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House on Fire

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I was reflecting on the song 'Tonight' in another thread and wondered how to describe BG repeatedly singing the word "tonight" at the end. Is this technically a chorus? Anyhow, after further reflection I'm left wondering: as regards lyrics, are there any great BTR choruses?

Here's a highly scientific (not) categorisation after much analysis (not):

 

1) Repeat a phrase, usually the title of the song, perhaps with a little variation eg

Mary of the Fourth Form

He Watches it All

Another Piece of Red

Joey's on the Street Again

Looking After Number One ("I don't want to verb here like you")

She's So Modern ("She's so adjective here")

 

2) As above but with a few extra phrases eg

Mondays

Rat Trap

When the Night Comes

House on Fire

Elephants Graveyard

Hold On Me ("Never, never, never, never, never")

 

3) Na-na-nuh-na eg

Talking in Code

To the Bitter End

Me and Howard Hughes

 

3) Hybrid of 1 and 3

 

Diamond Smiles

Someone's Looking At You

 

4) No chorus at all (not necessarily a bad thing, of course) eg

Neon Heart

Drag me Down (or is it a 3?)

 

So as regards great choruses, off the top of my head, I've got:

 

Banana Republic

Living in an Island (though dangerously close to being a 2 on the Jamie scale).

Fall Down

Nice and Neat

 

 

Any others?



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In the Long Grass

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Guess another category might be chorus with no reference to title; Europe Looked Ugly sprang to mind.

Need to have a think about this. It's great that it's another example of how much variation you can get from one band. Don't think I ever truly appreciated the creativity at the time.

Not sure Rat Trap qualifies as having a chorus though?



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