Sunday, December 12, 2004
November 16: Collective Soul - Youth
Man, lots of people must be reading this thing; only 10 months after I publicly asked "where the hell are Collective Soul?", they're back! Like Stroke 9, they're on their own now, and like Stroke 9, they appear to have not splurged on a top-grade graphic designer.
The last CS album and the two new tracks off the greatest hits sounded robotic, as if Ed Roland had hit on the exact mathematical formula for a good rock song and wasn't deviating anymore. But this album's got some soul to it. Allmusic said it was the album for people who thought "Gel" is the best Collective Soul song, and I agree with that to a point. There's some glam-rock influence, and some '80s influence (there's saxophone on a couple of tracks), but the traditional hard-driving 4/4, studio-tweaked song structure is still here, too.
Overall, I like it. They're supposed to be coming through town before Christmas; I might just go.
The last CS album and the two new tracks off the greatest hits sounded robotic, as if Ed Roland had hit on the exact mathematical formula for a good rock song and wasn't deviating anymore. But this album's got some soul to it. Allmusic said it was the album for people who thought "Gel" is the best Collective Soul song, and I agree with that to a point. There's some glam-rock influence, and some '80s influence (there's saxophone on a couple of tracks), but the traditional hard-driving 4/4, studio-tweaked song structure is still here, too.
Overall, I like it. They're supposed to be coming through town before Christmas; I might just go.
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