Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd's Innyrds: Their Greatest Hits (CD)

All Music Guide

Skynyrd's Innyrds Their Greatest Hits comes close to being a solid singledisc overview of the Southern rockers' biggest hits, but it falls short in a number of important ways. Most notably, "Free Bird" is not in either its studio or live incarnations; it's presented as an outtake, something that will only be of interest to hardcore Skynyrd fans, just like the outtake of "Double Trouble." Also, several major songs "Down South Jukin'," "You Got That Right," "Whiskey RockARoller," "Simple Man," "Tuesday's Gone," "I Know a Little" are missing, with album cuts in their place. That said, it has most of the big hits "Sweet Home Alabama," "Gimme Three Steps," "Saturday Night Special," "What's Your Name," "That Smell," plus "Workin' for MCA" and "Call Me the Breeze," which were not on Gold Platinum which is enough to make it a good sampler, even if it doesn't provide as complete an introduction as Gold Platinum. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide