exactly like Doctor My Eyes -Jackson Browne, or All I want - Joni Mitchell, but the TinCan section is a Verse Verse Chorus with the requisite resolution.

that's not much of a difference, it's like sequencing where you play the same melody higher or lower. it's not exactly the same but it's still the same melody, just like in the song it's the same section with some slight change.

It's pretty unique - it appears to be AABBC BAC

Yeah! It’s a fantastic tune, I was about to mention it too! :D

But it kinda has a chorus, doesn't it? It's really short but the "we are the sultans, we are the sultans of swing" is pretty much a chorus, isn't it?

@@XxNoMErcY99xX u right

I would consider "Cars" by Gary Numan to be yet another song with an instrumental chorus. When the key changes from A to D, that serves as the "chorus".

@@XxNoMErcY99xX Yes. This distinction of having lyrics or not is silly. What if a completely instrumental chorus just has a "yeah!" at the end? Is that NOW a different type of section of song? No. Choruses do NOT need lyrics.

Hotel & Casino is amazing

You never give me your money

them changes kind of has a chorus

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I'm pretty sure led zepplin are notorious for blocking videos, probably why they weren't featured. I would agree it is arguably the most famous song ever without a chorus

@@Arrica101 They wouldn't block him, but demonetize him

@@Arrica101 Whereas Queen typically let stuff go all the time. I will always love that about them

A lot of led zeppelin songs don't have a chorus..

@@edwardcardona717 I worked translating songs, and I agree completely with this. Queen even let you use their offical videos!

Isnt it more AABA? That "when men on the chessboard" part is definitely not A

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it has a b. don't believe me? then go ask alice. I think she'll know.

@@ultrakool yeah, you aren't the first to point that out to me. In retrospect, it's definitely not actually AAAA, but it isn't what I'd call a chorus either, and I thought the comment was funny

@@sadlytemporary4143 aabaaabaAABAAABAAABAAA

Such a beautiful song.

Huh

Great song! 😀

It it wasn't for its length, I'm sure Billy Joel would be remembered for that song, and not Piano man. I wonder whether its complexity also made it less memorable than Piano man. It is a much better song, IMO.

Italian Restaurant is through-composed IMO

​@@labscimasterPiano man isn't that much shorter

It's just a chorus that happens to have the same background chords and riff.

Great song to eat peanut butter to

New Muse has got that experimental vibe which unfortunately doesn't clap as hard as it used to

I know, I'm not into newer Muse. Just not the same.

Seems you have great music taste there mate! Scousers and music, heavenly combo

That’s a great song

I learned about this song from Mac DeMarco

yes!! more las appreciation!!

Just like heroin, really.

Nice beard

I just watched that yesterday, Victor Borge was hilarious

Santa why didnt you give me anything last Christmas

Borge thought it might be to relieve elevension.

What is this from??

Wow I had to look up if Every Breath You Take really didn’t have any choruses. Mind blowing actually, it seems like the song has a repetitive chorus in my head haha

@@tiemenscholten3755 it's repetitive, but it's not really a chorus. It just has these 3 different parts that it organizes in this cool way.

Tbh, though I understand the mechanics that make up the AABA format, as long as it repeats itself, I often just consider the B section the chorus. Like "Oh can't you see / You belong to me..." or in Yesterday "Why she had to go? / I don't know, she wouldn't say". They repeat itself, but aren't considered choruses because they don't have the catchy lyric people remember, like the "I'll be watching you" repeating itself at the end. The only other distinction I can find between a repeating B section and a chorus is that while verses feel like they're leading up to a chorus, B sections often feel more like bridges, working as a counteract to the verse, rather than its payoff. Also, AABA songs often have the hook be in the first line of the verse. Every Breath You Take, Yesterday, Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Blue Skies all have the title of the song be the first line of each of their A sections. Lastly, though it does contain a chorus, the structure of Oh-bla-Di Oh-bla-da reminds me of the AABA songs listed. We got an obvious verse and chorus, but the "In a couple of years they have built a home, sweet home" feels like a repeating bridge (or, consequently, like the B sections in the AABA songs).

It's a fractal structure. And if you want to get really silly, the phrase “Every breath you take” is itself AABA.

No Reply by the Beatles does the same thing. An AABA for where each A section is its own AABA but with slightly different lyrics each time.

I am the Duke White Thin!

Did you try ACDC or MCJZ

tbh everytime I see the AABA structure it takes my brain a second to remember we're not talking about ABBA

@@neilgibbons2532 damn it, ya beat me to it hahahaa

Somebody reading these comments should be challenged to write an ABBA ABBA song.

Aaaah..!☝🏼😃

AABA, or maybe even BBAB.

Id say AABA maybe??

@@princessbrennyn7611 ABBA or maybe not

It's got three or four hard driving verses and the more contemplative sections "When I get home to you..." that provide relief from the rest of the song. You might call them anti-choruses.

Song structure (I think) Chorus - Verse - Bridge - Chorus - Verse - Bridge - Chorus

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bachelorette does have chorus

@@thalesmatheus6011 agree, it’s the “im a fountain of blood” verse?

Yees mcr! They have a few like that, such as (i think) “it’s not a Fashion statement, it’s a Deathwish”

@@buttercup0747 Oh yeah, I think you’re right, though he does repeat the “I’m coming back from the dead…” lines, it doesn’t seem like an actual chorus- also whatever the fuck Demolition Lovers’s song structure is lmao

i also think welcome to the black parade doesn’t have one either but i haven’t listened to that song in a while

@@spicycarrot6059 i love demolition lovers

@@johnathanpumpernickel5532 The “we’ll carry on” part seems pretty chorus-y to me, could be wrong though lol

It just sounds like a jewish folk song

Try the veal...

Hi Dad

Gold right there, this video was basically one hell of a perfect setup just waiting for you XD XD XD

@@jennifermorris6848 😂

Or if it’s about the world turning, it would be geostrophic. OK, that one’s a bit more niche.

That was the first song i think of

"Makes me wonder" is the chorus.

I was actually going to include Stairway but, as another commenter has pointed out, it actually does have a chorus! The "Make me wonder" bit. 😊

@@DavidBennettPiano Thanks, David! "Makes me wonder" is not as catchy as choruses normally are, but it's definitely "part B", and repeated more than once, so yes it qualifies as chorus. Thank for another great video!

@@GGNotes Yeah, it's not an obvious chorus at all! I actually made an entire graphic for Stairway because I was going to include it in the video until I realised that it did technically have a chorus!

Hey, thanks for mentioning that! I had never heard of the musician(s) or the song, but I checked it out, and really enjoyed it. 👍

Roger Hodgson is a brilliant writer and composer.

Love your profile photo!

Well, at least I'm not the only fool to think it's crazy not to mention this song in this category (which one though?)

It does have the “ooh, it makes me wonder” part though, although it simply feels like a bridge that has a reprise tbh

Kashmir?

@@diopappa I think it's some sort of combination of episodic and story-telling

even Another Brick In The Wall Part (2,3 or whatever it is)?

@@atomiccritter6492 Well, Part 2 has a chorus. Shine You Crazy Diamond and Echoes too. And some others. Not every Floyd`s song is without a chorus. That would be boring.

@@goofyblud “Changes?”

@@lesalabs i dont think echoes has a chorus tbh, and based on the vid shine on you crazy diamond is best defined as a strophic song, which according to him doesnt have a chorus

@@lesalabs set the controls for the heart of the sun has what i consider a chorus, arnold layne has a chorus (i think), see emily play, bike, matilda mother (but like set the controls its only a single line), corporal clegg, welcome to the machine, probably more but its still easier to label the ones with a chorus than without

yeah, you seem to be correct, nice

Most of Zeppelin's songs didn't have choruses after Robert Plant took over the lyric writing. He just didn't like them.

Yeah

@Zbigniew G When he said, "perhaps the most famous example of a through-composed song is," I immediately started to say _Stairway to Heaven._ Was kind of left with a Spock raised eyebrow. I always heard Stairway more than Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio.

I think he might not have included it because Led Zeppelin tends to copyright claim videos that use their songs.

I was hoping for someone to mention The End (and the Doors)!

The Soft Parade too

Best opening song for any movie, ever (Apocalypse Now)

It's a good song, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece.

@@kevinmeserole7345 okay but I would call it a masterpiece

It’s like a pre- Bohemian Rhapsody or like I would describe it has thy

@@musicbydanny6925 And so are A Day in the Life and Band on the Run, though the latter had a chorus on the folk rock section.

@@Ms_Drake I mean a rhapsody is something that doesn’t repeat and A Day In The Life did so with the interlude. But yeah A Day In The Life really did it first lol

Riders on the Storm has a semi chorus

Space Oddity definitely has a chorus in "Here am I sitting/floating in/'round my tin can".

@@ean1245 ah you're right! Haven't heard the song in years

@@sotis1756 and I would advise you to listen to it again since this song is legitimately great

@@sotis1756 It’s more of a repeating blues-type structure and as much an instrumental song as anything, maybe with an ‘instrumental chorus’.

Yeah, but a chorus is throughout the entire song. I think most parts of it have that structure

Such a good song. Casablancas is the perfect voice for it

One of the most perfect songs ever

it does have a chorus, the da da da, da da part

human sadness does have a chorus, "...there is a field, i meet you there" part

it definitely has a chorus. The chorus lyrics are, "Beyond all ideas of right and wrong, there is a field I will be meeting you there," repeated twice. The chorus comes three time after the first, third, and sixth verse. The first two even have a very similar backing melody, only the first is cut off near its end. The final chorus is much bigger than the first two, but definitely still a chorus.

"A Day In The Life" certainly has an erratic structure and, although it has got some repeating sections, I don't think we ever get anything close to a typical chorus! 😁

@@DavidBennettPiano Revolution #9.

@@emanuellandeholm5657 you can’t really have a chorus if the song doesn’t really have lyrics other than random scatterings of noise

@@noahford9605 Infidel!

@@noahford9605 Did you watch the video or are you just stupid? The youtuber himself said choruses can lack lyrics. Jesus christ. Stop spreading bullshit.

It’s pretty strophic too - the music is fairly similar across each verse, though sung a bit differently (much like some recordings of House of the Rising Sun)

It really jumps out at one.

Max Headroom

@@jack002tuber Or Min Headroom in this case :)

What's JoS?

@@nikolajmadsen1002 Jesus of suburbia

I feel like a huge amount of Cure tracks follow the no chorus rules haha. Nearly every song off of Disintegration doesn’t have a chorus

You don't consider "You and me just like heaven" to be a one-line chorus?

The Cure really seemed to go out of their way to avoid choruses in their songs, yet they always managed to keep things varied and interesting. It makes their songs harder to grasp, but also that much more intriguing and replayable.

@@ChasMusic There is a melodic refrain between verse 2 and 3 that's breifly reprised at the end, but it hardly counts as a chorus. Also, he says "You, just like heaven" just once at the end of the song.

@@jackvalentino2125 True, but lovesong clearly had that intrumental one, and that's the only track I would consider a "pop song". Just Like Heaven is very pop and accessible despite being without a chorus, a testament to Smith that he wrote such an engaging pop song without the classic device. There's a lot of music in the more post punk or Gothic scene without hooks, but the style of Just Like Heaven compared to that makes it more impressive as a chorus-less song. (not that it's my favorite cure song or anything.)