Have I mentioned how I hate choruses or at least hate writing them? Or really, it's that, with the way the band worked since the '90s - i.e. finishing songs after they're recorded rather than assembling in-person beforehand and then recording 'that' - I guess I came to hate hearing the same dumb section go by hundreds upon hundreds of times (song depending) while I worked on it. So as with these other posts, it probably didn't register that most songs have either no chorus, or at least no first chorus...almost...
Also, I'm sorta defining a Chorus (abbr. 'C') as being:
A. that section of the song that the verses build to (way to define something by what it's not, charles);
A-and-a-half: since the '60s is almost never the first section in a song (so as opposed to "[brrrrnnnnnng]....it's been a Hard Day's Night..."
B. tends to repeat at least a few times in the song, i.e. is the same mel. & chord progression & use the same lyrics every time
C. tends to use/shout out the song title
Gilt House: technically DOES have a chorus ("and i'm nowhere near" etc.), or at least a second section - we'll count it
Happy: it is one enormous verse over & over, chorus finally enters (with only the orig. chorus' back-up voc. now serving as main melody) at 4:09, then done.
Kisses: 1st C. is instrumental, 2ndx I put the ld. vocal waaay in the background sorta to the L. None of the remaining C's have the same words, my standard m.o.
Exhausted: breaks my own dumb rule A-and-a-half above, opening with the C but it's essentially instrumental with just the b.u. voc. On the remaining C's I replaced the vocal melody on the main 1st lines with a baritone guitar just playing it, in part 'cause I hated the words to that line: "[but]..I-I'll never give up [this boy is exhausted]" etc.
Hopeless: the C to this one, for better and worse, is my writing/doing and I was so psyched at the time of having done those guitar parts, esp. the constantly-cycling '3 quarter note against 4/4 time' hemiola one on the R, that I just wanted to hear them by themselves. So..1st C is instrumental.
Pastor/Nun: C. presented properly, per recording tradition
Thirteen Grand: this one also has proper 1st C but Greg, after the fact, chose to title this one Thirteen Grand, diff. than what he's singing &naming after a line in another song, which I continue to applaud.
Boys, Who Will: 'will' that is play the C first (unlike my defining rule A-and-a-half above) but it is instrumental, so we're right on course/chorus. Goes a step further in that C2 is ALSO instrumental (keeping 'em wanting more. Or even any...ha)
Ex-Grrrr: this has choruses and first C is intact but follows the breaking-of-rule-B rule, i.e. words are different every C
Per Second squared: even setting aside all the variations on this, at one time the whole thing was sung, with a proper (if terrible) melody etc., in the end I asked Greg to sing the C mel. which is reverbed and pushed to the back as essentially the back-ups now. But it still sounds 'chorus-y' to me, so..
Choose Sides: none of the C's have the same words
13 Million Months of Work: none of the C's have the same words
Not What You Planned: as in the opener, there's a chorus, two of them in fact even given the song's brevity, so we go out of this world as we came in, with tradition.