Missing a Word

[stoutfellow]

One day you hear a song that you really like. You do some poking around and identify the singer, whom, to your knowledge, you've never heard of, or at least never heard. You buy an album for the sake of that song, and discover to your surprise that you've heard (and liked) three or four other songs by that singer.

The song is not literally the first song you've heard by them, but, in a sense, it is.

I'm not aware of any adverb which adequately describes that sense. (It can apply equally well to other arts than music; literature, certainly, but probably also sculpture, painting, even architecture. It could perhaps extend even further; envision a doer of deeds, whose actions have benefited you, all unknowing, until the day you perceive and recognize a thing they've done.)

Any thoughts?

Comments

[filkferengi]

I'd call it win and pie!