Someone in the “I Love the 90’s” thread mentioned the band Collective Soul, and it occurred to me that I’d forgotten all about them. They were hugely popular around Atlanta when I was in college and just afterwards, and they got constant airplay on 99X. I liked the songs I’d heard, but never made any effort to get the albums.
Their greatest hits album is on iTunes, and it has the songs I remember and like from the radio: “December,” “Shine,” “Gel,” and “The World I Know.” It’s between getting that, or getting their first two albums Hints, Allegations… and Collective Soul. Is the greatest hits sufficient, or would I be missing out on good stuff from the first 2 records?
I have both albumns and IMO you’d be fine getting the greatest hits. In fact, I wonder what they’d fill a greatest hits albumn out with. Not slagging them, they were good, but it’s not like they’ve had 10 or 12 “hits” to be “greatest”.
Ah, I love Collective Soul. A great thinking man’s AOR band. Ed Roland is super talented.
My favorite album is Dosage (1999). It’s Genesis, Dire Straits, and ELO all rolled into one.
Did you know that Collective Soul has more Number One rock radio hits in North America than any other act during the 1990s? More than Radiohead. More than Pearl Jam. More than U2. :eek:
I think that’s probably the best description I’ve read of Collective Soul. They have a habit of recording albums. Not songs.
If you want to be able to listen a couple of their songs, get the greatest hits. If you want to listen to a good album, get either Dosage or Collective Soul.
I’d agree with those recs.! Collective Soul is still my favorite, I think. Though Disciplined Breakdown is great, too.
CS is one of those great bands where you can’t go wrong with either the GH or going album by album. Some greatest hits collections are made up of novelty songs or concessions to radio, but CS is always amazingly consistent in their sound- so their singles are always as true to their identity as the non-singles.
That being said, each album since Disciplined Breakdown seems to have been giving more and more of a nod to techno-flavored stuff. Which isn’t necessarily bad. . . I just hope it doesn’t mean Ed’s getting bored.
I have 3 albums of thiers and can concur. So much so in fact * that you can’t tell some songs from others!*
Got sick of them pronto! I would say the hits album would be more than enough. Hell, get a single of “Shine” and you have pretty much the whole catalog. I’ll sell ya all I have, cheap!
I have 3 albums of thiers and can concur. So much so in fact * that you can’t tell some songs from others!*
Got sick of them pronto! I would say the hits album would be more than enough. Hell, get a single of “Shine” and you have pretty much the whole catalog. I’ll sell ya all I have, cheap!
Well, I was listening through the sample tracks on Collective Soul last night and was reminded that I’d actually owned that album at one point. Must’ve traded it in for car insurance money or groceries or something. So I got that album and then bought “Shine” from the first one. (yeah) Viva la iTunes!
