(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

All those annoying southern rock songs from the classic rock stations compiled in one place . . . for me to poop on!

i didnt like the style so much, but thats just me

A genuinely great Southern rock debut, which makes it all the more annoying to rate. Eight songs. Four of them stone cold classics. "Simple Man" is wise, warm, and timeless motherly advice wrapped in a gorgeous guitar melody — the kind of song that makes you briefly forget everything you know about the people who made it. "Free Bird" closes the album with nine minutes of escalating guitar heroics that somehow never overstays its welcome, which is more than can be said for the ideology the band would later wave around on a flag. Producer Al Kooper believed so little in "Simple Man" that Van Zant physically escorted him to his car and told him to stay there while they recorded it. This is the most correct creative decision anyone made in 1973, and also a useful metaphor for how to handle opinions you disagree with. Gary Rossington celebrated the iconic cover photo by immediately vomiting on the sidewalk. Honestly, the most relatable moment in the band's entire career. 2 out of 5. Three stars cheerfully awarded to the music itself, which didn't ask for any of this. Two immediately reclaimed on behalf of a flag that should have stayed in the history books.

Free bird is so annoying and ruined this entire band for me so thank you us hockey

Overall I found this quite boring and mostly just wanted a lot of the songs to end. Simple Man was the highlight, and obviously Free Bird is a classic.

Me aburrió. Genuinamente no entiendo por qué está. No destaca en nada realmente.

4/10 Knowing the name Lynyrd Skynyrd, as well as a couple of their bigger hits (although more in passing than with any level of depth), I was hoping for something that would send me down a rabbit hole and inspire some affection for southern rock, a genre that I have no real connection to. From the off, there was at least a bit of interest piqued by the swagger and attitude of the band. They seem a tight unit with a decent level of groove to their playing and, while Ronnie Van Zant isn’t a great singer, he does at least have a bit of grit and charm to his delivery. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long before that initial interest started to fade. For much of the album, they come up with a chord structure, or riff, largely based around standard blues progressions, and then just stick with that for the entire duration of a song, with riffs often just endlessly repeating. And they don’t like short songs either. Boy, oh boy do they like to drag things on. It’s not that any of it is overtly bad. The performances are good, and they have a decent groove as a group, but ultimately, it all felt rather bland and lacking in the requisite charisma to really hook me in. Even the soloing felt uninspiring, like they would pick a riff within a solo and overplay it, before switching to another and overplaying that one too. There’s a bit in Free Bird where the guitar solo is two notes played for ages, and frankly, when a guitar solo doesn’t engage, it gets boring very, very quickly. I was toying with a slightly higher rating for this, because I didn’t actively dislike it, but ultimately, I came off the back of the record feeling… more or less nothing. Which is why I ended up where I did. A meh score for a meh experience. I Ain't The One - A cool swaggering southern rock start. It’s got some decent hooks and a cool attitude, but the underlying musical structure and main riff does become a bit repetitive after a while. There’s a decent groove to it and the mix of guitar lines work reasonably well. It’s a decent enough kick-off, but it’s not really grabbed hold of me just yet. Tuesday's Gone - On to a ballad now that’s quite meandering and is definitely way, way too long. I decided I’d about had enough of this and then realised I was only half way through. It’s quite a basic track that’s cheesy and fairly bland, not offering much in the way of development despite its length. It feels like Bob Burns was trying to inject as much drive as he could with his drums, but this just drags on and on and on. Boring. Gimme Three Steps - Back to something with a bit of swagger again, but it is another that’s decent but doesn’t set one’s pants on fire. In fact, it kind of sounds like the kind of song that Hells Angels would line dance to. It’s ok, I guess, but it’s quite repetitive and basic without offering much development or depth. Cool enough riffs, but over-used and nothing particularly standout or charismatic about any of the performances either. Simple Man - Simple Man, simple song. The same three chords the whole way through a six minute song. Yes, they change the intensity of the presentation during the chorus but boy, oh boy, does this get old fast. It’s slightly too slow paced and the relentlessness of the band playing essentially the same thing round and round for so long just doesn’t inspire me at all. I don’t think Ronnie Van Zant is a particularly good singer either. He’s not bad, per se, he’s just pretty average, and a song like this when the focus is intended to be more on the vocal, he sounds fairly exposed. Things Goin' On - There’s a bit more range to this with the use of different instruments through different sections, but the underlying structure is still very basic and repetitive. It’s also quite rhythmically stilted and that honky-tonk piano is way too loud. It just feels a bit blues-rock by numbers, and the fairly bland soloing doesn’t help it that much either. I’m really struggling to find much to hold on to here thus far, to be honest. Mississippi Kid - I quite like the effect given by the three guitars here. I love a bit of old-school delta blues, and this recalls something of that sound, but I’m not quite buying what they’re selling in the same way as those old school blues players. It is a touch on the repetitive side, but that kind of works for this and it’s not excessively long, so that works in its favour. It’s not bad though and it’s probably my favourite track on the record so far. Poison Whiskey - This is a pretty cool riff and that swagger connects a bit better here. I think the vocal has the right amount of slur and attitude to it too. Again, thert=e’s just too much repetition of the cadence of the central musical theme here, which makes it tire quite quickly, but as with the last track, at least it’s short so it doesn’t drag things too far. The piano solo is pretty cool though. Free Bird - The same chord structure for 9 minutes? Yay! Again, I feel like the vocal feels a bit exposed, the repetition drags it down, and it’s too slow and drudging. It must be boring as fuck to be a non-soloing player in this band. It gets way better half way through when they pick up the pace, with improved rhythm, drive and intensity, but just when it starts to get good, they open the floor to a widdly and uninspiring guitar solo. Good god, it’s a boring solo. Stop repeating yourself so much! How on god’s green earth this was voted the 3rd greatest guitar solo of all time, I’ll never know.

i cant really believe this is a real band and i also cant believe they're this old

"Free bird" is a classic song, very effective. The rest of the album is what I imagine truck drivers listening. 2.5 / 5

Деревянный пикап на скорости. Как бы странно и невежественно бы ни было - мне не понравилось. И нет я с удовольствием послушал альбом, в особенности вторую половину. Альбом - кладезь легендарных и всем известных треков, таких как free bird и down south jukin`. Думаю процентов 90 людей включая меня даже не подозревали, что эти песни принадлежат одному альбому одной группы. Отдельно эти песни - чрезвычайно драйвовые и бешеные. Весь альбом - наверное не переслушаю никогда. Итоговая оценка 3,5/10, имея ввиду альбом!!!

No lo escuché entero porque se murió el Indio, pero bueno, igual no me gustaba tanto, no es mi estilo.

yawnnnnnnn i hate this kinda rock sorry

4/10, todo el álbum muy monótono. Temas MUY largos (9 mins!!) y todo mismo ritmo, me dio mucho sueño. Siento que no sobresalió ninguno

too country for me

It was fine. I think the aspects of this album I like are outshined by the fact that other albums do them better (e.g. songwriting, grooviness, guitar work, etc.)

Feels like a pretty generic country rock album to be honest, kinda like the whole thing is mostly filler before the one famous song right at the end. None of it was bad by and means, it even had some alright moments that were a somewhat interesting blend of country and prog rock. But literally nothing really properly grabbed my attention until the very end. Maybe that's because I already knew Free Bird, and so I just spend the whole album waiting for it, or maybe it genuinely is just that boring until the famous song. So regardless of how biased I was listening to this, that was just my experience.

So dull!

Fuckin hell, free bird but also big racist yikes here

I was most pleased when it ended.

free bird stabil, rest aber nicht meine art von country musik

Sureee!

There's a lot of very well known, dare I say obscenely overplay, songs on this album. Because of that it just sort of faded into the background for me without much of an emotional response. I will say that once I reached the "CD bonus tracks" in the Spotify list I shut it off. When I am enjoying something I let them play. So that was an indicator to me that I was over it and happy it ended.

what was going on bro.

Dad rock.

Naw

They really put everything into Free Bird eh?

Intro to songs are too long, seems average / not interesting southern American music. Not bad, just don't like the genre, free bird is good tho.

Shit. I hate that the creators of some of my favorite guitar solos appear to have been racist assholes, by reviews and other accounts. Can I love the sinner but hate the sin here? I (hopefully) have grown from beyond my own southern roots, so I hope the same would apply here. Going with my music heart and not so much my political heart on this one.

I was relieved when Free Bird faded out. Mostly bar band tunes with stretchy repetitive solos.

This album has two of the greatest rock songs to ever grace my ears and that is why it is a tad disappointing that everything else about the LP is just ok to me. This southern style of rock is one that I feel like has invaded my life for so long as an American so finally sitting down and listening to an album fully drenched in that feeling helps me appreciate the highs like free bird more but makes me a tad more harsh on something like gimme three steps which I just think is ok. Not a bad album just one I can not get into as much as I wish I could. Fav tracks: Tuesday's Gone and Free bird

Probably a 2.5 - 2 or 3 stonkers, plus Freebird, but a few bluesy run-of-the-mill snoozers too.

Rewatching season 4 of Buffy, and today's episode just happened to be "The Yoko Factor". Weird. Anyway, I think I may have been born on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line to truly appreciate this. It's by no means unlistenable, but if given the choice, I'd probably prefer not to listen.

This was fine for what it is, but not for me.

feels like you need to be born and grown in america to fully enjoy this album. i liked the 'free bird' song. not much of country rock fan. on my first listen, i did not like this album much except for one or two songs in it. as of 9th april 2026.

La verdad no me mato, hay dos canciones que me gustaron pero no tanto

It was not bad, and I didn't know that free bird was produced by them, it's just not my cup of the.

man i feel so american. pretty cool, but just... so american. maybe not really my thing? free bird was cool though. i think im supposed to have some feeling on simple man and gimme three steps, but they really just went in one ear and out the other, none of them getting added to my playlist. i liked tuesdays gone. still, cool to hear one of the first big country rock bands. they formed out of Jacksonville can u believe that

Basic music for basic people.

ZZZZ Poison whiskey. Ese fondo de piano de Jazzz, algo de country. Quizás no estoy en el mood. Voy a escuchar ASMR

Solid southern blues/rock and featuring the epic nine minute Freebird, this album should be up my street, but unfortunately it comes with a big red flag - literally in this case. Lynyrd Skynrd (probably the only band named after a strict PE teacher) made a thing of using a confederate flag as part of their stage set and on album covers. They also had a beef with Neil Young’s song ‘Alabama’ and wrote ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ as a response, saying it was unfair to blame the whole of the South for slavery. Given that their music owes a huge debt to the delta blues, this is a disingenuous stance to say the least. A plane crash in 1977 killed lead singer and front man Ronnie Van Zant, two other band members, their roadie and the two pilots of their charter plane. The surviving members reformed the band 10 years later with Van Zant’s younger brother Johnny as singer, but carried on using the flag until 2012, dropping it for a while and cravenly restoring it for a while after ‘fans’ complained. Giving this two stars purely for memories of Freebird always being played at school discos that I went to as a kid

Zone out quite a bit.

the 1 extra star is for the 5-minute guitar solo in free bird, and that's IT!

4/10 Hörbar, aber langweilig Auf lange Zeit monoton Nicht begeisternd 1 Song gespeichert

God, now I'm realizing how much Free Bird sucks, album doesn't help. 2/5

It's alright. It's pretty standard classic southern rock. I never understood their fame. For years I always thought they got big because of the crash. I've heard better than them and I've heard a lot worse.

Bud Light Rock. Free Bird is class

Don't have much to say about this. It's fine I guess, just not really my kind of thing. Maybe in another life where I'm a truck driver in Texas.

Yeah... It doesn't include their biggest hit so maybe another album to go in the list? It all seems a bit self indulgent 9 minute free bird. Meh really, didn't inspire.

There are 7 of them??????? 90s looking album cover. First of all, "'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd" is not IPA and so I don't know know to interpret it. Like what are the 's for? The actual pronunciation is supposedly [lɛnərd skɪnərd], so I guess they got the gist across. Might as well have named themselves Leonard Skinnard if they weren't so obsessed with Y. But I do like that they thought to name the album after a pronunciation guide, anyway. Respectable decision. LS are basically a country-ish version of their sister band LZ, two extremely hated bands (by me - extremely loved by the masses, which doesn't help their case). You'd think the +country feature would make them worse, but I find they're actually a bit better. A cleaner sound and some little piano ("keyboard") bits in there. The songs are very long though, and also 70s "southern rock", so there's no way I'd ever be liking it. 'Free Bird' has a lot more to it than I realised (this is not a compliment).

not too bad 2.5

Not for me

está largo y muy rahhh

Типичный американский рок 70-х. Наверное нужно вырасти в Алабаме чтобы нравилось такое

I feel conflicted about this. There were some songs that I really loved, but the majority of them I just couldn't get into. I think giving this album two stars is too low, but giving it three stars is too high.

Released that I don't really know much of Lynyrd Skynryd beyond Sweet Home Alabama. This is a very underwhelming album, not sure why it would be in 1001 that you MUST hear before you die, it's just not that interesting. The rockers are OK (e.g. I Ain't The One and Poison Whiskey) but the slower jams are a bit boring (e.g. Simple Man and especially Free Bird). Not good, not bad, just a bit bland.

2.5

I tried with this album. A few popular songs on here but they tend to miss with me. Allman Brothers is more my groove, not Lynyrd Skynyrd...

I’m giving this album an extra star for “Free Bird” and “Simple Man.” The rest is extremely straightforward, boring rock & roll which is just not my genre.

Geit eso

Unwichtig.

Inte ett fan av amerikansk söder-vibe på musiken.

Känns som lite vanlig sydamerikansk rock som inte sticker ut så mycket/lätt att glömma, säger inte att det är dåligt för den sakens skull. Har ett par klassiker, blir lite nostalgisk av låtar man hört i Dazed and confused & Forest Gump. Stark 2a.

Idk man, Skynyrd has never really been my thing. The album has all their early hits. I enjoyed Mississippi Kid, hadn't heard that one before. As a southern raised kid, at this point the endless guitar squeels of Freebird just feel played out

Just not really for me.

Okay reminded me of the OB too much

Groupe connu de nom uniquement. En fait non, j'ai reconnu 'Simple Man', je ne l'avais pas associé à ce groupe. Rock classique, avec des riffs entrainants et des chorus réussis (Les chorus de 'Free Bird' sont vraiment sympas). Mais quelques morceaux sont plus mous, ou plus country/folk, donc moins intéressants pour moi, en particulier au début de la face 2 de l'album, ce qui m'a gâchè l'écoute. =>2/5

total dude stuff

The hit songs are good. Tuesday's Gone, Simple Man, and the ever-imitated and parodied Free Bird are songs I enjoy. Greatness? No. The rest of the album is flat-out bad, as is every other Skynryd song I have ever heard. Nope, for me this doesn't belong on any list of essential albums.

hahhaha omg this the band who played sweet home alabama? thats crazyyy. BRO WHY IS FREE BIRD 9 MINUTES WHO NEEDS 9 MINUTES???? heard they were/are racists and they look like it lmao good god. Parting from that problem for a second, the album name is absolutely hilarious. I like I Ain't The One and Things Going On. Thats all i have to say

First listen I thought that’s ok let’s give it another go. That’s when the rot set in. It’s just forgettable country rock, average at best 1 star for the album and 1 star for freebird

Great guitar tones

I guess I have this out of the way now at least. Also given this album’s reputation, I figured there’d be at least a few other good songs besides Free Bird

A true American Classic--despite often racist lyrics and with many concerts and albums adorned with the Confederate (pro slavery) flag of 1860's US, which some people still hail today. Yet, some of their tunes are undeniably classic Southern rock when you ignore the racist lyrics. 2 stars for being racists and pro-Confederate South, but a classic 70s work nevertheless.

Is every Lynyrd Skynyrd song like 18 minutes long? Or do they all just feel this way? 3 stars, -1 star for racism.

Meh

Ohan tää nyt aika sweet home kalanti, saatana-osastoa paikotellen. Silti pieksee eilisen hevosjazzin heittämällä. Välillä yllätin itteni nyökkäilemäst.

good sound, a bit more variety for me

I liked Simple Man and maybe Poison Whiskey (I Ain't The One was ok too)

Not my style but good overall

Soube bem ouvir mas não senti que fosse memorável

I knew the instrumental from Tuesdays gone. not really my vibe I give it a 4/10

Not really my jam

Review - The songs I already know are good but the rest are terrible. Also these guys are racist. Rating - 3/10 Need to hear? YES

Never was a Skynyrd fan, nor of that gruesome Southern Rock. Ok, this is a debut album, but highly praised for the musical prowess and especially the guitar solos. I found most of that quite boring, simple, and repetitive, especially the end of Free Bird. And on top of it all, this obnoxious southern attitude.

I’m not a big fan of this kind of music. It’s southern, swampy, and boring. Sweet Home Alabama is a fantastic song but much like Stairway to Heaven I’ve heard far too many times. People rate this down because of perceived racism. Well, we’re talking about the South in the 70s so, of course. I rate albums according to the quality of the music not the measure of the man.

3/10… rock / southern rock / *1973

Not a country fan

Legendary but not my type

mid 💔

Sounds like the result if you sun-dried a kilo of blow in an open barrel of Jack Daniel’s and gave it a Confederate flag

I think my first introduction to Tuesday's Gone was playing it in Guitar Hero: Metallica, it was great and I still enjoy the song. I don't know though, of the 8 songs I personally only like 4 of them and the experience of the rest packaged together in this album doesn't work for me. I'd rather listen to the ones I like outside the album, which is different to other albums where I may only really love 3 or 4 tracks but will still listen to the whole thing. Also, maybe I'm biased towards other groups, or it could be a generational thing, but I have a hard time believing this is the best southern rock/blues/country album that everyone must listen to or they're missing out.

Simple Man...

En del feta riff, men som vi alla vet är det bara simple man och free bird som någon bryr sig om. Samtidigt så måste de få minuspoäng för sin besatthet av sydstatsflaggan

Rating: 5/10 Technically good and not without its merits. But I don't care about this band. At least they saved the best for last

Decent listen, love the hits + tolerate the rest. The sound is pretty iconic while also being a little meandering, very likely won't listen to it again 4.8/10

When i aint the one kicked in i thought i might like this album, but by gimme three steps i was distinctly bored. It just plods along. I’m sure if i only listened to an individual track it might be alright but a full album ….no thank you. It’s therefore an interesting choice to put free bird last in the running order. The clear highlight but so late it cant save a dull album

Partly heard before Saved 2/8 Top track: Free Bird

Ist einfach nicht mein Genre, ist mir teilweise ein bisschen zu langsam 😅

Enjoyed the soft rock

Meh, I guess free bird is alright

Expected to hate this and was not disappointed

Sorry, but this is too 'classic rock' for me. There's a couple of good ones on here, but not something I'd listen to regularly. Favourite tracks: Tuesday's Gone, Free Bird.

I don't have any good reason for not being more into this, since a lot of it is kinda in my wheelhouse, but it's just okay for me.

I only like freebird

See some people saying there's three good songs on this. I don't even think too much of Simple Man... just trudges through the same three chords - a lot of root notes and finds few interesting melodies. So for me that leaves only two good songs.

I am convinced everyone is just pretending to like Free Bird. It's fine guys, but there are a billion better guitar solos.

Free Bird was ok but the album in overall didn't strike me at all. Middle of the road music.

I feel like I shouldn’t have liked this, but I actually knew and liked 3 songs. I didn’t like the rest. I knew Tuesday’s Gone, Simple Man, and Free Bird.

Kind of hit and miss for me, the singles aren’t bad, but some songs are a little sluggish (I’m looking at you Free Bird). Standard high 2 stars, not something I’d pick to spin, but most of the hits are good enough to carry the rest of the album.

Imagine if country met rock and you'll get this album - not bad, just not something I'd find myself listening to again

This was so fine. Free Bird slaps but otherwise not something I particularly was interested in - this took two sittings to get through.

Not a huge fan of southern pride stuff and possible racism. I don't care what was accepted at the time. Musically they are not bad and I enjoy the song Simple Man

Clearly only on this list because of Free Bird

Don't trust an album on which the best songs are the ballads. I have a feeling I'll say that a lot during this challenge. Tuesday's Gone is pretty good, though, and to a lesser extent I enjoyed Simple Man and Free Bird. On a couple of the better songs, Ronnie van Zant sounds oddly like Gary Brooker.

Y’a des moments de guitare que j’ai bien aimé mais sinon je retiens pas grand chose

average, not really my thing

4/10

found myself very bored throughout most of this album, it kinda felt like i was just waiting for each song to end. southern rock really isn't my thing. i did enjoy 'tuesday's gone' but apart from that nothing stood out to me at all. i kept waiting for it to get better but ultimately every track kind of blended into each other leaving little inspiration or desire to carry on listening. 'mississippi kid' and 'poison whiskey' were unenjoyable for me and the fact they were back-to-back made it even more of a tough listen. maybe i'm being harsh and it wasn't that bad, i just wouldn't choose to listen to it again (apart from 'tuesday's gone'). i did like 'free bird' as well but it was awfully repetitive for a track that's almost 10 mins long - it felt like it was stuck on loop with the same guitar riffs/solos over and over again.

bro I was waiting for free bird and then free bird wasn't even that good

początek dobry ale pozniej.... 2,5 bym dal

What a snooze fest!

free bird is one of the worst songs of all time

Got through this by thinking about what I would listen to when I was done.

Free Bird is an all-timer I'll give them that

Proto butt-rock. OK riffs. Inoffensive but dull. Reverse delay drum intro on the opener was neat. Mostly recycled blues riffs and vapid lyrics. I guess the dueling guitar Freebird solo is pretty cool

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BIRDDDDDDDDDD YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH Me aburrió.

Hmm, nah

Проходной альбом. Не бесит, но и не восхищает

Demasiado yankee. No hay forma de escucharlo sin sentir que me estoy separando de Stacey porque ella va a ir a Winscousin a estudiar Medicina y yo voy a la universidad de Coulorado para seguir siendo mariscal de campo +1 estrella por Freebird que es buen tema +1 estrella por el Won't you flyyyy hiiiiigh, freeeee biiird yeah y solazo de guitarra

Solid 2.5

Rock ok

hard to relate to this album, some nice guitar riffs and drums but that's about it

Only heard their biggest hits before. An unremarkable album, I even forgot how long Free Bird is before it gets to the interesting part 2/5

Freebird

It is unusual for so short a single album to house so many iconic songs, I'll give it that. the songwriting is fairly strong, even if the lyrics are generally vapid. That said, Southern rock is generally a turn off for me- as soutehrn pride is generally just veiled backwardsness and racism. I don't strongly detect that here, but I just don't vibe with it. 2 things: Freebird is somehow not nearly as annoying as it should be given its ubiquity. Also, though kind of dunderheaded, Simple Man has a decent core message and is clearly the best tune on the record. It's not bad, but it's not for me.

Ok, not their best. 2.5 stars

6 songs that aren't Free Bird or Simple Man, plus Free Bird and Simple Man. Yeah most of the record didn't do much for me, and though I do like Free Bird, in the modern meme space I can't really take it seriously. For Simple Man, though, I have no reservations; this track is excellent.

i can really only tolerate this kind of music when i’m pretending that i’m in a deleted scene from dazed & confused. ‘tuesday’s gone’ is alright i guess. and i can’t lie…i kinda do like ‘free bird’ (only for the “lord knows i can’t change” refrain) even though it being the hold music at my psychiatrist’s office does make it a bit triggering for me. this is not an album that’s worth caring about either way.

I started to listen to it but then i didn’t feel like it. it’s just kind of noise idk it doesn’t connect with me at all.

Pretty dull for the most part but Things Goin' On is fun and Free Bird is good of course.

Today the generator said, "Play some Skynyrd." So I did. It was okay. This style of rock doesn't do much for me, but it was fine to have it on in the background while I did other things. Standout track: Tuesday's Gone.

Fun. I'd only ever heard the last track.

Ooooooh them duke boys are at it again!!!

I can smell the Bud Light and F150 exhaust fumes from this album. One good song and that's it.

Overblown, off-putting American swamp rock. Conjures denim jackets, rollies and petrol (sorry, gas). If you burst into patriotic tears at the sight of a flag, seek this album.

Eh

I expected to hate and I didn't hate it but didn't love it. Free Bird is a tune

Ehh not for me. V male, v American. Honestly I just find this kind of music boring.

I like "Free Bird" but the rest felt meh to me.

I’m expecting to either hate this or think it’s mediocre. I was right it is mediocre. Nothing excited me really. It isn’t bad but it’s just sort of there. 4/10

Was an okay album short album. Still enjoyed it. There are definitely recognizable highlights. But likely was an album that would’ve meant more to me had I been around during its inception.

Pretty disappointing. I was excited to finally hear Freebird, but it didn't do much for me. The rest of the album has decent, passionate playing but is let down by average songwriting and clichéd lyrics.

yeah idk..i have some fun childhood memories with some of these songs but coming back to it nothing blew me away

Mostly swamp rock that didn’t quite fit the idea I had from Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama. Was fine, but didn’t really grab my attention until the last track. Doubt I’ll revisit.

buiten freebird is de rest nogal middelmatige rock... met een bruin randje

I’ve never loved them, glad it’s not all ‘Freebird’ but still not winning me over to a daily listen.

Simple man and Free bird are recognizable.

This one doesn’t even have fuckin Sweet Home on it. What’s the point? Neil Young just released a new album in 2025 and he still whips your asses. Why’d you disappear, anyway? Oh right. The title of the album was strictly for the band’s benefit, ‘cos sometimes they’d forget. They knew three chords and their lyrics were the Crystal Pepsi of southern rock. Too bad Tom Petty came later or we might have done without you entirely.

Freebird is good everything else falls short

Nope. Never really liked them-SUCH rednecks, not my sound, don't like his voice or attitude and if I ever hear Freebird again it will be too soon.

This isn't my jam. I can appreciate it for what it is, but it's not for me.

I kept shouting "Play Free Bird" for 34 minutes. 34 minutes in purgatory. 34 minutes listening to Lynyrd Synyrd. 34 minutes listening to Southern Rock. I don't think that was 34 minutes well spent.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ half decent, mostly forgettable. some of these songs (particularly Tuesday's Gone) felt like they went on entirely too long for my liking i would agree that free bird's a must-hear song, but everything else? nah minus points for apparently being racists too

2 sterne

Most of the songs fell into the back of my mind and melted into one song, other than Gimme Three Steps and Free Bird. Decent album, great guitar work, I liked the piano part on Things Goin' On, but overall not my thing, I got tired of it fairly quickly.

Maken kanssa jaoin, että aloin kuuntelemaan 1001 levyä. Hyvää musaa, mutta ei jäänyt paljoa mieleen. Tein GBK-kalvoja ja autostrategiaa.

horrivel vsf duas estrelas pq tem free bird e eu gosto muito de free bird.

sendo sincero, o conceito de southern rock me soa meio racista. eles usarem a bandeira dos confederados nos shows não ajuda também. dito isso, algumas músicas só funcionam no guitar hero mesmo (alo free bird). eu passo.

ist ganz gut

Ultimately didn't mind this too much when it reminded me of Black Keys. But we don't support Confederate glorifiers in this house because look where overlooking traitors to this country hasn't gotten us?

I have trouble, sometimes, separating a band's music from the band's fan base. In the case of Lynyrd Skynyrd, even at just the mention of the band, what immediately comes to mind are white trash hillbillies festooned in Rebel Flag merch screaming something about their "heritage." It seems that at some point in 2012, the band stopped using Confederate imagery on their album covers, but that's too little too late and it hasn't stopped their mouth breathing fans from rocking the stars and bars. With that being said, I was shocked to actually enjoy the first half of this album. It's the sound that every southern rock band has tried to emulate but usually fall well short of achieving. "Tuesday's Gone" has been used in so many film soundtracks that it's kind of cliche at this point and I'm fairly certain I've been to a Southern funeral or two at which it's played, but it's honestly a pretty solid tune. Speaking of cliches, this album ends with "Free Bird." I hate this song. But, if you go to a concert to see any band of any genre anywhere in the world and someone doesn't yell "Play Free Bird" in between songs, did you really go to a concert? 2 stars. I'd almost allow myself to give it 3 for "Tuesday's Gone" and the album's pretty solid first half, but I'm sticking with 2 because their fans can really suck.

Pretty average but also I'm docking a star for the whole racism thing Fav Track: Free Bird Least Fav Track: no standouts here

It’s fine it’s chill and love free bird but not all that interesting

It's ok. Even quite good. Really good at times. Can't comment on the good ole boy racist elements cos I'm not from the US and largely unaware, except to say that's it's REALLY NOT FRICKEN NECESSARY, and I'm not with it. Musically outstanding for a debut. Four stars, down to two for being needlessly intolerant and and endorsing hatred. Simple Man is great. Tuesday's Gone is ok. Freebird is quality. Racism sucks. Two stars.

Free bird is a classic and it's a bange but I am not a country fan

Перший раз їх нормально послухав. Мені дуже подобаються Allman Brothers і ZZ Top, але для мене Lynyrd Skynyrd це більш локальне американське явище. Їх нецікаво слухати поза контекстом їх впливу або значимості. Як на мене ця музика має набагато краще звучати наживо. А так щоб потрапити в 1000 найцікавіших записів - мабуть ні.

Simpel musik for simple mænd Udtales Red-Neks

In terms of Southern rock, the Allmans wipe the floor with these guys. If I never heard “Free Bird” again, it’ll be too soon.

Three for the music, one for the racism. Always the question: can you separate the art from the artist?

Ah dropped mah confederate flag in mah moonshine and everything like that goshdarnit.

I don't really like Skynyrd or southern rock. Tuesday's Gone is probably my favorite song on the album, and the solo on Free Bird is very good even if I don't really care for the song itself.

Those guitars are annoying, those lyrics are stupid

meh

Tuesdays Gone - and so are my hopes of becoming a Skynhead The mixing is immaculate. I’m glad the whole album wasn’t free bird, and the more reserved bluesy tracks that weren’t the popular hits were a welcome relief, and were even good. But the songs are so long and don’t do anything interesting enough to hold my attention, and I just don’t care for them anymore than I did before Best - Mississippi Kid Worst - Free Bird

Честно сказать... Не то что бы я не ожидал, но это всё равно срака. Лучшая песня - Simple Man.

Wouldn’t have listened to this before but I quite like the southern rock sound now and Free Bird is a classic. Goes on a bit though.

it's not that i hate it, i just don't like this doodley wohoo sound too much.

Hard rock band from the 70’s. Some good music.

I wanted to like this, but it's dull. Dull, dull, dull.

Better than I expected. Wouldn’t mind someone else putting this on, but wouldn’t reach for it myself.

Simple Man on mainio, muuten omaan makuun vähän tylsää menoa.

A little too old fashioned for me, free bird was fine though.

I’m going to call this Mom Rock - because my own Mother knew the lyrics to ever Skynyrd song that came on the radio.

3/5

poah ich weiss ja nicht das ist wieder so texas

Decent, not my kind of music. Listened while driving in Honda civic. I can see some of its influence

There’s a certain stereotype of a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan that, as someone who grew up in Missouri, I have had the extreme misfortune of verifying many times over. So I never really sat down and listened to the band. Turns out I wasn’t missing anything. This band is what a confederate flag sounds like.

Another insanely popular American album that I have zero emotional connection with, because I'm not American. Was it worth listening to 36 minutes of the most generic blues rock ever recorded just to hear the "Free Bird" solo? ...Kinda? "Rossington vomited on the sidewalk seconds after the album cover was taken" Hell yeah brother.

wow maybe the most WHO GIVES A FUCK album of all time. gave up and listened to metallica so

It's a 2. All day long. Sometimes that feels harsh, but this isn't a 3. But it's not so God awful that it deserves 1. At times it's gets really textured and surprisingly orchestral. But that's fleeting and it's mostly just that US 70s rock that is mostly fine.

This sounds exactly as I expected. Has NOT aged well I'm afraid.

Although I don’t like country elements, Lynyrd Skynyrd puts up an interesting album that doesn’t leave me clawing my ears out

A slower tempo. Not something I expected

I thought, Feeebird aside, it was a whole lot of nothing really.

How do you even rate this? I can see why it did what it did, but, a day later I can't tell you one thing I remember from the album.

Here's the thing about Lynyrd Skynyrd: I don't care for them even for a second. But: "Freebird" is actually great, with a special shout-out to Guitar Hero, the game that helped me realize that "Freebird" is actually great. Both of these stars are for "Freebird."

Free bird absolutely annihilated the rest of this album i don’t have anything else to say

I’m finding these classic rock records so hard to rate. Outside of the songs that have stood the test of time a lot of these tunes are first time listens and I have to admit that I’m not the biggest fan. It’s not that they’re bad it’s just that they don’t do anything for me. They are of their time and I’m not nostalgic for them at all. I’m happy others find so much joy from this but to me it’s bland rock. 2.5/5

Just wasn't my cup of tea, but there's truly beautiful moments of lyricism and instrumentals on display. I don't think I added any songs except Simple Man, and considered Free Bird, but the length felt too long for myself.

Average rock. Not my thing. Boring to me.

It's aight. I mean, it is what it is -- the birth of the death of classic rock radio.

Those songs are loooooooooong

Free Bird is not as much of a banger as I remember, the rest of the album is utterly forgettable and I found out they’re racist?? No thanks!!! Getting really sick of the 70s tbh.

the most boring person you know will insist that this is as good as rock music gets, and theyre so wrong. free bird is very good tho

It's fine. It's fun. Not shure I've got much more to say.

I just can't. I even like a couple songs. simple man is good. but wailing guitars is not my thing more than 3 songs in a row and my ears explode. I'm moving on.....

Decent country rock vibes. Nothing particularly special though.

It’s not for me, but Free Bird is a classic.

Not really an album for me. I don't care for the aesthetic of these songs or the fact that they don't change a whole lot and it feels like they drag on. "Gimme Three Steps" and "Free bird" are pretty good. I feel to much like a hillbilly listening to these tracks.

Not for me

Yeah, Freebird carries.

Allt í lagi, engin bomba.

very guitar solo rock 2.4

Wikipedia: "As the band worked up "Simple Man" in rehearsal, Kooper expressed his feeling that the song was weak and should not be included on the album. The band felt differently on both counts and could not change Kooper's mind. Ultimately, Van Zant escorted the producer outside to his car and ordered him to remain there until the song was recorded. The band recorded the song on their own with the producer absent from the studio, and it subsequently became one of Lynyrd Skynyrd's best known tracks." Ik vind dit heel tekenend voor hetgeen ik net 40 minuten mijn oren aan heb blootgesteld. 2 sterren, geen highlights.

Not for me... One extra star for Freebird but can’t quite get past the racism.

Ik ben tot nu toe nog nooit echt fan geweest van deze band maar we gaan het zien.

Is every Lynyrd Skynyrd song like 18 minutes long? Or do they all just feel this way? 3 stars, -1 star for racism.

Eh. Probably good for it's day.

Outside the hits, it's a pretty underwhelming collection of 70s country-rock.

A victim of its own success. This album has been played to death. “Change the station!”, I bark in one breath. This review is not a limerick (just ask Jim or Rick).

Don’t hate Tuesdays Gone. I have more tolerance for 3 guitars, keys and longer jams. Relieved this album does not contain Sweet Home Alabama. Feels right to listen to this contractor rock sitting in my truck during my work break. The guitar riffs are hooky but it just sounds like any bloooz rockin boomer dad. Gimme three steps is tedious. Simple Man I enjoy— can feel the lineage to 90’s rockers like Temple of the Dog. Don’t mind that. Apparently this song played when my friend Greg was born and his parents cried. After that the record is a slog for me. When free bird ended it took me a moment to compute that the record was over. Thank god. Kinda f/w this album artwork. Bone font & outfits. Happy there are no stars and bars featured here even though 90% of their promo photos have the confederate flag. I don’t know who from the photo died in the plane crash but now I’m curious.

I enjoyed this album, possibly because it followed Mariah Carey? I’m not a big fan of country rock but I am a fan of guitar solos and there are plenty of those. I’m not sure I would listen to this again but I’m glad I have listened to it once. On reflection, (I’m listening to free bird as I type this) the guitar solos bang on a bit too much. This album was getting a three, but I have reduced it to a two based on the needless monotony of the free bird solo. This review was started at the beginning of the free bird solo and it’s still going!! It’s just at that really high fast twangy bit and starting to come down a bit. Oh, it’s starting to fade, I hate a fade as a way of dealing with a song ending, but I’m going to give this one a pass, I just wish it had faded sooner.

I feel like I should have liked this one more than I did, but I found it pretty boring and hard to get through tbh (or maybe it was too much prosecco and too little sleep after NYE?). Country/southern rock isn't really my thing (except CCR but that's all sentimental) So I could skip listening to this album again - except for Free Bird which is epic (even with the very long solo). What I didn't quite get was there are 7 musicians on the cover of the album, but the songs feel like there are only 4 or maybe 5 people playing at once? hmm Fird birdiest track: Free bird

Boring

Classic and nostalgic from movie soundtracks to being a teenager but just not something I would listen to nowadays.

Free bird is a classic, the rest fairly forgettable

Hvorfor er den LP på listen?

Kinda overrated honestly

(Nam plays out in the background)

p286. 1973. 2.5 stars. Well done Southern state rock, but suffering from the usual early 70s wankage. No-one needs 9+ minute tracks, not even Freebird. They seem like quite good guitarists though.

I don't want to listen to this. I'm gonna listen to the first 30 secs of every song instead. Initial impressions are I'd really like this if I were 50. And there are prob some nights after I've been drinking a long time where I'd like this. Gimme three steps rules ofc. I'm listening to this in the port authority getting on prov bus. Didn't realize simple man was on here. Alright I'm kinda done with this. I'm in a real give it a chance type of mood and it's not hitting. I gave much more than 30 secs to each song

No thanks. Free Bird has its moments, but the rest is super boring.

Nah 2/5

Easy listening blues rock, the best bit is the harmonizing guitar leads and melodic (vs shredding) solos. The songs are overlong - chugging along through one basic chord progression over and over verse chorus chorus chorus solo chorus. Tuesday's Gone is good, the rest is pretty meh and I cannot listen to Freebird one more time. Listen to Little Feat and the Allman Brothers instead.

Pretty good

I've heard this band name before but I can't remember where. Despite this sign of dementia I can't say I liked this much, aside from Free Bird

I did not have fun. If I have to listen to Free Bird, then I at least want to be watching that video of the Polish hot dog machine malfunctioning. Have you guys seen that video?

It's a bit of Led Zeppelin and a bit of The Band, but not as good as either of them. In all fairness, they were there before The Band. They know how to play, but the songs are not very interesting to me. Favorite song: I ain't the one. Because they obviously aren't.

Lo entiendo pero no es lo mío.

Precies wat ik er van verwacht. Uiteraard maakt Freebird het verschil op dit album voor mij.

Meh, niet vervelend, maar zeker niet verheffend!

2.75

Didn’t fully win me over this one. A fair bit of the same old stuff that didn’t grab me all that much, except for maybe Free Bird, which is by far the best track here.

Skipped through most of it. Was OK but not really my thing

Freebird is always fun but the rest just sounds like southern Red Hot Chili Peppers

Classic American rock n roll. Very earnest. Obviously great guitar work, but not really one I would return to. Two stars.

Dull

Free Bird, more like Free Time to Go Take a Nap. Mississippi Kid, more like Miss-I-Can’t-Listen To This. Things Goin’ On, more like Nothing Goin’ On. Poison Whiskey, man, I hope it is. I Ain’t the One is already appropriately named. Gimme Three Steps, more like Let Me Take Three Steps away from this album. I’ll be here all week.

fav(s) - things goin on - simple man

The classicest of classic rock from the Southern States. I didn't hate it, but any Southern Man would love it. I was surprised to find that I didn't recognise Free Bird. I always thought it was on Forrest Gump (but perhaps that's just the solo?). Either way, the track didn't really strike me in the way I expected given its reputation as a classic. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Free Bird Date listened: 02/05/23

Lmao I feel dumb but I never realized that the Talking with T-Bird theme from RHAP is a parody of Free Bird

Can see why people might like this, but needs something more exciting in this genre for me.

No lo sé, Rick. Free Bird es una tremenda canción, pero el resto del disco me dejó frío, particularmente todo aquello que sonaba a country music.

"You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… "Lynyrd Skynrd. I'm getting tired of southern blues rock. The songs get longer and longer, the guitar solos wail and wail and wail all the way home. And I know somewhere in my 1001 album future is CCR, and that just might break me. Freebird goes fine, but I prefer the bagpipe version.

Free bird dröm, resten meh

Like aerosmiyh but duller

Unimportant

Not my bag

Meh

Meh. (Also, that whole confederate flag thing isn’t exactly appealing.)

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yeah it’s decent enjoyable dad rock Favourite song: Track 4 - Simple Man

Bit boring

As terrifying as these dudes look on the album cover, this isn't too bad. I think I only knew "Free Bird" previously, which is obviously a great song. Not really my thing anymore though, 3 min long screechy guitar solos don't really turn my head like they used to! Apart from that song, I found most of this pretty forgettable...they're no Creedence anyway

No album has any right to have two ballads as big as "Tuesday's Gone" and "Free Bird."

Generic 70's guitar riffs, etc... BUT WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

It's pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd but what does it mean? WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?!

Rock, irgendwie nix außergewöhnliches

no es mi tesito

No thanks

4/10

Sept 18/19?

Frankly, I find Lynyrd Skynyrd mildly boring and uninspiring even before we add the "that did not age particularly well" factor.

My son has recently discovered 'Freebird'. I've tried to talk him out of it.

Not my favorite

Et par nostalgiske klassikera fra mine glansdaga som guitar hero-gitarist. Ut over da så frista ikkje albumet til gjentakelse med da første

Extremely competent but continues to not grab me. As for Freebird, impossible to hear without picturing a high Jenny (Robin Wright) pinballing around a balcony.

I've never been a fan, due to my dislike of Sweet Home Alabama, but the first song I can dig. It has an Allman Brothers-meets-the-Stooges feel to it. "Tuesday's Gone" and the intro to "Three Steps" sound Stones inspired. The anthems (which I've managed to avoid most of my life) sound a bit Eagles-inspired and you know how we all feel about the Eagles. If you remove the anthems, and just listen to the more bluesy numbers, it's not bad, though it falls short of The Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera which was dedicated to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and I gave that a 3, though I was stingy.

Listen to opening track ‘I Ain’t The One’, bluesy rocker ‘Poison Whiskey’ and the rightly lauded closer ‘Free Bird’. Skip the rest.

good music. I don't care for the vocals or lyrics; not bad just not my thing

I will pronounce it Lin-Erd Ski ln-Erd until I die.

Ik vind dit een saai album. **

Connaissait de nom, pas trop mon genre Ça sonne bien, très blues country redneck un peu Certains solos de guit sont interminables Cool lignes de bass ici et là Mes filles me demandaient si on allait s'acheter un pick-up 😅

Inégale comme album. On y retrouve les 2 plus grands hits du groupe, qui sont quand même efficaces. Personnellement j'ai préféré le côté rock des pièces I Ain't The One et Poison Whiskey. C'est d'ailleurs sur cette dernière pièce que ça m'a frappé que Stone Temple Pilots ont sûrement été influencés par ce style et probablement cet album.

I'm starting to think I might be allergic to Southern Rock. Either that or I have a Southern Rock intolerance. If I drank enough whiskey it might help me to be able to digest this deep fried pork chop of an album. Either way I think I might end up puking.

Blues and guitars, and more guitars… great musicians, but a bit boring after a while

Not my thing

Only ever heard one song by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it was not on this album. Overall it's an ok album fitting into country blues rock style which I'm not really a fan of. Best: Gimme Three Steps Worst: Mississippi Kid

Not a fan of country aesthetics or rock in general, but the second half of Free Bird is amazing. I Ain't The One and Gimme Three Steps are pretty solid, but the rest falls flat. 4/10

There are some good songs in here, but they're all buried beneath way too much gratuitous noodling to enjoy listening to.

Got a bit bored, especially in the second half, and some songs dragged a bit. To be fair, there are some good'uns, like Simple Man, and if this album came on while I was in a bar in the southern US of A it's probably exactly what I'd want to hear. Most of the time I'm not, though. 2.5 stars.