♫ Penny lane is in my hair and up my nose... ♫

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This morning on our way to work, the folks of BBC Radio 2 were talking about The Beatles, about how the latest research has found that their songs help people to recall memories they wouldn't have been able to without listening to the music.

When you think about it, isn't that what music in general is all about? Not just hearing something, but feeling something too? Isn't this why humans have made music for centuries?



In conclusion: Beatles, Schmeatles.

Comments

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

Penny Lane helped me remember Penny Crayon a couple of years ago :o) The tunes are rather similar, at least enough to jog my memory.

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

Penny Lane always makes me think of playing the violin in school. Right down to the smell of the rosin, and the impending sense of doom and humiliation.

I think you can just listen to music in isolation, in and of itself: have the music remind you of nothing but how much you like that piece of music. But it's hard to divorce it from the when and where of listening, and if you're the type of person to replay (which surely defines pretty much everyone) then that becomes the soundtrack to something else. I'm sort of boggled that anyone needed to research this.

Oh, and REM's Monster album = Sonic the Hedgehog. The underwater levels. :D