{"id":5478,"date":"2009-04-23T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2009-04-23T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:43:59","slug":"5478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"\u03b2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

My only previous exposure to the Beta Band was that little reference they got in High Fidelity<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

Then, yesterday, as if a switch was flipped, I realized that I really<\/i> 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?\" <\/p>\n

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<\/em> of their records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}