Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
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Free Music Notes for Street Survivors
Free Music Review: Best effort
Hit: 5 Stars
This is Skynyrd's best effort.
However, Michael King's previous review is plagiarized from the liner notes to the album. You are supposed to give your own opinion, not copy word-for-word from the booklet. Lame!
Free Music Review: Skynard rocks!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I loved the album when it first came out years ago, and the cd does not disappoint. It was great the hear all thoses songs again, brought back so many great memories.Free Music Review: I don't know, I'm all out of ideas for titles. It's just a review
Hit: 4 Stars
The original line-up's last album opens with the Chuck Berry-like rock n' roll romp "What's Your Name", followed by another of the band's best-known songs, "That Smell".
Lynyrd Skynyrd were tighter than ever on this their fifth album, and there are several excellent songs to be found here. The swinging, mid-tempo "One More Time" was originally recorded back in 1971, six years before "Street Survivors" came out, but never released, and if it isn't one of the band's best-known songs, it is nevertheless one of their best.
"You Got That Right" is okay, it's not one of my favorites, but I know that a lot of people feel differently. And the melodic country-rock ballad "I Never Dreamed" is easy to like as well.
It's not all from the top shelf, though. "I Know A Little" isn't particularly memorable, and Skynyrd's version of Merle Haggard's "Honky Tonk Night Time Man" is too much Okie from Muskogee for me. Guitarist Steve Gaines' "Ain't No Good Life" is good enough, but no more than that. And I'd have really liked a rougher vocal on "That Smell", but that's a minor complaint, obviously.
This 2001 reissue features five bonus tracks, three alternates and two non-album tracks, "Georgia Peaches" and "Sweet Little Missy". Both are good, neither is great.
But the alternate "You Got That Right" is actually quite interesting, a little faster and more hard-hitting than the one originally issued, and the alternate and slightly shorter "I Never Dreamed" is very good as well, although not much different from the original.
Lots of great stuff here. "Pronounced..." remains Lynyrd Skynyrd's best studio album, and I would put "Bullets" and "Second Helping" before this one as well. But being Skynyrd's third-best album isn't half bad at all. Fans will certainly not want to be without this one.
Free Music Review: NOT THE BEST SKYNYRD.... NOT THE WORST (4 STARS)
Hit: 4 Stars
If I was to put this somewhere on my list of Skynyrd albums I would place it behind numerous others. Sure, the songs aren't bad, after all, this WAS RONNIE VAN ZANTS swan song album, and Ronnie never REALLY did us wrong. However, songs like THAT SMELL, WHATS YOUR NAME, and YOU GOT THAT RIGHT, are just way to overproduced for my complete liking. Sure they aren't bad if you are really drunk, but most of these songs just don't match up to the GREATNESS of the albums released before this. PRONOUNCED and SECOND HELPING are hands down brilliant classics, which are nothing less than perfection. NUTHIN FANCY and GIMME BACK MY BULLETS are pretty damned close to, and ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD is a highly enjoyable live collection. Even FIRST..and LAST is a great album, of early unreleased stuff (also nowadays there is even a version with more early songs simply called SKYNYRDS FIRST: MUSCLE SHOALS COLLECTION.
Now, I'm not knocking STREET SURVIVORS at all, so easy on the negative votes, four stars is very generous. I just wouldn't call it one of SKYNYRDS best. I certainly wouldn't call it the worst, that can go to just about everything they recorded in the nineties and twenty-oughts, with the broken SKYNYRD of the new. No offense Johnny VZ, you just don't get my blood pumping like old Ronnie did. If you have all the albums previously mentioned in your SKYNYRD collection than perhaps you SHOULD pick this up. It seems many people think its the best, I personally don't see how, when there are so many untouchables before it. Real rock and roll records, with BALLS! This is a second string release, if you ask me.
Free Music Review: True, not the best Skynyrd album, but pretty good
Hit: 4 Stars
This was Lynyrds Skynyrd's last real album, before it rejoined in 1987 and made a bunch of crappy poorly written songs. And this collection is pretty good. Most of the songs are good, but it contains some of Skynyrd's best work, "What's Your Name, That Smell, and Georgia Peaches" are all excellent songs. It also show's some of Steve Gaines's influence on the music, it takes a noticable more country tune than in other hard rock/bluesy albums. Hey but go ahead and buy this album, it's pretty good.