"Peaches" by the Presidents of the United States of Americasinging "gonna move into the country, eat a lot of peaches" over and over is so much fun. then the chorus comes in and almost spoils it. the chorus is alright but way less catchy.― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, October 7, 2017 6:36 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
singing "gonna move into the country, eat a lot of peaches" over and over is so much fun. then the chorus comes in and almost spoils it. the chorus is alright but way less catchy.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, October 7, 2017 6:36 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What you've mentioned is the chorus.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
what you've mentioned was already mentioned upthread
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
Led Zep - Black Dog.
― dinnerboat, Saturday, 7 October 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
feel like this applies to half of led zep's songs
― niels, Saturday, 7 October 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
xxpost:
Ah, so it was! Not that this makes your post about 'Peaches' any less incorrect.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 7 October 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
I ate at a restaurant called Peaches the other night and the moment we left my brain went straight to "Peaches COME from a CAN" so...yeah. Feel like this thread is gonna end up way too broad for me but I have probably an idiosyncratic, and inarticulable, concept of what counts as a "hook."
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 7 October 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
whoa I'd never considered that about "Peaches"
they have another song called "Mach 5" that's kind of the same way
― frogbs, Saturday, 7 October 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
glenda collins - something i gotta tell you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMMlQ3TroCc
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
Semisonic - secret smile
Might be because the song title is in the opening verses instead of the chorus but everyone I know remembers the verses instead of the chorus.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
Again, that is the chorus!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
hmm, first one that comes to mind is "range life" -
I want a range lifeIf I could settle downIf I could settle downThen I would settle down
just a real classic verse, and i can barely remember all the choruses which all have different lyrics
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
lol
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of This PlaceThe Who - I Can See For Miles
^ both of these have awesome verses that really build in tension followed by disappointingly weedy choruses
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
just to further derail the thread, I submit "The Road" by Fastball xp
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
this is totally Def Leppard's "Animal"
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
As for BYARM, I like the song but I'm not even sure it has a hook at all.― Doctor Casino
― Doctor Casino
whoa, I don't agree at all. I think this is a good example of a song being known equally for its verse & chorus hooks. Guess I would err on the chorus just because it's pretty simple & they're shouting the name of the song.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 October 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
What is the chorus of "Black Dog"? That song has a fairly unconventional structure. Are people thinking of the "Oh yeah/...Whoa baby, darlin' won't you do me now" section?
With "Don't Stop Believin'", the chorus is the "Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard..." bit, right? I don't really find that unmemorable. I think the "on and on and on" refrain is probably the most memorable part of the song.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 October 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
No wayDon’t Stop Believing is a long build up to one of the most memorable choruses in rock history.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), sábado 7 de octubre de 2017 23:20 (yesterday)
What? No way the chorus goes “So use it and prove it” and so on, no?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
With "Don't Stop Believin'", the chorus is the "Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard..." bit, right?
This is an interesting one because that section strikes me more as a pre-chorus that the song has to go through twice before finally getting to the chorus. I just don't know if "Don't stop believin'/Hold on to that feeling/Streetlight people" is actually the chorus or if it's the last verse.
― timellison, Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
Ok I finally have a good one!
Dido - Thank You
Everyone knows the openig verse due to the Eminem’s Stan. The chorus feels very saccharine and forced.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
*the sample in Eminem’s stan.
That's the coda.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Dido is a good one
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
I was gonna say "Kids in America" but retracted it cos even though I hate that chorus, it's not unmemorable (and I may be in the minority).
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
Yeah, a chorus is a repeated section, by definition!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
I mean, it's tricky because these terms were used with different meanings in the early 20th century, with blues and Tin Pan Alley forms, but, generally, with verse-chorus forms, I think of the verse as a repeated section where music is repeated with changing text and a chorus as a repeated section where both the music and text are repeated. It can get fuzzy, though.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
Dido has been mentioned. What is this world coming to.
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
I suppose in the case of Don't Stop Believin' we may remember the coda as the chorus because it's serving the function that would normally be reserved for the chorus. The chorus often acts as something like the core or essence of the song, the part which is supposed to reveal the song most directly and which the verse is supposed to lead up to. It's where you usually find the title.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It doesn't function like a coda usually does.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
Oh dammit someone mentioned Dido before me, it’s true. I give up. I suck at this game.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 8 October 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
“Plainclothes Man” - Heatmiser
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 October 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
Chainsmokers - "Selfie". Instrumental chorus counts, right? Can't remember the melody at all, except that it sounds like something they made in three minutes so that their song could have a chorus
― Vinnie, Monday, 9 October 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City, if we're saying all that "but at night it's a different world" crap is actually the chorus.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 9 October 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link
Wow, why hate on that of all things?
― timellison, Monday, 9 October 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah, what Tim said.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 9 October 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
The Cars early singles have huge number of hooks per song but think Let's Go and Good Times Roll could fit.
― that's not my post, Monday, 9 October 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
I LOVE THE NIGHT LIFE BABY
― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Monday, 9 October 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link
Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy"
― Erotic Wolf (crüt), Monday, 9 October 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
^ Great example
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 October 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
No it isn't!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 9 October 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
“Live Forever”
― Eazy, Monday, 9 October 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
QUESTIONABLE AT BEST
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 October 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
Ok guys I think I finally got one:
Spice Girls - Wannabe
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 9 October 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
The whole song is catchy but everyone knows the opening verse. Right?
I dare you make a test right now with the person next to you tell them to sing it and they’ll all sing the verse instead of the chorus.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 9 October 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
that bit is almost like a secondary chorus though
it's repeated a number of times throughout the song
― Number None, Monday, 9 October 2017 03:55 (six years ago) link
Goddamit I can’t get a single one
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 9 October 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
tom tom club - genius of love
not that the chorus is unmemorable as much as the verses rule
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 9 October 2017 04:12 (six years ago) link
I think some of us are coming at the premise of this thread in different ways. Are we talking about subjectively more memorable or what part the song is more well known for in the culture at large? Because there's no way that catwalk shit from "I'm Too Sexy" is more memorable or well known than the verses. Same goes for "Wannabe" - I'd argue both the verses & choruses are equally memorable.
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 October 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
Because there's no way that catwalk shit from "I'm Too Sexy" is more memorable or well known than the verses.
They're equally well known.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 9 October 2017 05:11 (six years ago) link
(sorry, it seemed we'd got derailed into songs with instrumental choruses)
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
There’s a thread for that one:
Songs where the chorus is an instrumental
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
Many people confusing instrumental chorus with memorable riffs in that thread tho.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
'Baker Street' does have a chorus, but it's not the sax riff, which is the real hook.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
'Baker Dick' is a different story, ofc.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
The Smiths have no hooks. Their music is just frantic rhythm guitar with Morissey sort of meandering between the third and fifth notes of the chord.
I think this would be more melodically active than what often happens, which is Morrissey meandering between the first, third, and fifth scale degrees (or third, fifth, and modal seventh in minor keys) regardless of the chords.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTzT3FmxhI
Apologies if this has been posted before somewhere here
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You're absolutely correct, I wasn't really thinking clearly when I posted
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
ahah, great comments/video about Moz !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
The oddest place I can think of for a hook is Cut Some Rug by The Bluetones, where it's the bassline on the bridge, which isn't even that high in the mix.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link