Either way, the musical and verbal cliches pile up like defunct sedans in a junkyard.

However, Kaye said the songs "Star" and "Thank You" border on musical cliché.

One suspects music that is less about a composer's own spirit than about his irritation with, and amusement at, the musical clichés around him.

One of the most glaring is digital repetition, a technique that became a musical cliche in the early years of hip-hop music.

One thing we're not is a bunch of aging hippies plodding along on tired musical cliches.

One example is Grand Pianola Music (1981-82), a humorous piece that purposely draws its content from musical cliches.

Her album "Songs in A Minor" is chock-full of musical and lyrical clichés.

Their guitar-propelled songs don't reinvent the wheel, but neither do they resort to musical or lyrical cliché.

Back then, looking at the sunset wasn't a musical cliché yet.

It's not the words that interest me here, however, but the balance between musical cliche and originality in any song.