Jonathan Coulton - All This Time (Official Video)

From his new album Solid State, out April 28.
The album has a companion graphic novel written by Matt Fraction and drawn by Albert Monteys. It's a science fiction story about the internet, the future, artificial intelligence, and how probably only love will save us.
The book, CD, Vinyl, Tshirts, and deluxe bundles of fantastic things can be pre-ordered right now at solidstate.jona...
Digital pre-orders available at iTunes and wherever else digital music is sold these days.
Jonathan Coulton made this video all by himself. Hooray!
The display was done using an app called Cathode: www.secretgeome...

[@alfonsomapolon9482]

If they ever make a Portal movie, this should be used for the end credits.

[@chillcreep4926]

I'm here at 4am agonizing over the death of a fictional robot and grateful to the person who told me the story.

[@horndogrob]

I literally started crying when it said couldn't help robot supervisor right now. Jonathan's songs almost always speak to me in this weird way. So grateful.

[@lolaphilologist]

This song really gets to me as well.

[@laurasutherland2352]

"It's 4 in the morning...."

[@ZaraAxelrod]

@@laurasutherland2352 The end of December

[@clockworkNate]

It's 4 in the morning, the end of December, I'm writing you now just to see if your better.

[@ArtichokeHunter]

If JoCo wants to start writing text adventures, I would back the hell out of that Kickstarter.

[@mygaffer]

Don't give him any ideas.

[@OneMoreStoryGames]

Better yet, we'd be happy to make graphical story adventures with him! :D Next JoCo cruise?

[@ArtichokeHunter]

"Better yet"? I think this video is evidence of his ability to tell a compelling, thought-provoking story in text adventure form, and I'm not at all convinced it would be as effective as a graphic adventure. (Totally do what you do, and self-promote, but don't knock this medium. We who love text adventures do so fiercely.)

[@prophetzarquon1922]

I was scrolling down, hoping to see someone saying "This is an actual playable text-based adventure game now!"

[@littleleakyleakythere]

@@prophetzarquon1922 i mean if you pay me id make it

[@MattDiMarco]

This.... this was not video to watch while mindless processing work from home widgets in the middle of a lockdown where all we have is all this time. but also, it was. *wipes away tears*

[@warlockd]

Its even worst when your at home, doing work, making JavaScript widgets:P

[@ryomichael]

I didn't start tearing up until I started reading these comments. They're much better that the usual ones on KZbin.

[@user84074]

">just, please" I'm glad this didn't turn into a tragedy. Thanks for having mercy, All This Time

[@leus]

that's a heartbreaking moment :-/

[@mxg75]

I got so distracted with the text adventure I didn't listen to the song. /me hits replay.

[@networkMCN]

lmao same

[@rodfalanga3770]

I know what you mean. I spent the whole time pausing the video so I could read the user's interaction with the text adventure. Will have to watch it again and pay attention to the song.

[@faner117]

It’s a great history :3

[@LavLightKnight]

I do this every time I look up this video

[@narutoninjastorm1]

"Are you sure?" No. "Too bad. Some decisions are hard." Blurring the distinctions between doing what's right and doing what's necessary. Looking forward to this new album.

[@dusanobradovic752]

Making a note here Huge success

[@CaptAmazo]

It truly is hard to overstate my satisfaction

[@felix56p]

@@CaptAmazo glad to see people are still watching this video

[@shnacallanan2656]

@@felix56p we're just doing what we must, because we can.

[@thisdoesntwork7521]

Now there is no sense crying over every mistake.

[@epikitee2186]

@@thisdoesntwork7521 You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake!

[@carver7585]

Love that his music is getting away from being comedy and into just really good songs. He's a great song writer.

[@GldnClaw]

I decided to randomly see who sang the Rifftrax intro song. Glad I did.

[@Achedb0b1]

>Take feelings You already have "feelings" >You're damn right I do ; _ ;

[@shankly7]

Sounds like blue pill would make me feel fantastic, does it also make my steak taste better?

[@Sirenhound]

no, you'd need some sort of... steak tastes better... pill.

[@richardavelino7383]

Wait wait wait! Are you saying that that pill makes you feel as fantastic as you did that day when you felt that way that you do right now?

[@avizinder616]

@Jack Bowman its a reference to the Joco song "I feel fantastic"

[@masonstubbs2075]

I think sometimes you need to slow things down...enjoy the moment..I understand that because when I look the moment is gone

[@flipmarley9973]

You know it isn't real, but it tastes so good you don't care

[@sethzard]

I'm not going to lie. That video made me tear up.

[@infantivore1727]

If your bothering to read the comments JoCo, you are a goddamned genius. There aren't very many modern songwriters that make me smile so quickly or widely as you. You paint melody like Rembrandt and sculpt lyrics like Michaelangelo. Let all the compliments go to your head, you deserve it.

[@zsandmann]

Oh why is the Internet so dusty tonight? I'm not crying! You're the one that's crying.

[@Gleamings]

ME TOO DAMN

[@Yotarnn]

Why you gotta call me out, of course we're all crying

[@laurasutherland2352]

are you making a lasagna for one? (Flight of the Concords referrence)

[@stevo43068]

Me too...

[@zenhydra]

When I was a kid, I played Zork on the Commodore 64 so much that I started to dream of text screens. This song helped me remember that. Thank you.

[@-GuitarZero]

I recently introduced my 14 year old son to Zork. He really got into it. Those games have the power to really capture your imagination.

[@-GuitarZero]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

[@prophetzarquon1922]

I just had "The **NEW** Adventure! Game" on 5-1/4inch floppy disks, formatted for CP/M.

[@jeffnoxon]

Infocom games defined my childhood. This is amazing.

[@LazyDogJumper]

I know you are supposed to identify with the "1st person" perspective but... Identifying with the Supervisor makes the image at the end hit really hard too.

[@ohaRega]

The part where the lyrics synced with the display got me teary eyed. Wonderfully creative narrative. Very sad, but magical. I could praise it for paragraphs. So inspiring. Also, the end reminded me of Portal 2's final scene. So moving.

[@NathanRiveraMelo]

Wow, what a beautiful way to combine music and the lost art of text adventures! They worked together super well even though they were only approximately referring to each other. And they were both super emotional in the same way. Really cool, Jonathan. You know, one of my big regrets was not submitting a hand clap to the last song of the week. I followed those religiously and showed them to all my friends in high school. Not sure why I didn't submit a clap. Anyway, thanks for the great tunes all these years!

[@rustydove]

Ten thousand seven hundred days We've been accident-free Practice my confident face My pod's depending on me Working hours fill the day Spending credits when we stay At home So long since anyone has seen Out past the edge of our zone One of the friendlier machines Says I should leave it alone But I wonder anyway 'Bout some things I shouldn't say What if Kurzweil doesn't make it? What if all the switches get stuck on destroy? When the shuttle goes, we won't take it When the final counter-measures are deployed All we'll have is all this time All we'll have is all this time All this time Red's for focus, blue's to not get upset Wasters and complainers get what they get All eyes watching, no one's noticed me yet I'll tell the secret if I speak It's what I'm smiling about I keep it tucked into my cheek 'Til it's safe to spit out Things are stranger than they seem Now I remember what I dream What if Kurzweil doesn't make it? What if all the switches get stuck on destroy? When the shuttle goes, we won't take it When the final counter-measures are deployed All we'll have is all this time All we'll have is all this time All we'll have is all this time All this time

[@rosiered6712]

Thank you!

[@FBracht]

What a beautiful thing.

[@sizur]

My natural baseline is optimistic. It is very difficult to make me depressed. This video and song nail existentialism.

[@faner117]

When I listen this song in first time... it was 2 years ago when I was in Chicago... I was having a existencial problem (because the unknown future and other problems) and now i am here in Chicago... now I miss that days more than anything... If i know how much time I lost... probably i can change things and finally enjoy my life... the time I still have... I will use it to be happy... finally

[@Mach327]

It's ten months later, and I hope you're walking that path!

[@faner117]

@@Mach327 yes... i am finally happy :”3

[@ripped181]

🥰

[@MousaThe14]

I have been listening to the album nonstop for the past few days but never seen this and this video has made "All This Time" more sad than I ever thought it was.

[@skepticalJones82]

>search online for "picture of the moon" Google images returns PICTURES OF THE MOON. For the first time in your life you notice that it is beautiful.

[@87Gaming]

this makes me feel Still Alive

[@noazdad]

@2:39 when the video syncs with the song lyrics - FTW. Holy crap this is amazing stuff...

[@moonmothman]

Was at the Aimee Mann concert in Glasgow last night when Jonathan Coulton came on as support and ( I imagine) most people , like me , had no idea who he was. What a treat. He was brilliant. Especially this song which had Aimee doing the backing vocals. I heard this and thought bloody hell. Thats a really, really great song.

[@kjlop14]

Holy shit. I was not expecting to get the feels from this. I just sat in my chair stunned. I can't even form the words to discribe my feelings yet

[@MrDuneedon]

I LOVE the Infocom-style video!

[@lunch96box]

Still listening to this at least once just about every week, after almost a decade. Thank you brother your music is moving 🙏

[@voxvolhynia5400]

I'm glad of all of the things I could have done with my free time, I watched this specific entertainment in my pod's domicile tonight. Although it does make it harder for me to mindlessly process widgets when I can't ignore existential crises as easily, I forgive you.

[@LittleBitVic]

W H O A. I'll never stop being amazed by JoCo's Yale and coding background on top of being a musician and witty-as-hell songwriter.

[@illithid75]

You are not ready... hit play... then at the end, hit replay... and repeat...

[@andrewjenkins9965]

Are you asking me to process widgets here?

[@emmamaria8979]

I never watched this video til now, even though this is one of my favourite albums and I've been coming back to it since it released. This was such a wonderful read. Reminds me of when Clarisse McClelan makes Montag recall that he can't even remember the last time he'd looked at the moon in Farenheit 451. I've been looking into the mythical symbolism of the moon these last few days so it's nice to experience a synchronicity by running into this. I suppose a lesser appreciated symbolism that the moon carries (that I've not seen written about) is that of a reminder to be woken up to a previously ignored / forgotten beauty and realm beyond the systems we exist in. I imagine this is derived from the fact one of its main properties is that it provides light during times of darkness.

[@christianscott8889]

I wasn't ready for this

[@Carattica]

This breaks my heart. A song paired with a great music video will do that to you I dig it

[@deletethis3897]

Great... I'm gonna cry now Thanks john

[@adamchristensen2648]

Just saw Johnathan Coulton on TableTop. This is amazing. Music and video.

[@drakocarrion]

I can never listen to this song just once. It always gets an almost immediate repeat play.

[@theemeraldjester5351]

Six years later and this is still in my top five favorite music videos. It's such a beautiful story, and it very well may have changed my life.

[@lisablacker3102]

Joco videos are one of the few places where "don't read the comments" doesn't apply. Seeing the love and appreciation for his musical masterpieces warms my heart ❤️

[@Rutilant]

here for tears

[@Thiefree]

Oh my heart. I wrote games like this. I'm taking a month off work, on the bus home now from my last shift for a while. Hope my robot supervisor will be ok...

[@LevynTheVariantYT]

Man, this hit me hard in the feels. As I sit at work.

[@Jensonjustpickadamnusername]

I swear every time I need a cry this is like a homing missile to my tear ducts.

[@csebastian3]

I never realized that this amazing song had an even-more-amazing music video. Probably the best music video I've ever seen.

[@glowfishin1]

How am I just now finding this work of art? I'm just happy I found it.

[@DanEaton73]

HOLY SHIIIIT, that was some sort of transcendent. Went from RiffTrax to Spotify, to KZbin and oh man, the song was beautiful, but the video is a real work of art. Says a stoner-type, who doesn't respect art, but knows insightful when he sees it. Thank you so much for making this available.

[@fwootbat]

How has nobody commented on this in 3 years?? It's still one of my favorite videos ever...

[@adrianmsills9177]

:]

[@DanGibson-ibug]

Really love both the song and the video! and the Robot Supervisor sings the chorus! Never before has a song had me reaching for an Amstrad CPC464 emulator...

[@dandylionwine]

I always leave JoCo for years at a time and I always come back to pure, glimmering gold like this.

[@frankledo1903]

That's no moon, that's a space station. I would love to see the code for this video.

[@OliviaNeil]

Words can't express how much I love this song.

[@vonmatrices]

This was amazing. Anything to be gleaned from "Revision 79 / Serial Number 58784" ??

[@Luckmorne]

This is perhaps the greatest music video ever made. And I say that knowing Biggie's Hyponotize is a thing.

[@aaronrobinson2121]

First thing I looked for when I saw this was a playable version of the game. Didn't find it, so I made one here: github.com/bl4ckmesa/AllThisText Enjoy!

[@aaronrobinson2121]

@William Qin A bug! I'll fix it.

[@BinaBianca]

yes yes yes yes yes

[@DaWombatGaming]

man this is criminally underwatched

[@stevenjewniverse]

Absolutely beautiful. i cant stop listening to this

[@maxaroni39]

The song already is incredible, but the addition of the video and its story make me tear up every time. You're an amazing storyteller, Mr. Coulton. Keep doing what you're doing.

[@spookydann]

I just watched this for the first time on a break at work. I wasn't prepared, please undo.

[@DanielRenfroMusic]

This song is amazing and somehow the video is even better....

[@PoodlePuncher]

This is my all time favorite JoCo song.. not sure how i never knew this video existed.

[@ktsmurf]

This video is beautiful!

[@randomguy444]

The nerd feels from this video, wow. Entranced as always, JoCo.

[@clockworkNate]

I swear I read something somewhere that somebody someday made some kind of text adventure based on this that was playable .... still can't find it 😔

[@protoborg]

That was kinda dark, man. The robot supervisor was an amazing touch. JoCo you are wonderful.

[@JohnVance]

This still makes me feel things that I have difficulty describing.

[@flental6708]

really appreciate the "Global Thermonuclear War" listed in playable games

[@chadyo99]

I've been wondering when a new JoCo album would come out. This is awesome. Can't wait for April 28

[@Dingleberries]

man i love this song so much

[@mariojumpman9638]

thats...so amazing. thanks JoCo

[@Blasphemousfr]

Love this song

[@cleverevans]

I was particularly tickled by the reference to Falken's Maze at the beginning. Nice touch, JoCo.

[@jotakux7489]

Wow, I could see it all clearly. Bravo my friend. I shed a digital tear for that one.

[@Josh123benja]

I LOVE THIS, HOLY CRAP

[@OttScott]

That. Was awesome...

[@phdworm]

Excellent, I can't wait for the new album! Hopefully it'll have a couple smiles hidden in their too!

[@Ping653]

never imagined i'd ever see a zork music video

[@davebaker]

It's been 13,892 days without a single fatal accident for me.

[@jdaltair]

I keep coming back to this song almost every day, thanks for making music with such heart, for lack of a better word.

[@IntoTheWeeds71]

Still my favourite music video.

[@matthew65536]

wait, this was in 2017??? it sounded like it was written now in 2021

[@angj6857]

SO reminds me of playing Adventureland on my Commodore Vic 20. Never did master that game. Thanks for all you do, Jonathan. Much appreciated.

[@TrickWithAKnife]

That was beautiful. How could a text adventure possible be so moving?

[@anniekate76]

Really really really great.

[@terrysimpson7456]

I have just watched the BEST entertainment ever. Well worth every credit$ Now I am smiling all the time. Thanks Jonathan!

[@Virtualsharktragedy]

I am lowkey crying right now.

[@trudi1962]

Joco, you're so clever. I'm learning the words to all your songs. It's great therapy!

[@shiverwolfplays]

This legit made me cry. Like, close to uglysobbing crying. Not quite there, but wow, man. Just. Wow.

[@ericdimarzio5756]

What a great video. Thank you

[@JustElia420]

So could we get him to score Zork? I mean, Him doing the soundtrack for a text based game? Just the best!

[@schok51]

God I love this, it's amazing. So simple, yet so perfectly synced to the flow of the song.

[@Oniyokox]

It was worth the wait.

[@Jboychoy]

WOW! This was uploaded on my birthday! Thanks for the present JoCo!

[@hastypastry6353]

Missed opportunity for a Portal 2 reference, otherwise cool song!

[@noahwolfe7071]

Ya still got it JoCo!

[@plarpmusic]

Jonathan Coulton is a genius.

[@technicalinformationtransp3426]

43 minutes into the new era of JoCo--love it!