Pat's Trick

Pilot Magazine says Timony wrote the songs; the per-track credit is not verified. It opens The Dirt of Luck at 3:20 and was first released on December 5, 1994 as a US 7-inch with "Ghost Car", Wikipedia saying 1995, and later on the compilation What's Up Matador (1997). Trouser Press calls it a distorted, percussive exercise in sexual obsession and the best song on the album. Salon said the melodies on "Pat's Trick" and "Honeycomb" contort like a kite twisting in the sky, and mxdwn that the opener sets the scene for the rest of the album. David Kleiler directed the 1995 video, which got MTV airplay and was mocked on Beavis and Butt-Head. Matador's store page says Pitchfork named it one of the best 200 songs of the 90s, which we could not confirm.

Setlist.fm has no Helium page; Mary Timony's shows on the Plays Helium tour include it in six of ten setlists, opening at the Marble Bar in Detroit on June 14, 2017, the Empty Bottle in Chicago on June 15, the Casbah in San Diego on February 15, 2018 and the Troubadour in West Hollywood on February 16. We found no covers or samples.