songs that begin with the chorus

The Guess Who, Clap For the Wolfman
The Beach Boys, I Get Around (although technically I guess it starts with the 'Round Round Getaround' refrain thing)
The Vibrators, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Queen, Headlong
Queen, Bicycle Race
Queen, Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen, I Want it All (single version)
Queen, ...?

Fear of the Unknown -- Siouxsie & The Banshees

Supposedly, that was the revolutionary thing about The Beatles "She Loves You."

The Rascals "Good Lovin'"

Does "Hey, Ho, Let's Go" count as the chorus?

"Big Girls Don't Cry" - The Four Seasons
"Love Train" - The O'Jays
"No Sleep Til Brooklyn" - Beastie Boys (I think; I don't have my iPod with me to check)
"Cradle of Love" - Billy Idol

"Dancing Queen" - Abba
"Take a Chance on Me" - Abba
"Rag Doll" - Aerosmith
"Can't Buy Me Love" - The Beatles
"Nowhere Man" - The Beatles
"Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles
"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" - Belinda Carlisle
"Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" - Bill Withers
"Nothing from Nothing" - Billy Preston
"Song 2" - Blur
"I Shot the Sheriff" - Bob Marley
"You Give Love a Bad Name" - Bon Jovi
"I Want You to Want Me" - Cheap Trick
"Good Times" - Chic
"Lollipop" - The Chordettes
"Brick House" - The Commodores
"I Just Died in Your Arms" - Cutting Crew
"Chapel of Love" - The Dixie Cups
"Jolene" - Dolly Parton
"Love to Love You, Baby" - Donna Summer
"She Works Hard for the Money" - Donna Summer
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" - Eurythmics
"Build Me Up Buttercup" - The Foundations
"Minority" - Green Day
"Paradise City" - Guns N' Roses
"Don't Pull Your Love Out" - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
"Fallin' in Love" - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
"What the World Needs Now is Love" - Jackie DeShannon
"Make It Funky" - James Brown
"Lights" - Journey
"Any Way You Want It" - Journey
"It's My Party" - Lesley Gore
"Jimmy Mack" - Martha and the Vandellas
"My Boy Lollipop" - Millie Small
"Magic" - Pilot
"By the Way" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Don't Mess with My Toot Toot" - Rockin' Sidney
"The Beat Goes On" - Sonny & Cher
"We Built This City" - Starship
"Edge of Seventeen" - Stevie Nicks
"Mr. Roboto" - Styx
"Give A Little Bit" - Supertramp
"Jumper" - Third Eye Blind
"We're Not Gonna Take It" - Twisted Sister

"Shout" - Tears for Fears
"The Skeleton and the Roundabout" - The Idle Race
"Hymn" - Ultravox
"Happy Talk" - Captain Sensible



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"At Least It Was Here" -- The 88

Walking Out On Love- Breakaways
Ready Steady Go - Gen X
Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Maybeline - Chuck Berry
Lost In the Supermarket - Clash
Bye Bye Love - Everlys

"Love is Not Lost" - Sam Phillips

The Selecter - Carry Go Bring Come.

"Streets of Your Town" - the Go-Betweens

"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" - The Beatles

One of my favorite lines (quotable or not) therein:

"The All-American, bullet-headed, Saxon mother's son."

All the children sing ...

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"She Loves You" also starts off with the damned chorus, now that I think on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.