10 Amazing Songs That Don't Have A Chorus

With every single record that Radiohead released in the '90s, you could feel them getting more and more disaffected with themselves. Although Pablo Honey wasn't anything new coming out of the traditional alternative rock scene of 1993, The Bends had something different, combing through different traditions of Britpop and throwing in some wacky chord extensions here and there. By the days of OK Computer though, Paranoid Android felt like the rock song that was meant to end any other rock song in its wake.

Taking inspiration from the Beatles' Happiness is a Warm Gun, what the band created seemed to have a three act structure to it instead of your usual verse chorus feel. Starting with the sounds of Thom Yorke on acoustic guitar droning on about the noise that was coming from drunkards that he saw at a party during the recording of the album, the whole track seems to break down to what it means to be human, lashing out in anger towards the midpoint before trying to maintain your sanity during the final acoustic break towards the end, all while going through different time signatures and keys to reflect the person's mood.

Things don't really fall back to Earth as much they are thrown back down, with Jonny Greenwood's guitar bringing back the main riff and solo, as the electronic and organic sounds build around each other before eventually collapsing in on itself. From the minute this song was over, Radiohead had shaken off their one hit wonderdom and had moved on to become gods of the rock scene.