The verses are more stark, and the chorus is catchier.
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She gave him a catchier name: the Golden State Killer.
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But the manual doesn't mention Google or a catchier brand name.
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Steven Universe is more brightly colored and has catchier songs to boot.
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A part of me wishes that coup was catchier, although I've definitely adjusted.
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"Biobot" — or maybe "growbot," since they're cultured, not assembled — seems a catchier option.
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But good luck finding a name catchier than the "House that Social Media Built."
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Both versions are sick, but this one is even catchier in my very humble opinion.
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Their starkness, too, heightens the alien familiarity; there's nothing catchier than an isolated melodic nugget.
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There could be a catchier phrase—but according to Andrieu, producers will have to get creative.
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With its poppier post-hardcore sound, the record was a whole lot catchier than its peers.
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I'd even shorten that to a pho-real movie or 4Real movie if you need something catchier.
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Yoku's Island Express could probably benefit from a catchier title, but to see it is to believe.
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To Our Readers: Do you have an idea for a catchier Democratic slogan than "A Better Deal"?
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It&aposs known as FHIR and pronounced "fire" — a catchier way of saying Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.
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If the music industry is singing a new and catchier tune, it has some erstwhile enemies to thank.
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The Touch Bar (a much catchier name than the rumored Magic Toolbar, mind) is, in a word, neat.
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Well, it's technically called a "pointy-nosed blue ratfish" (hydrolagus trolli), but isn't "ghost shark" so much catchier?
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Certainly a PR team could have brainstormed a catchier hashtag, like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's infamous #KeepTheSecrets.
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But when The Fall's sound became catchier and cleaner, it only served to contrast and accentuate Smith's unnerving idiosyncrasy.
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They have exclusively shared with THUMP a Japanese version of "Miku" which is somehow even catchier than the original.
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We wouldn't necessarily have to write a catchier song, we would just say that the song is super-catchy.
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But Google has a history of paring the releases with a tasty dessert to make the name a little catchier.
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Why We Wish They Were Real: Has there ever been a catchier one hit wonder than "That Thing You Do"?
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The catchier nickname and mass production of the four original flavors (strawberry, orange, lemon and lime), were an instant hit.
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As we got more confident in our writing and in ourselves as a band, we started to add catchier stuff.
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File under things we've been extremely curious about, but are hesitant to try: Fraxel, a catchier word for fractionated resurfacing laser.
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No offense to Rogers' musical talent -- his undergrad degree was in music composition -- but the songs of the cartoon spinoff are much catchier.
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"Brown or red tide is much catchier than harmful algal bloom," Mr. Korbel joked about the right wording to use in his broadcast.
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Darker, a little more mature, but still an excellent film for families, the songs believe it or not are catchier, so parents beware.
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Anaal Nathrakh is catchier than it has any right to be, especially on their latest record, A New Kind of Horror, streaming below.
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With Anette at the helm the band was able to showcase their shorter, catchier side, with bigger, more traditional structures and more joyful melodies.
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Nature is like a jazz musician, trying out slightly tweaked versions of a similar riff to find one just a bit catchier than the rest.
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Stephen Colbert's new series for his at-home version of The Late Show may need a catchier name, but we reckon the idea has legs.
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When McDonald's introduced the shake in 1970, it was called the St. Patrick's Day Shake; it received its new, catchier name a few years later.
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So Anti is her best album for a reason so simple it's tautological—despite its supposed rejection of track-and-hook mechanics, it features catchier songs.
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By 2000, she had moved to Denver with her husband Charles Joseph Walker, a newspaper salesman, and changed her name to something catchier: Madam C.J. Walker.
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Blink-182's "I Won't Be Home For Christmas" might be the better-known holiday pop-punk song, but "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out" is catchier.
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Louder and catchier than the debut, this is ultimately a more conventional album, its upbeat hookiness coming closer to recognizable rap norms of aggression and glee.
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They are working to come up with a catchier name than clearXchange, and hope to launch a marketing campaign around the middle of this year, said Harman.
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It's not the first company to rename itself to reflect a broader product range or catchier title: Google, Pepsi and BlackBerry are all the result of renaming projects.
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Make no mistake though, Bieber songs may have gotten catchier thus making him more likable to olds like myself, but that doesn't necessarily make him a good actor.
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Its scientific name is Xanthoparmelia scabrosa, and it contains a chemical "somewhat analogous" to Viagra, according to Dr. Allison Knight, the lichenologist who coined its much catchier name.
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Their latest EP sinks their talons in deeper, offering moments both catchier (the grinning rave-up "SEXY VAMPIRE") and more crushing (the stuttering, scuffed, phlegm smeared title track).
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HomeRF (short for home radio frequency) also had a catchier name than IEEE 802.11, and it had lofty plans for higher speeds and expansion into the business market.
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I'm no marketing expert, but "Where Is Everybody?" strikes me as a far catchier title for this book than the one it has, and it's definitely more accurate.
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There's still a lot of work to be done to understand the far-reaching consequences of the D.B.C.F.T. (also, work to be done to find a catchier name).
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If we're going with the ghostwriter theory, I think this is the official "Offset song" but "Be Careful" was the smarter and catchier choice to capitalize on the drama.
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Beyond that, though, Thicke wrote a slew of TV theme songs throughout his career, penning some of the catchier hooks that landed on air during the '70s and '80s.
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And I'll give it to LG, Hand ID is a much catchier name than "palm vein unlock," which is one of the creepier sounding smartphone features in recent memories.
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When catchier songs like "Southern Sky" and "Gretel" start to make the LP feel like a more straightforward indie rock record, the ensuing tracks unexpectedly go into experimental territory.
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Wealth Matters State Street Global Advisors will introduce its 5003th exchange-traded fund on Tuesday, the SPDR Gender Diversity Index E.T.F. Fortunately, the fund's ticker symbol is catchier: SHE.
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After Antenna, Cave In dropped a few more records, each one striking a balance between their harder-edged early years and the catchier elements of their early 2000s work.
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" To do that, Yum's management is using a three-word motto, not dissimilar to some of its brands' catchier slogans, to promote its ideals: RED, short for "relevant, easy and distinct.
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According to a new paper in the The Winnower, academic papers with titles employing catchier phrasing and positive framing are shared far more widely online compared to those with boring titles.
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It would have sounded at home on Yeezus, but it also shares a straightforward celebratory quality with the rest of The Life of Pablo, and it's catchier than anything on Yeezus.
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Sitting somewhere between Disney soundtrack fluff and angular art-school pop, it was catchier than velcro and a kind of musical equivalent to the vacuous emoji chat of the WhatsApp generation.
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Katy Perry's hook is catchier and more satisfying than just about anything on Witness, Pharrell sounds like he's having fun singing about virtual reality, memory, and electricity, and Big Sean... he's there too!
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Tegan and Sara's fifth album, "The Con," was a revelation: catchier than anything this Canadian duo had done before its release in 2007, bursting every minute or two into a newly unforgettable hook.
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Promise Everything is a record primed to appease any fan of rock music, as Basement makes the hooks catchier than ever and adds a much bigger feeling of space and warmth in their sound.
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And longtime media watchers may have noticed that the Times headlines are sometimes a little more risque and catchier than they used to be, a possible concession to the massive competition from online publishers.
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" At the time of publication, Fashion Nova's last tweet was a coupon code, offering shoppers the chance to "buy more, save more" — but that's catchier than "pay more, so we can pay our subcontractors more.
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FKA twigs, "Good to Love": FKA twigs' newest single is arriving on the heels of last year's daring, suggestive EP M3LL155X, though it's catchier and more straightforward than any of the songs included on that release.
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It's a soft party-pop track: the verses hint at the shiny 80s throwbacks of Carly Rae Jepsen without ever capturing her hedonism or magic, the choruses are on the catchier side of Mickey Mouse Club pop.
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Billed "R&B" as they started playing out in 1963, the Stones were catchier and quicker than blues, and on these 32 radio transcriptions they sound like the premier bar band of their time if not ever.
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It might be doing well with its videos, but modern J-pop will need to come up with catchier songs if it wants to rival the worldwide appeal of the growing force that is South Korea's pop scene.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Author and professor Grace Lavery could not have picked a catchier and more alluring title than Quaint, Exquisite for her recently released book about Victorian aesthetics and the way Victorian intellectuals idealized Japan.
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A name was needed—or, to be accurate, a catchier name than (5003) 2500 MU230, its previous moniker—because the rock in question had become a target for New Horizons, a mission launched by NASA in 2000, to visit Pluto and worlds beyond.
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The track is the latest single from his upcoming fourth album I Decided—he dropped "Bounce Back" and "No More Interviews" earlier this year—and it is catchier than any Christmas carol you will be blasting out this festive season, for real.
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Where the bubblegum melodies of "I'm Always In Love" and "Candyfloss" anchored Summerteeth, Tweedy's ear for a good hook kept going: few things are catchier than "Kamera" off Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or the underrated "The Late Greats" off A Ghost Is Born.
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Known as "the new NAFTA" — which is certainly catchier than its official name, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — it's a replacement for the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement, which Mr. Trump pledged to rip up as part of his campaign platform.
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Weeks later, after a frenzy of coding, rigging, and seasickness, Project Pequod — renamed at the last to the allegedly catchier Twitter I will not dwell overlong on the alarums and excursions of our subsequent seafaring; the rise and fall of Captain Costolo; Queequeeg's fate.
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While Winters' had pre-Melkbelly outlets like reddelicious, a folk-rock project and Coffin Ships, her lo-fi duo with husband and Melkbelly guitarist Liam Winters, her new solo songs, which were recorded with the Funs' Philip Lesicko at his Rose Raft studios as well as the Hecks' Dave Vettraino, are catchier and more instantly accessible.
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Best Song: "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" A thrilling successor to the chimney sweep number "Step in Time" in "Mary Poppins," in the sequel "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" captures the same magic of a hidden-in-plain-sight world coming to life (this time it's lamplighters), but delivers a catchier tune and a rewind-worthy dance number.
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Everyone from your kid sister to the neighborhood postie enjoys singing this chorus, which is medically proven to be catchier than herpes, but that's mostly because it's fun to say "pussy" in the same demanding and aggressive way as men have been talking about their dicks since the dawn of the erection, not because this song is actually erotic in any way whatsoever.
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She's a 27-year-old mother of five from Stoughton Mass who's currently paying the bills with Little Big Town's 29 CMA honoree "Girl Crush" and McGraw's 212 country smash "Humble & Kind"—parental advice that sounds humbler and kinder (and wiser) (even catchier) the way McKenna understates it on her tenth album and second with serious distribution, where it's one of seven straight winners that precede three not-bad-at-alls.
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Last week I got to spend a short time playing the game at Niantic's office in San Francisco, and while they didn't reveal all their secrets, I saw enough to convince me that HP:WU (I await a catchier nickname, like PoGO) will be a huge time sink for any Harry Potter fan and will probably convert or cannibalize many players from GO. If you were worried this would be a slapdash cash-in effort like some of the HP tie-ins we've seen… don't be.
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He also said that the song is catchier than "Beautiful Monster".
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The New York Times called the song "catchier than anything on the radio by the White Stripes."Strauss, Neil (February 16, 2003). "MUSIC: SPINS; Burning Down the Garage". The New York Times.
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It certainly becomes catchier after multiple listens. Dappy's voice is truly amazing and edits a very comical essence into the chorus. Ciao.co.uk also positively reviewed the song, claiming it had a great beat and fantastic sound. N-Dubz's sound really comes into its own in this track.
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The station manager thought he needed a catchier name, so Crothers suggested "Scatman" for his scat singing. He married Helen, a native of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1937. In the 1940s, the couple moved to California. He performed in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York.
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Without a drummer, their music took another turn towards Afrobeat and breakbeat. Metamorphosed once again, Black Dice emerged as a tight compositional unit, with little emphasis remaining on improvisation or long-form songs. A near-pop sensibility was embraced, with shorter and catchier tunes. Also in 2004, the band's song "Skeleton" was featured in HBO's documentary Thinking XXX.
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He demonstrated this with a short clip of Super Mario Bros., showing the character's movements and players' button presses syncing with the beat of the music. He also added that the theme reflects the action-oriented gameplay of the series. Kondo stated that he was not sure if he could make any future music of his "catchier" than it.
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El Camino received acclaim from music critics. According to review aggregator website Metacritic, the album received an average review score of 84/100 based on 37 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim". Critics mainly praised the instrumentation of the songs on the album, as well as the album production. Spin gave the record an 8/10 rating, calling it "irresistibly gaudy" and "catchier, glitzier, ballsier".
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Artists often choose songs that are more up-tempo as lead singles. Such songs are often catchier and attract attention toward listeners. However, the subsequent lead single might be slower in tempo in order to demonstrate the range of the album. Female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera often maintain a formula of an up-tempo first lead single with a slow ballad follow- up.
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Illuminate's early albums are often associated with Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (literally, New German Death Art), especially their 1996 album Verfall. Their music has fewer rock elements and much catchier tunes than more typical Gothic and Darkwave bands. Illuminate's melodies often have piano accompaniment, and their later albums included more electropop elements. Their songs often have themes such as love, loss, longing and the transience of existence.
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The group auditioned in front of several Motown staffers singing various songs by The Shirelles and The Chantels. Although reportedly impressed, the staffers asked the group to come back with an original recording. Dobbins later took an unfinished blues song, "Please Mr. Postman", and rewrote it as a catchier doo-wop single. Before they returned to Motown, Dobbins opted to leave for personal reasons.
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The Summertime Song (voiced by Sean Szeles) is a living tape with the fictional band "Solid Bold" song Summertime Lovin' on it. After coming to life and brutally annoying the park gang, Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, and the rest come up with an even catchier song and destroy the tape for good. The Summertime is revived in "Exit 9B", but is killed again, this time by Mordecai with a pole.
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The self-produced album features catchier melodies and more synth playing from Alcaraz. At the same time, there is minimal screaming and more focus on Chavez's singing, the most obvious change on the self-titled album. With the release of their carrier single "A Promise", ChicoSci gained more popularity as their market grew. ChicoSci went on to play in Malaysia and Singapore as well as local hot spots like Cafe Saguijo.
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It was an exam week of the second semester of the school year 2003 when four students of the same management block decided to form a band. With a fusion of diverse personalities, Fig was born. The name of the band derives from the synthesis of their sections when they were in high school. It was then started out as Fignewton, & later on turn to Fig for a catchier & shorter name.
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The song has a "modern heaviness" sound in its music, with dark, atmospheric instrumentals that reverse into a catchier and brighter melody with lyrics such as "Rin rin rin! Ohayō, wake up" (Ring ring ring! Good morning, wake up). Kikuchi noted how the tone of the song was directly opposite to Japanese kei-on music (light music); as a result, the band formed under the label Jūonbu (heavy music club) to signify the contrast.
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He summarizes his feelings in the revelation that across the hockey world, what matters is whether or not you can play. "If you can play, we welcome you." The quote was adapted to the catchier "If you can play, you can play" by the campaign. You Can Play had its genesis in early 2011 at an event at the University of Denver, at which Glenn Witman had asked Patrick to be a guest speaker.
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In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder wrote, "even though there's nothing new going on in these grooves, the sheer formal thrill of hearing someone who knows exactly what he's doing makes Pictures at Eleven something of an event almost in spite of its modest ambitions." Robert Christgau from The Village Voice was impressed by Plant's ability to recreate Led Zeppelin's aural sensibilities with duller musicians and catchier undertones, but ultimately found the music somewhat insignificant.
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Hunt, p. 24. Guitar World editor Damian Fanelli includes the song on his list of Harrison's ten best post-Beatles "Guitar Moments", saying of the recording: "the main event is clearly Harrison's slightly wild, wacky – and very bouncy – slide guitar solo, which includes an alternate melody line that's even catchier than the melody Ringo is singing." Andrew Grant Jackson features "Back Off Boogaloo" in his book Still the Greatest: The Essential Solo Beatles Songs.Jackson, p. vi.
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Critical response to ¡Viva la Cobra! was generally mixed to positive. Luke O'Neil of Alternative Press enjoyed the disc's "party- at-the-end-of-the-world" style, and stated that "Contemporary emo-pop sensibilities meet ’80s party abandon on this record, and neither have sounded so enjoyable in years." Mikael Wood of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a "B" grade, and concluded that the album improved upon its predecessor with "catchier hooks and harder-rocking beats".
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The 2004 tour throughout Germany and Europe featured an appearance at the Rites of Spring Festival in Pennsylvania, USA, and the support of Marillion in Cologne. Sylvan then produced two albums, both released in April 2006. Posthumous Silence tells of a father who reads the diary of his apparently dead daughter and learns of her desperation. Presets had shorter and catchier songs with the intention to make Sylvan's music known to a wider range of rock fans.
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The album received mixed responses from critics reflected on Metacritic by its normalized score of 55 out of 100 based on 12 reviews. Jonathan Ringen of Rolling Stone called it "a catchier-than-chlamydia mix of power-pop hooks and effects-heavy riffage" but noted that "all the candy-coated excess might leave you feeling a little like Courtney Love after a heavy night". For Allmusic, Johnny Loftus referred to the songs as "sexy catch phrases around rhythms that have been heard before".
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In 2002, In Flames recorded and released their sixth studio album, Reroute to Remain. Unlike all of In Flames' previous albums, Reroute to Remain was not recorded in Studio Fredman or produced by Nordström. The album was produced by Daniel Bergstrand and recorded in a house the band rented in Denmark, except for the drums which were recorded at Dug-Out studio. Reroute to Remain represented a major stylistic shift for In Flames music, in the addition of clean vocals, catchier choruses and less growling.
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The New York Times described it as "zippier and catchier" than Angels & Airwaves' debut studio album We Don't Need to Whisper, but concluded that neither band was as good as Blink-182. As of September 2011, the album sold over 274,000 copies in the US. +44's first show took place at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, on September 7, 2006, with a second appearance following at the London Astoria.Shooman, 2010. p. 158 The band embarked on a promotional tour in the United Kingdom shortly thereafter.
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Dagger & Guitar is the 1983 third album by the Danish rock band Sort Sol (previously Sods) and the first of their records to carry the new name Sort Sol. The album was, when it was released, often seen as the first "commercial" album for the band as it contained more listenable and catchier songs than the two previous albums. It was produced by the American producer Chris Butler. As with the previous records this was too reissued in 1997, though with a new cover.
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GameSpot's Bartholow echoed similar remarks, applauding the interactivity of the soundtrack. Liu of Game Revolution felt that the music improves as the game progresses, similarly commending its use with gameplay. IGN's Perry described the soundtrack as "a weird concoction of J-pop and techno-synth", and noted that the "poppy tunes" were catchier than the "techno tunes". Conversely, particular criticism was directed at the voice acting in the game; GameSpot's Bartholow described it as "uniformly atrocious", while IGN's Perry referred to Spike's voice as "nothing special".
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"Mad Love" received generally positive reviews from music critics. Robin Murray of Clash called the song "a bold return" and "a blast of positive energy in an increasingly dark world, with its searing melodies underlining Mabel's astonishing promise". Writing in their column for Billboard, Gab Ginsberg and Jason Lipshutz commented, "Impossibly, 'Mad Love' is almost even catchier" than "Don't Call Me Up". NMEs Hannah Mylrea likened the track's "formula of brilliantly brash lyrics and a powerhouse chorus" to those of "Don't Call Me Up".
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"Boom Clap" received positive reviews from music critics. 4Music said the song was "infectious" and a "feelgood track [which] contrasts softly-sung verses with a big attitude- packed chorus" resulting in a song that was "catchier than the clap." Spin listed "Boom Clap" at number 24 on its list of "The 101 Best Songs of 2014," writing that "Charli XCX's excellent use of onomatopoeia gives this intoxicated Sucker cut her most unforgettable chorus yet." Pitchfork Media named it the 37th best song of 2014.
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Fun fairs along the track and historic trains ensured the success of the event. New thinking started after the success of the event, and the district of Annaberg prepared to acquire the railway. On June 1, 1998, the operator BVO Bahn GmbH, since 2007 Saxon Steam Railway Company took over operations from the Deutsche Bahn, and renamed the railway to the catchier Fichtelbergbahn. The new operator aligned operations with the tourism in the surrounding area, and within relative short time achieved country-wide recognition.
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So as her whistle register, since the only song that includes her whistling is the upbeat track, "I Do". The song was written by Joleen Belle, Michael Jay, Carsten Lindberg Hansen and Joachim Svare. When it was released as the first commercial single of the album, fans translated the song's title as her sweet answer to her boyfriend at that time, Nyoy Volante, but Nina declined. "Ooh Boy", also penned by Belle, is like the continuation of "I Do", with the same arrangement and a catchier refrain.
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This was also the first Inme single to include the use of profane language and as such, a clean version was released to video and radio stations. The song is a sarcastic attack on the currently pop saturated British music charts. The song has a mock indie pop sound in its verses but also contains a guitar solo backed by complex polyrhythms. It was written in response to a record producer who told InMe that their songs for their 4th album Herald Moth should be shorter, catchier and not contain any guitar solos.
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In retrospective reviews King & Queen has gained positive comments. Jason Ankeny of Allmusic gives the album 4.5 stars out of 5. He states that "Redding and Thomas enjoy an undeniable chemistry, and they play off each other wonderfully", and summarizes the album as follows: "Otis Redding never recorded a lighter, more purely entertaining record than King & Queen". Robert Christgau gives it an "A-"; although he says the album was "pretty ephemeral", he praises the music, and writes that it sounds "vivacious, catchier and funnier [than] most soul music".
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Lonerism is the second studio album by Australian musical project Tame Impala, released on 5 October 2012 by Modular Recordings. Like the band's debut studio album, Innerspeaker (2010), Lonerism was written, recorded, performed, and produced by Kevin Parker, with live member Jay Watson contributing on two tracks. Recorded mostly in Perth, Australia, and Paris, France, Lonerism builds on the psychedelic sound of its predecessor and features fewer guitars and more synthesisers and samples. Parker attempted to incorporate his love for pop music into his songwriting for the record through catchier melodies.
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It's faster, harder and way catchier." Neil McCormick, writing in The Daily Telegraph, said Lewis's "mezzo-soprano range allows her to take melodies from luxurious low notes to high-flying falsetto, gliding with elegant power and impressive control through all kinds of fluctuations and modulations. [...] The approach of the album's producers is to throw Leona at a song, with multi-tracked vocals shooting off in every direction, until you feel like you're listening to a room full of cloned divas fighting over who gets the top line. It's an exhausting yet strangely exhilarating experience.
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Synthesizers came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s, particularly through their adoption by bands of the New Romantic movement. The New Romantic scene had developed in the London nightclubs Billy's and the Blitz and was associated with bands such as Duran Duran, Visage, and Spandau Ballet. They adopted an elaborate visual style that combined elements of glam rock, science fiction and romanticism. Duran Duran have been credited with incorporating dance beats into synth-pop to produce a catchier and warmer sound, which provided them with a series of hit singles.
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Sam Lanky of Idolator gave the EP a positive review saying; "The four-track EP is led by single "Somebody Loves You," a spine-tinglingly euphoric '80s pop nugget with a singalong chorus catchier than most of what's on mainstream radio. Weirder still is that the other three tracks are equally impressive: The luminous "You're In Love" evokes the new Tegan and Sara album, while "Right Here" is dreamily lush; "High Society" is an injection of New Order synth-pop with a rich, cinematic chorus. It's absolutely perfect pop, and it's absolutely - incredibly! - free".
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"It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing" received mixed reviews from music critics. Ron Rollins of Dayton Daily News believed the song was "catchier" under its pop format from the Red CD of Up!. Eric R. Danton of the Hartford Courant felt his heartstrings weakly tugged by "It Only Hurts when I'm Breathing", and added, "The whole endeavor feels like a calculated and spectacularly cynical attempt to make money while expending as little effort as possible." Carol Tannehill of The News-Sentinel called the song one of the hottest singles on country and pop radio at the time.
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Reality Effect is the second album by the British band The Tourists, released in 1979. This album received much more favourable reviews than the band's first album, with catchier songs and a stronger reliance on the vocals of singer Annie Lennox. The album contained two hit singles, "So Good to Be Back Home Again" (UK #8) and a cover of the 1964 Dusty Springfield song "I Only Want to Be With You" (UK #4). Although the band featured Lennox and her future Eurythmics partner Dave Stewart on guitar, the bulk of the songs were written by singer/guitarist Peet Coombes.
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" The Seattle Times. Steve Huey of Allmusic felt the song was enhanced by Kiedis' lyrics, which were "a free-associative mixture of positive vibes, tributes to musical heroes, and free love, and their literal meaning was often as difficult to understand as Kiedis' nasal, staccato enunciation. But that distinctive vocal style helped make the most comprehensible lines even catchier and more memorable, greatly enhancing the song's appeal." He continued by praising the track's music, "John Frusciante's guitar should not be underappreciated either; his noisy, scratchy funk-rock work add[s] depth and texture to the powerhouse rhythm section of Flea and Chad Smith.
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The evident transition to rock music is the main feature of this album, a transition considered as risky by many musical critics. The performer left definitely behind his singer-songwriter traditional image and turned to rock music including more musical instruments such as electric guitars and hard drums. Although his lyrics, as happened with his previous album, reflected his personal feelings and day-to-day stories, they were transmitted in a very different way, with much catchier refrains in the most of the songs. The opening track, entitled "Ocupen su localidad" (Occupy your seat) is a clear example of that change.
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Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music and culture movement that emphasised Britishness. It produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US- led grunge music and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene. The movement brought British alternative rock into the mainstream and formed the backbone of a larger British popular cultural movement, Cool Britannia, which evoked the Swinging Sixties and the British guitar pop of that decade. Britpop was a media-driven focus on bands which emerged from the independent music scene of the early 1990s.
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Recorded with a band, The World Should Know is officially credited to Couse and The Impossible. More user-friendly and with a bigger, catchier sound than Genes, it was nominated for "Best Album" at the 2006 Meteor Awards and Couse was nominated for "Best Irish Male". The record went on to a get full UK release and spawned a number of singles. The line up of Couse and The Impossible was Couse on vocals and guitar with Simon Quigley (keyboards), Mike O'Dowd (drums), Pete Meighan (guitar), and Dave Flynn (Bass Guitar); the group had broken up by 2007.
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" Q said, "Common's > best album so far, one that proves hip hop can be both smart and > mainstream." Nathan Brackett of Rolling Stone said, "West is the producer > Common has been waiting for all of his career: He makes Common both catchier > and edgier at the same time." Will Hermes of Spin said, "Even when the music > flags, Common's remarkably hungry raps push it along." XXL gave the album > its highest rating of XXL, writing, "While label support and the times > heavily influence whether great music can be crowned a classic, if nothing > else Common has created a flawless album.
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Depeche Mode in concert at London's O2 Arena, 2009 The definition of MIDI and the development of digital audio made the creation of purely electronic sounds much easier.M. Russ, Sound Synthesis and Sampling (Elsevier, 2nd ed., 2004), , p. 66. This led to the growth of synthpop, by which, particularly through their adoption by the New Romantic movement, synthesizers came to dominate the pop and rock music of the early 80s.. The early sound of synthpop was "eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing", but more commercially orientated bands like Duran Duran adopted dance beats to produce a catchier and warmer sound.
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There are ten such axes, one for each space diagonal of the cube. As a result, it is a deep-cut puzzle in which each twist affects all three faces. Mèffert's original name for this puzzle was the Pyraminx Cube, to emphasize that it was part of a series including his first tetrahedral puzzle, the Pyraminx. The catchier name Skewb was coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his Metamagical Themas column, and Mèffert liked it enough not only to market the Pyraminx Cube under this name but also to name some of his other puzzles after it, such as the Skewb Diamond.
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Rap-Up called the song a "club-ready bop", while "Cardi sets it off with a fierce and fiery verse". Starr Bownbank of Yahoo thought the song was "one of the catchier bops of the year". Shaad D'Souza at Paper included the song in his "10 New Songs You Need to Hear Now" list, saying it "makes a lot out of its minimal, percussive production". Ranking it the fourth best track of the album, Billboard's Jason Lipshutz opined that "the anthem for the admiring boys is playfully soulful, with Jennie and Rosé showcasing their vocals and Cardi keeping it rated PG".
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A writer for DJ Booth wrote that the remixes produced by Dupri sped up the slow tempo of the original version and added some percussion. He continued to write that while the remix is not superior to the original, but it is catchier and more likely to receive radio airplay. "Angels Cry" and "Up Out My Face" from Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel were released as remix singles, with Ne-Yo featured on the former and Nicki Minaj on the latter. A release date of February 23, 2010 was slated, and then pushed back to March 9.
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With Ed Catmull, Smith was a founding member of the Lucasfilm Computer Division, which developed computer graphics software, including early renderer technology. As director of the Computer Graphics Project, Smith created and directed the "Genesis Demo" in The Wrath of Khan, and conceived and directed the short animated film The Adventures of Andre and Wally B., animated by John Lasseter. At some point in the 1980s, a designer suggested naming a new digital compositing computer the "Picture Maker". Smith thought that the laser-based device have a catchier name, and came up with "Pixer", which after a meeting was changed to "Pixar".
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Fernandez later told HitQuarters: "At that time his music had a lot of verses and took a long time to get into the hook, and so we took time in getting the songs catchier and less on the rap side." Fernandez introduced Pitbull to Lil Jon, hoping to secure the rapper a small guest intro spot on Lil Jon's upcoming album Kings of Crunk. According to Fernandez, Jon took a liking to Pérez and offered him a track on the album; it is called "Pitbull's Cuban Ride Out." This track helped raise the young rapper's profile.
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" A review on Sputnikmusic by Alex Silveri states that compared to Count Your Blessings, Suicide Season is "fresher and catchier", giving the album a 3 out of 5 rating. A review on IGN was positive, pointing out that although there are some weak songs on the album, it is "a great departure from their previous effort", and goes on to say "All in all this is an album to write home about."Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season review A review of the album on Punknews.org was far more critical of the album, stating "there is "substance" here—there are guitar solos, tempo changes, gang vocals—but there isn't substance.
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The Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, has stated that the term Wi-Fi was chosen from a list of ten potential names invented by Interbrand. The name Wi-Fi has no further meaning, and was never officially a shortened form of "Wireless Fidelity". Nevertheless, the Wi-Fi Alliance used the advertising slogan "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" for a short time after the brand name was created, and the Wi-Fi Alliance was also called the "Wireless Fidelity Alliance Inc" in some publications.
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Merry mainly blend the genres of classical rock 'n' roll, hard rock, punk, alternative, blues and jazz fusion, occasionally experimenting with undertones of heavy metal, surf, techno, ballads and more. Though some may not find this entirely appealing, the result is undeniably "totally fresh", as former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman put it. Like many others, the members themselves were influenced by Japanese pioneer rock bands of the 80s and early 90s such as Buck-Tick, D'erlanger, Luna Sea, Kuroyume, The Blue Hearts and Boøwy. The main songwriters are the two guitarists Yuu and Kenichi, the former writing majority of the slower, groovier songs and the latter composing faster, catchier melodies.
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Common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. In its second phase in the 1980s, the introduction of dance beats and more conventional rock instrumentation made the music warmer and catchier and contained within the conventions of three- minute pop.. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras and horns. Thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally more optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism and aspiration.
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C. Vernon Coleman II of XXL opined that Ma "puts a new spin on an old classic", writing that "Austin chops the R&B; track into something more suitable to spit over, and Rem takes the opportunity to talk a little greasy". Eric Skelton of Complex thinks that the song shows Ma's "catchier, more radio- friendly side". Jasmine Grant of VH1 described the song as "a ladies anthem and '90s tribute all wrapped into one", and wrote that Brown is "the perfect selection for the catchy hook". Will Lavin of Joe felt that Ma and Brown "have created an ode to the regality of brown skin".
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In March 2018, Kristen Anderson-Lopez revealed in an interview that she and her husband, Robert Lopez, would return from the film Frozen to write new songs for its sequel Frozen II, having already recorded a song for the sequel with star Kristen Bell. On August 13, 2019, star Josh Gad said that the songs in the sequel will be "even better" and "even catchier" than the first film's. During the 2019 D23 Expo, it was revealed that there would be seven new songs. The complete tracklist was revealed on September 30, along with the announcement of pre-orders; the soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records on November 15.
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Sakanaction was pinned as a different type of band since they experimented with electronic music and synthrock. Other bands that have gone mainstream included Gesu no Kiwami Otome, Sekai no Owari, and Alexandros. Because of the sudden major increase on indie bands and rock bands in general which competed with contemporary J-Pop artists, the movement has been referred to as a band boom by the media and has been praised as a change to the Japanese music in general. Since these bands don't rely in a very heavy sound but take a softer, catchier approach, they proved to be more appealing to pop fans that are not familiar with rock.
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From the point where Alphonso Johnson joined the band, individual solos became more prominent in concert, but were never allowed to overwhelm the collective approach. Initially, the band's music featured an improvisational method (similar to Miles Davis's Bitches Brew- period), but eventually this shifted to a more groove-oriented approach, and catchier compositions (as epitomized by their 1977 hit single "Birdland"). Joe Zawinul's playing style was often dominated by quirky melodic improvisations (simultaneously bebop-, ethnic-, and pop-sounding) combined with sparse but rhythmic big-band chords or bass lines. Having originally made his name as a pioneering electric piano player, he went on to consistently develop the role of the synthesizer in jazz during his time with Weather Report.
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Upon the song's release, Mike Wass of Idolator said "Shut Up and Dance" is "pretty irresistible" with its "monstrous chorus and a plethora of hooks". Billboards Ryan Reed gave the song a four and a half stars out of five, mentioning how Petricca's vocal runs are "catchier than most bands' choruses". AbsolutePunks Anthony Sorendino wrote that the track is not "a cookie cutter chorus rigged to a cheap set of verses" and that the chord progression is what sells it. AllMusic's James Christopher Monger described the song as a "pulsing, closing credits-ready anthem that oozes upbeat millennial enthusiasm" while having "just enough angst to evoke a Breakfast Club post-lunch therapy session".
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" Who biographer John Atkins says the song has a "muscular texture" and is "fully realized" but that it represents an "orthodox heavy rock format" that the band usually shunned. The Who FAQ author Mike Segretto considers it one of Entwistle's "catchier songs," attributing its lack of chart success to its being "too heavy" and "too mean" for the 1977 singles chart. Segretto considers the song to be underrated, finding humor in the situation but stating that "genuine vulnerability makes the song more than a good giggle and undercuts the performance's cock-rock attitude." But it was not a favorite of Who lead singer Roger Daltrey, who complained that it went "on and on and on and on.
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Claire Lobenfeld of Stereogum gave the song a positive review, commenting that the song is "the most pop we've ever heard from the band" and comparing it to other 1990s alternative rock acts such as Lit and Foo Fighters. Consequence of Sound described the song as "a sweeping rock anthem". Chris Martins of Spin magazine compared it to the band's hit 1994 song "Closer", while referring to it as "a surprisingly poppy, powered by major chord riffage and an upbeat backing track". He also stated that the track "swerves in and out of fiery punk passages that offset the catchier songwriting quite nicely" and that it "finds NIN veering into non-traditional territory".
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It was an instant hit and later was voted as the third most popular song of all time by BBC World. However, the allure of instant success and the amount of interest Shoaib was ready to invest in the band kept Rohail and Shahzad going and convinced Junaid to hang around for at least the recording of their first album. The band lead guitarist, Nusrat Hussain, left the band and suggested Rohail Hyatt to bring Salman Ahmad as his replacement. Inspired by a song in Rush's album Moving Pictures, Nusrat Hussain initially composed music for the guitar in the song, but was rejected by Shoaib Mansoor at the very first draft as he wanted it to be catchier.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented on the US release, "laidback, sweet country-rock, [it] has a similar sound to the band's debut, but the melodies are a little sharper and catchier, making [it] a better, more fully-rounded collection." In Australia, Diamantina Cocktail became their highest charting album, peaking at No. 2; while the US version reached the top 50 on the Billboard 200. In January 1978 it was certified gold by RIAA for sales of 500,000 copies: the first Australian band to do so. The lead single, "Help Is on Its Way" reached No. 1 in Australia. Both it and the fourth single, "Happy Anniversary", peaked in the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Allmusic gave the first an album rating of three stars and the second four stars, commenting of Walk By Love that, "more commercial than The Promise, this second solo album features catchier songs and fuller pop arrangements." Allmusic pointed out that the albums had both been critically acclaimed, "if little heard". Soles went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Bob Neuwirth, Steve Poltz, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others. He was part of the highly acclaimed Cinemax special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.
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The song originated from a trip to Japan in which she felt apathetic and unmotivated to explore, and its lyrics are based on her complex relationship with her father. "Kyoto" has been described as one of the catchier songs on the album; its upbeat tone was requested by Berg, who felt she had written too many slow ballads. The title track derives its name from an in-joke among musicians: a punisher is an overzealous fan, one who "lingers at the merch table a little too long". The song examines her longtime love for Elliott Smith, with Bridgers imagining a conversation between them in which she would be the punisher, given her intense devotion to his music.
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Rooty has been well received by critics. John Bush of AllMusic gave it 5 out of 5 stars, calling it "so raw you can't believe they spent over an hour per track, so perfect you're glad they stopped noodling about long before most producers would, and so poppy they should get picked up by commercial radio in America as well as the rest of the world". David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave it an A– grade and called the album "where heart and feet meet and lovingly coexist". Robert Christgau of Village Voice gave it the same grade, writing "no catchier collection of jingles has come to my attention since Steve Miller made his mint off jet airliners".
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"Celice" was originally composed to integrate the soundtrack "The Da Vinci Code", so that can be interpreted as the torture instrument cilice and a woman who tortures a man. The song "Analogue (All I Want)" was originally a song called "Minor Key Sonata (Analogue)", which (like the rest of the album) was produced by Martin Terefe and mixed by Flood. Max Martin was then brought in to turn "Minor Key Sonata (Analogue)" into a more radio-friendly song, with a less surreal lyric and catchier chorus. The song was then re-written as "Analogue (All I Want)" and re-recorded, and is the only track on the album not produced by Terefe.
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The Re-View calls "Some Nights" a "bolder, catchier and more striking track than its predecessor "We Are Young", upping the stakes when it comes to both style and substance." In closing, he cited the track as one that would "cement [Fun] as one of the most intriguing and exciting new bands to emerge from the States in recent years." The Guardian writer Dave Simpson compared Ruess's vocals in the song to those of Freddie Mercury and called the lyrics "sincere and oddly moving". Ray Rahman of Entertainment Weekly, while reviewing the whole album, criticized its second half as inferior to the first and also called "Some Nights" the best track on the album, alongside "We Are Young".
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The Rocket (a Northwest music- related newspaper), the Seattle Weekly and the University of Washington Daily all printed good reviews, the UW Daily saying: "This four-piece blends the conventions of 'interesting' music, replete with complex structures and difficult-sounding parts, with the undeniable pop-rock sensibility. Thus, they manage to sidestep the ghettoes of prog for something altogether catchier and more satisfying but never let matters become precious or cute. They have an undeniable power when playing live that turns on tightness and the tack-sharp, vaguely dissociative lyrics and vocal lines." In 1996 and 1997, the band continued touring with Built To Spill and Death Cab for Cutie, with the latter signing to the band's Barsuk Records label.
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The Houston Chronicles Marty Racine felt it has "music that both soothes and inspires, music that is anthemic, music with style". Racine, however, believed the group took itself too seriously, resulting in a record that is "not a whole lot of fun, bordering on the pretentious", which caused him to lose interest by the second side. Robert Christgau from The Village Voice found the lyrics tasteful and the music "mournful and passionate, stately and involved", but lamented what he felt was pompous singing by Bono, calling it "one of the worst cases of significance ever to afflict a deserving candidate for superstardom". In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said "their focus has never been clearer, nor has their music been catchier".
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A collaboration between Victor Rasgaitis (guitar, vocals) and Talor Smith (cello, vocals), The Ridges formed at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The duo is supported live by a rotating cast of musicians adding classical and folk rock instruments ranging from cellos, violins, upright bass, and horns to banjo, mandolin, accordion, and drums. By augmenting their aggressive, high-energy performances with haunting, all- acoustic instrumentation, The Ridges craft their own unique brand of indie rock compositions. It’s a distinct sound that overflows with the dark romanticism of their ominous namesake — Athens' abandoned Victorian-style insane asylum where the band recorded their self-titled EP. Known for bringing an electrifying energy to acoustic music, MidPoint Music Festival called them "a rootsier, catchier Arcade Fire," while Daytrotter.
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John Lasseter was hired to the Lucasfilm team for a week in late 1983 with the title "interface designer"; he animated the short film The Adventures of André & Wally B. In the next few years, a designer suggested naming a new digital compositing computer the "Picture Maker". Smith suggested that the laser-based device have a catchier name, and came up with "Pixer", which after a meeting was changed to "Pixar". In 1982, the team began working on special- effects film sequences with Industrial Light & Magic. After years of research, and key milestones such as the Genesis Effect in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the Stained Glass Knight in Young Sherlock Holmes, the group, which then numbered 40 individuals, was spun out as a corporation in February 1986 by Catmull and Smith.
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The album received very positive reviews from music critics, with most praise going to its blend of different genres, uniqueness, and musical performances, particularly from newcomer Kristin Evegård and the brass section. In a highly positive review, Lords of Metal called Pacifisticuffs "a record that’s catchier than anything this band has ever done", and called it "the prog record of the year". Antichrist Magazine gave a very positive review as well, highly praising Evegård and the album's mix of genres. It Djents gave the album a rating of 9 out of 10, applauding its songwriting, diversity stating "if you appreciate challenging listens that are made more accessible by the blending of several different genres, masterful writing, impassioned performers, and a lot of heart, you need to hear this". Dangerdog.
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The song received acclaim from critics. According to Ross Scarano of Billboard "there wasn't a catchier sung rap hook in 2017", also writing that "Shy Glizzy may have the show-stealing verse, but there's no denying that this raised GoldLink's clout in a major way". Calling it an "excellent rap song", Okayplayer wrote; "The hook is money, the rhymes are top notch and never fall into "mumble" status, and makes the listener feel welcomed along for the ride." Pitchfork wrote that GoldLink "manages to distill his city's amorphous hip-hop scene into a single sound", while Shy Glizzy "darts around with a shouted giddiness, stealing the show with his fist-pumping momentum" and Brent Faiyaz delivers an "elegant chorus" which "could appear on the song two more times and not be enough".
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Barclay was sceptical about sung poetry and asked him to release an album of catchier middle-of-the-road tunes before he would release the Aragon record. Ferré obliged by recording the album Paname, which included classics such as "Paname" and "Jolie môme". Les Chansons d'Aragon was finally recorded in January 1961 and released in February 1961.. The finished album lists only 10 of the original 12 compositions. Ferré changed most of the original titles, and sometimes eliminated some verses or changed their order. Aragon, who was greatly impressed by Ferré’s adaptations, wrote a liner text wherein he recognized Ferré as a true poet and claimed that "the literary history of France [would] have to be re-written a little differently because of the contribution made by Léo Ferré".
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The CITV series was airing as reruns on Nickelodeon when Honeycomb Animation announced in 2011 that a new series would be aired on NickToons UK in May. This new programme would have a shortened, catchier name and be "reinvented for a modern audience with even more twisted, dark stories to delight children everywhere" but would remain to a formula similar to the newer book series, Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!. Other differences would be the location of the framing device, which was now at The Hot-Hell Darkness instead of the Squeam Screen cinema, and the animation: the hotel scenes were 3D animated and the stories were animated in 2D software. The cinema caretaker was now replaced by the re-invented books' The Night-Night Porter, his half- brother, who banishes horrible children to spend an eternity at his hotel.
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Ian MacDonald considers this relative lack of success to be significant, and he described the song as "a moderately entertaining let-down after the psychedelic heights of early 1967". In Jonathan Gould's opinion, the song is a "witty, powerful, yet willfully inconsequential track" with "all the makings of a classic Beatle B-side", whereas ideally the lead side of the single should have been a Lennon composition. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone considers that, at this stage in their career, "the Beatles didn't need to push – they could have hit #1 with a tape of themselves blowing their noses", which, he suggests, "would have been catchier" than "Lady Madonna" and the band's previous single, "Hello, Goodbye". Music critic Tim Riley has similarly dismissed the song as a "trifle" and "something they could do with their left hand".
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In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Jim Farber praised Approved by the Motors as "a near-perfect LP of pure, pulverizing pop in the best Sweet, Slade, and Pilot tradition, cutting through the cuteness of that genre with Nick Garvey's and Andy McMaster's dynamic dual vocals… the band sings sweetly about S&M; activities, disarming the entire subject in the same endearing manner as Cheap Trick joyously trivializes suicide." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice found the album to be "an enormous improvement" over the band's debut. AllMusic critic Chris Woodstra retrospectively wrote that Approved by the Motors "shows a marked improvement over their debut, with a stronger melodic base and catchier songs". It has since been published by Rolling Stone as one of "20 Rock Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the 1970s That You Never Heard".
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The intended main theme song was to be the Ritchie Adams and Tony Powers song "We're The Banana Splits" but the television and advertising executives thought the "Tra La La Song", another Adams composition co-written with prolific songwriter and producer Mark Barkan, was a catchier theme. According to an interview in DISCoveries magazine, Adams and Barkan sang "Wait Til Tomorrow," "We're The Banana Splits" and "The Tra La La Song". David Mook produced all of the released tracks (co-producing the single sides Long Live Love and Pretty Painted Carousel with Aaron Schroeder), credited as "A Past, Present, and Future Production by David Mook for Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc." (Mook also co-wrote the theme songs for Chuck Barris' The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game.) Arranger Jack Eskew also orchestrated some of the Splits' tunes.
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" Steve Huey, writing for AllMusic, gave high marks to Tucker and Brownstein's guitar interplay as well as Weiss' backing vocals, stating that the band "makes full use of that extra instrument, packing the tracks with lilting three-part harmonies." The Southland Times notably praised the album's maturity and assertiveness, commenting that the band "has also created a more melodic sound and tunes are catchier and more accomplished with Tucker's vocals sounding more confident and tuneful than ever." The A.V. Club pointed out that "Corin Tucker's Belinda Carlisle vibrato has never sounded better [...], while Carrie Brownstein's straight counterpoint keeps the songs grounded in punk-rock fury." In a mixed review, Arion Berger of Rolling Stone magazine noted that Sleater-Kinney "have remade rock aggression as thinking-women's work and handled punk with finesse", but also criticized the writing of some tracks for being "awfully self-conscious for a fifth album.
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The group began playing black metal with Dawson and Totman adopting the stage names "Behemoth" and "Heimdall" as well as the genre's defining trappings and symbolism such as corpse paint. The following year the band was joined by The Magus on keyboards and drummer Mark Hamill from the avant-garde rock band Head Like a Hole. This line-up produced the band's first album Prepare for War, after which Magus left Demoniac and was replaced on keyboards by MC Magnus, reportedly The Magus's brother Demoniac's next album was 1996's Stormblade that featured a slightly more melodic and catchier black metal style as well as controversial tracks like "Hatred is Purity" and "Niggerslut". During a 2014 interview with Noisey, Totman was asked to explain what appeared to be a White Power and homophobic slant to some of Demoniac's lyrics on songs such as these.
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It was also Berk's favorite; he commented, "I still melt at Artie's serenade", and gave it four stars out of five. Gonzalez and Benigno both gave it an "A", and the latter explained: "the arrangement ... gives the track a wonderful, spontaneous feel", and "this nerdy white boy has himself some soul." Kubicek dissented, and explained that Artie getting emotional in song two weeks in a row "is a tad boring". While most reviewers disliked "Friday" in the original, Rebecca Black version, the commentary for the prom incarnation sung by Puck, Sam and Artie was generally positive despite this—Gonzalez said she hated herself "for giving this horrendously addictive version of a horrendous song a B." VanDerWerff said the song was "way, way, way too long, though it was more fun than [he] expected it to be", Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal called it "darn good and infectious", and Mullins said it was "much catchier than the original".
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In a review of the song's parent album Confident, Yu Tsai of USA Today praised the lyrics, writing; "Lovato has long-infused her brand of pop with rock 'n' roll grit, heard here and on the electric-guitar riffs of first single 'Cool For The Summer'. While its limp attempts at being provocative emit little heat ... [the track] is still one of the catchier songs on the album, whose other potential radio hits are harder to identify." Newsday's Glen Gambo gave a positive review to the song's production; he is one of several critics who compared the song to Perry's work produced by Max Martin. Unlike other critics, Gambo noted the similarity to another song recorded by Perry, writing that on "Cool for the Summer", Martin builds a "sleek, shiny backdrop" similar to that of Perry's "Teenage Dream" (2010) for Lovato, who uses it to "advocate for sexual experimentation in the name of a good time".
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" He went on to say that "while Alice in Chains definitely does "dark" well, songs like 'Low Ceiling' and 'Breath on a Window' offer a catchier, faster-paced alternative and deliver the perfect change of pace needed mid-album" and gave the album four and a half out of five stars. Johan Wippsson of Melodic magazine felt that "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is overall a good and stable record, but will not count it as one of the band's best." Dave Kerr of The Skinny awarded the album four out of five stars and wrote: "Featuring an even split of melodic slowburners and lead-heavy bangers with blindsiding tempo- shifts that arrive like eleventh hour twists to the plot, songs such as Phantom Limb and Breath On A Window carry the familiar hallmarks of AiC's heyday without entirely surrendering to the predictability they might imply. Brooding, doomy riffs usher in soaring two-part harmonies which reiterate that, against some odds, Cantrell has found a worthy foil in co-vocalist William DuVall.
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In contrast to a popular misconception, "Kuando el rey Nimrod" is not a song that dates from the times when the Jews lived in Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages, and has its roots in a piyyut called La vocación de Abraham, of which several versions have been found that date from the 18th century and were written by anonymous authors in the former Ottoman Empire. The song, with its original much longer lyrics and its makam rhythm, would become popular in the Sephardic communities of the Mediterranean basin. Around the year 1890, an anonymous author from Tangiers, Morocco wrote a different version of the song, shortening its lyrics and composing a new melody in the Phrygian dominant scale also referred to as Freygish, Fraigish, or Hijaz. This reduced and catchier version survived to our days to become arguably the most popular song in the Sephardic repertoire, becoming a staple for Ladino singers such as Yehoram Gaon and Fortuna, and even for some Klezmer bands whenever they want to include a Sephardic song into their repertoire.
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" Hull attributed the band's back-to-basics approach to the addition of Jarvis: "Getting a new drummer...inspired us to go back to a shorter, faster and louder demo that we prided ourselves in early on." Prior to Jarvis joining the band, Pig Destroyer had rehearsed with Dave Witte several times before an injury and touring commitments with Municipal Waste led him to step aside. Hull explained that the internal turmoil, particularly the drummer situation, had an impact upon the songwriting for Book Burner: Book Burner was also written as a reaction to Phantom Limb, which Scott Hull described as "really written as kind of an experiment to explore longer songs and song structures, things that were catchier and thrashier and that had repeats and structures that were pretty standard." Hull revealed that this approach was driven, in part, by Harvey's changing musical interests: "towards the end, it was very difficult to do anything like that [short, fast songs], it was easier to do the mid-pace stuff.
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UK CD1: # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Album Version) # "Case Closed on Silver Shore" UK CD2: # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Album Version) # "Minor Key Sonata (Analogue)" # "Keeper of the Flame" (Live at Frognerparken) # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Video) GERMAN CD: # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Album Version) 3:48 # "Minor Key Sonata (Analogue)" 4:34 # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Live at Frognerparken) 5:02 # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Instrumental Version) 3:48 # "Case Closed on Silver Shore" 4:28 # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Video) FRENCH SINGLE CD 2 SONGS: # "Analogue (All I Want)" (Album Version) # "Case Closed on Silver Shore" The song was re-written and re-recorded after it was first recorded. The original version of the song was titled "Minor Key Sonata (Analogue)", and (like the rest of the Analogue album) was produced by Martin Terefe and mixed by Flood. Max Martin was then brought in to turn "Minor Key Sonata (Analogue)" into a more radio-appropriate song, with less surreal lyrics and catchier chorus. The song was then retitled "Analogue (All I Want)" and is the only track on the album not produced by Terefe.
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However, the term became a blanket term, covering other music genres—such as the majority of Japanese rock music of the 1990s. In 1990, the Japanese subsidiary of Tower Records defined J-pop as all Japanese music belonging to the Recording Industry Association of Japan except Japanese independent music (which they term "J-indie"); their stores began to use additional classifications, such as J-club, J-punk, J-hip-hop, J-reggae, J-anime, and Visual kei by 2008, after independent musicians started to release works via major labels. Ito Music City, a Japanese record store, adopted expanded classifications including Group Sounds, idol of the 1970s–1980s, enka, folk and established musicians of the 1970s–1980s, in addition to the main J-pop genres. Whereas rock musicians in Japan usually hate the term "pop", Taro Kato, a member of pop punk band Beat Crusaders, pointed out that the encoded pop music, like pop art, was catchier than "J-pop" and he also said that J-pop was the music, memorable for its frequency of airplay, in an interview when the band completed their first full-length studio album under a major label, P.O.A.: Pop on Arrival, in 2005.
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