6. Ratatat - Shempi

Pretty much the college artist to listen to right now is Ratatat. Things that you can do while listening to Ratatat: hang out, read, study, and smoke weed. Number of people that Ratatat offends: zero. Number of people that get up mid-Ratatat and request a song change: zero. I feel that, for a lot of people, a montage of their college career would sync very well with a Ratatat song. Ratatat isn't the most popular at UC Merced, but then again, UC Merced is still building its college atmosphere. At most other campuses, Ratatat is undoubtedly a phenomena. I battled over which Ratatat song to place here, but I decided to put on Shempi. Shempi is off Ratatat's newest album, LP3, and is often the track people skip to first. Ratatat's more popular songs are Wildcat, and Seventeen Years, both songs that are likely to have been heard before, in some avenue, much in the way that its difficult to say you haven't heard Felix da Housecat's remix of Nina Simone's Sinnerman.