plinky-plonky

The title track, with its plinky-plonky xylophone, is the stuff of children's television theme tunes.

All that plinky-plonky, twee stuff - it's just so horribly clichéd.

And call me churlish but the plinky-plonky piano motif for playful penguins has become a bit tired.

I was expecting lots of plinky-plonky improvisation, a bit of big band freakout, and some early electronics.

It's lovely, a real grower, good bit of strings and some plinky-plonky noises, to go with a soothing, affable melody.

There’s Muzak everywhere, especially plinky-plonky piano versions of Tears for Fears songs.

'Nervous Breakdown' is a fresh sounding deep houser that grooves along in a funky way although a bit plinky-plonky in places.

He called the single a "placid affair" with "its plinky-plonky piano and R&B groove resting uncomfortably next to Lewis's creamy vocal style".

I stretch to an album by William Orbit called Pieces in a Modern Style - it's "plinky-plonky" electronic interpretations of famous classics.

There are funny-peculiar interludes, accompanied by plinky-plonky piano, in which he goes into agonised, mock-jaunty, spasmodic jigs, as if expressing his character’s repressed interior state.

The nation that gave the world the Beatles and Rolling Stones has nothing to learn from "plinky-plonky" sounds of the Balkan and Baltic states, it says.

Fresh faced ex-lawyer Douglas, not previously known for his love of computer gaming, told assembled geeks: "The introduction of computer games provided the plinky-plonky soundtrack for my generation.

It’s an early start next day, with Mulberry’s show reimagining Claridge’s hotel as an old-fashioned seaside resort (the ticket is a cardboard ice-cream wafer that plays plinky-plonky music every time you open it).

In 2010, Linehan discussed the dramatic effect this choice had on the tone of the series: "'Woman of the World' was kind of like a jaunty, plinky-plonky song, and we wanted that song."

He [Hannon] gave us two choices: he gave us that, and "Songs of Love", and we wanted the plinky-plonky song, because our idea was we were making fun of sitcoms.

Their plinky-plonky pastiches, which are interspersed with spoken word discourses, variously recall Gilbert & Sullivan, ELO, glam-rock, Ben Folds Five and Flanders and Swann.

From the lurching bass Jean Jacques Burnel on 'Dead Loss Angeles', to the rich melodic verve of the title track, to the plinky-plonky keyboard stabs on 'Ice' the first half is wonderfully odd.

Here dancing with the excellent Massimo Murru, she is as fast and as coiled as a black mamba, but this series of brief snapshots is a frigid affair, its plinky-plonky score sounding too much like a cat ambling back and forth across a couple of synthesizers" keyboards.

This is karaoke to the power of 10, with none of the plinky-plonky, rip-off backing tracks from cheap DVDs.