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 Rock Music That's Just Fun To Listen To Nov 15, 2009
The "Rabbit" CD from Collective Soul is good rock music that I really enjoy listening to in the car. However, I have to admit that it took a little while to warm to the songs on this album, but after having listened to it for over 6 weeks now I really like it. While it is not groundbreaking in its style, sometimes doing the "tried and true" well is a virtue. For some reason I find myself comparing Rabbit to the latest Vertical Horizon CD Burning the Days. While Burning the Days came off flat and overproduced, I thought Rabbit was more genuine and had more energy.
Rabbit doesn't probe a lot of depths in its lyrics as Ed Rolland sticks to pretty familiar territory of girls and life in a band. "You", "Fuzzy", "Staring Down", and "She Does" are among the songs that deal with relationships. Some are about when things are going well ("She Does") while others ("Staring Down") are about moving on. The low point lyrically is "Lighten Up" which treats the listen to the gem "Yeah yeah yeah yeah lighten up." That's at least two too many yeahs. The whistling on "Fuzzy" is also a little odd, but these are pretty minor complaints.
The songs also vary in tempo giving a good blend. "Welcome All Again" and "Dig" are up tempo, more straight ahead rockers while "You" and "Hymn For My Father" are on the slow end. The mid tempo songs include "Fuzzy" and "She Does". The most interesting song in style is "Understanding" with its driven acoustic verses that give way to a heavily punk influenced chorus.
The instrumentation on Rabbit is competent but not overly technical (as opposed to what you would hear from Kirk Hammett, Joe Satriani, Dave Mustaine, etc.). The guitars are not quite as crunchy as they were on say "Where The River Flows" from their other eponymous CD, but there are still some nice licks here and there. My favorite is on the "Who can ..." lines from the chorus of "She Does". I find myself replaying this song more than the others.
All in all, Rabbit is a simple yet well done CD from Collective Soul. Pop this one in the car and enjoy the ride!
Download this: She Does
 Great CD! Oct 27, 2009
I like this CD so much better than their last - the last two sounded way too much alike for my taste...
Not the BEST but still great Collective Soul Oct 21, 2009
I think that this is the only band (along with The Cure) of whom I own every single CD or DVD that I find of them.
First of all, Welcome All Again to a new Collective Soul CD...it's never too soon to get a copy of one of the best pop rock bands ever. After reading the reviews, I could download Welcome All Again and Love...both my favorite songs in the album, I was impressed how good these songs played on my car stereo, home theater, ipod, mp3 player at the beach...you get the idea how sticky the riffs and chorus verses are with this pair. I was really psyched at what could be a vibrant album, and was very excited of what could be another succesful album.
I had to wait a couple of weeks before I got my copy 'cause a friend of mine had to deliver it back from the States. Wishing for super hits like December, The World I Know and Shine wasn't very much on my radar for the band has gone lately rather much to the pop part of music (Hollywood?!) and haven't struck fans with hardcore lyrics and rythms lately (I think Under Heavens Skies could be the last attempt to do such...)
The disc is actually a more rocking face of Collective (Welcome All Again), innovative in music compositions (Understanding), too familiar too other songs on other tracks (Lighten Up) and many many B tracks of other records (although being B tracks of Collective Soul they're good!) but just not as deep or soul grabbing as this group is up to and capable.
Being as it is, Love and Welcome All Again are in my favorite songs playlist, and I will celebrate with Collective that they're free from their old manager and record contract and let this go as a happy album. Next time, deeper lyrics, more breath taking songs please.
Rock on Collective, Rock on.
BEST BAND EVER TO COME FROM THE SOUTH Oct 19, 2009
THIS CD IS LATEST FORMULATION FROM COLLECTIVE SOUL AS IT HAS BEEN 5 YEARS SINCE LAST RELEASE. GREAT LYRICS, GREAT GUITAR WORKS AND THE DRUMMER HAS THAT U2 PERSONA THAT MAKES U WANT TO LISTEN TO THIS CD OVER AND OVER. THEY JUST GET BETTER AND BETTER. SAW THEM IN CONCERT AND THEY DELIVERED JUST LIKE THEIR CD!
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 Better than Afterwords Oct 19, 2009
It is a more energetic Collective Soul but some of the lyrics are cheesy such as the overuse of "yeah" or "yeah, yeah yeah."
I like many am still sad to see that Ross is no longer with the band and now Shane has left too? Whilst they'll probably never have an album with the great guitar work of Ross ever again at least the new studio drummer did a great job of holding the band together.
There are are some worthy numbers but we've all come to expect this from the band. Refer to tracks #1, #4, and #6 (#6 is quite possibly a left over from the excellent Disciplined Breakdown album).
Overall not bad but nothing new. The question that I ask is who from the line up will quit next? For the love of God reinstate Ross!
& please stop ending with quiet songs, track 11 was meant to be a B or C side.
All in all major improvement from "Afterwords" - did that album even need to be released or was it a cash required lets put something out fast effort? Hmmm!!!
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