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Gimme Back My Bullets [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

~ Lynyrd Skynyrd
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (1 Nov 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Universal / Island
  • ASIN: B00000JNO2
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 87,911 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Gimme Back My Bullets (Album Version) 3:29£0.79
Listen  2. Every Mother's Son 4:57£0.59
Listen  3. Trust 4:26£0.69
Listen  4. (I Got The) Same Old Blues 4:08£0.79
Listen  5. Double Trouble 2:50£0.79
Listen  6. Roll Gypsy Roll 2:51£0.79
Listen  7. Searchin' 3:17£0.69
Listen  8. Cry For The Bad Man (Album Version) 4:49£0.79
Listen  9. All I Can Do Is Write About It 4:16£0.79
Listen10. Gimme Back My Bullets (Live March 1976) 4:18£0.79
Listen11. Cry For The Bad Man (Live March 1976) 5:35£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

The Skynyrd's fourth album wasn't the commercial success they were doubtless hoping for. Though their claim that the Bullets referred to in the title actually referred to bullets on the Billboard albums charts struck many as somewhat ingenuous, there is little doubt that Gimme Back My Bullets was recorded with an eye for the main chance. If you can hear Lynyrd Skynyrd at all over the platoon of backing singers wheeled in for the clumsily self-mythologising "Double Trouble", it is only as men desperately trying to will a repeat of "Sweet Home Alabama" into being. It might have helped, in retrospect, if they'd written a tune to go with it. Clumsy self-mythologising is pretty much the central motif of Gimme Back My Bullets: aside from the heartfelt and rather lovely version of JJ Cale's "I Got The Same Old Blues". That said, Skynyrd's brand of swampy boogie is as efficiently played as ever, and the closing ballad "All I Can Do Is Write About It", while outrageously self-pitying and self-serving, is almost--almost--sufficiently lachrymose to be moving. --Andrew Mueller


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Perhaps Lynyrd Skynyrd's most underrated album, 1976's GIMME BACK MY BULLETS was another inspired and consistent set from one of Southern rock's founding fathers. Like its predecessor, NUTHIN' FANCY, Skynyrd's fourth release didn't producea hit single like its first couple of albums had, but therewere several songs that subsequently became standards for the band. Highlights include the album-opening title track, which captures Skynyrd at their toughest, powered on by muscular guitar riffing courtesy of Gary Rossington and the late Allen Collins, as well as "Searching", the latter being included later in the year on ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Skynyrd's lowest ebb., 20 Sep 2002
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This album marks Lynyrd Skynyrd's all-time low point. Whilst many people slated their previous offering - Nuthin' Fancy - this suffers from all the same problems, and then some. Nuthin' Fancy was born out of a ridiculously short series of sessions amidst their hectic tour schedule, but at least it had some excellent songs - and THREE guitarists. Before it was released, however, guitarist and principle song-writer Ed King had left in acrimonious circumstances (were there any other type of circumstances with Skynyrd?!). Gimme Back My Bullets was just more of the same - squeezed in during their permanent touring, amidst the downward spiral of drink, drugs and fist fights - but missing the artistic input of King. The title song is the best track on the album, but apart from Cry For The Bad Man and possibly Searchin', the rest is really quite poor. This album really could have been the beginning of the end for Skynyrd, but one day, backing singer Cassie Gaines begged the band to let her brother jam onstage with them at a gig in her home town. And when Steve Gaines launched into his slide guitar solo, the collective Skynyrd jaw dropped...

Get the follow-up albums "One More From The Road" and "Street Survivors" and listen to the difference!

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, diverse album, 12 Feb 2004
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Although Lynyrd Skynyrd are reknowned for songs such as "Sweet Home Alabama", one shouldn't be deterred from purchasing this album because of its lesser-known content.

What you will find is that the album has a huge diversity of songs and genres, possibly moreso than in Skynyrd's other albums, stretching from "Rock" in songs such as "Gimme Back My Bullets" and "Cry for the Bad Man" to more mellow country songs such as "Every Mother's Son" and "All I can do is write about it". Therefore, the overall listening experience is interesting and caters for all tastes, as well as providing a different perspective to one of the greatest of all rock bands. A good buy!

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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lynyrd Skynyrd at their best!!, 20 Aug 2002
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This album is definately one of my favourite albums by one of the best bands to walk this earth. Songs like "Searchin'", "Gimme back my bullets" and especially "Double Trouble" definately rival "Free Bird" for their best ever song. The live version of "Gimme back my bullets" is one of the best live songs their is.

In conclusion, this album is great with cherries n top!!!

Buy it now!!!!

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