oh heavens it’s wednesday and time for a new song of the week, isn’t it? well before i quite get to it, i really have to make a confession first. so in list form, here i bare my soul and name a new song of the week:

ten or so reasons (the first ten or so i could think of, not the top ten or ten chronological reasons) why i love j. robbins; by brian longtin:

1: engineered, mixed, produced* and played extra percussion for braid’s frame and canvas.

2: produced and played additional strings and percussion for texas is the reasons’s do you know who you are?

3: wrote, sang, played guitar and other instruments, produced, recorded, mixed, and even did some graphic design for burning airlines’ mission control!

4: produced and mixed the stereo’s three hundred

5: produced, recorded, engineered and mixed shiner’s the egg

6: produced and mixed the dismemberment plan’s emergency & i

7: wrote, sang, played guitar and other instruments, recorded and mixed burning airlines’ identikit

8: produced the promise ring’s nothing feels good

9: produced, recorded, lent extra vocals to hey mercedes’ everynight fire works

10: burning airlines live, september 14th 2001 (my first time seeing them live; an outstanding show)

and 11, hence the “or so”, is jawbox. i just picked up for your own special sweetheart at amoeba this weekend, and it’s great, of course. another case of the “why didn’t i listen to this band a long time ago” predicament, but better late than never. so after all this beating around the bush and praising of musical brilliance, the song of the week is chicago piano. thank you and goodnight.

*in some cases he wasn’t the sole producer, although often he was; and either way, he could kick your ass.