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

[glitterfairy25]

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

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[purple_bug]

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.

[glitterfairy25]

I see that. I do. But any song that's similar to another is gonna do that.

I apologise for what I just wrote. I don't think it made much sense.

I often accidentally merge songs together: Louis' Armstrong's "All The Time In The World" usually ends up as as one of the best hits of the early nineties, "I've Got A Wobbly Tooth" (a song I used to sing in Infant School :P)

If you have any questions, you might want to take it up with my brain, cos I have no idea how things work up there :P

Incidentally, I love Penny Crayon, wish I had one of those.

[purple_bug]

Speaking of merging songs - I have this weird thing going on in my head where Incy Wincy Spider turns into Ten Green Bottles halfway through, and I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts turns into the theme for Albert the Fifth Musketeer.

And yeah, I get that you were meaning that it's not just the Beatles that bring back memories. I was just aimlessly commenting that Penny Lane = Penny Crayon in my head. I get so many memory flashbacks from music every day - even down to non-event memories, like walking through a particular area of town while listening to a particular song.

And now I have the Penny Crayon theme stuck in my head. Fantastic.

[pontisbright]

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