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Poll Results

Option	Votes
"Tuesday's Gone" (Gary Rossington / Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant) – 7:32	16
"Free Bird" (Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant) – 9:06	12
"Gimme Three Steps" (Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:30	8
"Simple Man" (Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 5:58	8
"I Ain't the One" (Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:53	2
"Things Goin' On" (Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 5:00	0
"Mississippi Kid" (Al Kooper / Ronnie Van Zant / Bob Burns) – 3:56	0
"Poison Whiskey" (Ed King / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:13	0

― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

Fun fact: this is my favourite album ever

― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

Al Kooper cowrote a song on this?
(free bird is my answer, duh)

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:03 (seventeen years ago)

Street Survivors is better btw

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:03 (seventeen years ago)

i'm partial to second helping

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

went with "Simple Man"

― some dude, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

"Tuesday's Gone".

"I Ain't The One" and "Simple Man" are great too. "Gimme Three Steps" and "Free Bird" I've just heard too many times to even have an opinion about anymore.

This is one of the best albums.

― james k polk, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

*kills self poorly in a Woody Allen way*

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

shit, what an album. I went with "Simple Man" because I single it out most often to pump me up, and it's so well-written that I convince myself while listening that I am the narrator, with a momma who gave me good advice. And the solo is terrific.

― Euler, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

I think Al Kooper discovered them.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

Gary Rossington was arrested on two counts of DUI in Georgia last year, and damned if his mug shot doesn't look like an artsy postcard:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/thesmokinggun.com/graphics/packageart/mugshots/skynyrdmug1.jpg

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

man it's pretty amazing to put all THREE huge epic powerballads on one album

― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:24 (seventeen years ago)

yes and those are my three favs too; the pure rockers are great but they tapped into something heavier with the epics I think.

― Euler, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

i surprised myself by voting for "gimme three steps." i like every song on there, but there's something quintessential about that one.

― mte, Thursday, 8 January 2009 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

i hate how this album's version of "free bird" fades out.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 January 2009 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

Skynerd at their top dollar best, aka this album, sound like their finding ever new ways to rip off "knockin on heaven's door."

― Mister Jim, Sunday, 11 January 2009 06:33 (seventeen years ago)

their = they're

― Mister Jim, Sunday, 11 January 2009 06:38 (seventeen years ago)

Skynerd at their top dollar best, aka this album, sound like their finding ever new ways to rip off "knockin on heaven's door."

― Mister Jim, Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:33 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^ kinda what makes them great rather than merely okay, right?

― ian, Sunday, 11 January 2009 06:49 (seventeen years ago)

it's like how my favorite nyc subway performer EVER has an amp strapped to his back and a headset mic, but he only ever plays "knockin on heaven's door" and ONE ORIGINAL SONG which is basically a re-invention of... "knocking on heaven's door." does anyone take the F train or the JMZ? Does he still rock out??

― ian, Sunday, 11 January 2009 06:50 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, don't get me wrong, I love me some skynerd, I just find it funny how some of my favorite songs of theirs all remind me of "knockin on heaven's door."

― Mister Jim, Sunday, 11 January 2009 07:08 (seventeen years ago)

"Knockin' on Heavens Door" was so short and had hardly any rocking guitar solo's.

― james k polk, Sunday, 11 January 2009 07:21 (seventeen years ago)

solos without apostrophe's. Anyway, it would be a good thing if a band decided to expand upon that blueprint, and Al Kooper helped.

― james k polk, Sunday, 11 January 2009 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

i hate how this album's version of "free bird" fades out.

I believe the reissue restores the entire performance.

I'm partial to "I Ain't The One" myself. Love that lazy Van Zant vocal (reminds me of a southern Bon Scott for some reason.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 11 January 2009 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

Haha, would love to hear Van Zant sing my favorite AC/DC line: "I said 'Baby what's the going rate?'/She told me to go to hell."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 11 January 2009 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

"Tuesday's Gone."

Street Survivors is better btw

RONG!

(where's xhuxk?)

― Ioannis, Sunday, 11 January 2009 10:58 (seventeen years ago)

Street Survivors is better btw

gabbneb otm

― J0hn D., Sunday, 11 January 2009 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

Boring pick, but this must be "Freebird".

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 11 January 2009 12:36 (seventeen years ago)

Gotta agree on Street Survivors -- it's their best album!

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 11 January 2009 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

I despise nearly all Lynyrd Skynyrd, but "Tuesday's Gone" is an undeniably great song.

― Joseph McCombs, Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

jesus dazed and confused is a great movie

― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

"tuesday's gone" has one of my favorite rock-song intros. rest of it's good too.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

Grew up in Florida. Hate this band.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

My friend used to sing "Give Me Three Steps" as "Give me three steps, mister/Give me three steps Georgia Joe"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

though I do fancy the idea of the meth-soaked, leather-skinned sunshine bumpkins from my hometown befuddled by the presence of diacritic marks on an album cover

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 11 January 2009 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 12 January 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

important friday evening quittin time album

― caek, Friday, 26 February 2010 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

Turn it up!

― Brad C., Friday, 26 February 2010 17:11 (sixteen years ago)

what the FUCK howd i miss this

oh well id have voted for the winner anyway

― 69, Friday, 26 February 2010 18:21 (sixteen years ago)

important friday evening quittin time album

― caek, Friday, February 26, 2010 12:07 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Possibly one of the most OTM posts ever.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 26 February 2010 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

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