Smoking Monkey
© Copyright-Jonathan Coulton
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Record Label: Jonathan Coulton
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By turns hilarious and melancholy, rockin' and melodious, Jonathan Coulton's lovely ditties about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good. They repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. And the sick part is, you keep coming back. Coulton's is the voice of every spooky elementary school kid who could never quite keep his shirt tucked in or shoes tied; every lovelorn mason and mad scientist; every one of us who has ever sat despairingly on the floor, surrounded by parts of an Ikea endtable, weeping over our allen wrenches. (He also acquits himself beautifully in the ever-popular genre of odes to outdoor copulation.)
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Your life will be that much better
author: Chad Ligot
great music
author: PrinceVen
Coulton truly is an artist. He is immensely better live, though. All his CDs are magical.
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Sweet Music
author: Jacqueline Carnevale
I have burned all JoCo's songs to my PC at work. My office is in a hall next to a storage room. I play his music loud all day to keep me motivated to do "Monkey work". People pass by and tell me how wonderful my music is. I ask them if they listen to the lyrics and they say no, but the music is so wonderful. So I tell them to stop and listen and I play "1st of May". The range of emotions when they hear the chorus is horror and hysteria. Thank you for helping me to filter people who "get it" and those who don't.
All I'm missing now is the album with "I feel fantastic" on it. Where can I get a copy?
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Wonderful
author: Joey Coleman