Best deployment of a choir in a song

[idunnosomename]

Entirety of Mr. Bean theme song

ecce homo quiiii est faba

[chveik]

Does it count if the whole choir is just Kevin Barnes?

YES

[El Unicornio, mang]

Cry Little Sister from The Lost Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMLMV6E4CM&ab_channel=AaronWoodDBS-2

Also, "I Don't Know Where It Comes From" by Ride. Obvious Stones homage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofZOHAfXiM&ab_channel=RideOfficial

[niat]

Faith No More - Just A Man

I probably wouldn't argue it's the best but it still gets me so hyped.

You're wrong. It IS the best.

[SteveDave]

You Can't Always Get What You Want

They fucked it by having the choir start the song. Had the choir just been in the main bit of the song it would've been great.

[SteveDave]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zgLL3yFno

This choir of child Serge Gainsbourg impersonators, causing the actual Gainsbourg to weep

Christ alive this is INCREDIBLE! Or as the French would say ENCREDIBLE!

[studpuppet]

Christ alive this is INCREDIBLE! Or as the French would say ENCREDIBLE!

I was about to say the same thing - and it also jolted me into remembering Cargo Culte which has a great choir.

[Better Midlands]

Choeurs d'enfants V.M.S.F - Baba Yaga La Sorcière (Charivari Pour Voix D'Enfants - Quand Les Enfants Chantent Magma)

[gilbertharding]

They fucked it by having the choir start the song. Had the choir just been in the main bit of the song it would've been great.

Shine A Light.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Let it Loose is loads better than both You Can't Always... and Shine A Light

[BJBMK2]

This Corrosion - Sisters Of Mercy, which I didn't know, until I just looked it up, was a Jim Steinman production. Huh.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Les Fleurs, Minnie Riperton

IS THE CORRECT ANSWER!!!

Also Mr Blue Sky by the ELO. Because of course.

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

Monstrance Clock- Ghost

[popcorn]

The moment the choir comes in on Decks Dark by Radiohead is the highlight of that album for me. I think it's quite original - it's spooky and swaggery at the same time, and it could have come across as bombastic and overblown but doesn't, it's tastefully integrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Del3C2W63Pk

[popcorn]

Is Survival by Muse the worst deployment of a choir in a song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcOUJM08bYk&ab_channel=Muse-Topic

[Tombola]

Pulp - Sunrise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcBDafhacog&ab_channel=Pulp-Topic

Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05G0983BcI&ab_channel=ClayCulver

[Pink Gregory]

Hiding All Away - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

In fact the choir aren't very far away on all of Abbatoir Blues, and it's ace.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.

[mrClaypole]

This one
https://youtu.be/2sIF2GC8S1M

[Inspector Norse]

There are obviously gazillions of gospel songs with choirs a-singing, this is pretty chunky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh-oge3eaUg

[buzby]

Red Army Choir singing a Doris Day song? Check.

[jonbob]

The Australian version of half Man half biscuit, not just a choir but a school choir
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whcpgF6aEA0

[Art Bear]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zgLL3yFno

This choir of child Serge Gainsbourg impersonators, causing the actual Gainsbourg to weep

Speaking of Gainsbourg, the choir at the end if "Cargo Culte" on Histoire de Melodie Nelson

Also the one on "The Seventh Seal" by Scott Walker.

[Tombola]

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PptHWHfnCnY

[Kankurette]

The Australian version of half Man half biscuit, not just a choir but a school choir
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whcpgF6aEA0

TISM are the Aussie HMHB? Do they do songs about obscure cricketers too?

[famethrowa]

TISM are the Aussie HMHB? Do they do songs about obscure cricketers too?

Well sort of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InycO9GoI1s

inspired by the 1979 Ashes.

[Rev Arthur Belling]

Probably not the best, but certainly one of the most curious:

The Beach Boys: That Same Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygwoMZH-hwY

[Mr Banlon]

I'm Not In Love - 10cc

[boki]

Give it up, guys, it's still Pissjoy.

[thecuriousorange]

I'm Not In Love - 10cc

The audio equivalent of a hot, steamy bath.