Street Survivors [Original recording remastered]

Lynyrd Skynyrd | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002P49
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,611 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What's Your Name

2. That Smell

3. One More Time

4. I Know a Little

5. You Got That Right

6. I Never Dreamed

7. Honky Tonk Night Time Man

8. Ain't No Good Life

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Triumph of tragedy foretold., May 12, 2000

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Stephen Caratzas (Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Street Survivors (Audio CD)

Most Lynyrd Skynyrd albums are great, but "Street Survivors" was truly their finest hour - the greatest southern rock band (sorry Allman Brothers fans) reaching their peak. This album shows a fiercely experienced unit, having survived the ups and downs of success, ready to go for the throat with renewed vigor. Yet the disc's original artwork, featuring the group surrounded by flames, turned out to be a chilling omen of the plane crash that took three members' lives. Suddenly it was all over.

What an epitaph they left behind. Songs like 'What's Your Name' (arguably the best road/groupie tune ever penned), 'I Know a Little' and 'You Got That Right' are right up there with Skynyrd's best. Not only are they rocking harder than ever, but the band is swinging, rumbling, hurtling down the tracks like a runaway locomotive, destination unknown. The three-guitar interplay is locking in like pieces to a jigsaw puzzle, every note fitting perfectly.

'That Smell', though, is the best track, and it still stands head and shoulders above any other warning of the evils of drugs and drink. Truthful, eerie, and ironic in retrospect, this song's power remains staggering.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Southern Rock, April 9, 2001

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S CORBETT (Los Angeles

Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Street Survivors (Audio CD)

Being from Georgia and now residing in Los Angeles, I often get asked by friends which recordings I would recommend for an introduction to southern rock. My response is almost always the same: "Well, you really can't go wrong with any Skynyrd." Of course, I also bring up The Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, etc., but I tell them if I were going to buy only one recording from one band, it would be a toss up between "Street Survivors" and "One More From The Road." The latter is one of the best live recordings you'll ever hear and is a great summation of Skynyrd's music up to that point. "Street Survivors," on the other hand, served notice that a revitalized group had emerged from the studio and hinted at more exciting music to come. Sadly, that was not to be the case. The plane crash that took the lives of front man Van-Zant and talented newcomer Steve Gaines extinguished the group that was the cornerstone of southern rock. "Street Survivors" showcases the band at the height of their talent and after hearing it one can only imagine what might have been.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection, December 11, 1999

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[e-mail] (Essexville, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Street Survivors (Audio CD)

This album is Skynyrd at their absolute finest. While some might argue that pronounced was their best work, the addition of Steve Gaines has quelled any of those notions in my mind. Songs like I Know A Little, Ain't No Good Life, and my favorite, I Never Dreamed showcased a band that had been to hell and back, a group of musicians who had earned the title of Street Survivors. In my mind, there is none finer than the Lynyrd Skynyrd of the seventies. The loss of Cassie Gaines, Steve Gaines, and Ronnie Van Zant shortly after the release of this album is a blow that fans around the world are still trying to come to grips with. Enjoy this album and the rest of Skynyrd's music. We love you Ronnie!