The word 'tunes' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a specific type of music, or to a specific song or melody. Example: "I always start my day by listening to some upbeat tunes to get me energized."
I understand why the Lib Dems feel the imperative to challenge the notion that they are compliant accomplices marching to Conservative tunes.
In order to concentrate the listener's perception on the rhythm, melodic material – most of it pinched from a book of Lithuanian folk tunes – is extremely simple, sometimes reduced to tiny repetitive patterns of a mere two or three pitches.
In 1934 Neville Cardus mused: "Maybe tomorrow … Stravinsky will share the fate of Strauss and Debusssy, and be called old-fashioned by the latest young 'bloods' while the rest of us in our advancing senility cry out 'O for the good old tunes of 'Le Sacre'".
Instead, Blair has been in familiar mode, repeating the old tunes that stress his sincerity and good faith, his firm belief that he was right and his view that it all comes down to a matter of judgment: "This isn't about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception; it's a decision," he said.
I sang tunes from Oklahoma! to her as she lay on her deathbed and that seemed to make her smile.
In those early days, bemused local drinkers rubbed shoulders with revelling now-generation teens and twenty somethings, bouncing to electroclash or rousing leftfield indie tunes.
But that song had the advantage of a substantially more homogeneous pop landscape, filled with vanilla tunes like Jason Mraz's I'm Yours and Miley Cyrus's The Climb, and it used the popular chord progression of the Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling as a foundation throughout.
The poem will be celebrated next month in a 200-mile onboard performance between Hull and London, involving scores of actors, 200 miles of track, eight towns and cities, recordings of some of the poet's beloved jazz tunes, and the voice of actor Bill Nighy reading his work over the train's Tannoy.
Disclosure's White Noise is next up at 69, definitely one of the signature tunes of 2013 for my money.
As if One Direction and Bieber weren't enough to have older listeners running to Radio 2 or Absolute Radio – the likely shelters for them to start with – Grimshaw also had Matt Smith taking part in one of the features (The Wheel of Four Tunes) while another feature, Show Quizness, revels in the excess of celebrity magazine fodder.
With guitars, pianos and the odd horn, the tunes are gloriously breezy, heartfelt affairs but pack a crafty left hook in a velvet glove.
