Collective Soul - Youth (CD)

Youth
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4.9 out of 5.0 stars 10 Ratings (5 Reviews)

Album Details: Youth

Release Date:11/16/2004
Label:El Music Group
UPC:187966000128

User Reviews: Youth

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    Yet another excellent CD

    By Market Mania Again  Dec 17, 2004 | 5 out of 5 found this Youth review helpful

    Pros: Great tunes that won't let you down.

    Cons: Too short

    This is yet another excellent CD by Collective Soul. Ed Roland and gang don't disappoint with this fantastic CD of "post-grunge" guitar work, very tigth harmonies and super strong hooks and fun, catchy lyrics. My only gripe is that it&#...39;s too short at just 37 minutes for the entire 11 song CD. Read more Less

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    Youth wins!

    By Jeff  Dec 17, 2004 | 3 out of 3 found this Youth review helpful

    Pros: Great Lyrics with Beautiful Music.

    Cons: None.

    Don't know what to say other than if you're a collective soul fan, you're going to love this CD. I hear it and just say WOW!

    Great work guys!

    Thanks!

Pro Reviews: Youth

  • All Music Guide

    Well, this is a weird one. Collective Soul parted ways with their longtime record label Atlantic following the release of the 2001 hits collection 7even Year Itch, and it took them three years to deliver a new album, which meant there was a gap of four years separating their last proper studio album, 2000's Blender, and its 2004 followup Youth. Freed from the pressures of a big record label and the constrains of postgrunge modern rock radio, the band seized the opportunity to reinvent itself. While they still retain some of their essential DNA, especially when they delve into ballads like "How Do You Love," they restyle themselves in fuzzy, shiny glam threads, sounding like a weird cross between David Bowie and INXS (and on "Feels Like (It Feels Alright)," Roland recalls nothing less than Peter Murphy in his vocals). Since Collective Soul are natives of the American South, they favor big riffs ready for big arenas to slinky T. Rex grooves, and since they once had big hits on the radio,... they still favor big, glossy productions, but Youth still comes across as a stylized, somewhat modernized spin on heavy glam rock. It sounds a little bit a streamlined, Stateside Spacehog, which means that it doesn't necessarily sound hip, or like something that the "youth" of the album's title would dig, and it's not necessarily something that fans of their big ballads like "December" and "The World I Know" would like, either. But that doesn't mean it's a bad record. Far from it, actually. While the ballads still are a little too saccherine, there aren't many of them, and the rest of the record is fizzy, outsized, hooky, trashy fun. Anybody that considered Stone Temple Pilots a guilty pleasure, or thought that "Gel" was far and away Collective Soul's best song, should check this out it doesn't sound much like anything that the band has done before, or like anything that's on modern rock radio, but it's easily one of band's best records. It's a Collective Soul album for people that don't like Collective Soul. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Collective Soul

With their catchy, melodic pop/rock and mildly distorted but warm guitar tone, Collective Soul leapt out of Stockbridge, GA, to the top of the 1990s AOR world. Vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Ed Roland, whose parents prohibited listening to music, originally founded the band in the mid-'80s after dropping out of the Berklee School of Music due to lack of funds and getting... Read more