Gary Wilson's "You Think You Really...": C or D?

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classic, without question. it was released in 1977?

― rssgnld's, Friday, 27 August 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

he has a new album? wow.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

prior to the motel release it was available on vinyl from a philly label called crybaby records.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

he has a new album? wow.

I think it's only an EP. I saw it when I was at the store last week, and hadn't heard anything aboot it, so I was surprised he had new material.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

No, its a full length album (14 songs). I listened to it this morning.

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm listening to it now and it's, uh, strange...

I never heard the old record, though, so it's all new to me.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Revive for the moment -- just to remind myself when I come back here in the morning.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: that obscure object of desire. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Fucking classic.

― Palpatean Mists, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

good once as a novelty (ca. 1998 in my case) but basically dud.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't decide. Where is Colin Meeder these days? He seemed to have had an opinion on this.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a lot to say about this album, but, in a nutshell, borderline dud.. I always pick it up when I'm doing sporadic collection cleansing, but something stops me from selling it back. I might like the idea of Gary Wilson more than his actual music, and I prefer everyone he supposedly influenced (Beck, most notably)..

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i like it. it's a sleazy steely dan/mark murphy avant wonderfulness.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.citypages.com/movies/detail.asp?MID=6061

I pretty much find interest in anything Stones Throw puts out...

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i listened to the second album at a store once and really didn't like it.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

CHROMIUM BITCH IS AMAZING!

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

babyalive sent it to me via mp3 well over a year ago and I'm really fond of the album, and not as a novelty (as people seem to treat it). It anticipates the lyrical content of Violent Femmes' debut but it's married with rather creepy (and at times, erm, "experimental") sleaze-funk. I also received a free copy of the Forgotten Lovers compilation and it's also splendid, providing a rather natural and sensible evolution of his music -- the ideas were already there and pretty realised even in 1972-1973, and his productions skills even at that time were fucking ace! "In the Midnight Hour" (not a cover) keeps getting stuck in my head lately, too -- catchy fucking tune, it is.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: that obscure object of desire. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Rad show last night in San Diego!

― Tim Ellison, Monday, 26 March 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

man i don't know if i'd call this a classic album but it is totally enjoyable and anyone who doesn't like "6.4 = make out" needs to pawn their ears off to someone who might be able to make decent use of them

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 26 March 2007 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I interviewed him via e-mail for a pal's online magazine. Really cool dude who was generous with his time. Also, all his emails had embedded images of distorted mannequins.

― Brent, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thehighhat.com/Pop&Clicks/002/gary_wilson.html (man the formatting on this board is weird)

― Brent, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"6.4 = Makeout" is so awesome it's almost unseemly. A lot of the rest is ... okay. Love how disconnected it is from anything else in the universe. But I wish the funky fusion stylings were a bit more earthy, overall. A lot of it just goes by in a strangulated blur.

― Pye Poudre, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

bump to th rump...if yur supreme and u need a drink..stop by friday nite nyceilxors and i assure u of nothing..
http://www.knittingfactory.com/show.php?event_id=114445

― danbunny, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Veevee has no opinion
which bodes well
http://www.villagevoice.com/nycguide/457567,6.html

― danbunny, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Anybody heard the new album...

― sonnyboy, Sunday, 31 August 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

this record allegedly has come out like 3 times now over the past 3 months. is there any proof that it exists? i sure haven't seen any

― Bangelo, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah got my copy a couple weeks ago...sounds less like a rapist in a balaclava waiting in the bushes on this one...listening to it now...i'd give it 6.4

― sonnyboy, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link

lol

― jaxon, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link

so more of a rapist covered in flour and plastic wrap? good to know that it's legit, I'll take the leap of faith w/human ear then

― Bangelo, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link

three years pass...

a masterpiece this is not but it's such a cool hidden treasure that was way more accessible and catchy than I thought it would be (it's also quite short)

anyone heard his latest stuff??

― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link

I have Electric Endicott from last year. It's definitely got its moments, but I adore You Think You Really Know Me, and it doesn't live up to that for me.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

i really wonder what the guy even looks like these days. in all the recent images i've found of him he's either wearing a mask or covered in tape

― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link

seven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4xCIZyKskA&feature=youtu.be

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 24 August 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4xCIZyKskA

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 24 August 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link

eight months pass...

He finally gets his due: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/arts/design/punk-chaos-to-couture-at-the-mets-costume-institute.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 April 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link

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