Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow

Jonathan Coulton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jonathan Coulton
• ASIN: B000701FQQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #395,026 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Future Soon

2. Skullcrusher Mountain

3. I Crush Everything

4. Betty and Me

5. Mandelbrot Set

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My New Favorite!, December 16, 2004

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Sarah F. Burghardt (Grinnell, IA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow (Audio CD)

Skullcrusher Mountain is the best song I've heard lately. It is a folksy love song from an evil villain to his captured damsel in destress. What could be better than that?

I dunno, maybe a pop-rock song about Mandlebrot and his fractals. These songs are such gems that it's very much worth it to buy the CD, even though there are only 5 songs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well, I'm sold!, June 11, 2007

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GrammarGeek (Central Illinois) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow (Audio CD)

I'm a little late to join the Jonathan Coulton Fan Bandwagon, but late is so much better than never!

Coulton's "nerd pop" sounds deceptively ordinary... for about three seconds. Once the lyrics start, the music becomes incidental; it's the words you're paying attention to. And no, I don't mean that they're moving and full of emotional impact. I mean that they're HYSTERICAL! I'm sure J.C. figured out pretty early on that the nerdier songs were getting the most attention, so he's probably been writing things like "Re Your Brains" more than anything else, and that's OKAY BY ME.

Sample verse from "Skullcrusher Mountain" off of this EP:

"I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you,

But I get the feeling that you don't like it.

What's with all the screaming?

You like monkeys, you like ponies,

Maybe you don't like monsters so much.

...Maybe I used too many monkeys.

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony

Making a gift for you?"

Anyway, if that's your brand of humor, then you'll dig everything this guy has done. Check out his website, where you can preview every song in its entirety, and purchase downloads if you'd rather not buy whole albums.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pop hooks for geeky lyrics, March 9, 2007

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kig "keith" (Philadelphia PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow (Audio CD)

Well-crafted pop music that, lyrically, explores geek themes: the mandelbrot set, middle school fantazation about the future where the girl what snubbed your anonymous note passing recognizes that the robot armies are under your command; and a naive cuckold who thinks the fertility clinic is reprogramming DNA. Uh, no, but the chorus "Baby will be better than me" sure is catchy! The artist uses creative commons license, so these songs are soundtrack to a lot of YouTube machinima.