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Looking back through the “revjim.net” archives I realize now that, while I did add a bookmark to this particular individual back in October of 2004, and mentioned him in a comment last April, I never gave him the full write up he deserves.
I’m talking about Jonathan Coulton. Last May (and April and June, for that matter) I annoyed my dear wife with the near-constant repeat of his song The First of May (mp3). When I wasn’t playing it, I was singing it.
A few weekends ago, while on the way to Palo Duro Canyon, Jess, Mike and I heard a song about Ikea (mp3) being played by some university radio station in Amarillo. I absolutely loved it but it wasn’t until today that I put two and two together and realized that it was being sung by none other than Johnny C himself.
Recently, the big JC has seen quite a bit of publicity with his folk cover of Baby Got Back. Call it a rip off of the Gourds’ “Gin and Juice” or Dynamite Hack’s “The Boys in the Hood” if you want, but there’s no denying it’s damn good music and quite funny to boot.
This “Baby Got Back” cover is part of Jonathan’s Thing a Week which is something you should certainly add to your feed readers if not his entire site. Another worthy mention from Jonathan’s “Thing A Week” is W’s Duty which will quickly satisfy the childish interest in bathroom humor inside us all.
All of Jonathan’s music is under Creative Commons license which means he doesn’t get paid a penny unless you give from the bottom of your hearts. So, if you enjoy his music, toss him a buck or two as I’ve done in the past and will certainly do again in the future. If every one of you that enjoys any of this music threw $1 his way, he’d have quite a bit of money.
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