Jonathan Coulton in LA -04-Shopvac
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Fourth song-Shopvac
Recorded live at Temple Bar Santa Monica CA
October 9 2006
Another Great song in nightvision
MP3s of this performance graciously made available at spiffworld.com. Check out his amazing JoCo/WoW videos too.
This song always make me think of people in my hometown. It's amazing.
This guy's got a great approach to live performance. I started watching all the songs in performance order. You could tell he was nervous at first (he did First of May 50% faster than the album version), but he really started to to warm up on this one. There's not many performers who can mess up a chord on stage and laugh at himself/keep going at the same time.
This song makes me feel good about the future
I love my shop vac. The other day I went to the spa store to buy a pump to clean out my spa and the guy said "just use your shop vac". I'm totally a suburban dude! :)
This has got to be one of my favorite songs of his
it's funny because while I was learning this song upstairs someone tried to call but I couldn't hear them because it's loud with shopvac on
One of my favorite songs of all time.
The great thing about JoCo is that he can mess up on stage, and he just shrugs it off, unlike other artists who are uptight and make everything perfect. Joco is great with the audience.
i'm with my guitar right now playing this song and singin' along with you!
This is quickly becoming my favorite JoCo song. The perfect mix of humor and melancholy.
Thanks for posting this; I do greatly prefer the live version over the recorded version. If he didn't lose it and laugh near the end, it'd be perfect.
@plannedXaccident If you haven't gotten an answer yet, a shopvac is a vacuum cleaner that doesn't use a bag, and has a larger hose. It can suck up things regualr vacuums can't, like water, and wet leaves, and mud, and they actually are pretty freaking awesome.
@smoke770077 !! Thank you for explaining that! I live in a small town that doesn't have any heavy traffic, main street included, and the highway is built away from the town.
So I got that "hard to make a left turn" was supposed to be a joke, but didn't know why.
Thanks again XD
4:13
"Skhyy" Man that was so funny! I think I died a little laughing so much.
Saw JoCo at the Union Chapel, London a couple of weeks ago, and he played this. Everyone loved it :)
Such a bittersweet thing. Nice melody & pacing, very sad story about life today in much of the US. Alas.
Beautiful stuff this is. Just beautiful.
wait wait wait...
this is a song about, bout a shopvac!
awesome!
I love the hand claps in the chorus.
best
song
EVER
LOL he can sing about anything and make it entertaining this proves it
cool song.
Love this one
YEAH!
BANGER
He laughed like that during the last chorus because he accidentally played a D chord instead of a C# lol
This is awesome
This is a well written song.
i just love the shop vac part of it ^^
this song makes me sad
yeah man, this song rocks. in fact, the chorus is my ringtone:P
Shopvacs also don't use filters or vacuum bags and have a larger tube so they can be used to suck up water or larger debris.
haha love the name of this song :3 its awesome..so is the song XP
love joko one of the singers that sound better live then his cds
Awesome
Do a search for this song and you'll find an amazing video of this song with kinetic type + what you could call the "deluxe" JoCo version (back-up vocals and such). Really gives the song some momentum.
So true! ^_^
a shopvac is a special vacuum. It has a central containment thingy and a nozzle to sick everything up. It's really strong.
i'm asking why the glass... great songs
I love playing this song and I totally feel for Jonathan missing those G# chords.
JC rocks :DD
"so you should feel free to purchase those, with your money" hahahahahahaha! i just shit my pants
@amaff This is a shot in the dark, here, but I think its called shopvac....
word
Wrong chord at 2:42. Bet he thought he'd got away with it.
Going to see JoCo tomorrow at the Union Chapel! Can't wait.
350th!
"i'm gonna do a song.....now"
wow thx jonathan, we thought u wre just gonna leave b4 singing anythign lol^^
@NebulousSketch Which is even more amusing when you think about how the answer is the other highest rated comment.
@batvette it's not making sense to me.
- Buying a house/land in the city is more expensive than buying a house/land in the suburbs yes?
- Renting a house in the city is more expensive than renting a house in the suburbs yes?
@GlobalPeregrinations Same... I don't know why it's my favourite song though... It's just awesome. xD
@Naturality its a drivin pun when your driving your not supposed to make a left turn unless the lines are broken and when your on a main road almost all left turns are not legal
#414!!!
ROFL!!
"I like the starbucks here thats better than the other one cause the other one is not is good. They really need to put a light there cause its hard to turn! Its hard to make a left tuuuUUURN!"
:P
@NotOneToFly imagine slash messing up like this...
Coulton's crowdplay is great to even listen to. He's such a great musician, why does noone know him for anything else than Still Alive?
@TragedyXIII it's JoCo
It's a vacuum that can get water and muck. Stuff that a normal vacuum can't pick up.
Jonathan Coulton: the #1 reason I can't be emo.
2017
@yhmmot whats a "gangstas"?
@RockerGeek28 And your point is? ... because mine was that unlike most JoCo songs, this one is the rare case where the live version doesn't hold a candle to the studio. Nearly every other song he does, the live version has its own charm; this one, I've seen several different live performances and it just doesn't compare to the studio track.
lmao so true
He says "its hard to make a left turn", not love turn =P
ok, it was just a joke, so you all didn't have to go thumbs downing it and all...
when i look back at it though it isn't very obvious...ho well.
@emoharry2007
He's just thinking out loud while trying to explain the song he's about to perform. Not everyone can maintain their thoughts perfectly while performing in public.
is that anoonymoose in the background?
@batvette Really? Weird, here it's always more expensive to live in the City.
Homes get steadily more expensive the closer to the city center you get.
@procrastinator99 i thought it was called "evil zombies from space?"
what are the chords? his performance doesn't seem to match the chords given on his site, especially where there should be a "B" chord, he doesn't move his hands into any possible B formation.
Nine years late, but it's definitely B, and there are lots of ways to play chords.
@O1bo1 I had to vacuum up a cat with one not long ago
what is a shopvac?
@amaff i think its called gangstas paridice
This song is epic. It's like a middle class version of Fast Car.
7 people missed the like button XD
@crazypercentage That is also a possibility.
@amaff i dont know. i didnt quite hear it lol
Careful, some people like that :P
HOLY SHIT! It's only the best, most powerful vacuum cleaner ever! And yes. I am answering this 3 years later.
yay 339 xD
Yah, not as many people care as you probably think do.
shards of glass?! You've been busy. ;)
@batvette Ah i see. So your urban areas are dilapidated.
In the citys here there is a housing shortage, so there's no such thing as a cheap small home in the city (to rent or buy). They've all been bought up, drastically modernised/renovated, and then resold to investors long ago.
It's not really about a shop vac, more about suburban life.
@yhmmot Gangsta's* Paradise"
@plannedXaccident It's some kind of vaccum cleaner.
Is it just my dirty mind that took it as JoCo having sex with it? It's loud with the shopvac on, drunken sex, etc. Anywho, if you haven't thought of it that way give it a second listen and it's a lot funnier.
Halo-u-ruis? I can't even figure out how to pronounce that. haha. It is halouruis indeed
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Agreed
Muwhahahaha, 336th!
@Grizzlism DERPA DERPA HERP DERP HERPA
HAHA 338!!!!
I think it's about equall, but Joko is definately more entertaining live.
If you imagine his wife upstairs committing suicide while he shopvacs his life away and can't hear her, it makes the song even more sinister and awesome. No? Just me?
a vaccum
@Metalpulsecannon And re: Your Brains. And it's because everyone knows about P0RTAL and Left 4 Dead 2 :\
@plannedXaccident LMFAO
AM I TALKING TO A VIDEO=???
what the hell is a shopvac??
its a dinosaur.
A vacuum I think