First-Person Narrator
One of JoCo's most original themes is the use of first-person perspectives in several songs, which help the listener empathize with the many pre-teen boys, geeks and octopi in the JoCo catalogue.
Smoking Monkey
- I'm Having a Party
- Bozo's Lament
- I Hate California
- Millionaire Girlfriend
- First of May
- De-Evolving
- I'm A Mason Now
- Overhead
Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow
Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms
- My Monkey
- W's Duty
- Shop Vac
- Baby Got Back
- Someone is Crazy
- Brand New Sucker
- The Town Crotch
- When I'm 25 or 64
- Drive
- Resolutions
- You Could Be Her
- I Will
- So Far So Good
- Take Care of Me
- Stroller Town
- Madelaine
- Code Monkey
- Just as Long as Me
- Till the Money Comes
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- Soft Rocked by Me
- Not About You
- Rock and Roll Boy
- Drinking with You
- Pizza Day (while not technically in the first-person, represents a good example of characterization)
- SkyMall
- Under the Pines
- Big Bad World One
- You Ruined Everything
- I'm Your Moon
- Make You Cry
- Summer's Over