Songs that don't have a chorus

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It's easy to assume that any given song will feature a chorus, and that we will hear that chorus three, four or maybe five times during the song's duration. But a chorus is certainly not an essential element to a song and many songs do go without. So how do chorus-less songs manage without the focus and energy of a chorus and can avoiding a chorus actually have advantages?

SOURCES:
Interview with Paul McCartney (2001): https://youtu.be/Krd5wouohCE
Green Day on “Jesus Of Suburbia”:https://www.rollingstone.com/m....usic/news/green-day-
The Beatles Anthology (2000)
Osborn, Brad (2016). Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead.
How Squeeze wrote “Up The Junction”: https://www.theguardian.com/mu....sic/2015/may/05/how-

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0:00 What is a chorus?
1:01 Through-composed
4:32 AABA structure
7:45 Sponsor
8:02 Instrumental chorus
9:57 Strophic form
13:02 Chorus-less songs