His songs veered from current rap and techno to Beatles-tinged tunefulness; the lyrics seesawed between cynicism and higher aspirations.
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This is not to dismiss Kleban's music, which expresses an old-fashioned tunefulness tempered with a mordant discord.
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While they have absorbed the economy and tunefulness of punk, they have somehow immunized themselves against punk's ironic euphoria.
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And, whether it's Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano or Lester Young blowing their horns, the emphasis is on tunefulness.
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David Gedge of the Wedding Present, with his other group, Cinerama, brought back straightforward new wave tunefulness in songs about wounded love.
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"Sandalwood " and " Hurricane, " her debut album skillfully fuses a breezy tunefulness with a mildly surreal pop vocabulary.
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In accord with the popular taste of his time, it is true, he occasionally supplied a tunefulness inappropriate to the drama of the moment.
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But there's something disarming about the whole affair, an off-kilter slant that transcends tunefulness to put the art in the pop.
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The unsettling part remains, thankfully, but it's only a touch weird and, more importantly, it's got tunefulness to spare.
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Marshall Crenshaw seemed old-fashioned when he emerged in 1982, singing pop songs that had the tunefulness and easygoing sincerity of the Beatles and Buddy Holly.
