"45"^^ . "Songs about drugs" . "1977 songs" . "0.233487"^^ . "Studio One, Doraville, Georgia, July\u2013August 1977" . "Song recordings produced by Tom Dowd" . . "Songs about suicide" . . "6"^^ . . . "381260"^^ . "Lynyrd Skynyrd songs" . "MCA Inc." . "-0.259875"^^ . "Songs written by Ronnie Van Zant" . . "That Smell" . "Ronnie Van Zant" . "Tom Dowd" . . . "TRSSNXH128E078F671" . "893774" . "USMC17746160" . "%22That Smell%22 is a song by the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Written by Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Allen Collins, it was released in 1977 on the album Street Survivors. At the time the song was written, the band had been drinking and doing many different drugs. Van Zant had said that he started drinking heavily to relieve the pressure of performing in front of large audiences.Van Zant's inspiration for the song was the increasing reckless indulgences of the band members culminating in the evening when guitarist Gary Rossington got drunk and high and survived the crash of his new car into an oak tree along Mandarin Road in Jacksonville, Florida (where the band was founded). Van Zant was thus inspired to write the song as a warning about the consequences of careless overuse of drugs and alcohol. Van Zant said, %22I had a creepy feeling things were going against us, so I thought I'd write a morbid song (as a warning).%22 The lyrics cautioned that %22tomorrow might not be here for you%22, and that %22the smell of death surrounds you%22. Three days after the album was released, the band was devastated by a plane crash killing several members including Van Zant.The song is featured in the films Blow (2001), Joe Dirt (2001) and Wild Hogs (2007), at the end of the fourth episode of the HBO television drama series True Blood (2008) , the song appeared in the first season of Entourage and the song also appeared in the twenty-first episode of the second season of Miami Vice (1984)." . "Allen Collins" . "116.0"^^ . "5714deda25ac0d8aee4990be" . "Songs written by Allen Collins" . "c4528479-e870-4fed-bea9-b9653368bdc4" . "false"^^ . "Songs about alcohol" . . "english" . . . . . . "true"^^ . "348000.0"^^ . "816" . "1977-10-17"^^ . "That Smell" . "-15.0"^^ . "2008-03-21"^^ . "false"^^ .