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Thyrty: The 30th Anniversary Collection,Lynyrd Skynyrd

- Thyrty: The 30th Anniversary Collection
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Released 2003

Mad Hatter
05:37
9,238 plays

Smokestack Lightning
04:29
9,002 plays

We Ain't Much Different [Live]
03:42
8,790 plays

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songs

- 1
- Sweet Home Alabama
- 04:45
- 38,412 plays

- 2
- Need All My Friends
- 05:12
- 15,202 plays

- 3
- Blues Medley: Sweet Little Angel/How Blue Can You Get/I Got a Mind ...
- 10:15
- 13,863 plays

- 4
- Down South Jukin'
- 02:14
- 14,251 plays

- 5
- Was I Right or Wrong
- 05:24
- 12,887 plays

- 6
- I Ain't the One
- 03:54
- 13,375 plays

- 7
- Tuesday's Gone
- 07:33
- 25,853 plays

- 8
- Gimme Three Steps
- 04:30
- 24,149 plays

- 9
- Workin' for MCA
- 04:47
- 12,446 plays

- 10
- The Ballad of Curtis Loew
- 04:51
- 22,316 plays

- 11
- Call Me the Breeze
- 05:08
- 18,673 plays

- 12
- Saturday Night Special
- 05:09
- 16,439 plays

- 13
- All I Can Do Is Write About It [Acoustic]
- 04:23
- 17,480 plays

- 14
- Free Bird
- 09:10
- 34,061 plays

- 15
- Whiskey Rock-A-Roller [Live]
- 04:12
- 11,189 plays

- 16
- Simple Man [Live]
- 06:42
- 22,973 plays

- 17
- What's Your Name?
- 03:32
- 14,929 plays

- 18
- That Smell
- 05:48
- 15,789 plays

- 19
- I Know a Little
- 03:27
- 11,150 plays

- 20
- You Got That Right
- 03:46
- 10,053 plays

- 21
- Comin' Home [Live]
- 06:11
- 12,328 plays

- 22
- Swamp Music [Live]
- 03:38
- 10,045 plays

- 23
- Gimme Back My Bullets [Live]
- 05:05
- 12,609 plays

- 24
- Smokestack Lightning
- 04:29
- 9,002 plays

- 25
- The Last Rebel
- 06:46
- 11,820 plays

- 26
- Things Goin' On [Acoustic]
- 03:00
- 10,240 plays

- 27
- Talked Myself Right into It
- 03:26
- 8,168 plays

- 28
- We Ain't Much Different [Live]
- 03:42
- 8,790 plays

- 29
- Workin'
- 04:54
- 8,318 plays

- 30
- Mad Hatter
- 05:37
- 9,238 plays

album review

This one's a tough call in many respects. First, there is the notion of 30 years. Of that time period, only a very short chunk of it produced the tracks listeners consider Lynyrd Skynyrd classics today -- the earliest period when the band was fronted by the late Ronnie Van Zant. Lynyrd Skynyrd may have been influenced by the Allman Brothers with their guitar attack (three and sometimes four guitars would stalk a Skynyrd stage), but rather than try to imitate the Allmans (a blues band that was such a singular entity anyway and can hardly be termed "Southern rock"), they created their own identity as a rock & roll band. It was Skynyrd who invented the Deep South's redneck rock genre, and they spawned so many imitators it became a parody. However, these cats could play and write. Of these two discs, the lion's share of the material is devoted to the original band, whose string of hits is dizzying to consider even today. All of the expected material is here -- from "Free Bird" and "Tuesday's Gone" to "Gimme Back My Bullets," "That Smell," and "Sweet Home Alabama." Also included, for better or worse, is the Lynyrd Skynyrd that carried on some years after Van Zant's death and have been carrying on with Johnny Van Zant fronting the band, looking like a carbon copy of his older brother. This may piss off a lot of purists, but it needn't -- as this material is solid, rocking, and drenched in blues, if lacking originality a bit in the writing department. Fans of the band already have what they need and this is no prize on that level in any way. Newcomers may be tempted by the price point, but would do better with All Time Greatest Hits as a proper introduction. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide