Label: Uni
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988067030658
ASIN: B000007V1E
Release Date: 1997-11-04
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Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Label: Uni Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 4988067030658 ASIN: B000007V1E Release Date: 1997-11-04 |
Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
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Awesome debut.......2004-05-13
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!
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