| James took a pull of the coke can in his hand, and whistled a few tuneless bars of the national anthem. |
| Outside, the first sea birds screeched and offered their own tuneless, harsh version of a dawn chorus. |
| For seven minutes the quartet play a tuneless dirge that occasionally changes and is entwined with a slowly oscillating synthesizer. |
| It is virtually tuneless, self-pitying, uninteresting and is a world apart from the subtle atmospherics of the band's best work. |
| On the two occasions I have heard him perform, what I heard was degraded, simple-minded, noisy, tuneless pop wailing. |
| As I hung up he'd started to whistle, that wobbly tuneless whistle that's unmistakeably elderly. |
