Listening to Collective Soul for the first time in a while. I’ve always had a soft spot for them. It seems weird how they sort of dropped off the map overnight when the millennium turned. But I suppose a lot of mainstream rock just went out of fashion around that time. Still, these guys had a bunch of big rock radio tunes, but you don’t really hear them talked about much anymore even in the context of the top bands of the 90s.
Shine is one of the more memorable rock anthems of the 90s, and the self titled album is a really strong all around record with several really big hits. December, The World I Know, Smashing Young Men, Gel, Where The River Flows were all over radio back in the day. The next two albums, Disciplined Breakdown and Dosage, each spawned several hits as well. Dosage might even be their strongest album.
And then, 2000 came and Blender kind of flopped and that was it. It was their last album on Atlantic, I guess Napster came along, and then probably major labels weren’t going to go out of their way to support them. Here we are 20 years later, and the band (with a somewhat different lineup) is still going but it doesn’t seem like they’ve ever had a nostalgia fueled renaissance like you see with many popular rock bands late in their careers.
Where do people here think they fall among the best bands of the 90s? I kind of think after the initial wave of grunge bands, they were as good as anyone else that were prominently featured on alternative rock radio in the mid to late 90s. I’m trying to think of an analogous band from an earlier era who had this many hits but not a lot of longevity.
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