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First of May by the Mind on Fire Choir.

Posted by John on May 1st, 2009 at 7:07 am · 17 Comments

It’s officially The First of May, and many of you decided to join me in celebrating spring by putting together a little cover of the infamous Jonathan Coulton song. Thanks to everyone who answered the call a couple of weeks ago!

Before I link to the podcast proper, credit goes out to:

  • A cover version created to remember and raise money for the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund, which I heard on Bill Shunn’s excellent podcast. The effort was led by Paul Fischer and edited by Phil Rossi (thanks, Bill, for the clarification).
  • Of course, Jonathan Coulton, the creator of the original masterpiece (which is freely downloadable!). Also, here are the lyrics.
  • Each person who contributed to our community choir (in order of appearance):

G G (blog)

John Me!

Lessie Lessie (blog)

xJane Our very own xJane

Melinda Melinda (twitter)

Alana Alana (flickr)

Brecken Brecken (handreach) and her voice teacher, Izolda, not pictured, but who couldn’t resist joining because this was her favorite song by JoCo, and Gina, also not pictured, who introduced Izolda to the artist!

Thanks again, everyone, for joining in the fun! Thanks for confirming once again that the web really can bind us.

Um, for those of you who haven’t heard the song, here’s your explicit/nsfw warning (unless you work for Rahm Emanuel).

Download the podcast version.

Download just the song.

[podcast]http://www.mindonfire.com/kike/MindonFirePodcast-Episode002.mp3[/podcast]

Tags: Fucking Friday · Podcast

17 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Lessie // May 1, 2009 at 7:30 am

    Just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed doing this and hearing from everybody else. I’ve been reading a lot about you guys for a long time. So it was great to hear your voices and especially to hear you sing :)

    Yay for MoF!

  • 2 Izolda // May 1, 2009 at 7:42 am

    Hi John,

    It was fun to record. Can’t wait to hear the song. I did want to ask if you would add my friend Gina to the list of people who recorded (she added her voice to mine and Brecken’s). She is the one who introduced me to JoCo to begin with.

    Thanks!
    Izolda

  • 3 John // May 1, 2009 at 7:48 am

    I’m glad that you joined in! Your trio helped take this places I didn’t imagine it could go–thank you!

  • 4 Melinda // May 1, 2009 at 7:53 am

    What a fun, creative project. Thanks for letting me join the sing-along!

    Happy May Day everyone! (Don’t get caught copulating outside.)

    M

  • 5 G // May 1, 2009 at 8:22 am

    /tingling with anticipation!!!

  • 6 G // May 1, 2009 at 8:23 am

    melinda- or you could say “don’t get caught flagrante delicto.”

  • 7 G // May 1, 2009 at 8:26 am

    (and dang… but I better wait till I am not at work to hear the results.)

  • 8 Gina // May 1, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Yay! Thanks for including me!

  • 9 Craig // May 1, 2009 at 10:33 am

    That was awesome. Good job peeps!

  • 10 JohnW // May 1, 2009 at 11:21 am

    So awesome.

  • 11 angryyoungwoman // May 1, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    That was lovely. Good job to everyone who participated! Now I kind of wish I’d done it to. I’ll just have to participate in spirit by fucking outside. :)

  • 12 Ellend // May 2, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    That was rad! I have it stuck in my head now.
    It’s gonna be hard not to sing the chorus at BYU. ♫ F*cking outsiiiide♫

  • 13 catBonny // May 3, 2009 at 8:19 am

    This made my May Day. So awesome guys!

  • 14 Brecken // May 3, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Dude, that came out pretty rad! And a cappella yet! Oy, you’re a beastie editor….

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