# Best songs without any kind of real chorus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-without-any-kind-of-real-chorus/473990>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 22, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-without-any-kind-of-real-chorus/473990 "2008-11-22T14:12:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-without-any-kind-of-real-chorus/473990/21 "2008-11-24T17:12:22Z")

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“Big Rock Candy Mountain”. The version on the _Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?_ soundtrack, not the bowdlerized version they taught us in elementary school.

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-without-any-kind-of-real-chorus/473990/22 "2008-11-24T17:35:03Z")

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**Lucinda Williams** “Changed The Locks”. In fact, she says in the liner notes on the CD that she was specifically trying to write a song with no chorus.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-without-any-kind-of-real-chorus/473990/23 "2008-11-24T17:56:40Z")

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They Might be Giants’ “Minimum Wage”. Two words, followed by a skillfully bad guitar solo.

More seriously, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” either has no chorus, or a bunch of different choruses.

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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-without-any-kind-of-real-chorus/473990/24 "2008-11-24T18:00:28Z")

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> [@Alessan](#):
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> Dylan and Springsteen had plenty of sogs without choruses: For instance, “All Along the Watchtower” and “Thunder Road”, respectively.

Yes, they did. I would put Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue” and Springsteen’s “Jungleland” right there with the best of the non-chorus containing songs.

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**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-without-any-kind-of-real-chorus/473990/25 "2008-11-24T18:24:47Z")

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Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit

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