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  • The top comment that says the vid got 25 dislikes now has 25 likes. Well played sir.

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  • He nailed it.

  • 27 people didn't take their music sounds better pill

  • Watching Coulton makes me want to take up guitar again. . . and stick with it.

  • ร้องไม่หยุดเลยวุ้ย เก่งครับ !

  • you cannot prove that chuck norris exist xd

  • @MrHardanheavy ummm yes? search him up on google? his a martial art proffessional and film actor.

  • I like how he messes up on pretty much every other song in the setlist but THIS one. :3

  • lol

    *Insert super fast awesomesauce lyrics here* "That's one." *Insert more super fast awesomesauce lyrics here*

  • OMG I love how he admits his mistakes, like no one would know he made them, but he makes sure everyone sees it

  • @CollectedMusic If you listen to the song, the lyrics are the reason the song is "rushed". It's about a guy who rushes though life with the help of his medicine. That IS the tempo that the song should be played at, because that's the tempo he designed for it. Not picking a fight here, just saying.

  • This is one of my favorite songs ever!

  • If you listen carefully, you can tell he is rushing through the song. Purrhaps he needs one of the pills he is singing about?

  • @CollectedMusic maybe thats how it is suppose to be sung huh?

  • @iloverock21210 A song isn't suppose to be rushed. It's suppose to be played by the tempo set. Not rushed. The song is set at a certain tempo, and if it is rushed, then what is the point of setting a tempo at all when people don't abide by it? Trust me, I play in an orchestra [cello]. I think I understand what I'm saying. Also, why are you picking a fight in the first place?

  • @CollectedMusic A big part of this song is this concept of this guy rushing through life. The "rushed" feeling that you're getting is just him emoting. It's part of playing music.

  • @CollectedMusic Jonathan Coulton wrote the song, Jonathan Coulton set the temo, Jonathan Coulton knows the music he produce himself better then you know his music, and thus how it is suposed to be performed. Much like you know how you would perform the pieces you write yourself. It's not harder then that really.

  • @Maviel85

    ^QUICK, THIS MAN NEEDS MORE THUMBS UP!!!^

  • @CollectedMusic Lol, Jonathan Coulton wrote the song and thus he set the tempo, and he abides by it. If you're in orchestra, you'll know that generally songs are constructed in a certain way to evoke a certain emotion or feeling. In this case, the tempo to create the rushed feeling that the narrator feels. If you'll notice, Coulton slows down in the part where the narrator goes "Some times I like to slow things down..."

  • Oh my god does he still play live? if he does does he play in england? and last question, if he does, where in england does he play? lotsa questions for you there. please answer.

  • @glowingninjaz google that shit you lazy idiot

  • the guy who inspired me to play the guitar two years ago.

  • Damn, i love this song. It always puts me in a good mood.

    "I feel fantastic, and i've never felt as good as how i do right now, except maybe when i think of how i felt that day when i felt the way that i do right now"

  • @JhericFury It puts you in a good mood? Its a song about a guy who can only feel good when heavily medicated, that's kinda depressing in my book.

  • That does make steak taste better

  • xD thats 1 xD

  • Guh...playing this one makes your shoulders hurt like crazy!! xD TOTALLY worth it, though :3

  • When was this concert&

  • This song defines my life XD

  • I just tried to play this song on guitar...

    I now have bloody stumps for hands

  • @AlbiCJH Hahaha, I totally know what you mean. Well sorta. Just looking at the chord sheet hurt.

  • Can't wait to see him Sept 8th! <3

  • @ErisedDawn Where do you live? I want to see one of his shows!

  • 26 people had explosive diarrhea when they watched this...

  • Soooooooo uplifting!

  • This song is totally about ecstasy lmao

  • "I make it look hard don't I?" that's what she said

  • Johnathan Coulton and Jack Black collab would be great

  • I want to see it for real, it's so awesome... >_<

  • btw jocos folk rock look it up

  • this song so bad lol and i mean morrally i do love this song

  • this song so bad lol

  • I LOVE THIS SONG! I get a laugh every time

    

  • The beautiful thing with coulton is he has that cult following. I think that's better than being famous. More devoted fans as opposed to mindless masses. If you make music and you're not famous it's because your lyrics are intelligent. Look at foo fighters- generic rock band, stupid lyrics = yet everyone knows them sane applies to most of the top 40. Cee lo green deserves recognition he's a true artist same as our friend above

  • @mrshoeshineman Cee Lo Green? really? he's pop just as much as the rest of them, JoCo is FAR better than Cee Lo by miles.

  • @CrazedWolfen I think both are amazing in different respects, check out Cee Lo on Jools Holland doing lonely teardrops absolutely awesome, he has such dynamic control with his voice. I can't stop listening to coulton though this, codemonkey, creepy doll etc ah he's just awesome. Ive got my gf singing this all the time

  • wtf 25 dislikes???? HOW???!

  • @TheIvyeyes The couldn't find their "steak-taste-better pill."

  • @TheIvyeyes probably somebody who had a bad day... XD yes i know its 7 months since you wrote that sry for bothering you :L

  • @winky7575 your not really bothering me lol. why'd you think that?

  • @TheIvyeyes dunno, some people when i reply on their comments i get stuff like "fkin retard! I WROTE THIS 1YEAR AGO! go fuck yourself little gay ass troll" and that.. O.o that was pretty good. i should remember that XD.

  • @TheIvyeyes Hell if I know, the more I listen to this guy, the more I appreciate a good singer/songwriter.

  • I think it'd be cool if Jonathan Coulton and The Barenaked Ladies collaborated sometime.

  • Where can I get one of these "steak taste better" pills?

  • @mysterykcad

    At your local furniture store... If it's run by librarians.

  • @Nyuugen Shit. Our local librarian-run furniture store just went out of business.

  • @mysterykcad

    I feel for you.

    I can't remember a time when I couldn't buy my steak-taste-better pills...

  • Am i the only person that decided to start the song, play it until 0:11, and then start the same video in a different window?

  • este tio es el puto amo.

    J. Coulton, u rock!

  • Why isn't he famous?! He's one of the only real musicians these days!!!!

  • @unorc01 Are you kidding?  Jonathan Coulton is SO famous! He's got well over 1,000,000 people listening to his music. Plus he's on tour all across the United States, AND he's SO talented. I met him when he was in Philly recently and he's not like other performers/musicians: he's nice, relate-able(If you are a nerd like me :P), and just really cool. We got pictures and stuff and I would see him again in a HEART BEAT. EVERYONE should know about this musical genious.

  • @AlienTecA51

    In comparison to the other crappy musicians, 1 million is very little.

  • @AlienTecA51 1,000,000 people =/= "SO famous"

  • @proto478 It's a million more people listening to him than to you. And for the other guy, I know, it's very depressing. I hate today's music, and Jonathan Coulton is the one of VERY FEW good things to come out of it.

  • @AlienTecA51 Yeah, but I'm not a performer, am I? All I'm trying to say is that Jonathan Coulton isn't that famous....yet. He deserves to be more than most of the half-assed "musicians" that are out there today, but saying that he's "SO famous" implies that he has fans on par with other celebrities, which he doesn't.

  • @AlienTecA51 "a million more people"

    Video uploaded Nov 2006.

    242k views March 2011.

    ...wut

  • @AlienTecA51 he really isn't that famous even though he should be.he's got a cult of followers but compared to the mainstream artists he's not really famous. You walk up to a random person on the street and ask if they like Jonathan Coulton, odds are they're gonna say "who is that?" You ask someone if they like Lady Gaga, they're probably either gonna say no or yes, but they at least know who she is. Just cuz he's SO talented (and he is) doesnt mean he's famous. And I dont think he minds.

  • @69guitarchick

    He's a geek, like us. He'll never go mainstream, he hates it. And if he did, he'd lose some of his followers.

  • i heared katy perry life on the mtv muic awards... she´s so bad xD

    he can sing 3 times better then her.

    sorry if i made any mistakes, im from germany

  • @XxPunkerkittyXx

    They're a different genre.

  • I feel fantastic and I'm STILL ALIVE

  • I solved a Rubik's cube in the exact time of this video whilst singing the lyrics out loud at 1:30 in the morning. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

  • omg he just screwed up 1 time:D

    

  • Would you believe the song isn't all that hard? It's one of my favorite songs to play, because it always makes everyone go "wtf", because you can make it look hard;)

  • I listen to this song everytime I get sick, and it makes me feel just a little better.

  • One of my favorite indie artists ever.

  • this song is about a drug that can make you feel any way you want if you were wondering

  • justin bieber is more popular then this guy!?... fuck life.

  • @NotOneToFly and that other guy:

    My uncle asked me when I learned to play the guitar: "do you know what you play, or do you just play?" I asked what he meant. He sayd "of you don't know what you play, but just copy something, you're a monkey doing a trick. Anyone can learn a trick"

    I think that's the difference between talent and doing something skilled.

  • 25 people took their stupid asshole pills.

  • This song is very reminiscent of a Barenaked Ladies song. Epic.

  • that chorus is a fucker at that speed.

  • OMG he's awesome! I've just heard about him today and I can't stop listening to his stuff. This is my favorite from what I've heard so far.

    XD

  • "felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now" D, E ,C#m , F#m, D Dm and an A

    That's hard.

  • derp face at 2:56

  • 0:00

  • Where do they sell "Steak Taste Better" pills?

  • This is certainly the best song about perscription drugs ever. Probably one of the top ten best songs about ANY kind of drugs.

  • 25 people didn't take their pills.

  • I think it'd be cool if Jonathan Coulton and They Might Be Giants collaborated sometime.

  • @pianoman930 Jonathan Coulton is making an album right now produced by TMBG with a full band and everything.

  • @Gle3nn

    fuck, he better be.

  • @Gle3nn Jonathan Coulton, Cake, and They Might Be Giants in the the same room....Joy-Gasm.

  • @Gle3nn they are also on tour with each other right now

  • @pianoman930

    They're touring together this summer/fall

  • @pianoman930 I just saw JoCo open for them the other night!

  • @knights0fniii Sweet! I saw him/They in Detroit a few weeks ago.

  • lol

  • Keep on making this Fantastic songs JoCo!!

  • 25 people don't feel fantastic...

  • wow, AMAZIING! XD

  • i know ima be flamed but whats an asthma

  • @ShadowDuffle inflammation and constriction of the lungs that makes in hard to breathe

  • until i saw the lyrics, i always thought it was "work is easy when you don't stress out about dandelions" not deadlines, LOL.

  • @NetherMoore Hahaha i always thought it was dead lions

  • he only messed up onece

  • OMG try the new YouTube-Jonathan-Coulton-video­-is-AWESOME-pill!!!!!!

  • STEAK TASTE BETTER PILL?! point me to this guys doctor!!!!!!!

  • I just watched this video after taking my video-is-much-funnier pill

  • I LOVE THIS SONG!

  • to those 23 ppl who dont like this song / movie.

    I will pray for your frogivness down there ;)

  • Please come to Spain!!

  • PEELZ HERE!

  • he didnt mess up =D

  • @maraseea no, he did. when he said "thats one" he was saying he messed up x)

  • He can't mess up if he takes his can't-screw-chords-up pill!

  • @KrisTheBear lol

  • who are that 22 ppl that didn't like this video?!

    people! WTF?!

    JoCo is Awesome!

  • @vdsrockhiphop Trolls. >[

  • @RabidIceWeasel Oh yeah! I've almost forgot about theese kind of ppl :)

  • BEST MUSICIAN EVER!!Can't wait for concert #3 this year!!!

  • "That's one!" :D

  • So fantastic. :D

  • I love his music !!!! Code Monkey <3 and Creppy doll !!!!

  • S-s-steak taste better pills? Do steak taste better pills exist?

  • @markthewhalekiller of course ! lol

  • AHAH THE TRANSLATIONS ARE SO FCKING FUNNY! enable them

  • Man, he's a much better singer now.

  • What does he say one time after the chorus? "How I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now, (something)" and people laughed.

  • @WhutsUrNaym - I think he said "That's one" as in, that's one mistake so far

  • Oh! Thanks for clearing that up! I thought that's what he said, but I didn't know why.

  • ...hey, if you rewind to a little before he starts the chorus, you can hear the mistake he makes! He hits a bad chord.

  • @WhutsUrNaym

    He just repeats "right now."

  • @ROFLpwnedvideos We've already cleared this up. He says "That's one", meaning one mistake he made.

  • He says 'That's one'... probably referring to what he mention earlier, about messing the song up.

  • @wallysaruman -.- will you please click "View all comments" so that you can see that we already WENT OVER THIS?

  • nah, thx thou.

  • he says, "That's one."

  • @Fateruler AAGH READ THE ENTIRE THING, WE'VE GONE OVER THIS ALREADY

  • roflroflrofl

  • You need to come to Philly :(

  • he is isnt he?

  • steak tastes better pill, brilliant! xD

  • he is fucking awesome live

  • Hell yeah, jonathan coulton is very awesome live.

    he rocks :D

  • this guy is SOOO good live, compared to the pieces of shit coming out today this guy actually has talent.

  • Well, you can't really compare commercial music with real music.

  • @ratchetandclankfreak you're an idiot. 

  • @Ceaamjeeee Talent is doing something that the majority of people can't do. This man has achieved that.

  • @Ceaamjeeee Being able to play an instrument well isn't the only kind of talent. Being able to write music requires talent as well.

  • @Ceaamjeeee Aaaahahaha, you're making a classic mistake that people who have never tried a serious creative endeavor often make. Skill is not the same as talent. Talent is unique. Talent is creativity, the creativity of putting chords and words together in a way that evokes certain feeling and experiences in people. Skill is based off of practice and is achievable by anyone who puts their mind to it. Some have a talent for playing guitar, but that's not the same as making great original music.

  • @Ceaamjeeee So by that rationale, Dragonforce are the most talented band in existence. XP

  • i dont see why it seems easier to him(jonathan) to say "about" twice. he says " i feel fantastic and i never felt the way that i do right now accept maybe when i think about about that day when i felt the way that i do right now." i dont see how the extra about helps.

  • I think he says "maybe when I think of how I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now"

  • I think he says "...when i think of HOW i felt that day when i felt the way...".

  • @jrockway he does...

  • i love his songs *-* xDDD

    5/5*

  • the guy in the story of this song is probably best friends with louis from l4d

    PEEEEEEEELLLLS HEEEEEREEEE

  • lol ya

  • i like to think of this as "the prozac song"

  • One phrase comes to mind...

    GRABBIN PEELZ!!

  • Therrz pills here!

  • epic

  • Doesn't he say ''last one?'' :p

  • nah, it's "Thats one!" as in Mistakes.

  • lol 'thats one" at least he admits when he screws up.

  • and on beat too :D

  • holy f***

    it's true!

    work is so much easier when you don't stress out about deadlines (and just watch JoCo vids...)

  • I can sing it just fine, but I can't play it lol.

  • I'm tried to do this song...I really have...but it's so damn fast my asthma cuts me short by the second chorus lol.

  • cool story bro

  • i try every time i while watching i feel fantastic to keep up while singing, but i get light headed by the end of the song and some thing i sing barely are understandable =(