2006 series of studio albums by Jonathan Coulton
Thing a Week
(sometimes as
Thing-a-Week
) is a series of studio albums released by rock musician
Jonathan Coulton
in 2006. He compiled these albums from his weekly podcast, where he challenged himself to write, record, and produce a new song within a week, every week, for an entire year. He had done this to prove to himself, and to fans, that he was capable of working with a deadline.
Thing a Week One
[
edit
]
Thing a Week One
|
---|
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/Thing_a_Week_One.jpg/220px-Thing_a_Week_One.jpg) |
|
Released
| August 31, 2006
|
---|
Recorded
| 2006
|
---|
Genre
|
|
---|
Producer
| Jonathan Coulton
|
---|
|
|
Thing a Week One
is the first album of the series, and
Jonathan Coulton
's fourth studio album. It contains some of Coulton's earliest hit songs, including "Shop Vac" and a cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "
Baby Got Back
." This album also features "W's Duty," one of very few songs Coulton has written about a real life topic. The tenth Thing a Week, "When I'm 25 or 64", is missing from this album due to copyright restrictions (it is a mashup of
The Beatles
' "
When I'm Sixty-Four
" from
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
and
Chicago
's "
25 or 6 to 4
" from
Chicago
). It used to be freely downloaded from Coulton's website.
[1]
As such, this is the only Thing a Week album without at least 13 tracks (compare Thing a Week Four, which has 14).
Track list
[
edit
]
All tracks written and composed by Jonathan Coulton unless noted.
Title
|
---|
1.
| "See You All in Hell"
| 0:58
|
---|
2.
| "My Monkey"
| 2:47
|
---|
3.
| "W's Duty"
| 1:49
|
---|
4.
| "Shop Vac"
| 3:31
|
---|
5.
| "
Baby Got Back
" (
Mix-a-Lot
, melody by Coulton)
| 5:33
|
---|
6.
| "Someone is Crazy"
| 2:04
|
---|
7.
| "Brand New Sucker"
| 2:07
|
---|
8.
| "Sibling Rivalry"
| 3:04
|
---|
9.
| "The Town Crotch"
| 4:44
|
---|
10.
| "Podsafe Christmas Song"
| 2:45
|
---|
11.
| "Furry Old Lobster"
| 2:02
|
---|
12.
| "Drive"
| 2:35
|
---|
Thing a Week Two
[
edit
]
Thing a Week Two
|
---|
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/Thing_a_Week_Two.jpg/220px-Thing_a_Week_Two.jpg) |
|
Released
| November 2, 2006
|
---|
Recorded
| 2006
|
---|
Genre
|
|
---|
Producer
| Jonathan Coulton
|
---|
|
|
Thing a Week Two
is the second Thing a Week album, and the fifth studio album by
Jonathan Coulton
. It features some of Coulton's most popular songs, including "Re: Your Brains," which would later be featured in
Valve
's popular 2009 video game,
Left 4 Dead 2
, and later re-recorded in French language in the album
The Aftermath
. "Chiron Beta Prime," a Christmas song that originated as a Christmas card to one of Coulton's friends, is also on the album and shows how Coulton's songs tend to be about science fiction. It also includes "I Will," a cover of
The Beatles
' song from the
White Album
.
Track List
[
edit
]
All tracks written and composed by Jonathan Coulton unless noted.
Title
|
---|
1.
| "Flickr"
| 2:48
|
---|
2.
| "Resolutions"
| 2:21
|
---|
3.
| "You Could Be Her"
| 4:21
|
---|
4.
| "
I Will
" (
Lennon?McCartney
)
| 2:16
|
---|
5.
| "Dance,
Soterios Johnson
, Dance"
| 3:51
|
---|
6.
| "So Far So Good"
| 3:22
|
---|
7.
| "Curl"
| 3:18
|
---|
8.
| "Chiron Beta Prime"
| 2:51
|
---|
9.
| "Take Care of Me"
| 2:45
|
---|
10.
| "A Talk with George"
| 3:06
|
---|
11.
| "
Don't Talk to Strangers
" (
Springfield
)
| 3:09
|
---|
12.
| "Stroller Town"
| 2:47
|
---|
13.
| "Re: Your Brains"
| 4:31
|
---|
Thing a Week Three
[
edit
]
Thing a Week Three
|
---|
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/Thing_a_Week_Three.jpg/220px-Thing_a_Week_Three.jpg) |
|
Released
| December 15, 2006
|
---|
Recorded
| 2006
|
---|
Genre
|
|
---|
Producer
| Jonathan Coulton
|
---|
|
|
Thing a Week Three
is the third Thing a Week album, and the sixth studio album by
Jonathan Coulton
. It contains two of Coulton's most popular songs. "Code Monkey," used as the theme to a TV show and internet series, G4's
Code Monkeys
, and "Tom Cruise Crazy", a song about
Tom Cruise
. "Code Monkey" was likely inspired by Coulton's days at the New York software company Cluen.
Track list
[
edit
]
All tracks written and composed by Jonathan Coulton unless noted.
Title
|
---|
1.
| "Madelaine"
| 3:43
|
---|
2.
| "When You Go"
| 3:53
|
---|
3.
| "
Code Monkey
"
| 3:07
|
---|
4.
| "The Presidents"
| 4:09
|
---|
5.
| "Just as Long as Me"
| 2:12
|
---|
6.
| "Till the Money Comes"
| 3:29
|
---|
7.
| "Tom Cruise Crazy"
| 3:41
|
---|
8.
| "
Famous Blue Raincoat
" (
Cohen
)
| 4:01
|
---|
9.
| "Soft Rocked by Me"
| 4:19
|
---|
10.
| "Not About You"
| 2:12
|
---|
11.
| "Rock and Roll Boy"
| 3:28
|
---|
12.
| "Drinking with You"
| 3:31
|
---|
13.
| "Pizza Day"
| 3:09
|
---|
Thing a Week Four
[
edit
]
Thing a Week Four
|
---|
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Thing_a_Week_Four.jpg/220px-Thing_a_Week_Four.jpg) |
|
Released
| December 15, 2006
|
---|
Recorded
| 2006
|
---|
Genre
|
|
---|
Producer
| Jonathan Coulton
|
---|
|
|
Thing a Week Four
is the fourth and final Thing a Week album, and the seventh studio album by
Jonathan Coulton
. It has some more of his popular songs, including "Creepy Doll", a song where a man buys an abandoned house and finds a living, creepy doll upstairs, and later is killed by the doll in a fire. (This song inspired a
Magic: The Gathering
card of the same name).
[2]
"Mr. Fancy Pants", a song where a man is obsessed with his pants, urging another man to buy the world's best pants to best 'Mr. Fancy Pants' in a contest of whose pants are better. "You Ruined Everything", seemingly a parody of typical love songs by taking the tone of a love song with lyrics reflecting anger, sadness, or regret towards somebody. It is actually about Coulton's daughter, as he was inspired to write it because of her. "I'm Your Moon", a song about the moon,
Charon
, of
Pluto
. Coulton criticizes
Earth
scientists for renaming Pluto from a planet to a
dwarf planet
, and Coulton has been known to introduce the song by casually damning the scientists who made that decision. It also features covers of two
Queen
songs, "
We Will Rock You
", and "
We Are The Champions
".
Track list
[
edit
]
All tracks written and composed by Jonathan Coulton unless noted.
Title
|
---|
1.
| "SkyMall"
| 3:55
|
---|
2.
| "Seahorse"
| 3:28
|
---|
3.
| "Creepy Doll"
| 4:00
|
---|
4.
| "Under the Pines"
| 3:37
|
---|
5.
| "Big Bad World One"
| 2:50
|
---|
6.
| "Mr. Fancy Pants"
| 1:19
|
---|
7.
| "You Ruined Everything"
| 2:17
|
---|
8.
| "I'm Your Moon"
| 3:13
|
---|
9.
| "The Big Boom"
| 2:37
|
---|
10.
| "Make You Cry"
| 3:09
|
---|
11.
| "Pull the String"
| 2:30
|
---|
12.
| "Summer's Over"
| 2:54
|
---|
13.
| "We Will Rock You" (
May
)
| 1:54
|
---|
14.
| "We Are the Champions" (
Mercury
)
| 2:13
|
---|
References
[
edit
]
|
---|
|
Studio albums
| |
---|
Compilation albums
| |
---|
Live albums
| |
---|