Yea, and so is Paradise by the Dashboard Light and that, too, is cruel and unusual punishment!
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Yea, and so is Paradise by the Dashboard Light and that, too, is cruel and unusual punishment!
In that case, remind me never to lend you my iPod...I'm afraid it would come back in pieces.
I don't think anyone is "hating on Skynyrd" so much as reacting to OP's statment that "if you don't like this song, you shouldn't be listening to music", while referring to one of the most universally accepted examples of totally unsophisticated, trite, teenage boy music.
To put it another way, if you were intoxicated on anything other than alcohol, and Free Bird was to come on, you would instinctively want to break whatever was playing it to make it stop. At least that's what happened to my copy of One More for the Road. Or so I've been told.
Anyway, if you peel back the pat "I just got my first electric and look what I can do" guitar licks, and look under the hood, there is simply nothing there.
Brodirt and I have already had this out in another setting, and we have very different ideas about music -- but it appears that on this we agree.
Sorry, GI. No personal offense intended. If you love the song, that's great (just don't tell me I have to love it, too).
To put it another way, if you were intoxicated on anything other than alcohol, and Free Bird was to come on, you would instinctively want to break whatever was playing it to make it stop. At least that's what happened to my copy of One More for the Road. Or so I've been told.
Anyway, if you peel back the pat "I just got my first electric and look what I can do" guitar licks, and look under the hood, there is simply nothing there.
Brodirt and I have already had this out in another setting, and we have very different ideas about music -- but it appears that on this we agree.
Sorry, GI. No personal offense intended. If you love the song, that's great (just don't tell me I have to love it, too).
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"Ballad" is most amazing. "That Smell" is also right up there. My favorite non-hit has to be "On the Hunt."
Besides, the true official Redneck Anthem is "Gimme Three Steps."
Well said, sir!
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I guess I'm just a huge Skynrd fan. Tuesday's Gone, Curtis Lowe, I Know a Little, I love them all, it's great music, plain and simple. As for Free Bird, I will conceed that it is FAR from the most technically complex guitar work ever. BUT, IMHO, it is simply unrivaled for sheer intensity although some of the Allman Bros. stuff comes close (i.e. Jessica, Ramblin Man, Statesboro Blues) as do several songs by the Outlaws (i.e. There Goes Another Love Song, Knoxville Girl, Green Grass and High Tides). If you get it, you'll agree; if not you probably never will.
As my son would say, "My Southern Rock playlist is so leet!"
As my son would say, "My Southern Rock playlist is so leet!"
Whipping Post and Dreams I'll Never See are true Southern Rock epics--I'd put Green Grass and High Tides right up there as well. Same goes for Blackfoot's Highway Song.
As my son would say, "My S0uth3rn R0ck pl@yl15t 15 so l337!"
Fixed that for you.
And now to find my Skynyrd box set
"Freebird"? Yep, it's classic, and in the same boat as "Stairway to Heaven" and "Knights in White Satin" for me. They are so classic, were so overplayed and so branded on the collective brain that I think a lot of folks have developed the same sort of reaction to them that would follow a binge of eating the same rich food over and over and over again....
I lurch all over the map with music...currently digging in to some 70's era funk, after spending a lot of time with Sinatra. Before that I got in to "DooWop", Buddy Holly, Bing, Sam Cooke, the list goes on.
Maybe every popular singer, group, era or genre has a "Freebird". Sinatra? "New York, New York" or "My Way". I could listen to Old Blue Eyes for hours, but those tunes get a fast forward...they are so Sinatra they burn. Buddy Holly? "Peggy Sue". Bing? "White Christmas".
As to "Freebird" not aging well, kids are supposed to hate music that the old folks liked, and if you are a contemporary of "Freebird", like me, have you looked in a mirror lately?
I lurch all over the map with music...currently digging in to some 70's era funk, after spending a lot of time with Sinatra. Before that I got in to "DooWop", Buddy Holly, Bing, Sam Cooke, the list goes on.
Maybe every popular singer, group, era or genre has a "Freebird". Sinatra? "New York, New York" or "My Way". I could listen to Old Blue Eyes for hours, but those tunes get a fast forward...they are so Sinatra they burn. Buddy Holly? "Peggy Sue". Bing? "White Christmas".
As to "Freebird" not aging well, kids are supposed to hate music that the old folks liked, and if you are a contemporary of "Freebird", like me, have you looked in a mirror lately?
Whipping Post and Dreams I'll Never See are true Southern Rock epics--I'd put Green Grass and High Tides right up there as well. Same goes for Blackfoot's Highway Song.
I have a highway song?1OldGI, don't listen to them, they know not what they speak. I, too, love Skynrd. Freebird is not my favorite song, but I do enjoy it. Although, I would have thought Sweet Home Alabama more of a end all anthem. Still, it is a classic for a reason.
I lasted 2.52 then turned it off, but hey if we all liked the same stuff the world would be a very boring (albeit very peaceful) place
This is actually one of the funniest things I have ever read!!!
ABB belongs in the same category as Skynyrd/Outlaws about as much as John Coltrane belongs in the same category as Kenny G.
To be clear -- There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with you loving Skynyrd. You just have to realize that they are not, by any stretch, a litmus test of musical good taste.
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Definitely the most ironically-yelled song title by indie kids, and most non-ironically-yelled song title by drunk people.
So that's the song! I've never really heard it fully before ever. It might have heard it in the background in some movie or a game like grand theft auto, but this is the first time I've actually seen a clip/associated the song with the band.
@ wundergussy, that's pretty much what I've heard, but never really knew what people going on about freebird were talking about.
edit: sorry oldGI, I had to stop the clip after 8 min, I was as bored as I am when I listen to Wolfmother.
@ wundergussy, that's pretty much what I've heard, but never really knew what people going on about freebird were talking about.edit: sorry oldGI, I had to stop the clip after 8 min, I was as bored as I am when I listen to Wolfmother.
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I highly recommend listening to some songs that they don't play on classic rock radio stations. The Fillmore East version of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is widely regarded as the pinnacle of ABB intensity. And "Stormy Monday" contains some of the most inspired and articulate point/counterpoint playing on record. The songs you listed, although fine compositions, have been beaten to death by corporate radio. Dig a little deeper!
I will not draw further ABB/Skynyrd comparisons, as the point has been (well) made already.
I personally prefer to yell Stairway to Heaven. It has the same effect.
And if you like Classic Southern Rock, you should def check out the Drive By Truckers. Southern Rock dished up with a good dose of irony.
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ABB > Skynard. Whipping Post > Freebird. Just my opinion!
I highly recommend listening to some songs that they don't play on classic rock radio stations. The Fillmore East version of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" is widely regarded as the pinnacle of ABB intensity. And "Stormy Monday" contains some of the most inspired and articulate point/counterpoint playing on record. The songs you listed, although fine compositions, have been beaten to death by corporate radio. Dig a little deeper!
I will not draw further ABB/Skynyrd comparisons, as the point has been (well) made already.
Next topic: Formula 1 or NASCAR?
I yell Freebird at bands that suck. It is universally considered to be the biggest insult in music.
More than once a member of the band (and once the entire band) have come off the stage to get me
Absolutely!
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