(pronounced ’lĕh-’nérd ’skin-’nérd)

Probably their best album. Makes me happy listening to it.

Not for me

Great musicians, great music. Havent ever heard this album before, just free bird and simple man, what an album.

Leonard Sceonard can suck a bag of 14 poops. I once made a personal goal to never hear the song Sweet Home Alabama again. I’m very happy it’s not on this album, but am realizing that’ll probably be on one in the future.

That being said: that guy can play the heck out of a guitar. I like Tuesday’s Gone, Gimme Three Steps, and of course, Free Bird.

I generally felt 2 stars about the rest. I haaaaaaaate Simple Man.

The three tracks I liked, the guitar playing, and the fact that so much of this album was actually a kick ass solo from Free Bird, was actually enough to pull this up to a begrudging 3.

"'cause, i'm free as a bird now, and this bird you'll never change"

besides giving us the only get-out-of-jail-free card for speeding, and the world's most requested song, This album, the band's debut (and closest to self-titled) gives us a stellar tracklist, and with no skips. Beyond being the epitome of bar/uncle music, Lynyrd Skynrd gives us an album full of great guitar riffs, soaring solos, and groovy drums n bass.

"I Aint the one" showcases the band's ability to write groovy licks, and to match the vocals perfectly to those grooves. "Tuesday's gone," and "Free bird" give us rock ballads, with the latter having one of the most cinematic sequences in the history of rock n roll. "Gimmie three steps" is the band's (successful) attempt at creating a southern-rock song that you could get up and dance to, and "Simple man" is clearly inspired by Bob Dylan, giving us a emotional track, with a hard rock twist.

I really wanted to give this album a 3, but there's no way I could justify that in my head, so it's getting what it deserves, with a...

4/5

Idk man, Watergate really bothered me.

No thanks. Free Bird has its moments, but the rest is super boring.

Banger. I ain't the one, tuesday's gone, gimme three steps, freebird.

Freebird was my class song in high school. . . lol

Free Bird. Nuff said

Excellent album with way more well known songs than I realized.

What a great album. So many killer songs and staples of classic rock radio.

There are a few easy to define genres of rock and roll with Southern Rock being one of them. And no one does Southern Rock better than Lynryd Skynyrd (but god do I hate typing their name out, I have to double check the spelling everytime!)

Easy listening blues rock, the best bit is the harmonizing guitar leads and melodic (vs shredding) solos. The songs are overlong - chugging along through one basic chord progression over and over verse chorus chorus chorus solo chorus. Tuesday's Gone is good, the rest is pretty meh and I cannot listen to Freebird one more time. Listen to Little Feat and the Allman Brothers instead.

All right let's get this over with. Though to be fair to these guys this album is stacked with hits. Its only a question if you like this genre. If you do, this album is heaven. If you don't mind it, its fine. If you hate the genre this thing is dogshit. For me this is somewhere between a barn party with my uncles and being waterboarded. So a rating is hard to come up with. Would I come back to this album? No. Did I hate it? No. Did it make me feel things? I guess? FREEEEEEEBIIIRRRRRRDDDDDD

I'm generally not into southern rock but this album I can fw. They mix in a lot of influences that really diversify it, with lyrics that sometimes touch of the typical southern rock cliches, but often transcend them. And Free Bird... memes aside it's just an insanely epic song. Loved it in Guitar Hero too lol

This was alright. I'm not a southern rock kind of person, but there are things here that transcend that and are much more enjoyable like Simple Man, and I could see myself liking Free Bird if it was some unknown song I'd never heard of. Oh well, at least it's fun to play in Guitar Hero.

Flawless - one of my favourite albums before, and even more so now.
Three all time classics, including possibly the best song ever - simple man.
Even the bonus tracks kick ass!

I really like the vibe of this album. Plenty of nice tracks, good song writing, nice instrumentation. Free Bird is obviously a stone-cold classic, but I really liked Tuesday's Gone as well.

3.5/5 rounded up.

Lmao I feel dumb but I never realized that the Talking with T-Bird theme from RHAP is a parody of Free Bird

It really is telling when your debut album sounds like your 'best-of' album. Even though side B might not pack the punch of Side A, there really is not a bad song on this record, and when the mood changes I can actually appreciate Things Going On or Poison Whiskey over Free Bird.

Simple Man is such a Rock Classic is needs a star on its own.

A friend asked me recently, what song would play at your funeral? Without a beat, I replied, Free Bird!