Songs with only one verse

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I was just listening to Human by The Human League.
It only has one verse!

Intro
Verse
Pre chorus
Chorus
Pre chorus
Chorus
Muted chorus
Spoken bridge break
Muted chorus
Chorus



Any other weird compositions that sound more normal than they actually are?

Message ends.

 

[Serge Forward]

1 verse with bridge and chorus.



Verse:
I'm walking in my brown shoes
Just walking in my brown shoes
I'm knocking on your door
Just knocking on your door

Bridge:
I want a society
Where a man can be free
To be what he wants to be
And to see who he wants to see
If this ain't a solution
I'm sick of this prostitution
Of you and me

Chorus:
I wanna be free
I wanna be free
I wanna be free
I wanna be free

 

[Steel Icarus]

There IS technically a second verse but it's instrumental. Song is mostly chorus. Intro is chorus. Chorus is chorus. Lots of the middle bit is chorus. Weird chiming shit near the end is neither but then the outro...yes, it's chorus.

 

[Steel Icarus]

One verse. Same tune as the chorus lol

 

[maomao]

 

[Steel Icarus]

Absolutely not

 

[danny la rouge]

Henry, the VIII, I am

Second verse same as the first

 

[Steel Icarus]

No, just one verse once, not one verse repeated. I think there's a thread for that

 

[Pickman's model]

Should be a thread for songs that would be better if they had only one verse

 

[danny la rouge]

No, just one verse once, not one verse repeated. I think there's a thread for that

I know. But it was worth it for the gag.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Henry, the VIII, I am

Second verse same as the first

I didn't get it

 

[Pickman's model]

I didn't get it

You can buy the download now so you've not missed out

 

[danny la rouge]

I didn't get it

 

[PTK]

One verse. Same tune as the chorus lol

This is surely a shortened version, is it not?

 

[Steel Icarus]

This is surely a shortened version, is it not?

Dunno
Sounded like it always did on the radio

 

[PTK]

Thanks. I was not aware of that version. Had I been, my childhood would have been far better.
Is that Michael Parkinson on the far left on guitar?

 

[PTK]

Dunno
Sounded like it always did on the radio

I am familiar with the original by Mr Dylan.
Wiki does say "The Byrds' version is abridged and in a different key from Dylan's original."

 

[Derek S-H]

How can anyone forget these all-time classics:



Techno. Techno. Techno. Techno.

And this:



A song so seminal that this world-renowned cultural commentator was moved to add her own contribution:

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

How can anyone forget these all-time classics:



Techno.

Er, but that's got three verses.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

And this:



A song so seminal that this world-renowned cultural commentator was moved to add her

Five verses. I don't think you read the thread title correctly.

 

[Derek S-H]

Oh, so you mean one verse not repeated over and over again?

Because some of the other examples posted do do that. Besides, if it's good enough for Philomena Cunk then it's good enough for me.

 

[Derek S-H]

Since I wrote the above reply, this popped into my head:



One verse, no chorus, does it fit your remit?

It's actually a wonderful song and far too good to be buried away as an album track. Who says Electronica can't be emotionally moving?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh, so you mean one verse not repeated over and over again?

Correct

Because some of the other examples posted do do that.

Then they also got it wrong. . . . but even then, in the two examples you gave the verses changed it up lyrically very slightly. Example. .
First verse - "No no no no no no no no no no no no there's no limit"
Second verse - "No no no no no no no no no no techno techno techno techno"

The other one changed the lyric ever so slightly too.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Since I wrote the above reply, this popped into my head:



One verse, no chorus, does it fit your remit?

It's actually a wonderful song and far too good to be buried away as an album track. Who says Electronica can't be emotionally moving?

More like it, though I would say there is a verse and a chorus of sorts, if it repeated any of the parts you would have said it was verse and chorus.
However I was looking for songs that surprised you that on closet analysis that there was only one verse.
I guess you could probably include songs that just have one vocal part popping up like Loop Black Sun (verse then massive instrumental) or Primal Scream Velocity Girl (that doesn't repeat anything). . . . but those are obvious in their more subversive structure,



Maybe the Yazoo song does count. Perhaps not in the way I

 

[Dystopiary]

I've just realised who Bobby Gillespie reminds me of - David Walliams.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I am familiar with the original by Mr Dylan.
Wiki does say "The Byrds' version is abridged and in a different key from Dylan's original."

Dyalns version is so long it can be seen from space. The Byrds fucked off all but one verse and much improved it.

 

[PTK]

Dyalns version is so long it can be seen from space. The Byrds fucked off all but one verse and much improved it.

If you think that junking the best verse is an improvment, than you are worse than Nero.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I can't listen to anything by Dylan without instantly getting ear cancer.
The voice, the style, the harmonica, it all grates on me really badly.
Why couldn't he have been a nice boy like Simon & Garfunkle?

 

[andysays]

Henry, the VIII, I am

Second verse same as the first

Third verse, different from the first...

 

[dessiato]

Al Stewart’s Small Fruit Song,

“Said the apple to the orange, "I wanted you to come
Close to me and kiss me to the core
Then you might know me like no other orange
Has ever done before"

That’s the whole song, four lines.