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February 8, 2001

Dolly Has Coll. Soul Shining

Parton's cover of "Shine" humbles Collective Soul
October 18, 2000

Collective Soul Dare to Be Pop

How Elton John and a little bit of Morphine went into Collective Soul's "Blender"
October 17, 2000

Collective Soul Dare to Be Pop

How Elton John and a little bit of Morphine went into Collective Soul's "Blender"
April 6, 1999

Collective Soul Show Heart at the Bowery Ballroom

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Blender

Like deep-sea fishermen trolling for the biggest, baddest marlin, Collective Soul plumb for meaty, mighty riffs and chunky chords. They reel in a brace of them on their fifth album: Front-loaded with penetrating, powerhouse riff rockers with single-word titles -- "Skin," "Vent," "Boast" -- Blender</...

2000 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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1999

Disciplined Breakdown

1997

Collective Soul

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The typical Collective Soul song has a one-word title, runs between three and five minutes, prosecutes a catchy '70s-style melody over warm, burbling '90s-style guitars, frets about the human condition, and dominates rock radio for months at a time. These mellow Georgia boys have never been anywhere near fashionable, but they have enjoyed a longer and more fruitful run than most of their flashier ...

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