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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by coverband on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:34PM (#18906203)
Sci-fi story of note: "The Ultimate Melody" by Arthur C. Clarke[0], from 1957.

[0] https://archive.org/stream/1957-02_IF#page/n71/mode/2up

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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by cpeterso on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:53PM (#18906353)
Thanks! I hadn't seen that Arthur C. Clarke story before.

It reminds me of Alfred Bester's 1953 novel The Demolished Man: a murderer pays someone to write a catchy jingle (earworm) for him that can block psychics from reading his murderous thoughts.

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