Friday Featured Track

The song that has been on my brain the most this week:

- “You,” Collective Soul, from the new album “Collective Soul” (AKA “Rabbit”).

Since I received my advance copy of the new Collective Soul album a week or so ago, I’ve listened to it with the kind of single-mindedness only a diehard fan can embrace.

In my album review, which I posted here earlier today, I praised the Georgia rockers for their incredible track record of producing superb power ballads.

For this week’s FFT, I want to highlight my favorite of these ballads, the gorgeous “You.” This ballad really soars, with frontman/songwriter Ed Roland passionately paying tribute to his lover without ever getting into the soppy cliches that bog down so many love songs.

Interestingly, “You” is the first song that Collective Soul has ever written as a unit, according to press notes for the album.

The song is Collective Soul at its pop finest and ranks up there with “Tremble for My Beloved” and “Under Heaven’s Skies” as the band’s best ballads.

-BAM