What's Your Favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd Song?

[mortonbriar]

Well @Sig I listened through the first album today, and then also had a second helping.

It's not hard to see how they would have a cult following, especially if you grew up with the contextual time and place they are singing about (I had neither).

I enjoyed both albums. The song I liked most aside from the easily recognisable hits was 'Things goin' on' I would happily put that into rotation when I am feeling urge for some Creedence, The Band etc.

I enjoyed 'Take Your Time', although possibly because it had a nostalgic similarity to the Sesame St theme song...

 

[brian64]

Well @Sig I listened through the first album today, and then also had a second helping.

It's not hard to see how they would have a cult following, especially if you grew up with the contextual time and place they are singing about (I had neither).

I enjoyed both albums. The song I liked most aside from the easily recognisable hits was 'Things goin' on' I would happily put that into rotation when I am feeling urge for some Creedence, The Band etc.

I enjoyed 'Take Your Time', although possibly because it had a nostalgic similarity to the Sesame St theme song...

Oh man...you were doing so good until the Sesame Street comparison. I'm thinking you may have earned yourself another angry face with that one.

 

[mortonbriar]

Oh man...you were doing so good until the Sesame Street comparison. I'm thinking you may have earned yourself another angry face with that one.

Ha ha, a grouchy face maybe.

 

[mortonbriar]

Dammit @Richmond B. Funkenhouser was it the Sesame St reference that earned me another angry face?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Dammit @Richmond B. Funkenhouser was it the Sesame St reference that earned me another angry face?

Yep

 

[Sig]

Well @Sig I listened through the first album today, and then also had a second helping.

It's not hard to see how they would have a cult following, especially if you grew up with the contextual time and place they are singing about (I had neither).

I enjoyed both albums. The song I liked most aside from the easily recognisable hits was 'Things goin' on' I would happily put that into rotation when I am feeling urge for some Creedence, The Band etc.

I enjoyed 'Take Your Time', although possibly because it had a nostalgic similarity to the Sesame St theme song...

Skynyrd has much more than a cult following in the US. Even though their record sales aren't spectacular, about 30 million as of a few years ago, their influence is immense.
I have never owned a single LS album. Neither have most people I know. But, I know every song word for word, have seen them half a dozen times, and have heard their songs countless times.
They were played so often on the radio in the 1980s, you didn't need an album. Radio stations had Skynyrd Hour, Skynyrd Weekend, Skynyrd 24 hours non stop.....
They were up there with Zepplin, Ozzy, and CCR, but their record sales dont show how popular they were. There are other bands with the same lore.
I guess Southern party people didn't buy albums. Again, because they were on the radio so much.
In the little town im from we would call the local DJ at the radio station (Lee John) when we were partying and tell him to play Skynyrd.
He would play a bunch of Skynyrd, with AC-DC, Motley Crue, CCR, Rush, The Stones, Metallica, Cinderella....and whatever else in between songs. It was a very small town.

 

[jpberg]

Dammit @Richmond B. Funkenhouser was it the Sesame St reference that earned me another angry face?

Don’t let the crackers get you down.
Listen to Neil Young sing Southern Man three times, take two aspirin, and call me in the morning.

 

[wyfbane]

I have always liked Skynyrd. Saw them twice. Once in Portland, Oregon, and once in Georgia. It was two entirely different experiences. lol

Growing up, I liked Sweet Home Alabama best. It was the first song I ever sang at Karaoke.

Call Me the Breeze is my favorite to sing while driving, followed by Free Bird.

Tuesday's Gone is another really great track.

Simple Man has been overplayed so much I am kind of over it.

As much as I like Skynyrd, Zepplin is better. And I own my own home, thanks. Commence to wailing and gnashing your teeth. lol

 

[Sobrbiker]

Not to offend our northern friends, but putting the Ontarian Neil Young in the same zip code as Skynyrd is a travesty, cause “a southern man don’t need him around anyhow”.

 

[mortonbriar]

Skynyrd has much more than a cult following in the US. Even though their record sales aren't spectacular, about 30 million as of a few years ago, their influence is immense.
I have never owned a single LS album. Neither have most people I know. But, I know every song word for word, have seen them half a dozen times, and have heard their songs countless times.
They were played so often on the radio in the 1980s, you didn't need an album. Radio stations had Skynyrd Hour, Skynyrd Weekend, Skynyrd 24 hours non stop.....
They were up there with Zepplin, Ozzy, and CCR, but their record sales dont show how popular they were. There are other bands with the same lore.
I guess Southern party people didn't buy albums. Again, because they were on the radio so much.
In the little town im from we would call the local DJ at the radio station (Lee John) when we were partying and tell him to play Skynyrd.
He would play a bunch of Skynyrd, with AC-DC, Motley Crue, CCR, Rush, The Stones, Metallica, Cinderella....and whatever else in between songs. It was a very small town.

That is great context, and the kind of thing I find fascinating.

Being a New Zealander and having a Canadian wife (she is also a dj), we are always bumping into songs we assume we would both know all the lyrics to, only to find out that although the band is popular in both countries, whether or not a particular song charted well in May of 1983 comes down to a multitude of factors. Often a funk/disco/soul song that hit hard in NZ would get bumped down the chart in Canada if released at the same time as big country song, for example.

To get back to Skynyrd, I got to say that learning sweet home alabama on the guitar when I was 14 or so was VERY satisfying, there is a certain kind of genius that can make such a simple lick sound so right.

 

[Mortar0341]

The Needle and The Spoon.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Little known fact: Dave Mustaine pimped the main riff from Sweet Home Alabama for the breakdown in The Four Horsemen by Metallica.

As for my favorite: Tuesday's Gone. And the Metallica cover is amazing (I remember hearing it played live when Metallica took over a radio station in the late 90's, which ended up on Garage Days Re-Revisited).