Comments on: I Totally Forgot

By: Joey P.

Joey P. — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:04:20 +0000

that was a really fun show, the band was awesome, and the uke playing was also very special even though i thought you were gonna play somewhere over the rainbow i gotta admit i got kind of excited but baby got back was a very pleasant surprise

By: Chaisaw

Chaisaw — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:04:06 +0000

Consider it a joke against his younger self.

By: Luke M

Luke M — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:58:31 +0000

OK, I feel better knowing Jonathan was accusing *himself* of being a total douche. If someone else did a hoax where he had ripped off some sad dead dude it would be a pretty mean prank.

By: Mixmastermind

Mixmastermind — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:12:32 +0000

The term for those from the state of Arkansas is Arkansan. Why the last syllable completely changes sound, I don’t know. I don’t make the crazy redneck rules.

By: Ernie Wade

Ernie Wade — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:55:36 +0000

bbbrraaiiiiIIIiiiinzzzZZZZzzz…

By: ContegoLibertas

ContegoLibertas — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:36:19 +0000

Skymall & Fractal “Magic”?
So, a man who could not keep a job had numerous experiences traveling by airplane and had a working knowledge of a boundary of points on the complex plane, which were determined by the father of fractal geometry?

By: HellZiggy

HellZiggy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:00:35 +0000

So JoCo, I’m assuming the reason you haven’t posted to own up to your great April Fool’s joke here is the apartment sale and subsequent move? Unless Ernie Wade’s family really did silence you…

~Sharon, still your Mpls merch minion, but minioning for Ernie Wade now too

By: Janice

Janice — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:27:50 +0000

Well, that certainly explains why he is still figuring out how to play some of “his” songs….

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:46:01 +0000

Joke? This is super cereal.

By: Colleenky

Colleenky — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:21:12 +0000

@HellZiggy: JC is an *exceptional* thief!

By: Chris Co

Chris Co — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:06:39 +0000

so is it only me who wants now to hear an ode to Ernie Wade? I think that would be a good way to wrap this joke up

By: Klaus

Klaus — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:42:05 +0000

Ernie was a visionary. He knew about Pluto beforehand

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:30:31 +0000

I think I’m the only dork who realized this article was fake because of the following thought process:

one of the songs on the cassette tape “Moons Go Round”, the alternate name for “I’m Your Moon” could not have been originally written by Ernie Wade, who, according to the article, died 3 years before Pluto’s planetary status was revoked.

Making connections like these is most likely unhealthy, but it was good for a laugh.

By: Fiyah

Fiyah — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:22:04 +0000

Please. Release an awesome song within the next couple days. My ears are ready to bleed from these horrid Ernie songs, and I needs me a new JoCo to fix it…

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:53:41 +0000

I can’t believe you stole all that poor dead guys music!

Kidding of course… very funny.

By: Jmonkee

Jmonkee — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:48:10 +0000

Regarding that show on Bravo, all has been made clear in the forum, on this thread (appropriately titled “Soft Rocked By Me sung on Bravo!!!”):

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=1146

By: bb4lake

bb4lake — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:31:22 +0000

Haha, I came on here for the very same reason Tsujiku. My wife watches the show and last week on one of the previews I saw him start into “Soft Rocked” and I thought there was no way he was actually singing JoCO so I waited all week to watch tonights show to see if it would be true. To my great pleasure it was true, he sang it. Twice! Very cool, despite the fact that JoCo was never given credit! Isn’t that part of the Creative Common License agreement?

Forget this Bernie Wade guy, and contact your lawyers to sue Bravo! =P

(Also, I hope I don’t have to turn in my “Man” card for anxiously awaiting a matchmaking show on Bravo)

By: Tsujiku

Tsujiku — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:46:10 +0000

WARNING: This is completely off-topic.

I just heard someone on TV singing the beginning of Soft Rocked by Me. It’s some matchmaking show on Bravo called “The Millionaire Matchmaker.” In the video one of the millionaires sent in, he was singing “Have you ever been in love with a man who’s sensitive.”

I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure he’s going to sing it later in a karaoke setting.

This is the episode if anyone cares.
http://www.locatetv.com/tv/millionaire-matchmaker/season-2/6190799

(NOTE: I was going to post this on the forum, but I’ve neglected signing up for an account, and now I need to wait for an administrator to verify it).

By: rozwarren

rozwarren — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:36:01 +0000

The NYC show was outstanding. As usual. My Life Goal is to see 100 JoCoShows and NYC was my 5th. (Next up: Alexandria.) The marching band was awesome. I’ve now seen JoCo perform with a marching band AND with a ukulele orchestra. How cool is that?

By: TomR

TomR — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:14:08 +0000

Jonathan, I was so thrilled to see you were coming to our little corner of the world in Northwest Ark! I talked a buddy of mine into coming with and he’s now a fan. I think you had him at ‘BRAINS’! Truly fine show and excellent soundcheck, hope those of us in the audience didn’t freak you out too much during that. I totally didn’t expect Mr. Fancypants & was quite pleased to hear it.

BTW, if you ever come back this way, I’ll be happy to do a ‘royale with cheese’ introduction for you, sir! Your humble minion, TomR.

By: Brookes

Brookes — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:07:13 +0000

The last line of each verse of The Presidents has the same tune as that of “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”. It was driving me crazy what it sounded like and finally I remembered. Anyone who grew up in NY in the 80’s and listened to the radio at all had it drummed into our heads every Xmas season. Good times.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:59:20 +0000

“JC ripping off a dead loser? Best. April. First. Joke. Ever.”

That’s messed up. They prefer to be called posthumous peper-medalists.

By: jjohn

jjohn — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:58:29 +0000

JC ripping off a dead loser? Best. April. First. Joke. Ever.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:02:10 +0000

That lifted my spirits up. One of my favorite teachers from High School died yesterday and I have been feeling kind of crappy. I did not know why I decided to jump onto the JoCo site, but I am glad I did. I liked the alternate verisons. It doesn’t really sound like Hodgeman to me but I may be wrong.

By: Luke M

Luke M — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:49:25 +0000

@Cambiata:

I’m not convinced it was JoCo who did it.

By: Cambiata

Cambiata — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:13:13 +0000

@Luke M: You didn’t think JoCo’s April Fool’s joke was funny? I thought it was pretty good! You have to at least credit him for the effort at recording those alternate versions. I wonder who it is singing? I’d love it if it was Hodgman.

By: Trisha Lynn

Trisha Lynn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:20:14 +0000

MitchO: You rocked. Hard.

By: SR

SR — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:12:51 +0000

That was a mighty fine show, JoCo.

You ought to play New York more often. After all, you do kind of, how you say, live here.

By: MitchO

MitchO — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:12:45 +0000

Actually, that’s my own “Whoa!” at the beginning of the video, since I know the history of the Hungry March Band (who played with Jonathan on the very FIRST “The Presidents”, back in Little Gray Book Lecture days), and was shocked.

For the record, I’m also the guy who threw the Jaffa Panties. Recognize!

By: Luke M

Luke M — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:43:11 +0000

Now there’s an equally crappy knockoff of “The Future Soon” on that site.

I don’t actually get the point of this. It isn’t funny, and it’s weirdly mean spirited for such obvious bullshit (as has been noted, “Moons Go Round” is apparently supposed to be the 1997 “original” of “I’m Your Moon,” which was written in response to Pluto’s reclassification in 2006, so the hoax doesn’t even make sense on its own terms). Whoever this person is, he has too much free time.

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By: kate

kate — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:58:39 +0000

ERNIE LIVES!

By: Chris Radcliff

Chris Radcliff — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:51:48 +0000

FREE ERNIE!

By: HellZiggy

HellZiggy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:49:46 +0000

I can’t believe I’ve been a fan for over 3 years and now I find out you’re just a god-damn thief! From now on when I download “your” music I’m not going to send you any money, I’m going to send it to Ernie Wade’s family instead!

~Sharon, your FORMER Minneapolis Merch Minion

By: Cambiata

Cambiata — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:44:19 +0000

Mr. Coulton, you are a CAD sir. I was good friends with Ernie Wade, God rest his soul, and your obvious plagiarism shall not be overlooked!

By: tshaddox

tshaddox — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:23:29 +0000

Oh, and I must say, that was the best 3 hours spent driving down from Springfield, Missouri. All 4 of us loved it, including the guy who drove, who had never heard of JoCo before Sunday when I insisted he drive us.

By: tshaddox

tshaddox — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:20:42 +0000

Don’t be embarrassed about the sound check….it worked, cuz the Arkansas show sounded great. The Fancy Pants machine could’ve been louder though ;o . That B string sure liked to go flat though, but don’t worry, we’re probably the only two that noticed!

By: whall

whall — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:44:03 +0000

Allwewannadois ernie wades.
We’re not unreasonable
I mean, no’one’s gonna link your sites.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:44:44 +0000

Mr. Coulton, you sir would have won some serious internets if you didn’t already own them all. Quite a good April Fool’s Day prank. :p

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:34:29 +0000

Awesome, as usual. I would love to buy a copy of “The Presidents” with the updated lyrics!

By: Luke M

Luke M — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:30:07 +0000

@Nick: For the meantime, look around here. Many shows have links to audio or video files.

By: Aaron G

Aaron G — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:09:42 +0000

JoCo, you scared the living piss out of me for a second lol

unless Erine Wade is telling the truth

By: Plaid Phantom

Plaid Phantom — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:49:29 +0000

Set list or no, let me just say that the concert last night was *awesome*. It was fun hearing songs in a slightly different style, and I got to turn my girlfriend into a JoCo fan. I join those in eager anticipation of a concert DVD!

Personally, I like “Arkansonians” just as much as “Arkansawyers”. I still prefer “Arkansans” over both.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:22:21 +0000

Oh man that was my “Wooo!” I was sitting right behind the guy with the camera.
I gotta say, JoCo, I know I’d buy versions of your sounds done the way you did them in concert. Or is that the concept behind the elusive DvD?
Without any spoilers for those yet to see your strange ways live (its better as a suprise) I’m referring especially to songs like Mr. Fancy Pants, Presidents day with the Band, Code Monkey with the ukalaili, some of the songs where Paul and Storm put harmony where it might not have previously been…

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:16:20 +0000

Argh, bandwidth limit exceeded. Dumb sites. Are the MP3s mirrored elsewhere?

By: Luke M

Luke M — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:53:20 +0000

People are actually discussing whether that is real or not. “We Are the Chimpions” … ’nuff said

By: Techno

Techno — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:39:38 +0000

I do believe the legal and proper term for a citizen of the state of Arkansas is an Arkansawyer, Mr. Coulton. Being a native of the Northwestern corner, I thought it best to inform you now before the dozens of fans which didn’t travel 3 hours from Springfield set upon you with tooth and nail.

I mean, I’m just sayin’…

By: Klaus

Klaus — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:19:13 +0000

Nice laugh!
There’s even Blue Sunny Day (Bonus!)

By: SgtBake

SgtBake — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:16:13 +0000

@motown: Well that would probably be because the “april fools joke” was up already yesterday… *sigh*

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:15:10 +0000

I’ll learn dolphin speech.

By: MP

MP — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:08:33 +0000

That was awesome, especially “Warrior Robot Revenge.” That’s not Hodgman singing, is it?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:07:52 +0000

Fractal *Magic*

I laughed ’til I peed.

By: motown

motown — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:04:29 +0000

It’s only 8:03 EDT and I have already fallen victim to an April fool’s joke. Well played JoCo – er – I mean Wade.