Their set consisted of hooky pop gems that relied on guitar and punch for most of the power, and the mixture was a pleasing one. |
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I mean yes, I was caught red-handed playing hooky, so I did take a good tanning from my old man. |
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Earlier albums were often melodic yet somehow not catchy, but focused songwriting here makes the riffs memorably hooky. |
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Like his best work, the songs are irresistibly hooky without being simplistic, though the first single is oddly the weakest tune of the bunch. |
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The new songs have strong, hooky melodies, but very personal, intimate lyrics. |
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Police say she was playing hooky from school, drinking and swimming with friends in a pool. |
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I found those songs kinda catchy and hooky and it made an enormous impact on me. |
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Like their last album it takes a couple of listens before it really starts to appeal, as the songs aren't very hooky. |
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For a man that knows how to craft a hooky chorus, this is some pretty weak sauce. |
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The melodies here could hardly be called hooky or blatantly poppy, but they have a mantra-like quality that's infectious and slightly eerie. |
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They caused trouble by committing thefts, playing hooky, and gathering boisterously on the streets, not by becoming drunk and disorderly. |
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The gig was a typical Pistols performance with inconsistent playing compensated for by attitude and hooky punk tunes. |
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Jurado comes off like the Springsteen of indie rock, utilizing his ragged throat and commanding presence for both hooky rockers and solemn weepers. |
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They make music that's fun and fresh, adding urban beats and hooky riffs to catchy rhythm lines and choruses that make you want to jump and shout. |
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Take his songs: blending Cuban folk with commercial pop-rock, they offer a charming mix of sweet melody, hooky rhythms and electric punch. |
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Another severe problem is that playing hooky may also incite other students to follow your example, against their better judgment and their best interest. |
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The longer she played hooky the bigger chance she had of being caught. |
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She's clearly found an appropriate songwriting partner with husband Bill Bell, and has enough hooky songs to counter her abundance of emotional ballads. |
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If they had decided to break from tradition and round out their hooky gems with massive percussion to balance out the wall of sound, the album would be nearly perfect. |
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For someone in the fashion trade, Todd Thomas, 46, another day-tripper, has found a particularly liberating way to play hooky. |
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Like all of those who played musical hooky, this need to share has been with me since my very first hurdy-gurdy notes. |
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I conclude that being misunderstood during classes, I would probably be more solicited in my creative path during the hooky play. |
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We would be on the lam, playing hooky, leaving at intermission, absent without leave. |
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There's also Chvrches' echoing anthems, Savages' wiry post-punk, and a full slate of bleepy, hooky art-pop. |
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Del and Rodney are probably still knocking out hooky gear from Nelson Mandela House. |
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A slowish, hooky tango with her granite voice slicing straight through with stiletto precision incision. |
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He let me play hooky from school every opening day. |
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You want to play hooky with Isaac Richardrd asked Danny. |
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For Americans, soccer is just not a sport you play hooky for. |
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All it takes is a snowstorm to force Thomas, the so-called lazy teenager, to play hooky and spend the day with his elderly neighbour, the notorious « windbag. |
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When she was 9, she broke up with the school and began to play hooky. |
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He began playing hooky and failing his exams. |
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Some are playing hooky from their royal duties, others are suffering from disturbing conditions, while a few are up to no good trying to escape the rain. |
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Last week, when she failed to turn up at Westminster in time for a key vote on health-service reform and then played hooky from cabinet the next day, she appeared to be signalling that she had had enough. |
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Dans mon corps is their latest album with the unlikely cover, featuring hard-hitting hooky melodies and lyrics of surprising depth, and presented here in a Montreal premiere. |
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She played hooky at the ''Beaux-Arts School'' and consider herself self-taught. Instead, she explored new materials and methods of application, developing her own style. |
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For instance, if you are a children's performer you may not need to re-work the drum solo 100 times, but you will need to make sure the little tykes can sing that hooky chorus over and over and over and over again. |
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They even tacked an extra day onto the jaunt, playing hooky that Tuesday. |
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Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day. |
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He writes hooky rock songs,'' said David Burrier, senior director of product development for Atlantic. |
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Hooky choruses, instrumentation as background, and compact songwriting are trademarks of pop music, not metal. |
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