Nuggets: Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl by The Barbarians

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1. I bought this single in the early eighties at a second hand record shop. It was backed with a song called Take It Or Leave It that had a slight “Hang On Sloopy” melody behind it.
   I read about them in some rock book and had to have this one and Moulty before ever hearing them. I got into the Troggs around the same time. I love this garage sound.

   Once my mom cut my ear slightly…I ended the homemade haircuts in 2nd grade. I feel for your sister!

   • It’s hardcore finding a secondhand copy in the 1980s. I like Moulty a lot more.

     I had home haircuts for ages – I felt bad asking for money for haircuts.

     • I found out about a bunch of songs through reading either Beatle books or books about the 60s and I would hunt them down. That is how I found Dylan.

       I loved my mom dearly…but cutting hair she could not do…she would take me to a friend who was a hair stylist.

       • My mother-in-law has cut my hair a few times and she’s legally blind! My hair’s pretty bald so the options are shave it off or just keep it short.

         • Oh mine is that way now…I have my wife to use a trimmer kit. It’s not much to mess up now.

2. While not very original, it’s not a bad tune. I like the sound. As for that substitute teacher, I hope that person changed their job!

   • I think they were getting elderly by that point.

3. One of my favorites from that era. Much better than “Almost Cut My Hair.”

   • I’m on team Crosby for this one, I’m afraid.

     • Crosby wrote (writes) some great songs, but that one was too superficial and didactic for me. There was a humorous vein running through the Barbarians song, and if you were old enough in the mid-60s (like me), that boy-girl shit from our elders was everywhere.

       But…differences of opinion make life interesting!

       • The lyrics are kind of stupid but I like the arrangement with Crosby on rhythm and Stills and Young both on lead. There’s an uncut version of the box set – it’s a bit more satisfying than the edit.

4. Lol love it. Reminds me, in passing, of that Bob Seger lyric in Turn The Page.

5. A little throwback to another age.

   • Yup, maybe that’s why I struggle with it a little.

     • A lot of these cuts’ are just a curiosity to me. I was listening to some throwback stuff today, ,Thee Midniters . It was very good and I have and will listen to it again. Cant remember where I picked it up but it was recently. You might have steered me in the bands direction. I really like it

       • Wasn’t me – I don’t know the Midniters.

         • Chicano band out of LA in the 60’s. One of our fellow travelers turned me on to them.