Many years ago, someone gave me a bunch of MP3s - a whole lot of stuff I didn't care for, some things I had a mild interest in, a little I'd never heard before, etc.. One of the latter was a bunch of songs from The Beta Band. The song titles are all "Track 01 Beta Band", "Track 02 Beta Band", "Track 03 Beta Band", etc.. I assume whoever ripped the songs was too lazy to correct the file names with the real song titles.

My only previous exposure to the Beta Band was that little reference they got in High Fidelity. But, I put those songs on my iPod and left them there. They pop up on shuffle from time to time but I've always been basically ambivalent towards them. I like them enough that they've survived countless playlist prunings and reworkings, but I've never gone home and played those songs deliberately.

Then, yesterday, as if a switch was flipped, I realized that I really like the Beta Band. I played those songs while I was cooking dinner and was all like "Woahhh. Awesome duuudde! Why didn't I do this three years ago?"

But, I can only identify two or three of the songs I have, and they're not from the same BB record. So now I'm going to have to buy all of their records.