As Collective Soul’s ‘The World I Know’ Turns 25, ‘It Still Really Gets Me,’ Says Frontman Ed Roland
Tim Greiving No one really knew which record store bin to put Collective Soul in when the Atlanta band broke onto the scene — they were labeled everything from “bubblegum grunge” to southern blues-rock to neo-’60s rock. Their breakout occurred in 1993 with the sudden success of “Shine,” a fuzzy, quasi-spiritual anthem that pinged from college radio airwaves to the top of the mainstream rock chart.