Sweet Home Alabama (track)
by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Year: 1974
From the album Second Helping (track #1)
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Sweet Home Alabama appears on the following album(s) by Lynyrd Skynyrd:
- Endangered Species (track #6) (1994)
- One More From The Road (track #8) (1976)
- Second Helping (track #1) (this album) (1974)
- All Time Greatest Hits (track #1) (compilation) (2000)
- The Definitive Lynyrd Skynyrd Collection (track #16) (compilation) (1991)
- Authorized Bootleg: Live At Winterland - San Francisco Mar. 07 1976 (track #9) (2009)
- The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd (track #1) (compilation) (1998)
- The Collection (track #1) (compilation) (2003)
- Gold & Platinum (track #7) (compilation) (1979)
- Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour (track #17) (2004)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 02/14/2026 18:59 | alexandermause | 17,953 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/30/2025 06:12 | Exist-en-ciel | 167,284 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/14/2025 04:45 | jtc91 | 13,934 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2025 10:12 |  Squonk007 | 3,312 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2025 12:12 | wizardalien | 9,781 | 61/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 87.2/100, a mean average of 86.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 15.1.
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Squonk007 07/07/2025 10:14 | #309946
Yes up there as one of the great rock tracks.
Jboy56 05/30/2023 15:53 | #297298
Overplayed, but still one of the great album openers
Fischman 12/28/2018 17:20 | #228265
I'm in the "overplay has killed this song for me," but still rate it high because the song is still what it is regardless of whether or not I'm sick of it.
Goliath 03/06/2018 16:53 | #210227
One of the greatest rock tracks ever.
Romanelli 04/09/2012 01:42 | #39826
Sad when a good song like this is allowed to be used to sell chicken. Deducted a full star for just that and the overplay that goes with it.
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