Music: Brian Robbins – “Marijuana”
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 4:20 pm | By: Less-Than-Radical Josh
Today’s Stash music comes from Brian Robbins, a man I found while randomly searching for the word “marijuana” on Myspace Music. The truth, dear Stash listeners (& readers!), is that a good portion of the music out there that includes the word “weed”, “pot”, “marijuana”, “reefer”, “ganja”, “blazed”, etc etc, is not very good. This shouldn’t be surprising, and one could make the argument that most of the music out there period isn’t very good. But when you start searching for pot-themed songs, you tend to find a lot of silly garage bands with a 16-year-old lead singer who sings about pot because he’s trying to rebel against his parents, not fully realizing yet that there’s a good chance his parents smoke pot too.
I could probably write an essay about that topic, but I won’t.
So what struck me about Brian’s song “Marijuana” is that it’s about marijuana, and it’s really good! It’s a nice light pop song about how screwed up our country is regarding cannabis laws. Simple, straightforward, and catchy.
Brian is a Los Angeles-based recording artist, who earned a B.A. in Film Scoring from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. So if you’re interested in producing a cannabis-based documentary, he’s your man!
You can find out more about Brian, as well as listen to other tracks from his two albums (which you definitely should, they’re great), on his myspace page or through his website.
