11.   Gone are the anguished, McCartney-eseque screams and the buoyant pop tunes with hypnotic melodies.

12.   Goodman, a Scottish songwriter and rock performer, knows his way around a pop tune.

13.   He also wrote catchy pop tunes.

14.   How did anyone ever think to combine pop tunes and taxidermy?

15.   In a given set, Mahogany may thoughtfully deconstruct a jazz standard or thoroughly reinvent a pop tune.

16.   In ancient times, pop tunes shared scurrilous doggerel and the most holy of biblical texts.

17.   In waltzes and slow three-chord rock, like old pop tunes remembered through a depressive haze, Ms. Germano whisper-sings about pathological love.

18.   It would seem impossible for Sweet to try to write anything other than a simple, crafty pop tune with bleak lyrics.

19.   Masha doubles as kitchen assistant and disc jockey, plugging Italian pop tunes into the portable tape player.

20.   Radio stations that once blasted Hindi and Arabic pop tunes today play holy songs peppered with Koranic passages.