-Paul Davin(hope your still check these comments every once in a while)

I first heard your song on a video game music video for Re: Your Brains and i bought that and fantastic. Then when I heard the song you did on Portal I knew I needed more.
You are one of the most creative people i have ever seen Sir Coulton and i tip my hat to you. You’re better and more creative than 95% of the artists out there and I’d like to think that even in a small way you have improved my quality of life.

I love your original works, and you doing L. Cohen is just awesome!

I just signed up for thing a week. Does this mean I *can’t* send you a dollar a week? It seemed a small price to pay to support an artist I really like.

Well, if that’s true, let me know, and Ill go buy a bunch of the album downloads instead

All of these songs are amazing and We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions must have so hard to put togther, all those handclaps!

Love the music always!

Anya

Damn. You made me cry.

Thank you, JC. Thank you, Len. Thank you, all you video hams. Thank you, Dave, for clueing me in. I need to think of TAW anytime I forget to be grateful for what I have….

– Jerry

I hope you still keep writing and putting new music up. Seeing you in person rocked my world and I can hardly wait until you come back to DC.

I also support the above poster’s idea about a Song a Month. That would be cool.

illbixby
ps how about a song a month?! yeah, I smell victory!!

Great work and I’m looking forward to more JC in the future!

Thanks for the memories!

Thanks for something to look forward to in the week.

Like everyone else here, I’m chiming in to say thanks so much for the 52 gems this past year. Something I have always wondered about is how your creative process works. Over this past year what was the typical week like? What was the hardest TAW to write and/or produce, and why? The easiest?

Like a lot of the JoCo Faithful, I’ll be stocking up on your CDs for Christmas gifts. Anyone know what the ZIP code is for Chiron Beta Prime?

Enjoy the time off! We’re all looking forward to whatever you decide to tackle in the future.

I have a story of my own to share: I had just loaded up my iPod before leaving for Gen Con 2006, and I wanted my boyfriend to hear some of the older songs that he hadn’t heard yet. When we were eating lunch in the window of one of the skywalks at the convention center, I hooked up my travel speakers to listen while we ate. I was apparently too focused in on my food, because I heard my boyfriend say “I don’t know” to someone. He then asked me if the song we were listening to was called “Skull Crusher Mountain.” When I said it was, he said that someone had asked on their way past. Whoever had asked was long gone, but I was surprised that someone would recognize it. Silly me, I didn’t know that your music was so popular!

I didn’t know that the TAW was only going to go on for a set amount of time, so it was a real shock to me when I read the explanation of “Summer’s Over.” Always sad to see something like this go, but as they say, even the best things must come to an end. Although my praise and admiration means little, you have it a million times over. Thanks for the laughs and the tears that your music will continue to bring every time I hear it.

God bless Jonathan Coulton. And God bless monkeys.

JB

I’m really inspired — there’s just something to be said for sitting down and getting it done. I’m a game programmer myself — nothing special, just a spare time activity — but I’ve found myself afraid a number of times that I wasn’t going to create anything that was worth a damn. “Standard creative doubt,” I think, was the term. I’m gonna have to give this a shot — just sit down and try to get some work done each week or whatnot. Don’t worry, just work.

Wonderful job, sir, and best wishes for continued success.

There will be more music. Just not on a deadline for a while…

Please, please continue to make music. You are an incredible talent. I’m already feeling the efects of JoCo withdrawls. Yikes.

And now, enjoy a break where you do absoloutely noting creative for a little while. You deserve it.

Anyway, so thank you. And What’s Next?

Oh, and I hated We Will Rock You before I heard your cover. Too perfect.

Every week I come to this website, greatly looking forward to your next “thing of the week” – I feel sad that this particular experiment is over but I just hope you recharge your batteries and continue to write and record such great music.

Rob.

I absolutely love JoCo’s stuff. It is brilliant, and he produced some amazing work in the last year. I’m not calling that a failure. What I’m referring to is the experiment of making a living off of it, as I believe the original idea was. Please don’t get me wrong– I am ever so grateful that Jonathan did this, because it was an excellent idea with some great results. But in terms of subsistence, the experiment failed– or so I believe.

At any rate, I appear to have struck an off-note, so I’ll just swallow my tongue here and retreat quietly. Sorry if I offended.

I’ve been meaning to send donations or subscribe or something ever since hearing Baby Got Back on Coverville. Slacker that I am, I never got around to it. So, to make it up, as the CDs come out, I’ll buy them. …As soon as I get around to it.

I did get several cow-workers excited about Code Monkey. “Dude! It’s a love song!!!”

Thanks, 52 times over.

Thanks for all your efforts on this project. We’re all going to miss you!

I can’t wait to see what you do next.

You are the greatest!
Zach

This was great and if it didn’t produce the volumes of cash that JoCo would’ve liked, donations are still open and there’s no reason to think that the money won’t keep trickling in….plus, how many of us will go see him in concert?! All of us, that’s how many!

Congrats, Jonathan!

JY

Nice. Nice.

I’ve greatly enjoyed being along for the ride, as you’ve made your way through your year of forced creativity. I suspect it will pay off massively, soon enough. Best wishes to you, sir!

I’m in a band that has a goal of one song a week (thanks to you)! I don’t know if it’s harder with more people, but for four people who work together really well it can still be like pulling teeth. I have an idea as to the effort you must put into this. Thank you mister Jonathan Coulton for doing what you do so well.

When it hit me that this would be the last one (and a good solid cover). I figured I’d better let you know that I loved every week. Your music has been played across most of a year of my life and very few artists can say that.

You are a rockstar with more fame and riches than any other!

-Phil

Nicely done, my friend.

Much appreciation for everything,
M.