Track Listing
1. Shine
2. Goodnight, Good Guy
3. Wasting Time
4. Sister Don't Cry
5. Love Lifted Me
6. In a Moment
7. Heaven's Already Here
8. Pretty Donna - (TRUE instrumental)
9. Reach
10. Breathe
11. Scream
12. Burning Bridges
13. All
| Details | | Playing Time: | 45 min. | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Collective Soul: Ed Roland (guitar, vocals), Dean Roland, Ross Childress (guitar), Will Turpin (bass), Shane Evans (drums).
Additional personnel: Joe Randolph (guitar), Melissa Ortega, Jun-Ching Lin, David Braitberg (violin), Paul Murphy (viola), Daniel Laufer (cello), Matthew Serletic (keyboards, trombone), Brian Howell (bass).
Producers: Ed Roland, Matthew Serletic, Joe Randolph.
Recorded at Rising Storm Studios, Atlanta, Georgia; Real To Reel Studios, Stockbridge, Georgia; MSE Studios, Miami, Florida.
All songs written by Ed Roland.
Fronted by guitarist-songwriter Ed Roland, Collective Soul is the rock and roll Cinderella story of 1994. Hailing from Stockbridge, Georgia, Collective Soul is an upbeat, rootsy Southern guitar band with a critical difference--the solos never supercede the songs.
In fact, eleven of the thirteen songs that make up HINTS, ALLEGATIONS AND THINGS LEFT UNSAID were originally conceived of as a songwriter's demo (at a time when Roland had lost all hope of ever getting a record company deal). Roland and Collective Soul pressed their own CDs, and as a lark, sent one along to WRAS-FM, the influential Atlanta college station. Later, when two Orlando stations picked up on "Shine," Collective Soul began selling discs at a platinum rate, and Atlantic honchos inked them for a major league push.
Still, this fairy tale begins, not with a wave of hype, but with Roland's accomplished tunes and Collective Soul's sweet and scrappy arrangements--this is a band with a canned heat heart and a grunge epidermis. You can hear many echoes of the singer-archetypes Roland had in mind for his "demos" on "All" (the Beatles), "In A Moment" (Ric Ocasek), "Heaven Is Already Here" (Van Morrison) and "Reach" (Rod Stewart). Yet in the end it's Roland himself who emerges as a soulful vocalist--much more than the sum of his influences. Collective Soul is living proof that good things come to bands that stay true to their muse and have the courage to go out and grow their own.
Editorial Reviews
...they occasionally mix classical and industrial sounds into jangly metal...Bubble-gum grunge: an idea whose time has come.... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (05/27/1994)
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