You Know the Rules

You Know the Rules Artist: The Gay
Label: Mint Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 779871006922
EAN: 0779871006922
ASIN: B0000C3I1J


Release Date: 2003-09-16

You Know the Rules


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Tracks:

  1. Opulent Canine
  2. Critics
  3. Vacation
  4. Bed of Tines
  5. Cindy Lou
  6. Robert Smith
  7. Lonely
  8. Fidelity
  9. Dirty Whispers
  10. Palace
  11. Fishin' Jim

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Excellent & underappreciated POP!.......2004-07-22

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love pop music. I want hooks, I want melodies, and I want fun. I love it when a song gets stuck in my head, and I love it when I become so infatuated with a song that my only immediate goal in life is to simply hear it one more time.

"Critics," track 2 on The Gay's new record, is one of those songs. I first listened to "You Know the Rules" last night, and since then, I have been playing "Critics" at least once an hour. When I'm not listening to it, it's embedded in my brain.

And that's what strikes me so profoundly about The Gay: they know pop music. "You Know the Rules" isn't soured by a single bad track, never wallows in experimental pop excess, and stunningly, knows exactly what I want to hear. It may sound self-centered, but often when I listen to a record, many times I hear a melody or harmony in my head that I think would compliment a certain song, but unfortunately does not exist. The Gay never leave out a great harmony, always know how to supplement a melody, and can write hooks so catchy that you nearly go insane.

Music Album:

  1. The Road ~ Quiet World
  2. The Body (Rare)
  3. Drown Inside ~ Evenout
  4. Music for Mum ~ Various Artists
  5. Half Awake ~ John Moore
  6. Rock On 1964 ~ Various Artists
  7. Evil: Live ~ Lynch Mob
  8. X-Posed
  9. Paul Heaton: Under the Influence ~ Various Artists
  10. Best of Jim Diamond ~ Jim Diamond

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Amazon Night ~ Various Artists

Europe ~ Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop Band

50 Original Classics ~ Ella Fitzgerald

Epistrophy ~ Thelonious Monk

Power to the Rockers ~ Uriah Heep

Total Kaos

Pan Glossary, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists

Songs of Christmas

Berlin Alexanderplatz ~ Various Artists

Schlag Des Herzens ~ Weib Kreuz