Thing a Week One

From September 16, 2005 to September 30, 2006, Jonathan Coulton performed a creative experiment called “Thing a Week.” As suggested by a former co-worker once Coulton quit his day job to pursue music full-time, the singer-songwriter released one song every week for one year.

Coulton’s objectives were:

(a) to push the artist’s creative envelope by adopting what Coulton describes as a “forced-march approach to writing and recording”;
(b) to prove to himself that he was capable of producing creative output to a deadline; and
( c) to test the viability of the internet and Creative Commons as a platform capable of supporting a professional artist financially.

(The three objectives were wholly copied from JoCopedia.)

“When I’m 25 or 64” was the 10th song released in this manner, between “The Town Crotch” and “Podsafe Christmas Song”, but due to licensing issues, could not be released on CD. It is available via Coulton as a free download.