Liar
by The Jesus Lizard

Album
Liar by The Jesus Lizard
Year: 1992
Release date: 1992-10-05
Overall rank: 3,931st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 80 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1992 (68th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (641st)
Award Best albums of all time (3,931st)

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The Jesus Lizard bestography

Liar is ranked 2nd best out of 11 albums by The Jesus Lizard on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Jesus Lizard is Goat which is ranked number 1430 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,203.

The Jesus Lizard album bestography « Higher ranked (1,430th)
Goat This album (3,931st)
Liar Lower ranked (13,185th) »
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Liar track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Boilermaker
Average Rating: 78 (18 votes)Comments: View 0
2.
Gladiator
Average Rating: 79 (17 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Art Of Self-Defense
Average Rating: 76 (14 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Slave Ship
Average Rating: 76 (13 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Puss
Average Rating: 79 (17 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Whirl
Average Rating: 77 (11 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
Rope
Average Rating: 75 (12 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Perk
Average Rating: 75 (10 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Zachariah
Average Rating: 76 (11 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Dancing Naked Ladies
Average Rating: 74 (13 votes)Comments: View 0

Liar rankings

Liar rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,931st | 1990s rank: 641st | 1992 rank: 68th  Overall chart history
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Liar ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 80 votes)
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 !		07/31/2026 02:08 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100
 
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 !		06/21/2026 15:49 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,22270/100
 
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 !		06/15/2026 15:34 robertoveltri  Ratings distribution  91879/100

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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.


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Liar forum mentions

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From BrunoDMartins 05/30/2025 22:52 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
“What album are you listening to? (cont.)”
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From Mercury 07/08/2022 16:23 in Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!
“Round up of random, backlogged, little notes made on albums recently heard or whatever Hvis Lyset Tar Oss by Burzum/1994/3.5-4.0 This is excellent BM. Varg was on a roll in 1993 musically before he killed a guy. Dude was only 20 when he recorded this and Filosofem! sheesh... Anyway, The atmosphere…”
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From EyeKanFly 12/13/2021 20:30 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition
“1) and Both very similar, I probably slightly preferred Goat. I listened to this fully expecting grunge, I've never even heard of the band before. They were not grunge, more post-hardcore which I enjoy immensely more. So I did some digging because they sound fairly similar to DC punk bands of the…”
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From 05/04/2014 21:54 | #110803 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The nearby lunatic asylum just had a security breach. Lock your doors.
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From 06/18/2020 22:38 | #253854 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I am forever grateful to Nirvana for introducing me to this band. This is one of my favorite bands and albums to just blast out my stereo with.
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From 08/27/2013 10:38 | #84605 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Pere Ubu meets metal. Good, and at times exceptional ("Boilermaker", "Puss").
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