Jonathan Coulton discography
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Studio Albums

Year Title Notes
2003 Smoking Monkey
Smoking Monkey
Smoking Monkey is the debut album by internet rock musician Jonathan Coulton. It was released in 2003 before Coulton was well known and at first only garnered minimal sales through iTunes and other MP3 retail stores...


  • Produced by Jonathan Coulton
  • Released on November 5, 2003
  • Debut album
  • Recorded in Pro Tools
    Pro Tools
    Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation platform for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, developed and manufactured by Avid Technology. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, film, and television...

     and SAW Pro
  • 2004 Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow
    Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow
    Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow is the second studio album by rock musician Jonathan Coulton. The album is named after the town motto of Jonathan's hometown, Colchester, Connecticut. The album cover art itself is a retouched photograph of a sign from the city...


  • Produced by Jonathan Coulton
  • Released on October 1, 2004
  • Five song EP
  • Contains a large number of Coulton's biggest hits
  • 2005 Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms
    Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms
    Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms is the third studio album by comedy rock musician Jonathan Coulton. This album was made as a soundtrack for a September issue of the Popular Science magazine. Much like Coulton's previous 2004 album "Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow" this record is also a 5...


  • Produced by Jonathan Coulton
  • Released on September 1, 2005
  • Five song EP
  • Written and recorded based on articles in Popular Science Magazine
  • 2006 Thing a Week One
  • Produced by Jonathan Coulton
  • Released on August 1, 2006
  • First season of Thing a Week
  • Contains "Baby Got Back" and "Shop Vac"
  • 2006 Thing a Week Two
  • Produced by Jonathan Coulton
  • Released on September 1, 2006
  • Second season of Thing a Week
  • Contains "Re: Your Brains" and "A Talk with George"
  • 2006 Thing a Week Three
  • Produced by Jonathan Coulton
  • Released on December 12, 2006
  • Third season of Thing a Week
  • Contains "Code Monkey" and "Tom Cruise Crazy"
  • 2006 Thing a Week Four
  • Produced by Jonathan Coulton
  • Released on December 12, 2006
  • Fourth season of Thing a Week
  • Contains "Creepy Doll" and "Mr. Fancy Pants"
  • 2011 Artificial Heart
    Artificial Heart (album)
    Artificial Heart is the eighth studio album by rock musician Jonathan Coulton. After taking a long hiatus from songwriting after his successful 2006 Thing a Week project , Coulton started production on Artificial Heart after encouragement from John Flansburgh , also the...


  • Produced by John Flansburgh
    John Flansburgh
    John Conant Flansburgh is an American musician. He is half of the longstanding Brooklyn, New York-based alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings and plays rhythm guitar...

  • Released on September 2, 2011
  • First professional studio album
  • Performed by full band

  • Live Albums

    Year Title Notes
    2009 Best. Concert. Ever.
    Best. Concert. Ever.
    Best. Concert. Ever. is a live concert CD/DVD by internet musician Jonathan Coulton. It was recorded live on February 22, 2008 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California.-Track list:...


    • Live in San Francisco, California
    • Released on May 2009
  • Two disc CD/DVD set
  • Recorded in 2008 at the Great American Music Hall
    Great American Music Hall
    The Great American Music Hall is a concert hall in San Francisco, California. It is located on O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood on the same block as the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater...


  • Compilations

    Year Title Notes
    2008 JoCo Looks Back
    JoCo Looks Back
    JoCo Looks Back is a compilation album by internet musician Jonathan Coulton. It is Coulton's first and so far only 'Greatest Hits' compilation. It is however, his first of two compilation albums, the other being a live concert recording, Best. Concert. Ever. The album features 20 previously...


    • First "Best Of" album
    • Released on October 22, 2008
  • Compiled from first 7 studio albums
  • First stereo release of "Code Monkey"

  • Singles

    Year Title Notes
    2011 Nemeses
    • Produced by John Flansburgh
    • Released on July 28, 2011
  • First single from Artificial Heart
  • Lead vocals performed by John Roderick
  • 2011 Good Morning Tucson
  • Produced by John Flansburgh
  • Released on August 25, 2011
  • Second single from Artificial Heart
  • Released by Blurt
    Blurt
    Blurt is a British musical group founded by the poet, saxophonist and puppeteer Ted Milton in 1979 in Stroud, Gloucestershire; with Milton's brother Jake Milton, formerly of psychedelic group Quintessence, on drums and Peter Creese on guitar...


  • Other Releases

    • The Aftermath
      The Aftermath (Jonathan Coulton album)
      The Aftermath is a collection of songs released following the 'aftermath' of the Thing a Week project by comedy rock musician Jonathan Coulton. The project was originally intended to be Coulton's eighth studio album...

       - Unreleased studio recordings, produced between Thing a Week
      Thing a Week
      Thing a Week is a series of studio albums released by rock musician Jonathan Coulton in 2006. He compiled these albums from his highly successful weekly podcast, where he challenged himself to write, record, and produce a new song within a week, every week, for an entire year...

       and Artificial Heart
      Artificial Heart (album)
      Artificial Heart is the eighth studio album by rock musician Jonathan Coulton. After taking a long hiatus from songwriting after his successful 2006 Thing a Week project , Coulton started production on Artificial Heart after encouragement from John Flansburgh , also the...

      .
    • Unplugged - Live on Second Life
      Second Life
      Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs, or Viewers, enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars...

      , bootleg of online concert.
    • Other Experiments - Rarities collection, contains unreleased songs and demos.
    • "Still Alive
      Still Alive
      Still Alive may refer to:* Still Alive , the closing credits song from the Portal video game* Still Alive – the Remixes, the theme song from the video game Mirror's Edge...

      " written for the video game, Portal. Vocals by Ellen McLain. Later re-recorded for Artificial Heart
      Artificial Heart (album)
      Artificial Heart is the eighth studio album by rock musician Jonathan Coulton. After taking a long hiatus from songwriting after his successful 2006 Thing a Week project , Coulton started production on Artificial Heart after encouragement from John Flansburgh , also the...

      .
    • "Want You Gone" written for the video game, Portal 2
      Portal 2
      Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The sequel to the 2007 video game Portal, it was announced on March 5, 2010, following a week-long alternate reality game based on new patches to the original game...

      . Vocals by Ellen McLain.
    • "The Princess Who Saved Herself" included on Many Hands for Haiti benefit compilation.
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