10 Amazing Songs That Don't Have A Chorus

The biggest rule that comes with punk rock is about getting to the point as quickly as possible. The likes and the Ramones and the Clash didn't have time to mess around all that often, and it's important to always have something to say, otherwise you're just a prog rock band with nothing to say outside of playing fast. Green Day had grown up since their formative punk days though, and Jesus of Suburbia was their first step up to the big leagues of songwriting.

After losing most of their master tapes for what was supposed to be their comeback record, the band went in a different direction once they wrote American Idiot, wanting every other song they wrote for the project to be as good as that. Looking to deviate from the normal way you'd write a song, Jesus of Suburbia became the premise for the rock opera side of the project, setting the scene for the story to play out over 9 minutes. Although there are many moments in this song that could qualify as a chorus, it's almost like getting bite sized pieces of a hook before going to something completely different.

Some of these pieces might seem stitched together, but that just emphasizes the kind of character that we're dealing with here, being almost a representation of channel surfing his way through life before actually wanting to move out of his nowhere town for something different. Coming right after the political track against the Bush administration, this was more of a direct look at what that broken political system looked like for teens on the street.