All Time Greatest Hits

Just buy the original albums from Pronounced to Street Survivors, since they are all absolutely classics.

Also, they weren't "Southern Rock". They were a rock band that happened to be from the southern U.S. However, even rock band is a bit restrictive, because you'd have to add blues, bluegrass and just overall fine music to that equation. Now, they definitely used their southern roots as an identifier and with good reason. Blues and rock were products of the southern U.S.

Also, for those people who use these reviews to spout misinformation, this was not a racist group. I've read way too many hours of information about them and have seen way too many interviews and footage to be suckered into that one.

Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the premier bands of any era and for those people who want to hear very good music performed by actual musicians, this is your band. Find out more! You won't be disappointed...

My husband loves it, it was a Valentine's Day gift. Also please change my name on my account from Karen Sims to Karen Devine, due to my marriage. Thank you.

This is a great CD for a casual Lynyrd Skynyrd fan wanting to get the basics. if you want to get deeper into Skynyrd, i would suggest "The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd". If you don't think that the 14+ minute live version of "Free Bird" isn't truely amazing, you must be crazy. Every other one of these songs is a classic and are all great.

these guys had some hits that you humm to yourself.they are one of the best in southern rock.this cd proves it.if you only buy 1 cd from them make it this one.all good tunes

Whenever any band produces a 'greatest hits' album they run the risk of eliminating sales of many of their earlier releases. With this 'greatest hits' I think many of the tracks chosen are really not the best of those particular songs. If you're looking for a great live "Free Bird," it's not here! The positive aspects of this release are the great cross-section of songs chosen, and not the particular rendition. One of the things that sets a band like Lynyrd Skynyrd apart from the rest of the Southern Rock crowd is their musical and lyrical integrity. Tracks that really shine are, "Simple Man," "That Smell" and "Saturday Night Special". This band went way out on a limb with their anti hand-gun track "Saturday Night Special." This song was released at a time when the NRA and the gun lobby enjoyed almost unparalleled influence within the halls of Congress. I think that your money might be better spent by shelling out a couple of bucks more for the 'The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd' a two-CD set. This set has all the same releases as the 'greatest hits' yet there are almost twice as many tracks for a few dollars more. Many would say the reason why this band was so popular in the seventies; was that they played live and sounded decent, although sometimes fairly raw, when live too. In that vein, you might also want to consider a live release as the best way to really hear what the band could do with their studio material. My pick for the live album would be; "One More from the Road". What makes a choice like this extremely hard is the fact that this band is probably the most over-produced and over-released band in the Southern Rock genre. Amazon alone has over (80) releases listed for sale. Which amounts to a whole lot of redundancy for a band with about (45) songs! Unfortunately, none of the original 1970's releases are still offered here on Amazon as un-remastered original vinyl recordings on CD. If by some chance you have an opportunity to hear this band from a still-good vinyl release, by all means get it to a good sound system and crank it up. But alas, all that may be left is a good bunch of Rice Krispies from vinyl these days? At least with the way we used to treat our records in the 1970's!