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• “But then "Spin" had to be sung by bassist Tracy Wormworth when Patty went M.I.A., during exhaustive recording sessions in England (Tracey had also recorded the title track, which some people actually prefer, but then Patty did her own take and that was used.) "Pleasure" is an unnecessary instrumental (were vocals dropped when Patty vanished?) and "They're All Out of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party" is a great title, but the song is as humorless as it is tuneless, which is everything the Waitresses were not.”

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• “Once the show actually begins, it's obvious that writers Craig Christie and Andrew Patterson have done their homework - with the likes of Sweden represented by a perky Abba-style quartet, the UK by a couple of chavvy singers with a pointless ballad, Iceland by a Bjork-alike singing a tuneless, meaningless song.”

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• “The first bossa nova vocalist that most of us heard was Astrud Gilberto , who gave the world the false impression that Brazilians sang in a mono-dynamic, largely tuneless voice, free from inflection or tonal color.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Blues From Brazil to China

• “Sure, Ellery James Roberts might just be the most tuneless singer you've heard all year.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2011

• “When I began, I was awful; my wife described me as "cute, but tuneless.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Guitar Tricks for a Middle-Aged Dog

• “She was singing a tuneless little song, over and over again.”

  Simon & Schuster: Red Flags or Red Herrings?

• “The footage of working men's clubs during the 60s and 70s is especially brilliant: the delicate etiquette of how older workers got to stand on the carpet and the younger ones further out on the lino, women contained in "the snug", mainly on Fridays, with a bottle of Sweetheart Stout and other abandoned wives to chat to; a tuneless club singer honking out an approximation of Frank Sinatra to moist-eyed, Brylcreem-sodden men.”

  The Guardian: Grace Dent: The Rules of Drinking

• “The fans found their voice; by the end they were hollering constantly in a good-natured but rather shambolic and tuneless way, like drunks attempting a full run-through of La Traviata on the way home from the pub.”

  The Guardian: Ronnie O'Sullivan crowned prince of the new Power Snooker generation

• “Their song, if one can name it such, is a tuneless ditty of five notes that seems somehow tentative and spiritless.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk

• “Then there's disappointment when they eventually make their pilgrimage and are greeted by 200 stalls selling scented candles all blaring out tuneless repetitive techno like this.”

  The Guardian: This week's new singles

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