Second Helping (studio album) by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Second Helping by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Year: 1974
Overall rank: 1,545th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 252 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1974 (32nd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (304th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,545th)
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Second Helping is ranked 2nd best out of 42 albums by Lynyrd Skynyrd on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lynyrd Skynyrd is (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) which is ranked number 447 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,019.

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 252 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

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40/100
From 04/27/2023 04:58
1 and 7 🤘🏻😎
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From 04/23/2022 07:25
Solid follow up to their debut. Worth owning for Sweet Home Alabama, there are some other very strong tracks, working for MCA, Swamp Music, Ballad of Curtis Loew, The Needle and the Spoon. If you own the first two albums then you own the best of Skynyrd.
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65/100
From 04/13/2022 11:51
This album has 2 or 3 songs that are fantastic and then the rest are pretty forgettable and generic southern rock music. It definitely doesn't challenge the first release for their best record and falls quite short in my opinion. All the weaker songs seem to blend into one and don't really grab your attention and they really let the album down. If every track had the quality that Sweet Home Alabama, The Ballad Of Curtis Loew and Call Me The Breeze had then this record would be phenomenal. This is frustrating as you can see all the foundations of a great album but it doesn't come to fruition. Overall, this record is pretty disappointing and I mainly only revisit it for the 3 highlights.
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90/100
From 06/10/2021 15:01
Fun southern rock album that is spotty in places but generally holds up pretty well. Of course Sweet Home Alabama is timeless, but the best song on the record is Call Me the Breeze. Workin' for MCA is also an underrated, blistering gem. A good choice if you just want some good time rock 'n' roll.
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90/100
From 02/03/2019 13:47
Date release : April 25, 1974
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80/100
From 12/28/2018 17:18
Not quite up to the level of the debut, but there's plenty of classics here.
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80/100
From 05/07/2018 18:16
Great album, the first two tracks and the last two are the best.
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80/100
From 07/06/2017 16:54
Great album. Not as good as their debut in my opinion but fantastic still. The best cuts are Sweet Home Alabama, The Ballad Of Curtis Loew, and Call Me The Breeze. No bad songs to be found here.
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75/100
From 12/14/2016 15:20
Favoritas: Sweet Home Alabama, The Ballad Of Curtis Loew, I Need You
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From 05/07/2016 20:10
Lynyrd Skynyrd's second album is an excellent follow up to their brilliant debut. Kicking off with the band's most successful single, sweet home Alabama, a rock classic, the record never lets up. Workin'for MCA, is a great cynical look at the music business, don't ask me no questions, is a strong cut, and the cover of J.J. Cale's, call me the breeze, is fantastic. The playing here is superb, all in all, another classic skynyrd LP.
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