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Some guy that makes music
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Jonathan Coulton. I just learned of this guy, and I find his stuff quite interesting.
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downloads (the smileys are free songs)
Instant aural pleasure: re: Your Brains
So, yeah.
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wiki wrote:Jonathan Coulton is a folk rock singer-songwriter. He is now the Contributing Troubadour at Popular Science as well as the Musical Director for The Little Gray Book Lectures.[1] Coulton is best known for his light-acoustic cover of the Sir Mix-a-Lot hit song "Baby Got Back" and an original piece entitled "Code Monkey." A video set to his song "Re: your brains" was a featured link on Good Morning Silicon Valley. His work has also been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered."
He is the author of a 5-song set called Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms that was commissioned for the September 2005 issue of Popular Science. His most recent work at Popular Science is on a podcast for the magazine, entitled the PopSci Podcast.
Coulton accompanied John Hodgman on his list of 700 Hobo Names promotional track for The Areas of My Expertise as the guitarist (he was referenced as "Jonathan William Coulton, the Colchester Kid" in said work). Coulton has also been referenced in Hodgman's work with The Daily Show; a Jonathan Coulton of Colchester, Connecticut is Hodgman's pick to win an essay contest on defeating the Iraqi insurgency.[2] The winning entry, as set to music, was then played on the program; this song, about dropping snakes from airplanes, was written and performed by Coulton.
Most of Coulton's songs focus on intellectual, "geeky" topics such as a man who is "de-evolving" into a monkey, a strange loner who dreams of destroying the world and who gives half-monkey, half-pony monsters to his girlfriend, and the dangers of bacteria. They generally feature Coulton's characteristic crooning vocals accompanied by guitar, drums, and occasionally the accordion, harmonica, mandolin, ukulele, or glockenspiel.
His site
downloads (the smileys are free songs)
Instant aural pleasure: re: Your Brains
So, yeah.
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Shut up.
Also, Jonathan Coulton is rad, but sort of old news.
Get his cover of Baby Got Back.
Oh shit that one is hilarious too.
Ben Folds does those kind of covers.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
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I am going to do this because:
1. This is an awesome cover.
2. He doesn't sell his tracks DRMed.
I'd admittedly prefer a choice of bitrates, and I am still all about the CD's because of the fact, but this is still miles better than the "choice" you get with the average music service.