On the Brighter Side

Ben Gibbard and Andrew Kenny -
You Remind Me of Home


Ben Gibbard is somewhere plotting to make you feel something. With Death Cab it’s Sad, just really really sad, With the Postal Service it’s that you wish the whole world was a video game about making someone fall in love with you, and when he gets out on his own, it’s that fuzzy nostalgia feeling. This track from his acoustic jaunt with Andrew Kenny has the later in spades. Take a stroll to this one.
http://www.stanford.edu/~joshsc/01%20You%20Remind%20Me%20of%20Home.mp3


The Academy Is... - "Slow Down"

Fiction: All songs without depth are without merit.
Fact: It’s fun to dance around to pop-punk rock. Exhibit A – The Academy is - “Slow Down”
These guys probably spent about 10 minutes writing this song (though the lyric “You kissed me like an overdramatic actor who’s starving for work” was probably lifted from the lead singer’s middle school poetry), but what matters is that I’ve spent more than that singing it in my car while being defeated by what seems like an endless stream of Stop Signs. If you hate Blink 182 and Fall Out Boy A. Don’t download this song, B. Get over yourself.
http://www.stanford.edu/~joshsc/02%20Slow%20Down.mp3