Nuggets: Liar, Liar by The Castaways

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1. I’ve always kinda liked this one. That’s an epic organ riff, a classic earworm. And they didn’t wreck it by trying to milk it into something longer and more complicated. My brother had this somewhere when I was a boy. I wanna say the soundtrack to Good Morning, Vietnam. Probably that. Seems like half the old school tracks I’m very familiar with were on that thing.

   I’d never heard the Debbie Harry version before. Some odd choices. Of all the things to choose to tone down, they chose the organ riff? That’s weird. I can understand how they’d think organ wouldn’t play in the 80s but they could have kept the riff at the forefront using another instrument. I like Debby Harry but that’s not a composition where a singer is single-handedly going to make the song compelling.

   • I think I read it was on Good Morning Vietnam. I’d never actually heard it before Nuggets.

2. I have always liked this song a lot. It has that sixties garage sound plus that cool organ. The falsetto always messes with me at the start but now it wouldn’t sound as good without it.
   I like Harry’s version…like what youngflier said…it’s not a song that a singer can do much with but with her voice and that falsetto of the original…it fits her…she has good taste in covers.

   • I’d never actually heard it before, weird because it was a biggish hit.

     • I heard it on oldies randio stations here a while back…a lot. This and Nobody But Me…and others.

3. I’m so old I remember when this song came out. I liked it a lot.

   • Cool! I’d never heard it before, weird as it’s pretty likeable.