Lynyrd Skynyrd: Classic or Dud?

The first one.

I'd rather listen to them than Killing Joke any day of the week.

I also resent them for the redneck following they've developed

I don't know if I like blaming bands for their audience.

Except for maybe ICP... No, they suck no matter who listens...

Lynryd Skynryd are a bunch of drunk rednecks from Florida who pretend to be from Alabama and have songs in commercials about food from Kentucky. Fuck them.

Richard Wood Johnson, you're a dick.

the user name would certainly suggest so.

classic all day long, esp. first two lp's.

S: "Working For MCA" and "Gimme Back My Bullets" and whole lot of others.

Richard Wood Johnson, you're a dick.

Eh. I'd rather be a dick than like SKYNYRD, DUUUDDE!!

the vision of drunk, toothless rednecks with confederate flags plastered all over their rusting pick-up trucks, air guitaring to "Gimme Three Steps" in white trash bars has cemented my hatred for this sort of country-fried nonsense forever. and i'm not just knocking the band for their audience, either. their music is pure, unadulterated bullshit cooked down to its purest form and smeared all over the last few vestiges of passable artistic taste that still exist in this world.

BAN RICHARD WOOD JOHNSON

Dud. I know there's not much point in posting negative opinion here, but really people - two words: "Free bird". RWJ OTM.

DOM OTM

Ban people who don't like Skynyrd. That's the kind of legislated sense of aesthetics that ILM really needs.

Ban people who don't like Skynyrd.

co-sign

people who don't like Skynyrd are one aesthetic step from not liking the Allmans, which in a just world would be a capital offense

Really, people, two words: THAT SMELL

I really am digging 'Simple Man' lately.

*puts 'Ban people who don't like Skynyrd' on a t-shirt*

RIP Billy Powell.

RIP indeed

play it pretty for atlanta

people who don't like Skynyrd are one aesthetic step from not liking the Allmans, which in a just world would be a capital offense

Gee, I guess that means we should make alcohol illegal too, since people who drink are one step away from smoking pot.

We should make pot legal because it makes the Allmans sound better.

res with the penetrating insight into a joke post

a year-old joke post

also, james polk otm

res with the penetrating insight into a joke post

you got whooshed dude

got any more awesome wikipedia links res

i found this one yesterday.

Poor guy just got off the Skynyrd criuse:

http://www.simplemancruise.com/smc2009/lineup.php

Rest in peace, Billy.

Looks like many of the posters here have never listened to a LS album all the way through. How novel. Four of their five original studio albums are great. I was just listening to Street Survivors. It's actually relatively delicate and pretty.

there's some crazy talk dissing the allman bros upthread.

'sweet home alabama' might be the most popular pop/rock song of all-time, and for good reason, it's fuckin perfect.

Classic. Some clueless (and classist and elitist) posts on this thread, especially the late "Richard Wood Johnson", who truly is a dick.

Street Survivors': so so so CLASSIC. I really dig the alternate verison of You Got That Right on the re-release.

But in general...killer lyrics, awesome vocals, that band was TIGHT AS HELL...how can they be anything BUT classic.

I thought this might get bumped to talk about the new album. Haven't heard it, but saw it in the store and was mildly, mildly curious. Judging by the genesis of the album title, God & Guns, they don't like Barack.

I will admit that I have a mental block when it comes to incarnations of Skynyrd post-crash. It just doesn't sound right without Ronnie singing. Plus all that feuding and infighting afterwards really turned me off.

Ultra classic when Ronnie was alive. The reunited version bad in about 1000 ways.

New Lynyrd Skynyrd thing in stores = flypaper for idiots.

"Whiskey botttle, brand new car, oak tree you're in my way"...talk about a great song opener.

Yeah, I don't count post-plane crash Skynryd.

xpost: new record is called "God & Guns". Yeesh

Yeah, kind of dumb. The real Skynrd at least had some subtlety to them, ie the anti-gun "Saturday Night Special"

"Working for MCA" totally beat both "EMI" and "Complete Control" for classic major label songs about major labels not being classic. And wasn't "Gimme Back My Bullets" actually about not landing on the Billboard charts? And "That Smell" was anti-drug in the darkest way possible. So: so classic. Also, actually one of the few acts whose "Essential" collection I play as much as the albums proper. I find it makes the album tracks pop out even more when I play the albums.

Yes, their Essential is fantastic.

I really like Platinum & Gold compilation (is that what it's called)?

All the eye-rolling over 'Sweet Home' and 'Free Bird' kind of bothers me. I know they've been played to death, and that they've become signifiers for something pretty far from what the band represented at the time...but it bums me out that everyone hears the cliche, rather than the actual songs.

Nah, the Essential is a two-disc collection that is relatively recent (okay, maybe turn of the century-ish?). Speaking of "Freebird", while waiting to pick up a prescription at CVS last night the store was playing some horrible adult-contemporary medley that went into the chorus from "Freebird" out of a Richard Marx song. It was pretty bizarre.

Does anyone have the Muscle Shoals Album? Recommended? Yes no? Want to expand my Skynyrd collection a little, and that one looked interesting to me.

xpost: "signifiers for something pretty far from what the band represented at the time"

OK, I'm a hater, but I'm genuinely curious, so tell me - what did the band represent at the time?

I think he’s questioning whether the average citizen should feel guilty about the behavior of their elected representatives.

Or is it kind of the same idea as Randy Newman's "Rednecks"? Like, you get all righteous about misbehaving politicians, but maybe you secretly harbor similar beliefs? ("Tell the truth")

You can't read too hard into these lyrics, folks.

https://i.imgur.com/wvB32jh.jpeg

Or is it kind of the same idea as Randy Newman's "Rednecks"? Like, you get all righteous about misbehaving politicians, but maybe you secretly harbor similar beliefs? ("Tell the truth")

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different in that Randy gets to say the n-word cuzza he's such a Smart Guy

instagram reminded me that the plane crashed on this day in 1977

the boys going ham mere months before in happier times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTgd5MWGtHA

skynyrd is a pretty good balm for depression imo

lord knows i (apparently) can't change

<3

You can't read too hard into these lyrics, folks.

🖼

Seven years of hard love

9 o’clock in Boise, Idaho

*8

wont you come upstairs girl and have a drink of chaaampaagne

I worked in every joint you could name

Every honey tonk

Nashville, Tennessee

I bet yall didn’t remember that there’s a mellotron on free bird

"Tuesday's Gone" as well. Al Kooper plays it on both tracks.

As luck would have it, TG just came on at the bar and was promptly skipped by this increasingly annoying bartender

“Ooooooh. Mr Breeze…”

“I got that green light babe…”

If it ain’t no pills or booze it got to be a honky tonk queen

The other day I walked past a guy playing acoustic guitar and singing who had changed the chorus to "Sweet home a-Montana." I looked around but there were no bricks to throw, so I just got out of there as fast as I could.

heh

lol did he keep the verses as they are?

my best friend is a philistine

https://i.postimg.cc/637L7yf3/skynyrd.png

vegemite grrl’s youtube link of oct 21 2024 continues to bring me so much joy. i revisit “call me the breeze” from that show regularly. i can’t believe how tight they are. so hairy. so sweaty. so completely dialed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQqioJKjzPs

^ convention hall 1977