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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Smoking Monkey by Jonathan Coulton
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fave it Quirky | Folky Pop
12 tracks | 42 minutes
Released Nov 2003
on Jonathan Coulton
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 I'm Having a Party lyrics BUY MP3 03:27 I'm Having a Party lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 I'm Having a Party
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:39 Bozo's Lament lyrics BUY MP3 02:39 Bozo's Lament lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:39 Bozo's Lament
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:31 Kenesaw Mountain Landis lyrics BUY MP3 03:31 Kenesaw Mountain Landis lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:31 Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:03 Ikea lyrics FREE 03:03 Ikea lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:03 Ikea
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:08 I Hate California lyrics BUY MP3 03:08 I Hate California lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:08 I Hate California
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:53 Christmas Is Interesting lyrics BUY MP3 03:53 Christmas Is Interesting lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:53 Christmas Is Interesting
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:34 Over There lyrics BUY MP3 03:34 Over There lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:34 Over There
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:23 Millionaire Girlfriend lyrics BUY MP3 04:23 Millionaire Girlfriend lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:23 Millionaire Girlfriend
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:10 First of May lyrics BUY MP3 04:10 First of May lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:10 First of May
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:38 De-Evolving lyrics BUY MP3 04:38 De-Evolving lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:38 De-Evolving
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:17 I'm a Mason Now lyrics BUY MP3 02:17 I'm a Mason Now lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:17 I'm a Mason Now
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:21 Overhead lyrics BUY MP3 03:21 Overhead lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:21 Overhead
Well-crafted geek pop - hilarious but heartbreaking songs about clowns, masons and exhibitionists.
Bio / Background
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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"singer-songwriter stylings with all the versatility and winning wit of They Might be Giants"
"if Raffi liked to sing bad words every once in a while"
"craftsman-ly pop, with made to order tunes regarding jingoism, Swedish furniture super-stores, de-evolution and the shadowy, world-domination-oriented cabal known as the Masonic Guild!!!"
"like the Barenaked Ladies, but not soul-suckingly horrible in the least"
"Tom Lehrer with a guitar and a high fever"
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Jonathan CoultonCloudReece wrote on October 09, 2008
Man, I love every single one of these songs, they bring out my inner geek.










