Hipster enthusiasms for lounge music and outsider art converged with the 2002 re-release of Gary Wilson's cracked, 1977 cult oddity,
You Think You Really Know Me, originally recorded on a cheap, Teac reel-to-reel in Wilson's father's damp basement and featuring such genre-hopping tracks as "6.4=Make Out," "Chromium Bitch" and "Groovy Girls Make Love at the Beach." To a post-everything music scene too self-consciously arch for its own good, Wilson's album was a refreshing blast of outre genius. But who was this guy who wrote geekily surreal heartbreak ballads and was recording electro-white boy funk when Beck — an avowed Wilson fan — was only seven? A...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
74 mins