JoCo Looks Back

JoCo Looks Back is the first compilation album by Jonathan Coulton, the CD contains previously released studio recordings from Coulton's first seven studio albums.

JoCo Looks Back
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Artist:	Jonathan Coulton
Tracks:	20
Release date:	October 22, 2008
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Congratulations on your shows with the Big Dogs. I saw the vodies for My Monkey and Always the Moon. They and you are great. It's nice to know that JoCo is playing some of his Song Fu songs. I have hopes of seeing a Space Doggity video someday.Speaking of Song Fu, how is your songwriting coming? I find that the key to songwriting is to write songs without any initial thoughts about whether or not they will be keepers or hits or Stand up to public scrutiny. Just write, rewrite and finish. Give it a few weeks. Then, if you can remember how they go and they still sound OK, they are probably pretty good.DFTBA-Russ

Background

• While preparing this CD for release, Jonathan discovered that all previous releases of Code Monkey had been accidentally exported in mono. This album features the first stereo mix of the song.
• All other songs on the CD are the same as on previous releases.

Availability

Though not yet linked from JonathanCoulton.com, the "JoCo Looks Back" CD is available from CD Baby and Amazon.com as well as at live appearances.

On November 17, 2008 Creative Commons announced that a special edition of JoCo Looks Back on a 1GB USB drive was available as a premium gift for those who donated $50 or more to their annual fundraising campaign before December 31, 2008. The USB drive contained the original source tracks to all of the included songs, in addition to the song files themselves and the album artwork. The CD was not sold through other outlets for the duration of this promotion.

In 2009 Clearbits put online the contents of the Creative Commons flash drive. It is a legal download that includes the JoCo Looks Back album art, all of the final song files and the original source tracks.