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Ben Folds Five - Fair off their 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen
In college I had the chance to see Ben Folds solo on campus for like $15, but at that point I basically only knew "Brick" and "Rockin' the Suburbs." My other choice was probably to go play beer pong and make fun of my friends, so naturally I passed on the concert. Now I realize I should have gone. So many of their songs are perfect sing alongs, which would have been amazing with a drunk college student crowd. If you can't get into "Fair" and start jumping around when the pace picks up (while completely disregarding the fact that the song is about a bad break up and/or a domestic dispute) then you are nuts, or not drunk enough.
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Miniature Tigers - Tropical Birds, off of their 2010 album Fortress
This is a good driving album for the summer, so listening to it now in March is getting me excited for my upcoming trip to California over the summer. They opened for Ben Folds in 2009, which I just learned in the course of research for this post. So if blogging doesn't work out, I always have the subconscious genius thing going for me. Anyway, check out this band. They are relatively new and from Brooklyn. Light and airy melodies fill the album with a few more rock worthy tunes mixed in. "Tropical Birds" is one I can see myself listening to while cruising the PCH with the top down.
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