The Rewind Button is a group blogging project that I’m participating in. We’re taking on Rolling Stone‘s Top 40 albums of all time and writing our own reviews of them. There will be a new album and review each Thursday (or there about).

Listen, I love The Beatles. It makes me happy to see so many of their albums in the top 20 of Rolling Stone’s Top 40 albums of all time list. But being a fan of a band has its consequences. When I start to write about them, I struggle with what to say.

Because I’ve listened to their music for so long, I’ve become numb to it. No, this isn’t saying their songs don’t affect me. What I’m saying is that they’ve become so much a part of my life that I rarely give a second thought as to why I like them. It would be like me trying to go into detail why I like my right arm. I just do. It’s always been there for me. It helps me through life. Sure, I could survive without it, but having it is so much better. The end.

Stopping to consider why you like or dislike something can contribute to personal growth. But I wish you’d had asked me  20 years ago why I like Abbey Road. Then, it was more fresh on my mind. I could have told you that “You Never Give Me Your Money” is perfect until it speeds up, that by doing so it becomes a cluttered mess. I would also tell you that George Harrison pretty much owns this album with his two tracks, “Here Comes The Sun” and “Something.” I agree with Frank Sinatra’s assessment of it as “the greatest love song ever written.”

Twenty years ago I’d have more solid opinions about the rest of the album. But it’s ingrained in me now. It’s so clumped together with my being that it would be impossible to run it through a criticism sieve without destroying myself in the process.

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