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Music Appreciation

argyl

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20. I love the song. It's a classic and all around great tune.

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #15)

Thu Jan 14, 2021, 10:25 AM

Jan 2021

They don't use the flag anymore. Tom Petty, a fellow Southerner, a Floridian, used the Confederate flag in his Southern Accents tour. He long came to regret it.

One of my favorites of his, "Don't Come Around Here No More" was introduced against the Confederate banner.

And "Sweet Home Alabama" is an all time classic. Neither one of these are the Horst Wessel song.
How about listening, enjoying, or just shutting up.

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"Sweet Home Alabama" - What does it really mean? [View all] DonaldsRump Jan 2021 OP

I thought this was in response to Neil Young's "Southern Man." muntrv Jan 2021 #1

Yes oswaldactedalone Jan 2021 #4

Yes, but it seems far more complicated than that DonaldsRump Jan 2021 #6

My response? Long live Neil Young... hlthe2b Jan 2021 #2

I love Neil Young too, but looking at Neil's comments in the Wikipedia page DonaldsRump Jan 2021 #5

47 years? Well shit, I still remeber when it came out captain queeg Jan 2021 #11

It's a great song DonaldsRump Jan 2021 #13

Well I never really knew the words before this post captain queeg Jan 2021 #16

they loved george wallace and were ok with what nixon did nt msongs Jan 2021 #3

When Ruben Studdard won American Idol, House of Roberts Jan 2021 #7

I always thought it said... padfun Jan 2021 #8

SWA - Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Chorus DemoTex Jan 2021 #9

Wow! It's very clear that no matter what this song really means, Russia will use it for propaganda DonaldsRump Jan 2021 #10

Seen it Live (miss those days) I think the Confederate flag is a big tell sunflowerseed Jan 2021 #12

Common mistake Cartoonist Jan 2021 #14

Even though they specifically say 'a Southern Man don't need him around anyhow'? mr_lebowski Jan 2021 #24

He doesn't mention Alabama in Southern Man nt Cartoonist Jan 2021 #25

Not sure why that matters ... mr_lebowski Jan 2021 #26

I heard Neil Young sing about her. Cartoonist Jan 2021 #27

I know every word to that song ... and I think it's both songs that inspired Skynyrd ;) mr_lebowski Jan 2021 #28

Fact it's written by a confederate flag waving band tells me all I need to know. Hoyt Jan 2021 #15

Saw Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert a few years ago. They no longer display the Confederate flag.They have skylucy Jan 2021 #17

I get a headache when I roll my eyes, but I will admit absent the Hoyt Jan 2021 #18

I love the song. It's a classic and all around great tune. argyl Jan 2021 #20

Since you suggested I shut up, it wasn't until like 2012 that the band wised up. How stupid did one Hoyt Jan 2021 #21

Ronnie van Zandt, the real singer, had been dead for 35 years. argyl Jan 2021 #22

Sorry, I don't like confederate flags, people who think a "heritage of hatred" is just fine if Hoyt Jan 2021 #23

Someone once asked Don McLean what American Pie meant flotsam Jan 2021 #19