Collective Soul
Overview
Collective Soul is an American
United States
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 rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

 originally formed in Stockbridge
Stockbridge, Georgia
Stockbridge is a city in Henry County, Georgia, United States with a population of 25,636 as of the 2010 census. It is the hometown of the multi-platinum selling alternative rock/post-grunge band Collective Soul and home to one of the youngest starting pitchers ever to play for the Atlanta Braves,...

, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
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. Collective Soul broke into mainstream popularity with their first hit single
Hit single
A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...

, "Shine
Shine (Collective Soul song)
"Shine" is a song by American post-grunge band Collective Soul. It served as the lead single from their 1993 debut album Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid. "Shine" would remain the band's most well known song and a hallmark of 1990s alternative rock. It became the #1 Album Rock Song of...

", which came from their debut album Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid
Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid
Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid is the debut album of Atlanta rock band Collective Soul. It was originally released as a demo on a small indie label in Atlanta called Rising Storm Records. However, the track "Shine" attracted attention to the band thanks to college radio...

, released in 1993. They have recorded seven Number One mainstream rock hits.

Collective Soul was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame
Georgia Music Hall of Fame
The Georgia Music Hall of Fame, located in downtown Macon, Georgia, preserves and interprets the state's rich musical heritage through programs of collection, exhibition, education and performance...

 on September 19, 2009.
Before forming Collective Soul, Ed Roland had studied music composition and guitar playing at the Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Quotations

Teach me how to speak Teach me how to share Tell me where to go Tell me will love be there?

Shine

Now my water's turned to wine And these thoughts I have I now can claim as mine

Reunion

I drink myself of newfound pity Sitting alone in New York City And I don't know why

The World I Know

I walk up on high And I step to the edge To see my world below And I laugh at myself As my tears roll down 'Coz it's the world I know, it's the world I know

The World I Know

New meanings to the words I feed upon Wake within my veins elements of freedom

Precious Declaration

Silence creates necessity

Listen

And here I lie with words to swear There's something more than the world out there

Compliment

For what's in a day of a dandy life For what's in a day of this dandy life Everything, everything, everything

Dandy Life

She said she can't look back to her days of youth What she thought were lies she later found was truth

She Said

Well it's ten years later and stillI haven't a clue

10 Years Later

 
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