Reviews (page 9 of 13)
Classic rock all day
Such a great debut album. Fun start to finish. Not many Southern Rock albums can match this.
Feeeee biiiirdd yeeAahhh
Awesome album! I've never listened to anything besides Free Bird, but glad I made it through the whole thing. Tracks 1 and 3 were really good, and production on this (was it a remaster?) very clean and makes the album sound more contemporary than it really is
So after listening to Dylan yesterday, as soon as I saw this album, all I could think was Fuck yea!!! I like to think of Jesus like with giant eagle's wings, and singin' lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like an angel band and I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk! Southern fried rock is the kind of music that just gets better and better the more you listen. This album is like a greatest hits album, not really a bad song. I'm sure most folk have heard Free Bird, Gimme 3 steps and Simple man, but the rest of the album equally good if not better. Die hard Skynyrd fans will want to kill me, but radio has just about killed Free Bird for me. Anyway, loved Tuesday's gone, I aint the one, Down South Jukin, Mississippi Kid and Poison Whiskey. Just a solid album all the way through. Load up some beers, eat a couple mushroom caps, throw in some Skynyrd and I promise a good night in store! Great album, thought about a 5, but couldn't pull the trigger.... 4.5
4.5 I was already a pretty big fan of the hits on this album, but I’d never heard much outside of those. I’m very happy with what I heard by the end. Classic southern rock and fuckin’ roll! It has a nostalgic sound that I think has aided it in aging as well as it has. Nice and moving pace that is mostly consistent outside of one or two tracks. I definitely like this enough to buy on vinyl if I find it.
8/10
These glorious southern rockers. Fucking spectacular bunch of songs. A blueprint for rock music right here y'all.
There's something gloriously sleazy about their music that elevates it above dreary blues revivalism. Maybe it's Van Zandts voice, maybe the three guitars always allowing one to add some slinking, driving rhythm to everything. I don't know, it just works. Also, it has Free Bird. So it was always going to be good.
A foaming crescendo of molten sex. The first time I listened to this record I was high on hallucinogens, flying like a panda in a hot air balloon, straddling the clouds and dancing in the stars. My mind had been opened to a new galaxy of noise, a glittering corkscrew of shimmering gold dust sprawled across a whirlwind of life. My mouth tasted like sawdust and my legs were glued to the floor, but this music spun my head off its shoulders and propelled me into the future. A future caught with its pants down, on the wrong side of town. A future so dark and twisted that it took on the form of an army of spiders leaking out of the skull of a lost relative. I would never be the same again.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD
Not far off of a 5. Three really really good songs (Free Bird, Tuesday's Gone, and Simple Man), a couple of okay to good ones, and then Mississipi Kid and to a lesser extent Poison Whiskey towards the end which drags it down from a 5 to a 4. Won't listen to the album again, but will be picking out those three songs and listening to them over and over.
Okay this is pretty good
Big Skynyrd fan. I like all their albums. Great Southern rock.
Glorious album, Tuesday's gone - excellent, Free Bird - probably the most enjoyable long-form southern rock track in history. New layers each time you listen although missing real depth. Genuinely wonderful but with a few dull points here and there. I imagine it would be very good to drive to.
Good country/southern rock album fronted by two big songs. What keeps the album from 5 stars though is the fact that those two songs are by far the best ones of the album and the rest is not bad but also somewhat easy forgettable
If Southern rock is not your Texas BBQ and when the kings of southern rock turn up to haunt you from the grave - you brace yourself… but it’s actually a great record - is definitely up with there with the classic rock greats - and well try as you might - but finishing off a good record with Freebird is begrudgingly awesome.
This was awesome. Both glad I heard it through and excited to listen to again in the future!
In the early '90s I worked at a pool hall with a jukebox in the corner. That machine must've made a million dollars off of Sweet Home Alabama. I hate that song. At the beginning of week 2 I resorted to placing a piece of masking tape with a sign on the glass that read "Selection J2 is unavailable, DO NOT USE," That lasted two days and then I resorted to unplugging the entire machine. Pool halls without music are super boring tho. Eventually I quit and haven't listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd ... until today. I'm pleasantly surprised. Maybe it's the nostalgia. Maybe it's all the barbecue and cheap beers I've been consuming this morning. Or, maybe it's these dang overalls I can't seem to fit myself into while wearing a t-shirt. Whatever it is, these guys rock.
Lynyrd Skynyrd went to Robert E. Lee High School and Nathan B. Forrest High School in Jacksonville. They didn’t change the name of Forrest until 2014, and didn’t change Lee until 2021. While we could take issue with the Confederate flag-waving, heritage-touting nature of Skynyrd and their fandom, they are very much a product of their upbringing. However, they resisted other conservative traditions of their youth - continuing to wear their hair long despite it being culturally unacceptable. But this just introduces more contradictions and confusion. Willing to reject some norms, but not able to see that your schools are named after racists and traitors, or that your heritage is built around hate? Neil Young saw the 70s South for what it was, and I've gotta side with his "Alabama" over the Skynyrd response of "Sweet Home Alabama" (not on this album). But contradictions and complications aside, they were fantastic musicians. “Simple Man” is, simply, amazing. “Free Bird” is legendary, and I wouldn’t mind if that guitar solo went on forever. And “Tuesday’s Gone” and “Three Steps” are worthy hits as well. The stretch of “Things Goin’ On” through “Poison Whiskey” doesn’t reach the same mark, which ultimately holds the album back. In the end, it’s good that they told everyone how to pronounce their band’s name with this album title. If they were called Lie-nard Sky-nerd, they never would have been as popular. If you didn’t use a bunch of out-of-place y’s to spell your band’s gym teacher homage name, maybe people wouldn’t have trouble knowing how to pronounce it?
Pog? Pog!
Didn't expect to like it but it was awesome, free bird in particular. Also the production was sharp, and the tunes were well sequenced only thing holding it back is poor, repetitive lyrics on some tracks. A great record
It's too tempting to call this "generic", but this album has a knack at hitting the right tickle-spots. Making the familiar '70s country rock sound not an annoying but a cozy one. And they didn't stop there, there are also parts where the guitar-driven epicness caught me off guard. Perhaps that's the one that separates them from their peers.
I learned how pronounce now
Really good album: Best numbers: Free bird and Tuesday gone
Good
rate: 4 - classic rock staple - I related to Free Bird, and the instrumentals on it are swag - I don't know if I'd listen to the whole album again, but there are some great songs on it, some are a little long to my surprise - short album which I can appreciate - before listening, I knew Tuesday's Gone - Overall, I think this album has a lot of important themes and is pretty politically forward for the time - favorite song: Things Goin' On - this song speaks on important socioeconomic and environmental issues, basically says "fuck the government, they should be helping us, not sending people to the moon" also I like the guitar and percussion
This is fine OH SHIT FREEBIRD
Exquisite
Hell yeah brotha, this shit is gosh dang good! I was hankerin' for some good ol' rock 'n' roll! First Listen?: Y Fav. Tracks: Simple Man, Free Bird, I Ain't The One Rating: 3.8/5
Un clásico que siempre vi de reojo, grata sorpresa musical. Un album para escuchar moviendo la cabeza
Nearly every song is notable and the ones in the middle that were not were a pleasant listen. Front heavy with the hits and ends with Free bird.
Good if not unremarkable through most of it, finishes off very strongly with “Free Bird” which elevates it to great
Great album. I can see why it was so important.
Simple man, free bird, gimme 3 steps, and more Great album
Absolutely surprising how enjoyable the album is, but damn, cut down Free Bird and Tuesday's Gone please.
R r r r r reeeaaal rock shit
By some quirk fate ”Free Bird” was the least fulfilling song on this album
Bankare... går helt enkelt hårt
Classic Skynyrd
Boom! Spiky riff rock full of power chords and energy. Really enjoyed this one, particularly Simple Man (which I hadn't heard before) and Free Bird (which I had), the latter one of those rock epics that go on an on through seemingly so many phases. So close to giving this the full five stars, but some of the early tracks weren't quite as interesting. But still, definitely worth further listens.
I Ain't the One - 8/10 Tuesday's Gone - 8/10 Gimme Three Steps - 9/10 Simple Man - 9/10 Things Goin' On - 8/10 Mississippi Kid - 4/10 Poison Whiskey - 5/10 Free Bird - 10/10
cool album, seems to be a more rare genre within rock, southern rock
I'd only ever heard Sweet Home Alabama before by this band. I don't think they were particularly popular in the UK. I enjoyed this album. Short and punchy with very musical guitar playing. That Southern twang is quite unmistakable and good fun for someone who has never been anywhere near the US South. Would relisten.
While not the godfathers of Southern Rock, I always have viewed them as the epitome of the sub-genre and template for your local southern-rock bands. Not really my style but this album is a great debut and will continue to provide classic rock stations plenty of spins until the call of Cthulhu.
A good amount of hits and solid album cuts.
A solid debut album.
Pretty good rock. Songs went on a little too long.
6/10
‘I Ain’t the One’, feels like a song that I wouldn’t skip but wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to. Saying that, if I heard ‘Bellbottoms’ - John Spencer Blues Explosion, then maybe I’d queue this after. Similar blues mix with rock. It is a great start to the album, with ‘Tuesday’s Gone’ following it. Favourite song has to be ‘Simple Man’.
Lot of fun songs. Free Bird is pretty played out, but still a great one. 4/5
i actually really liked this album. there were about two songs in the middle which were not my favourite (for the life of me i cannot figure out which ones, which makes me think i didn’t not like them as much as i thought i did). i liked the length and all of it!
Awesome rock album here. Probably their best collection of songs and it’s their first album. This one has a little bit of everything, ballads, classics, guitar solos. It’s an amazing first album from a band that was cut short on life. Really solid stuff. 8.2/10
I have this in my collection and have been a fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd for a long time. This is a strong debut album, showcasing the band's varied style and distinctive Southern sound, particularly the soaring guitar lines. Stand out tracks - Gimme Three Steps (the epitome of Southern boogie), Simple Man, and the monumental Free Bird of course. The latter may not be everyone's cup of tea and the guitar soloing does go on, but I love it as much now as when I heard it as a 14 year old. There are a couple of plodders on the album but that should not detract from the confidence, power and presence of this debut from the greatest of the Southern rock bands
This is quintessential southern rock for me. The range of the songs are outstanding (I think they are underrated in that regard) and there is an immediacy to many of the tracks that they were not able to replicate on later releases. Credit to Al Kooper (an unsung hero of rock and roll) for the production. Free Bird has been overplayed to the point of distraction, and I am not sure this is the best version, but it is iconic, nonetheless. Surprisingly, this doesn’t get many mentioned on many lists of best debuts.
I hate this band but damn is this such a good album - other than free bird. Fuck Free Bird
So this is their debut? Incredible. Even the ones I’d never heard are awesome. I have to say I’ve always found Simple Man to be too long, too slow, too repetitive. But that’s faint criticism for an otherwise timeless work.
Fino a "Simple Man" sono dimenticabili. Bellissime "Simple Man" e "Free Bird", naturalmente. Ma il resto dell'album no, 4 stelle alte.
Sguuuud. My favorites are "Tuesday's Gone", "Things Goin' On", "Mississippi Kid", and "Simple Man". Free Bird is okay too I guess.
Está bueno, pero Free Bird se lo lleva todo.
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Brings me back to old school US with the country rock twang and ramblin’ grooves. Simple Man and Free Bird are truly masterpieces but the others aren’t bad either. 7/10
If you turn your radio on right now I'm sure that something from this album is being played. This and "Second Helping" are my faves. Would give it 5 stars except it has one of the songs that contributed to the down fall of radio.
This is the debut album from rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The album was certified double platinum in the US 14 years after release in 1987, and along with being the band's debut album, it is best known for the epic guitar solo on the track "Free Bird". This is what I imagine an awesome hard rock album from the 70's should sound like. It's the first time I heard most of these songs from this great band, besides "Free Bird", and I couldn't be happier with the quality of the other tracks. It's easy to tell that this band had some serious talent from the get go and their popularity only went up!
I cannot say for certain when my first exposure to Skynyrd was but Tuesday's Gone had to be close because of Happy Gilmore. Also, one time in 8th grade, we had to vote on our class song. I nominated Tuesday's Gone. It lost to Higher by Creed by a count of 9-2. Probably the most difficult review Tuesday's Gone has ever received. This album has a lot of well known songs that I will listen to again. The middle of the album isn't as good as the rest. Freebird certainly does not need to be a 10 minute jam session. Also several of the songs have a southern twang to them which I don't care for. I rounded down.
I don't think this type of music is for me but it's probably among the best of its genre. Has Free Bird.
Great 70s rock album with some cool southern folk styling.
So I like it alot more than I expected too. I still think freebird goes on for far too long, but simple man is very good. I'm not sure if I would listen to again, but I think if I was to listen to a Skynyrd album, this would probably be the one.
Klassiek rock album. Gewoon goed. Free Bird blijft wel een topnummer
Really good, surprisingly! No Sweet Home Alabama or That Smell thankfully
Good debut album. Some songs with huge staying power right off the bat.
so many hits that still rock. Simple Man the highlight, but man what a debut overall
Classic. I’ve always listened to their greatest hits but most of them are from this album.
Really good jams. Hard boogie to epic ballads. (7/10) FT: Free Bird, Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man
This is a staggering debut album, full of hits both recognizable and novel. It turned Southern rock into a cohesive art form, even while pushing its envelope.
A fine album all-around. Obviously, anything country-rock related tends to go on a bit and start to blend together, but I enjoyed it.
Some great classics
Good ol' southern rock. The classics hit hard and the deeper cuts are still good.
some incredible tracks - absolute classic rock standards all on one album. Some pretty crappy songs mixed in as well preventing 5 stars.
Great albulm
Yeahyeah freebird c un classic
Lynyrd Skynyrd. I have their greatest hits, and not surprisingly, half of this album is on it. There's a reason this album is on the list. As much as this is YEE-HAW southern rock, it is done well. The songs are catchy, even the ones on here that are over (FREEBIRD! PLAY FREEBIRD!!!) played. I remember hearing Freebird for the first time, and that whole twin guitar thing just blew my mind. Even though it's still a bit on the sloppy side and I know others can do it just as well, it's still great. The production on this and all the other songs are great. The formula for pretty much all of their albums exist right here, little changes from their other albums. I mean, did they peak with this one? Probably, it's the one with some of their best known (FREEBIRD! PLAY FREEBIRD!!!) stuff on it. But I was always partial to Mr. Saturday Night Special, not sure why. Anyway, it is probably an essential to that southern rock archetype. I just wish there was some evolution to it.
Simple Man is one of my favorite songs and Free Bird is a classic for good reason. I especially enjoyed the more folk-y sounding songs...great American rock listen
Free Bird and Simple Man are fantastic songs. It was really enjoyable to hear other songs that I hadn't heard before.
You can’t deny the impact this group had on Rock n Roll but I also credit their sound to a lot of the country rock that plays today. I enjoy this album for its rough-ness but simplistic tone as well.
Good variety of tracks, and more upbeat than I was expecting
Heck of a debut.
Unfortunately this sound is so culturally complicated for Americans with a lot of racists identifying with the southern rock sound. Beyond that, although I would not want to listen to this on the regular, you can't deny the legacy of this album. Simple Man is still great. Free Bird is... well, Free Bird. Nothing is bad here.
This one is good, not only because of Freebird
What a great albun to start a musical career. I really like „Free Bird“. It‘s one of my favourite songs.
All(most) all the hits are here! well produced, and tight musicianship made this a surprising delight to listen to.
NICE!
Great debut album.
Alger negla, ballöðu/greddurokk sem endar á slagaranum Free Bird.
SO many iconic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs on this album, but I had never listened to it front to back, so this was another exciting one for me. To that point, I never realized so many of their most beloved songs came from this first album! I'd rather listen to any of these Skynyrd hits than Sweet Home Alabama, so the fact that it's not on this album is, in itself, almost worth a bonus star in my rating. This album reflects a time when track order really seemed to be more of an intentional, precise art. I Ain't the One is a perfect opener, setting an exciting stage for many of the band's bigger mainstream hits, and arguably, some of the most well known jams in classic rock history. The second half of the album slumps a bit too far into swamp rock for me. Just when you think you might finally be getting bored, the album closes with its rising phoenix song, Free Bird, one song that is practically two separate tracks. The first "track" is a patient ballad, slowly building with some of the most recognized lyrics and guitar riffs in rock music history, before finally blooming into the second "track", an epic ~5 minute instrumental that stands among the best that rock music has ever witnessed.
Their debut album that gave us Free Bird and a load of great rock tracks. They sound like they are having a lot of fun. Didn't realise half the band wiped out in a plane crash en-route to play at my alma mater LSU
Really liked this one - it was a good album to start this with. I knew a couple of the songs but had never listened to an entire Lynyrd Skynyrd album, and probably would not have thought to listen to an entire Lynyrd Skynryd album. They just wouldn't have popped into my head as "hey let's listen to this band today." But I liked it, and it was good music to have on while getting work done.
Fantastic southern rock album, absorbing tunes, great playing and the majestic Free Bird.
Enjoyed this album. Simple Man was a highlight
Good old southern blues from Ronnie Van Zant and co. Great album and before all the confederate flag/disagreement with Neil Young crap. Some lovely music on this one, highlights for me "Tuesdays Gone" and of course "Freebird". Freebird reminds me of the touring Radio Caroline Roadshows back in the '70's when they always finished with that song to close the evening. Great memories.
Almost every song was excellent. I don’t believe I’d ever heard the original album version of Free Bird and especially loved it.
Loved this in my 20s. Now in my 30s, I feel its really dated, but it holds a nostalgic place in my heart.
Top album met het beste nummer toch wel "Simple Man"
Very good, very solid. Classic blues-rock. Free bird is the track I knew the most, however, I don't think it is the best off this album. Could easily be a 5, I just don't know how re-listenable it is.
A triumphant album, simple listening thanks to its ubiquity, extremely tight in the playing. Puts one in the mood for clean whiskey.
A bit harder rock than I usually like but some of the songs on this album really grabbed me.
Surely important to the genre, recorded and performed in one groove, no characteristic distinctions, light individuality between the tracks. Great rhythm and solos!
2021.11.26
Lots of classics on this one. Three steps, simple man, free byrd. Super solid stuff.
This is a fun listen! It would have been a good Friday album if I hadn't missed it lol.
Fun stuff, free bird is a classic
kinda snazzy ngl
More material from the high school stoner vaults. The Dixie attitude is thick as pig shit, frankly, but it's an undeniable Southern Rock classic.
This is a classic album. It has most, if not all, of Skynyrd's biggest hits. It's a great record to just sit back and hang to.
I'm a sucker for classic rock - grew up listening to it in the house. I already knew half the songs on this album, which surprised me. I like the whole vibe of this one.
An iconic album. "Tuesday's Gon" was my favorite track this listen
I’ve always had a soft spot for Skynyrd
Simple, great American blues-rock. More than just the guys who did Free Bird
I enjoyed this album a lot. My highlights were I Ain't The One, Gimme Three Steps and Poison Whiskey.
The hits are really good but the rest is pretty mediocre. 7-8/10 1. Simple Man 2. Free Bird 3. Gimme Three Steps
Very solid album, and of course I love Free Bird. 8/10
8/10
Quality record. 3 stars and a additional one for Free bird
Begendim
Pretty fun! I’m a southern girl at heart and liked this. Beyond freebies and Tuesday’s gone it was a blast.
Hadn’t heard previously. Two great songs, and the rest decent, but unremarkable? Maybe more to it on repeat listens.
A more than solid album with good songs, great guitars and a decent mix.
Nice
I think it's nothing special, but I really enjoyed it. It's a really good album. But I am happy that I didnt hear free bird the day that I got it, cuz that wouldve ended badly.
Nice, some classics
Some classic tracks on here such as Free Bird, but so is Tuesday's gone and my all time favourite track from this band, Simple Man. Never listed to one of their albums before.
Banda ktora zna chyba kazdy za sprawa ich wiecznie zywego sweet home alabama, ktory jednak nie pochodzi z tej plyty, krazek ktorego tytul pomaga w poprawnej wymowie nazwy zespolu jest ich debiutanckim albumem, na prawie 43 minutach jest zawarte 8 trakow, utrzymanych w klimacie poludniowej hameryczki, wiec taki mieszaniec country z bluesem, do tego mocne brzmienia hardego rocka i dostajemy klimat radia X z gta pelna morda, w ktorym pojawia sie przynajmniej jeden kawalek z tej plyty, bo pamietam cos free birdowego z osta, free bird moze byc najbardziej rozpoznawalnym numerem lynyrdow, a to za sprawa epickiej gitarkowej solowki, ktora zamyka kawalek jak i cala plyte i trwa ponad 5 minut, co czyni go takze najdluzszym songiem plyty, jak i calej dyskografii lynyrdow, co do samej bandy to ich brzmienie definiuje trio gitarkowe Rossington na leadzie w wiekszosci trakow czasem zmieniony z Collinsem, ktory na tej plycie operuje glownie na rytminczej i akustyku na free birdzie oraz Kingiem basiorzem, ktory mial leada na missisipi kidzie, to wlasnie harmonia miedzy nimi najbardziej urzekla mnie podczas odsluchu, dodatkowymi instrumentami sa typowo rokowo drumsy Burnsa i klawisze Powellowe, ostatnim elementem do ukladanki brzmienia bandy jest wokalista i autor tekstow Ronnie Van Zant, ktory brzmi tu o wiele nizej, cale szczescie, niz na traku z ktorego kojarzylem bande czyli sweet homa alabamowego, jak dla mnie dobry wokal oddajacy liryke tekstow, jak byc powinno gdy ktos pisal traczka przeciez, a lirycznie plyta takze daje rade, chociaz porusza dosc oklepanie poludniowe motywy, to robi to jednak szczerze i nie czuc tu zaszablonowania gatunkowego, wiec posluchamy o uwielbieniu do wolnosci, niebezpieczenstwach wiskaczow, dancingow z nieznajomymi pieknosciami czy o tym jak dobrze przezyc zycie, jako prosty czlek, jak do mnie bardzo trafil storytelling pana Ronniego, dobry pik dodatkowo przesluchany w pasujacych do plyty okolicznosciach, bo spity i wygiety na fotelu znajomka po calonocnej libacji festiwalowej, na plejaka dodam traki, o ktorych juz po czesci wspomnialem podczas opisu kontentu lirycznego, czyli zamykajacy free bird, poision whiskey i simple man, chociaz plyta jest na tyle rowna, ze kazdy z trakow nadawalby sie na plejke
4.5
Pure Southern Rock gold.
there is no denying that the songwriting and musicianship shown here are fabulous.
Just because of Tuesday’s Gone and Free Bird this is a strong album. Buy also enjoyed Simple Man. Strong, but 1-2 fillers as well.
What a debut album! Every song is a southern rock staple.
Epic album that contains most of the big hits Skynrd is known for. Other Gems like "Poison Whiskey" are great to hear for someone not familiar with their catalog
Very Blues-grassy, not overwhelming to the ears. Instrumentation is clean, lyrics are clear, has a definite country influence (which isn’t a bad thing).
Quality album
Fun listen
Great. Had only heard Freebird, but the entire album was good
Classic!
I guess it’s alright for the 1000th listen. Still holds up. Major and minor pentatonic at its maximum expression.
Excellent
really good rock, features one of the best guitar solos in rock
Iconic songs from the iconic southern-rock band. Awesome, even though, I have listened to this record way too many times.
Classic
Very good, enjoyed listening to it. Has to have 4* for Freebird !
Positiivinen ylläri! Minun korvaan kuulosti hyvältä ja taidokkaalta bluesahtavalta rokilta, odotukset olivat jotain perus punaniskarokkia. Vaikka eihän se Sweet Home Alabamakaan mikään huono biisi ole, niin mukava kuulla että bändillä on muitakin biisejä.
Classic.
4/5
Really great folk-rock-country album, although the whole album is overshadowed by Free Bird
Free bird is a classic
Outstanding debut album. It’s amazing how some bands can emerge with their first album fully formed and at their peak. I’m not the biggest fan of this particular flavor of rock but I can’t deny the excellence of many of these songs. 4 stars.
I can't say I liked the whole album. But isn't that final song (you know which) a juicy strawberry at the top of a cake?
Who doesn't know Free Bird? What a great guitar solo. I resonated with the lyrics to Simple Man. As for the rest of the album I guess I lean towards a tick above neutral. Its alright but I probably wouldn't seek it out. These guys are weirdos for flying the confederate flag though. Free Bird carries hard.
Enough of that now. Ok for what it is but there’s only so much heavyish guitar and whiney singing I can take in one day.
Lo he escuchado a medias
Classic Southern rock. Pretty good live renditions. Free Bird was kind of ruined by that synthetic bird chirping sound but thankfully it wasn't the entire track.
Solid Southern classic.
Day 2: Pretty Good
Free Bird is amazing, the rest is kinda mid
Bell'album e mi è piaciuta soprattutto simple man
I hate pretty much every slow-tempo song on this LP
I think I audibly groaned when this album popped into my list. Classic rock overload
Leuke vibes
How many boomer man decided to fuck up their life and break up listening to free bird?
Good classic album, not something I would listen to regularly but wouldn’t be mad if I heard it in a public setting
Quite interesting - thx
Intro made me wanna buy 'bama season tickets. Tuesday's gone a bit bland. 3rd track has a very nice riff but it reminds me of another song 4th track: saloon ahh song. Mississippi kid: 2nd amendment moment Poison whiskey:ok Free bird: legendary buildup Mister banker: very efficient, guitarist going crazy and I love it All in all some good tracks but a bit boring and too American for my european palate although the immersion was appreciated and provides a more valuable experience.
not a big fan but i appreciate the discovery
It was okay, but nothing groundbreaking. A real 3. Free bird almost rounds it up to a 4 on its own, but I feel it is not enough.
The music is great, the lyrics are not. Their biggest hits are about a guy who refuses to commit (Freebird), and a Neil Young diss track (not on this record). Southern Rock doesn't exist without Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The classic of classic rock
Ah so that's what Free Bird sounds like! Thought this was good enough as 70s rock goes.
I’ve never listened to the entire album before, but I’ll be playing “Free Bird” for the rest of my life obviously (First time I heard it would be from six feet under) The only other standout for me was Mr. Banker. A nice change of pace from the rest of the album, which after a while started blending together for me
I liked it, some gems on here
This gets 2 stars for "Tuesday's Gone" alone, which does everything I need from a song. Everything else is just 70s white guy blues-adjacent boogie: what is "Southern" about this? "Three Steps" is overrated, but not nearly as much as "Free Bird" which is slightly better. But really, the long weak solo to close?
Sound
1. I Ain't The One - Blues Rock cliches galore, with some annoying squealing vocal tones. But could be worse. 2. Tuesday's Gone - Keyboard sound is a bit weird, and emphasizes the larmoyance of the lead singer's voice. And "Gone With The Wind" - did that work back then? Too long. 3. Gimme Three Steps - Finally a good riffage intro. Chuck Berry knew better. 4. Simple Man - Ode to Good Ol' Boy. Meh. 5. Things Goin' On - Oompah Honkytonk. Not the worst though. 6. Mississippi Kid - Slide guitar & harmonica filler. 7. Poison Whiskey - My favorite this far. 8. Free Bird - One of these songs that are so entrenched in pop culture that it seems impossible to judge it without bias. It seems fun enough.
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its good, so far I'm not sure if it's my vibe, but it does remind me of Supernatural. I like Tuesdays Gone. I'm pretty sure some of these songs were in Supernatural Overall, not my vibe, but good album, I wouldn't judge someone if they had this in their top 10
Freebird blows, but otherwise a solid album. Good to hear stuff beyond the hits.
Not exactly my cup of tea
Oh god help me I’m not gonna give Skynard a one star review. If there’s anything vaguely listenable this band has produced, it is on this album. Tuesday’s Gone, Simple Man, even mother fucking Freebird for christ’s sake. It’s pretty much the beginning and end of true southern rock. Fuuuuuxk…I’m gonna give it a threeeeee!!! What has this list bought me to?!
Love the guitar and the vibe but it’s a bit too country for me in some parts but other than that great album 3.2/5
wird nicht langweilig! und einfach so schön zu einem sommertag, der ein bisschen unbeschrieben ist. gibt so einen drive zum banalen
Not bad as far as Southern Fried Rock goes. Some good guitar licks and reasonable tunes, although the lyrics didn’t always do it for me, and things tended to drag a bit towards the end……..
If you like southern rock/country you’re gonna love this out. Is very much the sound of itself during the air when this was made.
Some great songs in here, but I really don't think I'd come back to this one. Just listen to the hits and skip the rest. Favorite Songs: Gimme Three Steps, Free Bird
I’m actually quite interested in giving this a listen. It isn’t anything I’d usually put on, not that what I’ve heard it’s bad, it’s just somewhat forgettable beyond the memes. I ain’t the one was a decent way to start off this album. I loved going into Tuesdays Gone which was super soulful, very pretty music. It was long, but it had a lot of lovely bits in it. Gimmie three steps was slightly basic, but not bad in any way. I quite liked simple man, but a lot of these tracks are starting to sound the same. Poison whiskey was a bit of a bop. Do I really need to say anything about free bird? It was way too long (I didn’t realize it was that long before), but it’s a classic. The extended guitar solo is just so much fun. A solid album for #169 3.5/5 ⭐️ 169/1089
Sub Allman Brothers Southern blues-boogie full of simple, manly men thinkin' 'bout guns an' whiskey an' movin' on down the line because o' their woman. You're not about to hear anything you haven't heard elsewhere. Even "Free Bird" - the magnum opus - recycles the whole "don't tie me down, woman, don't fence me in" stuff that countless country songs have tried. Think Merle Haggard or Conway Twitty with flash guitar solos.
Stay outta my way / Or you'll pay / Listen to what I say. I felt that.
вообще неотличимый рок(нрол?), даже фри бёрд вообще не запомнила…
As far as hard rock goes, this has theatrics but relatively little drama. Would have been good music to make out in your car to in the 70s – no wonder boomers are so obsessed with themselves. Gets 3 stars because it features all of this band’s actually good songs.
Enjoyed this, had a CCR feel which is hardly surprising. Just too long!
Pretty great
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A lot of the songs were very long and many of them felt similar. I wouldn't listen again, but overall not a bad album
Big sound, solid vocals and a mixture of country with rock- especially in the toe tapping good ‘gimme three steps’ and then to top it off an absolute class power ballad in ‘free bird’ It packed something but I can’t quite put my finger on what! Overall though a Solid album. Best track- ‘gimme three steps’ Worst track- ‘poison whiskey’ Solid 7/10
Good at what it’s doing, not necessarily my Jam
You know her, you love her - it's free bird baby. Everything else was fine too. 6/10
3.5 favs: simple man, things goin' on
030626 9:50 3.5
There was a period that I found these guys pretty solid. Strong to quite strong. This is a pretty full effort too. This one’s original lineup for sure. When was their incident? Some of it sounds pretty damn good; some of it’s dime-store Allmans. It’s a 3 & 1/2
Date of listen : 2nd June, 2026. First impression: pretty cool. some nice guitar riffs, and a wide range of styles. However, another listen is most likely needed, so I can get to know the songs more (and possibly find a favourite)
Pretty good! This might actually be a case where I liked the lesser known songs more than the famous ones. Thought I have to say, when the double time section comes in on Free Bird, it's pretty exciting (even though that guitar solo is a meme now). " I ain't the one," "gimme three steps," "things goin' on," and "poison whiskey" were all fairly enjoyable for me. Several songs on this album used a standard blues format but had novel instrumentation to keep it interesting. The band was really solid as well; the guitar player obviously has serious skill, and I appreciated that the bass was also somewhat on the forefront, which is rare for this style of music
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- kind of complicated for me, because they started getting popular shortly after we moved to Jacksonville, which is where they were from, and since I wasn't from Jacksonville, and kind of rebelled against the Southern culture there, I likewise rebelled against the band, who were clearly a Southern (and specifically Jacksonville) band, and very popular in the South, and especially in their home town (played on the radio a lot, for example). Once I left Jacksonville, of course, it was easier to like Lynyrd Skynyrd, and even get a little nostalgic about them (and Jacksonville). Anyway, turning to the 8 songs on the album: I mainly knew 3: Tuesday's Gone, Gimme Three Steps, and, of course, Free Bird. The other 5 songs, like Tuesday and Three Steps are solid, but not exceptional, and so I think it would be easy to say I couldn't go higher than a 3 for the album, without Free Bird. probably no more than a 3 for the album. Free Bird, though -- even though I've heard it MANY times (100? 200?) -- really is exceptional, in spite of this (and despite becoming a stupid joke at concerts). So the difficult question is: is Free Bird enough to pull the whole album up to 4? Kind of makes me wish I could hear the whole thing for the first time. It really feels like a toss-up for me, between a high 3 and a low 4. Which one would I come to regret more? (lol) I think I'll stick with a high 3, but it's very close.
it's a solid album, but my enjoyment is tainted by the assocation with bigoted old white men in dingy bars. In a vacuum, I might give it 4 stars. But there's too much weighing on it. For that reason, I enjoy the tracks that haven't gotten as much radio play The sound is well rehearsed, the lyrics are poignant and simple. I like the doubled guitars
Good, and I enjoyed things like Simple Man and Tuesday's Gone, but a lot of the songs feel excessively long guitar odysseys.
When it's the classic songs, this album earns its place. When it's not, sometimes it make me wonder if I could be doing something else.
Lyrics Skynyrd is absolutely *canon* uncle-core music. I don't think this is a universal experience per se, but if you know what I'm talking about, you know *exactly* what I'm talking about. Now, I will admit, I'm not the biggest Lyryrd Skynyrd fan, but I do have to give them a cultural victory of sorts. I am *very* familiar with 5 of the 8 songs here, even if I rarely seek them out, and that's the kind of reach you (largely) can't buy. I will also admit the the baseline of material here is at least fine. It's swaggering swamp rock, confidently presented, and very well performed. It's a certain kind of person's perfect "meat and potatoes" album, regardless of the fact that I don't usually get along with this certain kind of person (I know that a lot of these songs are bigger than their subcultural appeal, but there is *certainly* still a connotation to Lynyrd Skynyrd fandom, and I'll leave it at that). For me, this album's solid 3 score is pretty much cemented by exactly 3 songs. Tuesday's Gone is truly iconic rock balladry. Simple Man is a fantastic, melancholic rock song, and a hell of a vocal performance. And then we have Free Bird. Possibly the crown jewel of the entire Lynyrd Skynyrd discography, and one of the greatest epic rockers *ever*, with one of the most recognizable, iconic guitar solos ever, Free Bird is a sight to behold. This collection of three songs is good enough that I have to put aside my apathy towards Lynyrd Skynyrd, and admit that this ends up a pretty damn good album as a whole.
Their guitar skills are soo good.
My dad would enjoy it pretty sure it’s a solid 3,6 nah I’m doing it on 3
Your ultimate dad rock? Doesn't sound too bad but it's all very predictable. In the same vein as The Band, CCR, etc... Great live in a pub I suppose but to listen to on its own as an album? Not for me.
OK, so we're gonna get all this bullshit out of the way early I guess. I mean, I suppose the album with the biggest asshole concertgoer punchline on it has to be here. Free Bird is iconic, after all, though wildly overrated. It's a solo with a banal preamble. Solid guitar work on the leads, throughout, from the early plaintive slide to the extended jam it's known for, but the song as composed isn't that great. For that matter, Simple Man can get bent sideways. If ever a song has been praised above its stature, that one has. Van Zant's mom sits him down and basically gives the opposite of the empowering “you can be whatever you put your mind to” speech, as it plods plods plods away. I suppose it attracts exactly the sort of mediocre man it praises. The exact sort of man any stars n bars waving group of nitwits would attract. This is, of course, a bit before LynSkyn glazed George Wallace in Sweet Home Alabama (and quite a bit before the Drive By Truckers glazed LynSkyn for glazing GW), so we can pretend that that means they weren't confederate apologists at the time. Which is fine. It allows us to talk about Tuesday's Gone, which is simply a better song than Free Bird and rarely mentioned. It mines a similar musical vocabulary, a different but parallel sadness. It could be Free Bird from the perspective of the person who is being traveled on from. I've always preferred it. I also can get behind the other single, Gimme Three Steps, in part because it proves dude never actually became a simple kinda man who is satisfied by whatever he has, but also because it's the sort of barroom drama song that at least lets the piano player get a little bounce going before he gets shot. That same Saloon bounce helps save Things Goin On from being dire, though the highlight of the non-singles is Poison Whiskey, at least instrumentally. As instrumentation, it's easily the thing that rocks the most. It's just bogged down with the lyrics (and let's be honest, Ronnie's voice, but that bogs all these songs down). I'm not really convinced this would be an essential album if half the band didn't die by the end of the decade (and man, I could name about a half dozen albums without batting an eye that SHOULD be iconic that didn't go anywhere once band members tragically died). They'd be like Kid Rock if they were still making music at all. I mean, I guess they still are just Kid Rock now anyway. But this is an interesting landmark in the southern rock moment and not entirely awful for it. No one needed a second helping, but this one is a light 3* all tallied.
yeah that was fun.
Que agusticidad de album, es una mezcla de varios estilos que te atrapan, ay canciones que pues si iban medio lentas pero todo fue perfecto de ahi en adelante, el cambio de ritmos o donde solo una melodía predominaba, que deleite me atrevo a decir
It's fine. The insturmentals saved the album for sure, its giving yee haw! Which is fine, but its not really "my" thing. I can see why people like it though. Its very divorced dad vibes lol. Simple man stood oit by far though, that song was excellent. I have a feeling this band was/is racist though....just a feeling.
Kinda shocked by how good this is. In the last 40 years they’ve become synonymous with redneck, dumb hick culture, and having no original members. This fresh listen was a great reminder that there was a time when they were just a good rock band.
Three steps, guitars and stars.
Unlike yesterday, this one told me absolutely nothing I didn't know.
Pretty good. If you're really into southern rock, you're probably into this. For me this was pleasant enough, but not something I'll return to.
Leuker dan verwacht, 3,5
If Plato was making the idealized 70's rock band, this would be it. Even the plane crash that ended their ride has a bleak perfection within the archetype. That tragic event happened when i was 3, so the number of die-hard Lynyrd Skynyrd fans I've come across has been admittedly few. They shared one common trait thought: total degenerate dirtbags, the lot.
Maybe as an unintended consequence of Creedence being extremely popular in NZ, this bunch is less so. As such, I am somewhat protected from the dreaded overplay and also the cultural stank of southern pride etc etc etc. Musically it’s fine, but I’d still rather be listening to Creedence.
A classic with high highs. More symbolic than I expected. Themes of locality and freedom. Even though the whole album is raw and authentic, I found some of the songs difficult to connect to. Vocals are great. Guitars are great. Must have been a phenomenal live band. Imagine hearing Free Bird live... "Train roll on, roll on 'Cause my baby's gone I'm riding my blues, babe" Favourite songs: Tuesday's Gone, Free Bird
I had only heard free bird before today so I kind of knew what to expect and I got exactly that. Its a really good album that is easy to listen to and bop along to. Some of the guitar solos are a bit to long for my taste but you can't get everything you want.
Energetic grandad rock
Listening to free bird in full for the first time was like being edged
Southern rock, hard rock, blues rock.
7/10 Divertido, buenos ritmos. No me acuerdo mucho, lo escuche ayer
On their debut, Lynyrd Skynyrd don’t just sound like a band—they sound like a mission statement. Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd is less an album title than a declaration of identity: down-home, guitar-heavy, and proudly unpolished. These Jacksonville boys would go on to define Southern rock, but here you can hear them building it in real time, stitching together blues grit, country storytelling, and a whole lot of swagger. It’s rough in spots, sure, but that looseness is part of the charm—it feels lived-in rather than labored over. The twin-guitar attack of Gary Rossington and Allen Collins is the album’s backbone, weaving leads that feel loose but never sloppy, while Ronnie Van Zant delivers every line like it’s carved out of barroom wood—plainspoken, a little rough around the edges, but undeniably sincere. “Gimme Three Steps” plays like a short story set to crunchy riffs, all narrow escapes and knowing smirks, while “Poison Whiskey” struts with a distinctly The Rolling Stones-style swagger that tips its hat without feeling derivative. The album stretches out most effectively on its epics. “Tuesday’s Gone” drifts past the seven-minute mark on a haze of guitars and a sweet, almost fragile piano passage, giving the band room to show off its softer side without losing focus. And then there’s “Free Bird,” the inevitable centerpiece—starting as a slow, reflective ballad before erupting into that legendary, skyward guitar outro. It’s indulgent, sure, but it earns every second, transforming from a song into something closer to a communal experience. Not everything lands with the same force. “Simple Man” reaches for emotional gravity and gets there in flashes, though its repetition undercuts some of the impact—you can imagine it hitting harder with a deeper, grittier vocal tone. “Things Goin’ On” has its charms, but a stray piano flourish oddly recalls "Octopus's Garden", momentarily pulling you out of Skynyrd’s dusty Southern world. Still, even with its uneven patches, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd stands as a strong opening statement—three stars for what it is, and a clear sign of the legend just beginning to take shape.
Love (and previously familiar with) Free Bird and Tuesday's Gone but nothing else stood out.
3 de 5 Disco debut de rock sureño que el grupo fusionó con blues, country y rock de garage; las composiciones eran letras que hablaban de historias cotidianas, lugares que habían visto y cosas que habían hecho, éstas se percibían tan personales que, el público se sentía tan atraído a ellas y creaban esa conexión inmediata, obteniendo un éxito no esperado y un debut bastante relevante para el grupo. A destacar: Track 2 - Tuesday`s Gone Track 4 - Simple Man Track 8 - Free Bird
Lots of cool stuff going on in here. Massive variety of songs while still managing to keep it cohesive. Songs have varying lengths but they never felt too long or too short. Half a point deducted for mildly uncomfortable harmonica... blame Bob Dylan sorry While this is a solid album nothing really peaked my interest. Mid 3
“PLAY SOME SKYNYRD, MAN!!” “Nah, I’m good.” Classic rock and country tunes that you can certainly vibe to and enjoy.
19. 레너드 스키너드 - (프로노운스드 레너드 스키너드) (1973) 총 8곡 수록, 43분. 앨범아트 보자마자 미친 프리버드!!! 하고 소리지름 근데 뭐랄까 기대가 컸을까요 프리버드를 따라오는 곡이 없었다 한줄평: 프리버드 전형 취향: ★★☆☆☆ 재방문: ★★★★☆
I am the wrong audience for this one. Wird all the time to hear Free Bird, heard Free Bird.
A little long, but still enjoyable
"Free Bird" is wel een skivve
spoko ale jakos mnie nie zachwycilo
not a classic rock guy but this was decent aye
está bueno, no terminé de escucharlo pero me gusta la melodic
No los conocía, suenan increíble, suenan actuales.
fav: simple man
This was actually much better than anticipated but it’s still like a shitty white trash version of Allman Brothers
Saved? ✅ Would listen again? ✅ Would recommend to anyone? 🤔 Would buy on Vinyl? ✅
Listened to this on my Apple EarPods. As a fan of rock, songs like "Simple Man" and "Free Bird" were already present in my knowledge of Lynyrd Skynyrd, but I haven't not ventured much deeper than that (and "Sweet Home Alabama" from their second album). This album offers up a good listen of Southern rock backed by some true talent in the instrument section (just look at the album cover to see this larger than normal band) with impressive rhythm held in the drums and bass against a stack of 3 guitar players, piano, strings, and banjo thrown in for good measure. We also cannot forget Ronnie Van Zant on vocals, who's southern crooning is effectively utilized for each end of emotion--belting yells and soft contemplation. It's impressive to have a group this large play so effectively with each other, both in terms of keeping the beat and contributing meaningfully to the tracks. Outside of the two tracks I mentioned at the beginning, I enjoyed "Gimmie Three Steps" for it's fun riff and storytelling and I appreciated "Things Goin' On" for it's social consciousness, even if it's fairly vague. Beyond all that, however, I didn't really find myself super gripped with this album. It's certainly pleasant enough as a cohesive work, but it's very, very southern sounding in a way that I am not a big listener to outside of random occassion. I am impressed by their talent and did have a good time listening, but I just don't imagine myself going back to this one too often. ...And now time for the "Free Bird" paragraph. The American answer to "Stairway to Heaven" from Led Zeppelin, this final track is almost Skynyrd's whole legacy, but what a fantastic track to have as such. The beautiful slide guitar paired with the somber lyricism of love and change, it spends it's 9 minute runtime half as a soft ode to leaving someone behind and the next half truly as the "Free Bird", solos absolutely ripping the track to shreds in it's awesomeness while the drum and bass keep amping up the intensity throughout. Is it better than Stairway? Hmm...may that be an eternal battle perhaps never to be won.
pretty good
Album was okay. Liked a few songs.
A couple of really high highs (Simple Man, Free Bird!!!) but also some reeeeeally low lows. Overall a pretty solid album
Cause I’m freeeeeeeeeeeeee as a birdddddddd…
Me he guardado Mississippi kir y Free bird. Mejor de lo que pensaba y al mismo tiempo muy diferente. ¡Creía que eran un grupo mucho más heavy que rock! Siempre es bueno escuchar para aprender.
Sólido álbum, es muy conocido por tener Free Bird y Simple Man, de estas dos la que me vuelve loco es Free Bird y su solo impresionante, fuera de eso tiene otros temas buenos y unas baladas medio meh.
I know that the rating I'm about to give can be a subject of a veeery heated discussion - or even a hate train. But I've gotta be frank - I wasn't be able to emotionally connect to it at all. So, there go my three points. This music is definitely not my cup of tea even though it's enjoyable to some degree. And yes, I know nothing about music history, Sue me :)
A high 3. More like 3.7/10. Enjoyable.
Free bird, eso es todo
no soy muy muy muy fan del rock pero esta bueno, me gustan las clásicas del rock pero me gusto
Not a Southern Rock fan but, if you wanted to recommend a S.Rock album to someone it would be this one.
Me pareció copado, algunas canciones súper tranquis y otras más rocjeroas, me gustó
Southern rock pioneers. I liked this album more than I thought that I would. It's not really my thing, but there are 3 of the 8 songs that are historic, one is even legendary. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: Top 500 Albums #381 Best Songs Gimme Three Steps Simple Man Free Bird
It's a lynrd skynrd album. Has free bird on but is otherwise just ok rock
This is fine. Like maybe I would sing along if I were drunk in the bar and in a good mood, but I wouldn't miss any of these songs if they disappeared from the face of the earth forever.
Buying a sandwich from a supermarket while being a vegetarian can be deeply frustrating. There are usually 15 different variations of chicken sandwich, and one or two bland vegetarian options. That's how this list feels sometimes, only instead of chicken sandwiches I'm being offered endless minor variations on 'white men performing bluesy rock', and everything else gets squeezed out. I'm no more interested in consuming all of this than I am in the chicken sandwiches. It's very hard for me to see what distinguishes this from the ZZ Top I heard last week, or the Black Crowes before that, or all the many many other similar things on here. And all of them are occupying space that could have been given to much more interesting albums by women or artists in different traditions and genres.
eigl voll gut aber ka
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Nie celkom zlé, ale ani nenadchne.
Not that bad of an album, but it is absolutely hard carried by 'Free Bird'; which is an utterly fantastic way to close an album.
sluchane 04.04.2026 spoko muzyka ale nie moje klimaty note to self: wroc do tego kiedys i posluchaj jeszcze raz
bellino, alcune canzoni simili, me gusta ma non 5stelle
ho ascoltato solo poche canzoni, non male
Fine
It was alright free bird was the best
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Buen album 7.5/10, me gusta el rock que aparece, mi favorita es la primer canción.
good i enjoyed
Tuesday gone always reminds me of Dazed and Confused. A perfect song and movie that captures a feeling of the early 20s that you can't explain to anyone else. The riffs alone are so nostalgic. Simple Man is one of the greatest songs of all time, heard it so many times that I feel like it's always been a part of my life. Free Brid too, are you kidding me?!
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This album could have been Free Bird repeated 8 times and I would have given it the same rating. Great song, shitty individuals Fav song: Free Bird
Free Bird, Simple Man and Tuesday's Gone are all classics but I'm not a big fan of the rest.
Before listening: Let’s go. First album on the site and starting strong. Exactly what I expected from the experience, an album clearly close to my favorite genre, cult classic and I somehow never heard it. No idea what to expect, I hope for more rock and less folk. Post listening: Clearly met my expectations. It sounds more modern and fun than I expected. From the drum intro to the epic finisher album is extremely solid. Consistent in its theme and arrangements, I see how and why it made this band as big as it is. That being said thematically it’s also as far from my cup of tea as it can be. I can appreciate it from the side but I probably won’t be given it many listens in the future. Favorites: I ain’t the one, Tuesday‘s gone, Free Bird Least favorite: Mississippi kid
My foot has betrayed me by tapping a lot so I think I'm gonna have to upgrade from what I was gonna rate
Solid Skynard album.
lots of hits, was good to listen to the album in its entirety.
Pretty great, not an ounce of filler. Heard Free Bird too many times at this point, though I'll always associate it with driving around the country in GTA San Andreas at far too young of an age. Do they really need 7 people? Food for thought
Free Bird 4 stars everything else 2-3
Solid southern rock. One of my favourite song ever is “Simple man”, and ending “Free Bird” solo is legacy!
I’ll be damned if it doesn’t rock, jam and rip. Their ideology is suspect. 3.5
I was familiar with the band’s name, the story behind it, and a few of their songs. However, I had assumed they played a slightly different style. I’m not really into southern rock, and I feel the same way about this album. The exception is the song “Free Bird.” But that’s not enough to make me want to listen to this album again. 3/5
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I'll admit up front I really don't care for this band already (Sweet Home Alabama is a grating single), but while this album isn't unlistenable or totally offensive it really does not click with me. If I want to listen to Southern US blues rock, I already enjoy the Allman Brothers Band and do not feel I'm missing much by not exploring Skynyrd's discography further. 6/10.
Tuesday's Gone is a pretty solid, slower track, and much of the rest feels like I'm waiting for Free Bird.
6/10 It's alright I guess. Nothing interests me here except for Free Bird
I mean yea it’s good but jfc I don’t need to hear most of these ever again
Enjoyed this a fair amount. Really wasn't what I expected.
Favorite tracks: Tuesday's Gone, Simple Man, Free Bird Rock and freaking roll.
no está mal idk, la verdad que fue buena ambient music
This is very much at the high end of a 3. But I just can’t give it a 4 just because of Free Bird
Goddamn nerds