The clarinetist Stanley Drucker, with Mr. Isserlis and Mr. Biss, did justice to its appealingly tuneful, splightly lines, but apart from the occasional flash of inventiveness, the work itself seemed commonplace late Romanticism.
The song is downbeat and melancholy, filtered through "tuneful guitar lines reminiscent of The Cure and hefty drum patterns".
The music critic Ernest Bradbury comments that Heseltine's songs "serve both singer and poet, the one in their memorably tuneful vocal lines, the other in a scrupulous regard for correct accentuation free from any suggestion of pedantry".
With your small head and pert nose and oversized, ready smile and glossy pixie cut and squeakily tuneful speaking voice, uttering lines like "It came true!" as you gaze at your newly won Oscar with moistened doe-eyes, wearing a powder-pink Prada gown adorned with diamonds and bows: Why are you so annoying?
"With your small head and pert nose and oversized, ready smile and glossy pixie cut and squeakily tuneful speaking voice, uttering lines like 'It came true!' as you gaze at your newly won Oscar with moistened doe-eyes, wearing a powder-pink Prada gown adorned with diamonds and bows: Why are you so annoying?" From "Anne Hathaway: In Defense of the Happy Girl" by Sasha Weiss.
If they are calculated, the 1975 are just the latest in a long line of tuneful magpies with no active sense of shame who have cunningly titled their singles after appealing things: Girls, Chocolate, The City, Sex.
As it happened, the addition of Ms. Cohn pushed the band to make the best album of its career: her jagged lines provide a tuneful counterpart to the crashing guitars and Mr. Kasher's dreamy-screamy vocals.
Loesser's songs are wonderful, of course, top-of-the-line models of tuneful wit and economy.
The dancing features a lot of the dervish twirls and 90-to-180-degree kicks that Mr. Ashford favored in recent London revivals of "Evita" and "Guys and Dolls," as well as in "Promises, Promises". (High kicking and twirling are evidently common to all times and places). Loesser's songs are wonderful, of course, top-of-the-line models of tuneful wit and economy.
He's also the frontman of Taurus, a four-piece Brooklyn rock band with a tuneful and bittersweet air.
A strong line-up of tuneful indie-rock bands.
