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Dear Larry,
You wrote: But it is just one song at a time, that's true....
...unless it was something like the sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor. Imagine that one being the thang you carried in your head every hour of every day!
Boneheaded regards,
WordsWhirling
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Dear Larry,
I shall try again. If you are a relative of Paul Grannis, the only social worker ever killed in the line of duty in Kentucky, may I extend my sympathies. Please send me a Private Message, if you like.
I am glad to see you back here. I believed you were gone for good. Welcome.
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Checking past posts I see we have had the topic before... someone came up with a translation of ohrwurm as mindworm, which, though not really right, is not bad really.
Let me take the chance to talk about another annoying thing that happens when listening to music. Anybody who listens to a lot of music will know this problem.
All most every chain of notes that form a tune or every chord progression on the planet has been used more than a handful of times. For example the structure 1-4-5-4-1 is the basis for 'Wild Thing', 'Stand' (by R.E.M.), the verse of 'Walking in Sunshine', 'Summer Loving' (from Grease), and countless other songs. As such, when you hear most pop songs you can almost instantly hear two or three other songs in it - if you know a lot of music. One band whose songs sound like this are The Corrs. That 'Radio song is just two different bits of old songs (bits that don't fit mind you) put together to form a single. 'Covering' has become so common too, that one isn't even required to attribute the new version to any song either (i.e. ripping off). So you end up walking round thinking, 'Now where did I hear that riff then. Sometimes, hours later, you realise that the 'new' song is just a conglomerate of two or three old songs, depending on how much time the over-paid producer had on that day. But often you never find out - how annoying. Not as bad as hearing a really good song in the radio, then not finding out who wrote it though.
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Hurray! another Kentuckian! I'd like to extend greetings to you from Lexington.
Anyway, "earworm" is what came to my mind too. The only French term even close that I know of doesn't really pertain to music: idee fixe (I probably spelled it wrong but there it is ), which I am pretty sure means an idea on which one becomes fixated. I suppose a tune is an idea in the most abstract sense but I think "earworm" is better.
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[/rant]
see, Larry, your problems certainly strike a chord in this nuthouse! ;)
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> idee fixe
This is a musical term for what you might otherwise call a theme, i.e. a recurring tune usually introduced in the exposition (the start) of a piece and then passed through the instruments and developed on.
[Aside: maverick's puns do get worse - be prepared Larry.]
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Alex, idée fixe is a thought that tyrannically gets stuck in your head.
I can see where it would apply to a theme in music.
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I don't know about the earworm thing though. I know there is nothing to mean that "stuck in your head song" thing in
French Québec apart from "fatigant" (annoying)
I like the term sonomania
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maverick's puns do get worse
guilcup, m'lud. And on repetition they get verse and verse. But what goes a round comes a round.
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what goes a round comes a round.And will you see your sonata concert? 
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uh-oh, it catchy!
for the past half hour, all i can think (crossing threads,)is:
rise and shine,
and sing god your glory, glory! and it my bed time!
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