January 31, 2011
"Invisible Scissors" is a 2011 compilation of Chancellorpink's 15 best songs, all digitally remastered and presented in both Flac and 320 kbps MP3 formats, available for free download.
Download all 15 songs in 320 kbps MP3 format:
Chancellorpink - Invisible Scissors (MP3)
Download all 15 songs in Flac format:
Chancellorpink - Invisible Scissors (Flac)
Click an individual song title below to download a song separately (all 320 MP3 format):
Invisible Scissors
1 Disgusting
2 Everybody Needs a Family
3 Seventy Times Seven
4 Cut the Cable On a Deviant Mind
5 Paul's Song
6 Lock Me Up
7 AnnaJo
8 Unfinished Valentine
9 In Self Defense
10 Walk On Water
11 Dockers
12 Baby's Gone to Bible
13 Here to Haunt Me
14 Nothing's Wrong (With Insecurity)
15 You Are Everyone
All songs, music and lyrics by Raymond G. McLaughlin, Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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:
When I was a boy, I liked the things that made me cry with joy. Ideas of innocence, family and the wanting, the hunger for love. And to me, music and lyrics reached those concepts like no other form of communication.
And though I've always liked all sorts of music, I love music with heart. So much so that, from the first moment I sang into a tape recorder as a kid, all I've ever really wanted to do is make my heart into music.
I understand that music can be fun. And when people say they love music, they often mean as a background soundtrack for hedonism. I get that, and I'm not trying to be aloof or condescending in any way. But I love music for how it can transcend misunderstanding, loss and sadness, and reach inside us all, making us feel less alone and more understood.
That's what reading Dostoevsky in college did for me, and what hearing The Smiths for the first time accomplished too. Unexpectedly, from out of the shadows, I was comforted by a new best friend. I was suddenly more alive and human, connected and in communion with others. The deep or nutty thoughts in my head were apparently in someone else's too, someone timeless. And so I was going to be OK.
The timeless language of human connection and communion -- that's music to me. A soul singing, "It's OK. Go on dreaming. Because we live forever."