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Hints Allegations And Things Left Unsaid,Collective Soul

- Hints Allegations And Things Left Unsaid
- - 373,110 plays
  - 90 favs
  - 95 shares
Collective Soul
Released 1994

Shine
05:06
88,036 plays

Breathe
03:04
29,795 plays

Wasting Time
03:14
26,850 plays

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songs

- 1
- Shine
- 05:06
- 88,036 plays

- 2
- Goodnight, Good Guy
- 03:27
- 25,482 plays

- 3
- Wasting Time
- 03:14
- 26,850 plays

- 4
- Sister Don't Cry
- 04:00
- 25,110 plays

- 5
- Love Lifted Me
- 03:47
- 23,508 plays

- 6
- In A Moment
- 03:54
- 22,888 plays

- 7
- Heaven's Already Here
- 02:12
- 26,685 plays

- 8
- Pretty Donna (Instrumental)
- 01:58
- 19,951 plays

- 9
- Reach
- 04:21
- 22,600 plays

- 10
- Breathe
- 03:04
- 29,795 plays

- 11
- Scream
- 02:56
- 18,331 plays

- 12
- Burning Bridges
- 03:37
- 21,873 plays

- 13
- All
- 03:27
- 22,001 plays

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album review

Collective Soul never claimed it was an alt-rock band, but it arrived with the debut Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid when anything with guitars was marketed as anti-establishment, underground rock. In retrospect, it's sort of hard to see how this record, with its loving debts to Southern rock and AOR anthems, ever shared airplay on modern rock radio stations and 120 Minutes, but that's just the way things were in the heady days of 1994. Ironically, Collective Soul succeeded where cult heroes Urge Overkill couldn't -- making late-'70s arena rock popular. Urge, of course, was a band of hardcore ironists, where the members of Collective Soul were dogged traditionalists, which sells better with a mainstream audience, and that's part of the reason why this debut was a hit. The other reason is that the band hits the riff jackpot a couple of times here: "Wasting Time" and "Love Lifted Me" are strong classicist rock, but "Shine" is a tremendous guilty pleasure, built on a guitar riff so indelible you swear it's stolen, blessed by a sighing melody that makes this a fine album-rock single that would have sounded as good in '74 as it did in '94. This is the song that signaled that the group had the skills and smarts to be a first-rate singles band, even if the rest of the record vacillates between pleasant and forgettable filler. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide