You Think You Really Know Me

You Think You Really Know Me Artist: Gary Wilson
Label: Motel Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 602598000723
EAN: 0602598000723
ASIN: B000063VEC


Release Date: 2002-04-23

You Think You Really Know Me


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Tracks:

  1. Another Time I Could Have Loved You
  2. You Keep On Looking
  3. 6.4=Make Out
  4. When You Walk Into My Dreams
  5. Loneliness
  6. Cindy
  7. You Were Too Good To Be True
  8. Groovy Girls Make Love At The Beach
  9. I Wanna Lose Control
  10. You Think You Really Know Me
  11. Chromium Bitch
  12. And Then I Kissed Your Lips

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  1. Forgotten Lovers
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Not for everyone.......2005-01-26

Granted, if you have no brain or no musical appreciation and like popular garbage crammed down your throat, you probably won't like this album. It is weird. So weird that there are several songs that are very difficult to listen to. However, there are classics.
Gary Wilson is a genius waiting to be discovered. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen. He falls so far out of the main-stream that he ends up in the river of forgotten music. However, I assure you; with an open mind and a musical interest for funky 70's porn music with a touch of Starsky and Hutch, you'll be ready to tackle this monster.
If your iffy....may I recommend the later release of Forgotten Lovers. Much more laid back and without the weird progressions; plus, a totally b*tchin album.
It's too bad Gary never hit it big, but unfortunately the public is ignorant and refuses to critically analyze music. If a big name studio promoted this album, it might have had a chance. However, the Blind Dates are long gone, and it is too bad. However, Gary is coming back! A new release and some more great music. Definitely check him out if you're into Beck's Midnight Vultures album.

5 out of 5 stars Just wow.......2003-10-28

When I myself was a senior in high school, a friend handed me an odd looking album that was filled with images of a disturbed looking man covered with saran wrap. The music contained within this packaging was even more strange, genius strange. The next year I saw Mr. Wilson at a concert back in his hometown of Endicott and was blown away. Buy this album... or... a plague of locusts will come o'er the land!

5 out of 5 stars In a lot of ways, it just doesn't get any better than this........2002-12-22

Gary Wilson is his very own universe, and who knows what this guy was up to in the late 1970s exactly, but he produced just one amazing piece of music, and one can sometimes amount to ten, if you dig what I'm saying. Groovy Girls Make Love At The Beach is probably the best track on the album. Gary mixes beautifully complex funk mingled with strange lyrics and a painfully unique vocal deliverly. A very inspirational album and well worth your time.

5 out of 5 stars A true gem........2002-12-10

This album is really an excellent work which thankfully has been re-released. I saw two of Gary's recent performances since the album came out and they were spectacular. There is an obvious influence on beck and obvious influence of zappa on Gary.

4 out of 5 stars WILSON CON PROBY -- a late '70s historical quirk.......2002-07-18

An artist friend of mine likes to play rare and obscure tracks to go along with portraiture slideshows that I shoot. When I first heard him play a track off this album in July, 2002, my immediate reaction to the vintage and novelty of the recording was "That must be Brian Protheroe." I was way off. What little Protheroe that this same friend had played for me made an impact for its innovative, non-radio-play character . . . but Gary Wilson sidestepped that altogether. Track 3, "6.4 = Make Out," taps right into the vein of "this could be a dangerous person." Of course, I favor that kind of artist and had to order the CD right away.

The album makes a lot of musical sense, especially given that Wilson seems more of a tyro than anything in 1977. The electronic and acoustic tracks all mix down to a surprising coherence in most of the titles, riding the dial between pop and abstract (tending toward stalking). But here's the big bonus I got: Gary Wilson sounds indisputably like good ol' vocalist P.J. Proby--so much so that I've referenced the reissued Focus recording "FOCUS CON PROBY" as a recommended title. The weird part: both albums are from 1977. I wonder if Wilson ever heard Proby, much less intentionally imitated him and his Touretteseque "HA" and "HUH" utterances throughout his songs. It's creepy and faux funk, yet you also get one of those "It's so bad that it's good" reactions prevailing through both albums, showing that these artists are uninhibited, maybe even tilted toward creative genius. This is echt, Betamax-era, non-mainstream art, whether they opted for that end or not.

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  8. You Are the Best ~ Sound of Urchin
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