11.   Much of what they recorded is, as one might expect, the musical equivalent of fast food, yet much of it holds up surprisingly well.

12.   The song, with its breathy harmony singing and utter lack of rhythm, was the musical equivalent of a dark, tranquil moor.

13.   They write phrases that are the musical equivalent of getting the rhyme right.

14.   Thielemann has the ability to reveal musical direction and rhetoric without making his performances seem like the musical equivalent of diagrammed sentences.

15.   This is the musical equivalent of paint by numbers.

16.   Well, there he was, throwing in the musical equivalent of Hamburger Helper on orders from me.

17.   With its assortment of characters and plots, Motown was already the hip musical equivalent of a major Hollwyood studio.

18.   Why not allow that there could be the musical equivalent of an audience of math professors?

19.   Their work is the musical equivalent of a horror movie, containing many of the same elements of self-referential humor.