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Street Survivors
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
| 1 | What's Your Name |
| 2 | That Smell |
| 3 | One More Time |
| 4 | I Know a Little |
Disc: 2
| 1 | You Got That Right |
| 2 | I Never Dreamed |
| 3 | Honky Tonk Night Time Man |
| 4 | Ain't No Good Life |
Editorial Reviews
Street Survivors appeared in stores in October 1977, just days before Lynyrd Skynyrd's touring plane crashed, tragically killing many members of the band. If the band had lived "Street Survivors" would have been seen as an unqualified triumph, a record that firmly re-established Skynyrd's status as the great Southern rock band. The album achieved gold certification just 10 days after its release. It would later go double platinum. This album is being reissued in 180 gram vinyl.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 12.4 x 12.36 x 0.39 inches; 13.97 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Geffen
- Item model number : 600753550199
- Original Release Date : 2015
- Date First Available : June 5, 2015
- Label : Geffen
- ASIN : B00XLWENRK
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,525 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,432 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,801 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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This is one of the greatest southern rock LPs ever with not one bad song. It's got well-written tight songs with lots of tight interplay & solos which are just well-crafted. Varying tempos rock to more mellow. But a great ride. Steve Gaines gave them a well-needed boost at the time.
I have an original "flames cover" LP from 1977 before it got re-released after the airplane crash but my old vinyl LP was way scratchy & beat up (not major, and good cover/inserts) but not good enough to enjoy a listen with my vintage Denon turntable & moving-coil cartridge. So I intended to replace it eventually and here is the 2015 UK 180g re-issue and I can say the vinyl is flat/not warped at all (a seeming problem with many 180g vinyl LPs) and other than what I would call some "manufacturing debris" (like vinyl dust or something weird) in which I had to clean the LP on both sides with my Discwasher twice but it still sounded really good once I got it going. A bit of surface noise in spots but not enough to return it, for sure.
Overall, the LP is a pretty good identical reissue of the original "flames cover" but still sounds better than the original LP, to me. I had friends who bought this when it first came out and we listened to it on great 1970s all-analog stereo and this sounds as good or better than that on a good stereo. My original LP came with a standard paper MCA sleeve with a red 2-sided insert which now is what they used to make the sleeve from, the LP is in a sleeve which reproduced that insert. So I put my LP into a MFSL anti-static sleeve to preserve the insert & better protect this LP. Truth is, the original MCA LP pressings from the 1970s-onward were among the thinnest cheapest, crappiest large-corp pressings. So even if you bought this LP new, the probability was high you might have gotten a defective product. I was lucky on this one, and it looks like a really nice quality audiophile vinyl pressing other than that manufacturing debris I had to clean off.
I feel quite glad I bought this edition to replace my old worn-out original LP. You won't regret it either if yours compares to mine.
By the way for anyone else who has the original edition of this LP, did you get the original advertisement insert to order t-shirts and the 8-track (!), cassette, or LP version of this via mail-order like mine has?
I have fond memories of listening to this LP with high-school friends just after the airplane crash and we were just chilled about how great the band was at this time, in their absolute peak (although they had other peaks & valleys) and it all just ended too suddenly. RIP Ronnie, Steve, and all the others.
"Street Survivors" was recorded twice. The first recording was at Criteria Studios in Florida. The second recording was at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia five months later. The Doraville recording was used for the initial release of the album. The Doraville versions are the ones that we all know, and have heard for years.
In March 2008, the album was re-issued as a two disc package "Street Survivors [Deluxe Edition]". It contains both the initial version (second recording), and the first recorded "Criteria Studios" alternate versions of most of the songs.
This "Street Survivors [Rarities Edition]" is simply the first recordings and bonus tracks of "Street Survivors [Deluxe Edition]", without the added cost of buying the two discs with the initial version. So, if you already own the standard "Street Survivors" album, you can simply buy this album containing all of this newly released material. Good thing, right?
Now, what do you get?
The differences are minor on some songs, with the major difference being a much slower and extended earlier version of "That Smell." Also included are two songs that were recorded for, but not included on the original album, "Sweet Little Missy" and "Georgia Peaches". There are two versions of "Sweet Little Missy" included; demo and final form. Also included is a version of "Honky Tonk Night Time Man," with Ronnie's alternate autobiographical vocal take, entitled "Jacksonville Kid," which is believed to be the last vocal take he ever recorded in a studio.
I did side-by-side sounds comparisons with the Criteria and Doraville recordings. They are definitely different, offering interesting variations on these songs.
The sound quality is not very good on the live songs that are included; however they should be appreciated as simply bonus rare versions for the die-hard fan.
Conclusion?
If you are a casual listener, ...keep walking. The casual fan should buy the basic, initial release of "Street Survivors", or better yet, stick with a greatest hits complilation. However, don't dismiss this album as simply a "repackaging" of the same album.
If you are a diehard Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, this "Street Survivors [Rarities Edition]" is a must. The sound quality is excellent on the Criteria recordings, and offers us the rarity of experiencing these "first" versions of the "last" album of the original members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Put simply, this disc is an essential addition to any Skynyrd fan's collection, and offers a fascinating chance to hear what the band's most commercially successful album - its success, alas, based in large part upon the horrible tragedy that destroyed LS a mere three days after its release - might have sounded like had the band taken a more rootsy approach to it from the outset. Fellow Skynyrdites, do NOT pass this one up!
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The album contains the great songs What's your name, That smell, I know a little and You got that right.
It was the last album the early members made before the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, his sister and backing singer.
They will always be the kings of US Southern Rock, a legendary band!
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