GARY WILSON You Think You Really Know Me LP NM psych

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Gary Wilson-You Think You Really Know Me LP

ORIGINAL Cry Baby Records (bh03) - this is NOT the later Motel Records pressing! 12 tracks

From out of an Endicott, New York basement in 1977 came a brilliantly insane record almost no one heard. A short run self-released LP, Gary Wilson’s You Think You Really Know Me featured titles like “Chromium Bitch” and the enigmatic “6.4 = Make Out.” Copies were passed hand-to-hand and dorm room to dorm room, and it became a strange-beyond-words underground classic. Luckily for long-time adherents and those new to the Gary Wilson phenomenon, there is renewed interest in his avant garde work. You Think You Really Know Me is less ahead of its time than it exists almost entirely outside of time. It was recorded by the then 24-year-old Wilson, almost single-handedly, on a 4-track reel-to-reel in his father’s basement. In places it is lounge-act smooth, reminiscent of Steely Dan with a Love Unlimited Orchestra attitude. Still, there is simply no other recording quite like it. Gary’s insistent garage band crooner voice evokes an obsessive teenager in love with Linda, then Cindy, then Karen. His lyrical universe is frozen at that anguished moment when going to the dance and making out are life’s zeniths- all the while depression, losing control, and self-destruction might be just around the next hazardous turn. The album has the soundscape quality of a single work that is meant to be heard from start to finish. Its stand-out moments are many: key recurring phrases like “sick trip” and “Make Out!,” lyrics like “I Wanna Lose Control for about 15 minutes,” the maniacal repetition of “She’s a real groovy girl/And she’s got red lips,” and the fabulous couplet “Cindy makes out just like a mink/Yeah, Cindy makes out, she’s the missing link” are but a few. Add a collage of sometimes disturbing sound effects and lines punctuated with his characteristic “Ha!” and “WOOOO!,” plus punk-influenced cover art. You’ve got the outline of the Gary Wilson mix.

CONDITION: vinyl NM / cover VG++ (bottom right corner cut)

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