Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd

Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd Label: Mca Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Original recording remastered Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 008811153427 EAN: 0008811153427 ASIN: B000002P48 Release Date: 1996-09-24

Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd

Tracks:

1. I Ain't The One
2. Tuesday's Gone
3. Gimme Three Steps
4. Simple Man
5. Things Goin' On
6. Mississippi Kid
7. Poison Whiskey
8. Free Bird

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a southern rock masterpiece.......2005-04-30

Strong Effort.......2005-01-20

Southern rock doesn't get any better!.......2004-02-08

In 1972, a rock band from Jacksonville, Florida came onto the ever-growing southern rock scene based in Atlanta, Georgia. This band had a highly irregular name, but great musical potential. This group, consisting of Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Ed King (formerly of Strawberry Alarm Clock), Billy Powell, Robert Burns, and Leon Wilkeson, recorded their debut album in 1973. Would this little band's debut album be a southern rock masterpiece that went down in history, or would it be "just another rock album?" Read on for my review of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1973 debut album, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd.

Three of Lynyrd Skynyrd's biggest and best hits came from this album. They are the lengthy and melodic rock masterpiece Tuesday's Gone, the southern rock classic Gimme Three Steps (my personal favorite hit the band ever had), and of course, the legendary Free Bird (an interesting note - Free Bird is the song that guitarist Steve Clark played to earn his slot in Def Leppard!) The record company wanted the band to shorten Free Bird to three minutes, the standard record company single running length, but they refused. Because of the length, the record company thought it wouldn't get any airplay. I bet they fill stupid now, since it's become one of the band's biggest hits! But, as with any rock band, with Lynyrd Skynyrd there are many excellent songs that were never very big hits. The opening track, I Ain't The One, is bluesy hard rock at its very best. They probably could not have started the album off better. Simple Man is a slower track, but it rocks just as much as anything else on the album. Don't skip it! Things Go On is classic bluesy rock at its best, and in my mind, serves as a premonition to the band's later successes (there's definitely a resemblance to Call Me The Breeze, one of the band's later hits.) Mississippi Kid is by far the most country-sounding thing on the album, but it's still a good track. And, of course, with Poison Whiskey the band gives us another classic hard rocker that's tough to beat. It's no wonder so many fans consider this album a classic.

This reissued/remastered/revamped version of the album does more than just clean up the sound and make the album more readily available to fans - It also throws on some rare bonus tracks! One of them is Mr. Banker, a demo which was the B-Side to the Gimme Three Steps single. This track is the perfect fusion of country and southern rock, though the style rather obviously leans toward the latter. The B-Side to the Free Bird single, a little demo called Down South Jukin', can also be found here as a bonus cut. This is excellent classic southern rock, and it's a shame this track has gone forgotten for so many years! I'm very pleased that these songs finally made it to the compact disc format! But it doesn't stop there! We also get three previously unreleased demos of the Skynyrd classics Tuesday's Gone, Gimme Three Steps, and Free Bird. These demos lack the expertise of the "finished" versions of the songs, but they are still well worth listening to if you're a fan of the band, since some parts of the tracks (particularly the extended outro of the Free Bird demo) differ substantially from the final versions. This would be a five star album, even without the bonus tracks, but with bonus tracks, it's worth much more than that - If I could rate this album higher than that, I would.

Overall, Lynyrd Skynyrd's debut album is pure southern rock excellence. And the bonus tracks are the icing on the cake. Many reviewers have compared this album to Led Zeppelin, and although the two bands differ a good deal, many of these comparisons are accurate (listen to Led Zeppelin's debut and then listen to this, and you'll see what I mean - there's definitely somewhat of a resemblance.) If you like classic rock, this album is a masterpiece that your collection should not be without!

One of the truly the greatest..........2003-06-13

And this one is ofcourse one of them. It shows what's the rock'n'roll all about. It's not just southern rock (though influences are obvious) - it breaks throug the very essence of rock music.

The fact that this album, although their first, sounds so perfect, is because these guys heve been together for a long time before making this record, and was playing gigs around and rehearsing this songs. So they new exactly what sound are going
to lay down. And it came out perfect, indeed.

This album is all: hard rock, southern rock, blues, bluegras even folk. It is pure and honest music with simple yet efective and beautiful lirics, like in "Simlpe man" (one of personal favourites). Also we get a big dose of humour in songs like "Gimme three steps" and "Poison whiskey", delivefed with great riffs. No need to point "Freebird" as one of most requested rock song in rock history, along with Zep's "Stairway to heaven", and deservely so. I could write a whole review just about "Freebird" and its trademark Skynyrd guitars. Ofcourse, I must mention "Tuesday's gone" as not great but PERFECT ballad rock song, almoust a prototype. And is there any better way to start this album than "I ain't the one"?

So, this is as classic rock as you can get; everyone should own it.
For those who aren't familiar with Skynyrd and like rock music (in genneral) this is great place to start your Skynyrd collection. Get this and be blown away... If you won't, you obviously don't know what's rock music about.

An Essential Recording for Rock Music Fans.......2002-05-17

Well, maybe Lynyrd Skynyrd and their southern rock brethren are a joke to a lot of people today. Sorry, the joke is on those who've never given Skynyrd a chance - they are missing out on some of the best rock music ever made. Lynyrd Skynyrd's pre-plane crash discography holds up as well as that of any other rock band in my book. And Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd is where it all started.

Can you imagine what an effect this album must have had on the musical climate when it first hit the record stores? I can't - I was just 3 years old at the time. But they say that within no time, Lynyrd Skynyrd were so popular that they were blowing The Who off the stage on a nightly basis when they toured together.

When I reached high school, I finally heard Allen Collins, Ed King, and Gary Rossington's sweet 3-guitar onslaught and Ronnie's country-soaked voice for the first time and I was hooked. From that slippery drum intro to `I Ain't The One' to the last note of `Free Bird', this is one special album. Is there a better, more affecting ballad out there than, `Tuesday's Gone'? Can anyone beat the guitar riff and amusing lyrics to `Gimme Three Steps'? Didn't think so. This is as classic an album as they get.

I'll admit that Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd is particularly satisfying if you grew up in the American South like I did, but anyone with an appreciation of real, honest rock music is likely to love it. No other southern rock band of their time came close to matching Skynyrd, and this album is a great place to start your Skynyrd collection if you haven't started it already.

If you're already a Skynyrd fan, then do yourself a favor and pick up the best southern rock album of the past 25 years, Drive By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera. I'm not exaggerating when I say that in many ways, it is as good as anything Lynyrd Skynyrd produced. It is also by far the best rock album of 2001.

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