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All Time Greatest Hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd:  All Time Greatest Hits

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Released: 2000
Label: MCA
Selection #: 133339
Remastered best-of set from the Southern rock legends. Includes Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme Three Steps, What's Your Name, Free Bird (live), more.
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1 Sweet Home Alabama
2 Gimme Three Steps
3 Simple Man
4 Saturday Night Special
5 Swamp Music
6 The Ballad of Curtis Lowe
7 Call Me the Breeze
8 Comin' Home
9 Gimme Back My Bullets
10 What's Your Name?
11 You Got That Right
12 All I Can Do Is Write About It [Acoustic Version]
13 That Smell
14 Free Bird [Live]
  
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's 2000 compilation "All Time Greatest Hits" suffers from the same ailments that plague many compilations of its time, but there is one problem in particular that hurts it: instead of offering all of the "all time greatest hits" on one disc, the compilers pulled their punches, overlooking a few big songs while occasionally substituting live or acoustic versions for the original studio versions. That means that this is a Skynyrd compilation without the famed original recording of "Free Bird" -- a live version is here instead. It doesn't really matter that it's a good version, taken from 1976's "One More from the Road", or that the live version actually charted in the Top 40; nor does it matter that "All I Can Do Is Write About It" is a good acoustic version originally released on the eponymous 1991 box set, because this is a collection made for a general audience. It should, therefore, have the versions that a general audience knows best. Apart from that, and the usual nitpicking over songs which should have been included ("Workin' For Mca," "Don'T Ask Me No Questions," etc.), this remains a solid collection, containing most of the Skynyrd material that a casual follower could want. If the double-album "Silver & Gold" remains the greater compilation, that's because it captures the essence of the band better. This includes most of the best-known songs on one disc, and that's noteworthy in its own right; it may even be preferable for some listeners. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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