 Re: Great Songs With Untypical Structure
Well, there is a whole range of songs that follow a scheme verse, verse, verse, verse. Those are not too typical for the pop scene though, but they are very typical for folk music. And if you take American Folk music, which is really not folk music, but poetry over guitar, you can name "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega which follows the verse-verse-verse scheme.
All in all, with vocal works there is hardly any other scheme possible. You either have two themes interchanging or you have a single one.
There are of course, double songs - when one song has verse-chorus, then other song has verse2-chorus2, and then we're back to the first verse-chorus. The best example of this is Beatles song "A Day in the Life".
Other than that however I can hardly remember other examples. Only if it counts when singing is interchanged with large blocks of solo instrumentals and then you should go over jazz classics.
In conclusion, I'd say that other theoretical forms would be melody1-melody2-melody3-melody1, for instance, that is that the number of blocks is not two - verse, chorus - but much more. I think that it is most likely to occur in opera, since opera melodies tend to be more developed melodically and less blocky by nature.
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