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Collective Soul - Blender

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Artist: Collective Soul
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
Published: 2001-06-15
CD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
  1. Skin
  2. Vent
  3. Why, Pt. 2
  4. 10 Years Later
  5. Boast
  6. Turn
  7. You Speak My Language
  8. Perfect Day
  9. After All
  10. Over Tokyo
  11. Happiness

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Free Music Review: Probably the Best CD You've Never Heard Before
Hit: 5 Stars

Collective Soul remind me of the best days of "Cheap Trick", the best material by "The Cars" and other good 1970's bands. WIth their hard-edge guitar and vocal sounds, also sound a litle like Poison, Ratt, Warrant, and other 1980's metal bands (but without the outrageous hair). The guitar riffs bump and grind, lyrics are simple but that makes them memorable (and there's the added advantage of minimal electronic aural reprocessing, which means that you could do a decent cover version if you want). The drumming is fierce and propulsive, and the bass lines give the mix a 'larger than life' feel. Like The Goo-Goo-Dolls and the present Bon-Jovi lineup, they can cut it live on stage, too.

This CD features a good blend of power ballands, flat out rockers, a few punky/new wave sounding cuts, and a few variations that enhance the overall mix. By sticking to what they know, Collective Soul's experiments succeed, rather than falling flat because they were ill-conceived.

The best cuts here are "Skin", "Vent", "Why Pt.2", "10 Yrs Later", "You Speak My Language", and "Perfect Day"--featuring Elton John, an unlikely collaborator.

The packaging on the CD is probably the only mistake: it screams "Boy Band" (based on looks), and suggests that the CD is full of lame 'bubble-gum' and 'teenybopper' music. I doubt that Collective Soul's fans were put off (they know the band is not going to sell out and do shlock), but the music probably put off the girls who buy "boy band" CD's and the cover art probably caused a lot of potential fans to avoid the CD because it made Collective Soul look too much like the "Backstreet Boys", or "WestLife".

MTV and VH-1, both of which have fallen into a pit of musical supidity lately (playing total rubbish for hours on end), ignored this CD completely (just as they ignored "Dosage", the previous CD). The collapse of ratings for both of those cable stations might bring new management and programmers, who understand that you can't force an audience that cares about music to sit and watch really lame "pop" or really dumb "rap" videos.

This is defintely one of the best CD's from 2000.

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blender [audio cd, enhanced]collective soul# audio cd (october 10, 2000)# original release date: october 10, 2000# number of discs: 1# format: enhanced# label: atlantic / wea----

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