Thing a Week (sometimes as Thing-a-Week) is a series of studio albums released by rock musician Jonathan Coulton in 2006.
It contains some of Coulton's earliest hit songs, including "Shop Vac" and a cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back."
This album also features "W's Duty," one of very few songs Coulton has written about a real life topic.
The tenth Thing a Week, "When I'm 25 or 64", is missing from this album due to copyright restrictions (it is a mashup of The Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four " from Sgt.
It features some of Coulton's most popular songs, including "Re: Your Brains," which would later be featured in Valve's popular 2009 video game, Left 4 Dead 2, and later re-recorded in French language in the album The Aftermath.
"Code Monkey" was likely inspired by Coulton's days at the New York software company Cluen.