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"Excellent Discovery."

Went to Newcastle at the weekend and wandered into a record store and they had a load of cheap CDs, so I bought stuff I'd never usually get.
And had a most excellent discovery, a band I'd heard of and knew 1 song by.

Except I've found I absolutely love about 90% of the other songs on there, and I'd like to try and convince at least one other person to experiment and go download the following to see if you'd like to buy the CD.

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Yep, the band that did "Sweet Home Alabama". Except a load of the other songs are fantastic.
So go seek the following and gimme your honest opinion on what you think:

Gimme Back My Bullets
Simple Man (original version)
I'm a Country Boy
I Ain't The One (original version)
Every Mother's Son

Ignore your preconceptions about them, it's (in my opinion) some of the best early rock music I've heard in a while. Gimme Back my Bullets sounds like Clutch circa 1973 and Simple Man is the birth of stuff today like The Counting Crows.

Go listen and tell meh

died young though, another one of the plane crash popstars! The yanks have had loads!

Goatboy wrote:
and Simple Man is the birth of stuff
> today like The Counting Crows.

*runs to download*

:-)

I've got Free Bird the very best of Lynyrd Skynard and it is a cool album.

Free bird is a great song, in fact the whole album is worth downloading or buying.

You came to Newcastle and you didn't pay me a visit?!

I feel dirty and used

And obviously Steve Miller Band's 'Greatest Hits'. and 'Union' by Yes.

You probably have all the ones I just suggested?

Goatboy. That has been my favorite album along with The Wall for a good few years now.

My favorite song on the album is Simple Man, all the words make perfect sense and its one of few songs that makes me completely shut up and listen. EVERY time I play it.

On The Hunt is the one I listen to before I go out on friday, I love the guitar rifts and well.. Free Bird just rules, as does Sweet Home Alabama. Cheers mate, will listen to it tonight while going to sleep.

And if I hadn't brought the CD five years ago I probably still wouldn't have heard any of it.

Actually.. I can't believe you didn't have it. Hmm.. If you ever see the band Yes, grab the 'Close to the Edge' album and 'Tomato'. You would like I am guessing....

Blank wrote:
> "Freebird and then a load of songs that weren't Freebird".

Haha. Spade is the man.

I saw a David Spade comedy thing the other night (bear with me), and he said he went to watch Lynyrd Skynyrd - he described it as "Freebird and then a load of songs that weren't Freebird". Basically Freebird is their only decent song (in his opinion). I can't even remember what I have heard of them, hence the lazy response >_<

You gotta listen to 'Free Bird'. Thats the only other one of their songs that I knew of apart from the afore mentioned 'Sweet Home Alabama'.

They're cool, but the redneck stuff still bugs me.