Texas King Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Which tune do you prefer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordgalaxy Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Skynyrd is one of my top 5 all-time favorites, but that song has been played to death and I just can't vote for it. It's not their fault, but that's the deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbanezJem Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Poor Skynyrd, another casualty at the hands of the beast that is over exposure. Southern Man is a peach, with a classic Neil guitar solo. Of course, you`d have very different lyrics to Sweet Home Alabama without Southern Man existing first. And they both get name-checked by the brilliant Drive By Truckers. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepphead Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Southern Man for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 The one that isn't one of the most overplayed songs ever on classic rock radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddysMullet Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 The one that isn't one of the most overplayed songs ever on classic rock radio. Which one is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 after the gold rush > second helping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 both artists A+, very nice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordgalaxy Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 after the gold rush > second helpingPffft. Says you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 can we mix both tunes? sweet Alabama man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Surprisingly, Sweet Home Alabama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 you should have a poll of 'what 10 songs you would never play on a desert island?' sweet home alabama and free bird would be on my list. southern man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 As a lyrical statement, "Southern Man." As a rock song I just wanna jam to and play air guitar, it's going to be "Sweet Home Alabama." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 (edited) As a lyrical statement, "Southern Man." As a rock song I just wanna jam to and play air guitar, it's going to be "Sweet Home Alabama." :Goodposting: Edited November 6, 2020 by blueschica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 The one that isn't one of the most overplayed songs ever on classic rock radio. Which one is that? Let me be more specific, the one that's on most top 10 most played classic rock songs list and it's a Reese Witherspoon movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 (edited) Neil The CSN&Y live version was a high school favorite Edited November 6, 2020 by custom55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Surprisingly, Sweet Home Alabama.Me, too. I guess we're not hip to the hate. :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 after the gold rush > second helping For once, I agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Sweet home. Billy Powell is one of the best rock piano players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Neil, easily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReRushed Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Van Zant grew up listening to Young and regularly rocked a "Tonight's the Night" t-shirt - most notably, on the cover of the band's album Street Survivors. According to Rolling Stone, he was even rumored to have been buried in it. Neil Young, too, owned a Lynyrd Skynyrd Florida Whiskey shirt, and once said, "I'd rather play 'Sweet Home Alabama' than 'Southern Man' anytime." I agree with Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 A decent, if simplistic and preachy, song vs. an all-time classic feel good rocker? Sorry, Ole Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony R Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Isn’t Sweet Home Alabama racist? Or is the song’s mention of George Wallace misinterpreted?Aren’t Lynyrd Skynyrd from Florida? Isn’t that song way, way, way better than Neil Young’s? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Isn’t Sweet Home Alabama racist? Or is the song’s mention of George Wallace misinterpreted?Aren’t Lynyrd Skynyrd from Florida? Isn’t that song way, way, way better than Neil Young’s? Yes, it is. No, it isn't. Yes, they are. Yes, it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) Isn’t Sweet Home Alabama racist? Or is the song’s mention of George Wallace misinterpreted?Aren’t Lynyrd Skynyrd from Florida? Isn’t that song way, way, way better than Neil Young’s? To me SHA is not racist but an attempt to say southern man lumped all southerners as such. Sadly southern man is as revelant now as it was then. I have posted how if you listen closely after the the verse "well I heard mr young sing about her" you can hear son of a bitch whispered. It does seem there was mutual respect. To me, skynyrd had great lyrics, thoughtful, relatable and often surprising liberal. They sang of social justice on things going on. Gun control on saturday night special. Strongest anti gun song ever imo Edited November 22, 2020 by tangy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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