Oh I hate "Freebird" more than just about anything ever recorded. "Sweet Home Alabama" too. But I DO NOT hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, which I have a hard time reconciling with my conscience. Yes, Watergate (still) bothers me, but my conscience doesn't.
If SHA didn't have the line "In Birmingham they love the governor, we all did what we could do," I might not hate that song as much as I do. Since the governor they were referring to was Geo. Wallace and he gave the band tons of honorary awards that they were all too eager to accept, I think that song is racist. I don't, however, think that liking a song that is morally objectionable is a problem in and of itself (I like a lot of mysogynistic hip hop, for example).
"Freebird" I just think is irredeemably bad. Sorry. I know people love it, but I just don't get it. Anyone who shouts it at a show to be "ironic" is an asshole. Unless it is a Lynyrd Skynyrd show. Or any other band that actually plays "Freebird".
"Call Me the Breeze" and "Gimme Three Steps" kick ass, though.
I grew up on classic rock, so I love most of what the Rolling Stones, the Who, etc... did. I don't have any guilty pleasures in terms of music (to me, Girl Scout cookies are guilty pleasures).
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ChrisB said on April 29, 2008:
Oh I hate "Freebird" more than just about anything ever recorded. "Sweet Home Alabama" too. But I DO NOT hate Lynyrd Skynyrd, which I have a hard time reconciling with my conscience. Yes, Watergate (still) bothers me, but my conscience doesn't.
If SHA didn't have the line "In Birmingham they love the governor, we all did what we could do," I might not hate that song as much as I do. Since the governor they were referring to was Geo. Wallace and he gave the band tons of honorary awards that they were all too eager to accept, I think that song is racist. I don't, however, think that liking a song that is morally objectionable is a problem in and of itself (I like a lot of mysogynistic hip hop, for example).
"Freebird" I just think is irredeemably bad. Sorry. I know people love it, but I just don't get it. Anyone who shouts it at a show to be "ironic" is an asshole. Unless it is a Lynyrd Skynyrd show. Or any other band that actually plays "Freebird".
"Call Me the Breeze" and "Gimme Three Steps" kick ass, though.
I grew up on classic rock, so I love most of what the Rolling Stones, the Who, etc... did. I don't have any guilty pleasures in terms of music (to me, Girl Scout cookies are guilty pleasures).