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Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock/folk rock musician. He is best known for such compositions as “Still Alive” and “Code Monkey”, as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”. He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures.
Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast, on topics as diverse as vengeful nerds, self-loathing giant squid, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store. The Thing a Week project is now complete, and all songs can be streamed from his website, http://www.jonathancoulton.com/. Many of the songs on the site can be downloaded for free.
The song “Code Monkey” became the theme song to the G4 television show Code Monkeys.
Coulton’s song “Still Alive” has been featured in Valve Software’s game Portal (and has become a hit among the gamers who finished the game) . He also made a recording of this song called the “J.C. Mix” which is exactly the same except he is singing rather than Ellen Mclain as GLaDOS. “Still Alive” went on to be featured in the game Rock Band, as well asSkullcrusher Mountain and Re:Your Brains
Still Alive” and “Code Monkey”, as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”. He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures.Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast, on topics as diverse as vengeful nerds, self-loathing giant squid, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store. The Thing a Week project is now complete, and all songs can be streamed from his website, http://www.jonathancoulton.com/. Many of the songs on the site can be downloaded for free.
The song “Code Monkey” became the theme song to the G4 television show Code Monkeys.
Coulton’s song “Still Alive” has been featured in Valve Software’s game Portal (and has become a hit among the gamers who finished the game) . He also made a recording of this song called the “J.C. Mix” which is exactly the same except he is singing rather than Ellen Mclain as GLaDOS. “Still Alive” went on to be featured in the game Rock Band, as well as
Skullcrusher Mountain and Re:Your Brains
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Zeleii wrote:
Skullcrusher Mountain, First of May...
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AnimatedOysters wrote:
I was scanning through satellite radio and heard him on a kid's station. It really took me by surprise but it was entertaining as usual.
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NapoMarx wrote:
Looks like dogmancer is rocking The Stache
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dogmancer wrote:
burn in hell bitch...
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dogmancer wrote:
faggot nerd
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bizk1t_ wrote:
Want You Gone > Still Alive
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mecbirdhouse wrote:
Artificial Heart is his all-around most solid release yet, methinks. And great production, yay for Flansburgh :D
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nhnkl wrote:
крутоооо))
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justicegf wrote:
New album's wonderful.
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kungfulasers wrote:
Artificial Heart is in constant rotation. Well done, JC.
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SKIDrow96 wrote:
re your brains from left 4 dead 2
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Zevexx wrote:
Holy shit Artificial Heart is amazing.
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long_jack wrote:
кароший дядька
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weirdojace wrote:
I freaking love Artificial Heart.
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apsham wrote:
My top artist for a reason.
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dirtclaw wrote:
On top of having amazing songs, Artificial Heart also SOUNDS amazing. [3]
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AlanaKatana wrote:
IKEA!!!!!!
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CosmicBushell wrote:
On top of having amazing songs, Artificial Heart also SOUNDS amazing. [2]
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AkryllicLove wrote:
On top of having amazing songs, Artificial Heart also SOUNDS amazing (thanks John Flansburgh)
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pinta_vodki wrote:
Новый альбом очень даже хорош. =)
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News
Public Appeal from Jimmy Whales
30 Nov 2011 | from www.jonathancoulton.com
No no no, not the founder of Wikipedia, this is a public
appeal from an actual whale named Jimmy. He lives in the ocean and
eats krill and he really wants to make sure you don’t miss out on
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Anaheim, CA: 2011-11-16
20 Nov 2011 | from www.JonathanCoulton.com/
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