{"id":388,"date":"2006-07-27T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/07\/27\/jonathan-coulton-makes-great-music\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T15:15:49","slug":"jonathan-coulton-makes-great-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Coulton Makes Great Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s clear that you come to this blog in order to substitute my own tastes and opinions for yours. (Well, that and cute Eli movies.) So I want to point you towards Jonathan Coulton<\/a>. He’s a musician and songwriter who’s seeing if he can make a living as a fully independent musician. There’s no label, there’s just him and his website. He writes one new song a week, a forced-march experiment in having deadlines.<\/p>\n

I like his approach of licensing all of his music under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license, which means you can take it and share it as long as you give him the credit for writing it. What’s far more important, I love love love his music. It is crazy mad awesome. I find myself hard-pressed to pick just one favorite, or even ten favorites, but I have restrained myself because I know you all are busy people with lives who just happen to like taking a break from those lives to read blogs. Some suggested tunes:<\/p>\n

Skullcrusher Mountain<\/a><\/b>
\nA lot of Jonathan’s songs are about messed-up people looking for love. In this case the messed-up person is a mad scientist in his lair on Skullcrusher Mountain. How can you not love a song whose lyrics include, “Isn’t it enough to know I ruined a pony making a gift for you?”<\/p>\n

Re Your Brains<\/a><\/b>
\nThe lead zombie who wants to eat your brains is your annoying co-worker who is still<\/i> talking about F.Y.I.s and tabling discussions.<\/p>\n

Soft Rocked By Me<\/a><\/b>
\nIt’s a love song by a guy who likes to rock out to Bread.<\/p>\n

Not About You<\/a><\/b>
\nSeveral of Jonathan’s songs are sad ones about the loss of love (like When You Go<\/a> and So Far So Good<\/a>). This is a funny one involving complete and total denial.<\/p>\n

A Talk With George<\/a><\/b>
\nA touching song about the ghost of George Plimpton visiting and giving you advice.<\/p>\n

That’s five (or seven, depending on how uncharitable you’re being with your counting), and I haven’t yet gotten to Code Monkey<\/a> (the one song you may have heard about before since it was on Slashdot<\/a>), Chiron Beta Prime<\/a> (a Christmas song from humans imprisoned by robots), The Presidents<\/a> (a single fact about every US President), or Mandelbrot Set<\/a> (the happiest math song I know next to Math Prof Rock Star<\/a>). So go! Go listen! And if you like, give the man some money<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s clear that you come to this blog in order to substitute my own tastes and opinions for yours. (Well, that and cute Eli movies.) So I want to point you towards Jonathan Coulton. He’s a musician and songwriter who’s seeing if he can make a living as a fully independent musician. There’s no label, … Continue reading Jonathan Coulton Makes Great Music<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t