I know, I super slacked the last few months, so here’s the first show of 2009. I’m not seeing a ton of shows lately, but this is something worth getting out of the house to see, for sure.

Jonathan Coulton speaks to the soul of every nerd, geek, and anyone that comes in contact with anyone who considers themselves to be part of either sort of person. That’s not to say the music can only be enjoyed by nerds and geeks, but there’s a little something extra special inside for those who are. Not many people can get away with writing a song about having a mundane programming job, zombies, monkeys, evil mad scientists, and then still make some really nice and/or depressing songs about relationships in general and also fucking. It’s truly representative of humanity as a whole I think, and there’s definitely something there for everyone.

As for this show, I mean it’s tough to say anything but “he played all the songs I like pretty much” except that it’s difficult to even say there are many of his songs that I don’t like anyway… so yeah great show. I hadn’t been keeping up with the website, so I didn’t have a clue about the couple of songs for the contest thing so there were even a few treats as well as some covers. Can’t go wrong with a TMBG song at a nerdy rock show right?

I had tickets to the Saturday show as well, but unfortunately I flaked and didn’t go. (lots of reasons, none of them good). I kinda wish I had, because this show was great from start to finish and that’s something I haven’t been able to say about a lot of shows. Anyway, this one was great. Enjoy.

1. Intro
2. Big Bad World One
3. Shop Vac
4. Skullcrusher Mountain
5. Still Alive
6. Millionaire Girlfriend
7. Drinking With You
8. Famous Blue Raincoat
9. Tom Cruise Crazy
10. Code Monkey
11. My Monkey
12. Chiron Beta Prime
13. Always The Moon
14. Birdhouse In Your Soul
15. Creepy Doll
16. Mr. Fancy Pants
17. Someone Is Crazy
18. The Presidents
19. The Future Soon
20. Space Doggity
21. Re: Your Brains
22. First Of May
23. Sweet Caroline

download the whole show as a .zip file
download the show in lossless FLAC via Dimeadozen (registration required)

Links:

• Official Site
• Jonathan Coulton: Listening primer

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