a weird phenom

inspahrd by the rolling stone "best singers" thang, i put on a beatle record yesterday...someone gifted my sweetie 1 awhile back and i figured it'd be like that yardbirds comp i've been listening to so much lately. what's weird is that i couldn't _hear_ the music most of the time...it was like background noise or static (or tv audio). prolly the result of massive overexposure for 40 yrs. now i know what larry harrison means when he says he doesn't feel anything when he hears beatle music. it's like looking at elvis' face in those vids...it's like he's not real because his mug is so iconic. the only songs that really registered were "paperback writer," "penny lane" (which my big sis usedta have on the single with "strawberry fields," i think, on the flip, which might account for the better memories i have of those two songs), and "long and winding road," which i absolutely detested when it was new but which i got to appreciate later, when 1967-1970 was one of the four or five tapes i had in my '71 torino on countless trips upstate after i'd dropped out of college and was working in my first rekkid store. funny stuff, memory.