Blogger, musician and web-lord Ben Heller curates this loving Favorites installment. He offers some beautiful thoughts about it here:

"It makes perfect sense that Serious Business would put out a Benji Cossa "Favorites" series. After all, The Beatles put out "1", a collection of their #1 hit singles, so why shouldn't Benji? The problem is, Benji doesn't have any hit singles. In fact, he doesn't have any songs on the radio at all. Even my hip friends who read Pitchfork religiously and pride themselves in knowing when the next XX record is coming out have no clue who he is. Benji Cossa is virtually unknown in every musical and cultural milieu but one, the one that matters--his friends. And so it's appropriate that in celebrating the enormous library of Benji Cossa recordings, we're not tracing his musical evolution chronologically, or picking the "best" or "catchiest" songs from his extensive catalog. Rather, we're selecting favorites, because every Benji Cossa song is somebody's favorite. This is ultimately higher praise for the artist, and infinitely more worthy a destiny for a song, than living out existence as some shitty hit single on pop fucking radio.

"But what is a favorite, really? It's a song that works its way inside of you so deeply, so viscerally, that it becomes the lense through which we live our lives. Our thoughts and emotions are inevitably tempered by its melody and sentiment. We remember our favorite songs in relation to the times they first struck us as something truly special, and they evoke those memories in a more vivid and internally conscious form than other kind of art could ever hope to achieve. Or hell, it could just be a little ditty that struck you the right way and that you now sing in the shower from time to time when the wife's gone to work, the pets are asleep, and the neighbors are out in the Hamptons for the weekend. Regardless, we need these songs in our lives--we need favorites--and songs need to be favored as much as we need to favor them. It's what extends 15 minutes of fame into a timeless classic, and what makes the music of Benji Cossa and countless others (Graham Smith, Greg Ashley, Dean Wells, and pretty much every band on Serious Business Records) a necessity, because a song's made worthy by those who cherish it. In selecting our favorite Benji Cossa songs, we're not only documenting the musical trajectory of a prolific songwriter, but also making as bold a statement as we possibly can that these songs deserve to be heard, and deserve to be loved. They're our favorites, and they should be your favorites too." - BEN HELLER. New Haven, CT. September 2012.