Ray McLaughlin (all music and lyrics, vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, keys, percussion, drum programming, production, engineering)
Etkilendikleri
My Burt Bacharach/Hal David organ songbook when I was 6. My mom's record club collection when I was 7. Tom Jones, Noel Harrison, Andy Williams. 45 singles. Women who break your heart.
1 Red Wedding Dress 2 AnnaJo 3 Muster 4 Lock Me Up 5 Sunday 6 Baby's Gone To Bible 7 There Was Reality 8 Paul's Song 9 In Self Defense 10 Chancellor Pink 11 The Scent Of Pine 12 Everybody Needs A Family 13 Valentine Parade 14 Walk On Water 15 Disgusting 16 Leaving
Communion Shirt 2
17 Dockers 18 Tears At The Cemetery 19 I Tear Window Down 20 A Case Of Noir 21 Third Time, No Charm 22 Knotted Shoelace 23 The Longest Nail 24 Cut The Cable On A Deviant Mind 25 You Are Everyone 26 With You In The End 27 Falling Off This Train (in Chicago) 28 Mrs. Kowalski 29 The Better World 30 Unfinished Valentine 31 At The End Of My Bed
"Communion Shirt" -- Sharing the music of Chancellorpink.
31 songs, arranged in 2 separate parts (as if a double-record set), each song a 320 kbps downloadable mp3.
Chancellorpink is Ray McLaughlin: lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, bass, drum machine, percussion, production and engineering.
Liner Notes from The Chancellor:
glider swing on the porch
communion shirt
shiny shoes, little boy
kicks in the dirt ~
"Sunday" - Chancellorpink
what i adored as a boy, what made me cry, what made me care, feel -- the idea of innocence, of love. the idea of family and wanting...the hunger for love. and the way music and lyrics can reach those concepts like no other form of communication.
i like all sorts of music, but i LOVE music with heart. that's all i ever wanted to do in music, since i first sang into a tape recorder, make music with heart. the older i get, it's nearly all i can stand to listen to. anything else seems coarse, stupid and numbingly vacant.
i never liked the clubs or top 40, and the new indie rock is just turning into some form of alternative top 40. it's all so danceable, so trendy. but i'm not a critic or a caveman. i don't seek pseudo-cool status by finding the musical "next big thing", and i don't want to screw to their songs.
sure, music can be fun, and lots of people say they "love" music. but they love it as a background soundtrack to their narcissistic lives. i love it for how it can transcend misunderstanding, loss, sadness, etc., and reach inside us and make us feel less alone, more understood.
that's just what reading Dostoevski in college did for me, what hearing The Smiths for the first time accomplished. my heart was comforted because i was suddenly connected as a human being, alive and in communion with others. the sad or crazy deep thoughts inside my head were in someone else's head too. someone famous, even. someone timeless.
the timeless language of human connection, communion. that's music to me. it's like love. it's the stuff that dreams and tears of joy are made of. it is the underbelly of the lion. truly, the soul of mankind.
"With faith, a man can move mountains. Without it, he moves to Los Angeles."
~ The Chancellor
"A man's greatest challenge is to accept that he is unloved; a woman's, to accept that she is undesired."
~ The Chancellor
"Love should be like a china store: 'You break it, You own it.' People really need to be more careful with how we handle one another."
~ The Chancellor
"If you don't make the call before it's obvious, you have no vision. If you don't make the music before it's popular, you have no rhythm." ~ The Chancellor
"Being alone is OK. Being unloved is the scary part. No one caring if you get up, speak up, shut up or lie down forever. We need to matter, as humans, every day. Lovers plug us in, turn us on and connect us to life. Truly, there is no life without love. Science is a bunch of secrets waiting to tell us more about life. But love is the secret life tells us about." ~ The Chancellor
"Anybody calls you a coward for praying, son -- you punch them right in the nose. And God will break it for you." ~ The Chancellor
Also, for a better understanding of who Chancellorpink is, click HERE and download the podcast of Mike Lidskin's interview with Chancellorpink, broadcast on Twirl Radio in Sacramento, California on March 22, 2008.
"An inspiring musician...the Chancellor uses an experimental edge and courage in creating swirling collages of noise and melody. I’d rather listen to this than anything Bowie has produced recently."
~~ Carl J., Leicester Bangs (UK) (Jul 9, 2009)
"Now more than ever, McLaughlin is heading towards the sinister but tuneful territory of Babybird and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. There’s that same sense of reclusive pop genius at work here."
~ Jonathan Leonard, Leonard's Lair
(UK) (Mar 18, 2009)
"Like Bowie, Cave and Waits - Dreamy and laid back, but with an endearing appeal. The overall feeling oozes an air of poignant rejection. Songs from the basement for those with a desire for sorrowful compatriotism."
~ TC, God Is In The TV (UK) (Mar 27, 2009)
"Chancellorpink draws on his love for Bowie and '80s synth-rock, with his rich poetry and haunting croon. The standout is a sturdy guitar-rocker 'Third Time, No Charm' that deserves some spins on the radio."
~ Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Apr 23, 2009)
"Chancellorpink really rises above the fray of standard-issue mopey romantic popsters in his use of atmospherics, using a palette of tinny distorted glazes to evoke a fragile vulnerability.”
~ Pete Andersen, Music Director, WZRD Radio, Chicago (Apr 9, 2009)
"An amalgam of David Bowie, Scott Walker and Stephin Merritt. It
becomes clear that McLaughlin (who wrote, produced and played everything) is a man of singular vision."
~ David Cowling, Americana UK (Mar 19, 2008)
"Personal and real. An interesting, disjointed, calm sort of rage, of
the sort that tends to come after heartbreak."
~ Joe Mackey, PopMatters.com (Apr 3, 2008)
"The pop-music landscape would be a lot less exciting if there weren't Chancellorpinks on the outskirts, doing just this sort of thing."
~ Andy Mulkerin, Pittsburgh City Paper (Jan 31, 2008)
"An adventure in sound recalling the glam of Bowie and gloom of Nick Cave with vocals that are, by turns, pretty and pretty eerie."
~ Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette (Feb 14, 2008)
"The perfect moment is reached for 'Mrs. Kowalski' where McLaughlin's yearning vocals are balanced against rattlingly intense guitars. It's a terrific song by anyone's standards."
~ Jonathan Leonard, Leonard's Lair
(UK) (Mar 13, 2008)
"Diverse, exhilarating and, at times, intense. With substantive and emotion-stirring lyrics."
~ Maree Gallagher, The Monthly Post (May, 2007)
"A Truly Original Voice - McLaughlin definitely has a story to tell and
knows how to do it with original style."
~ Shelley, CDReviewsByYou.com (Mar, 2007)
"McLaughlin's strength is his sonic imagination, deploying a lush
range of keyboard textures and spacey effects."
~ Aaron Jentzen, Pittsburgh City Paper (Jul, 2006)
Haha looking back at this picture...it sort of reminds me of a drunken whore of some sort heh...miss my hair being shorter though...>.< way too long now.
well thanks. i just took that today. got a new haircut. as for the others, like the victorias secret ripoff. i like it too much to delete it. its been up for 3 hours and it has more views than most...... kinda creepy actually.
i was loving With You In The End on last.fm and so i looked for it while i was on myspace and i found you. i am glad i did. i really do enjoy your art.
I know, and the only reason im up is because ive been sleeping most of the day. but, I had to were it for a day, and we have to send it back to them(mail), and we havnt done tht yet so, as soon as i get the results, i will be sure to tell you. I love you so much. Ryan
I'm sorry I missed your calls. I spent the day at the spa today trying to look my best for tomorrow. It was a much needed treat. I didn't get home until after 6pm. Sweet! I absolutely agree with you regarding living for now. That's what I have been feeling lately too. Make heaven on earth...love the ones who love you and make it count. Great words of wisdom!
Ha! Maybe I should take "War and Peace". I bet I'll finish that too and still not get any screen time! Seriously though, I do feel differently about tomorrow than the last couple of miserable movie moments. I really am looking forward to it.
That was HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!! EXTREMELY funny! Thank you for that. Little update: my call time was 7am and they pushed it back to 8:30am. Jake must need his beauty sleep.
im glad to here you are getting back on your diet. uts up to you. but you can do your diet for aas long as you can then havr fun for like 1 day, then do it again. and i know after Minnasota the the broncos:( dah dah dah!!
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this is the first time i've watched the video for I Miss Everybody. i don't know exactly what you've done, but it's there...you've done it. i can feel it.
yah i do remember that movie, and the kid wanted to stay with his mom cause she lets him drink and smoke, and he whipped his cum on the books in the library. :) i wanna see the movie. yah and sounds good:)
yah, i want to see the movie and im gald to hear its good:) any actors i would know? and, im sorry to hear your doin bad. and i know what you mean. we can do is save money if you want. and move far away, and start over. all new people, new area, happiness, just lay back and enjoy life. listen to my profile song, it makes me think and imagine somthing like that. i wish we could make it a realtiy.
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