Vote for your favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song.

Cafe Society
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I’ll apologize now.
I know the poll could have 14 choices and I’d still end up omitting someone’s personal favorite. :cool:

Lynyrd Skynyrd is such an incredible Southern Rock band. I can’t imagine a Saturday night without a Long neck Busch beer and Skynyrd blasting out of my speakers. Why, yes I’m doing that right now. :smiley:
Damn, I love me some Skynyrd.

**Your choices… **
Ballad Of Curtis Lowe
Freebird
Gimmie Three Steps
Saturday Night Special
Simple Man
Sweet Home Alabama
Tuesdays Gone

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My Vote?

I’m conflicted between the power chords in Simple Man and the character imagery of The Ballad of Curtis Lowe

Great Lyrics and story won out. The Ballad of Curtis Lowe got my vote for my favorite Skynyrd song. But I love every song in the poll.

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I’ll go with Gimme Three Steps of their original tunes, however my favorite song that I’ve heard them do is an old Jimmie Rodgers tune, T For Texas.

4

Skynyrd did an awesome live cover of T for Texas


I’ll always wonder what might have been if the original band had recorded and performed another ten years. The songs they would have written. sigh.

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When I saw the thread, I was certain that my vote was going to have to go to “other”. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to cast a vote for The Ballad of Curtis Lowe.

Simple Man would be an easy second choice…apparently the OP and I are ‘Skynyrd Bros’ :slight_smile:

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I love Tuesday’s Gone. I wasn’t expecting it to be on the list.

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Tuesday’s Gone for me, too, but of the ones listed, I went with a popular one: Sweet Home Alabama. Any song that namechecks the Swampers of Muscle Shoals is good by me. (Though it does have that Neil Young dig…)

8

“Tuesday’s Gone” was listed.

Neil Young loved that bit.

9

I really only know the more popular songs. Voted for Tuesday’s Gone because it’s so pretty it could have been done by the Allmans instead.

Sweet Home Alabama is one of those songs that is great in and of itself, but they play the shit out of it on every radio station, bar, and party you go to, so I don’t appreciate it like I should.

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Saturday Night Special for me. That song just oozes menace.

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Gary Rossington is the last original member that’s still alive.
short interview avout how Sweet Home Alabama got written.

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Call Me the Breeze (JJ Cale song) done by LynSky is one of the truly great blues-boogie songs of all time! Love them lead guitar fills!

13

Simple Man without a second thought.

(Btw, if you’re a big Skynerd, you should see episode 8 of season 1, and so far only, of Roadies. Not sure how true-to-life the story is, but it’s written by Cameron Crowe, so there might be a germ or three of truth there. And there’s a nice version of Simple Man in it too.)

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Had to go with Sweet Home Alabama. Any song (really anybody) that dises Neil Young is all right with me.

Dises? Disses? Whatever. You get the idea.

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Sweet Home Alabama for me. Because every time it comes on the radio and tells me “Turn it up”, I do!

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I had to answer the unappealing “Don’t like this band” because you gave me no other option to select. The only Lynryd Skynyrd song that threatens the health of my speakers is their cover of JJ Cale’s Call Me The Breeze. It’s 12 bar bass line might not be the most complex or adventurous, but it’s smooth and easy. The rest of the band is in their best form. Good luck, speakers!

17

Meh. Used to love 'em 'til I saw them live.

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Honorable mention to Gimme Three Steps. One of the funnier songs in history.

I said, “Excuse me…”

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Well, to paraphrase Komar and Melamid when they referenced the Bulldozer Exhibition, “At least we know we touched someone”.

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Oopsie. Somehow glossed over it on my phone.