Description
Collective Soul – Dosage / Atlantic Audio CD 1999 / 7567-83162-2
UPC 0-7567-83162-27
Dosage is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Collective Soul. The album was released on Atlantic Records in February 1999 and peaked at #21 on the Billboard albums chart. The album's title was derived from a catchphrase they used to describe burnout after their previous tour.
The first single from the album, "Heavy", gave the band another #1 hit on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and spent a then record-breaking 15 weeks on the top spot. "Heavy" was also featured in the opening of the video game NHL 2001 and in the 2014 Golden Corral ad. The second single released, "Run", also gained broad mainstream radioplay and was featured on the soundtrack for the 1999 film Varsity Blues.
Over nine years after the album's release, the single "Tremble for My Beloved" was featured in the 2008 film Twilight and its accompanying soundtrack.
In 2012, the band performed the album in its entirety (save "Dandy Life") during their Dosage Tour.
At heart a safe if emotive and catchy middle-of-the-road rock band, Collective Soul up the prescription on Dosage, turning in an 11-song collection that stretches previous aural boundaries with mixed results. The Southern-bred quintet is literary in its lyrical leanings and thoughtful in its deft and dynamic pop-rock songcraft. Programming and keyboards are now part of the group's arsenal. Dosage's production, meanwhile, is handled by singer-guitarist Ed Roland and is exceedingly lively and crisp. The collection is more loose, experimental and modern--and less classic-rock-leaning--than Collective Soul's two previous albums. There's nothing quite in the vein of "Shine" or "Precious Declaration," two memorable, high-impact singles from the band's first two sets, though "Generate," "Heavy," and "Crown" are standouts. Ultimately, Dosage is a cohesive collection of strong songs and a smart step up for the band. It just may insure survival for a group where others of a similar musical ilk--such as Brother Cane and Cry of Love--have floundered. --Katherine Turman
Tracklist:
| 01 | Tremble For My Beloved |
3:52 | |
| 02 | Heavy | 2:56 | |
| 03 | No More, No Less | 5:18 | |
| 04 | Needs | 5:21 | |
| 05 | Slow | 3:32 | |
| 06 | Dandy Life | 4:03 | |
| 07 | Run | 4:35 | |
| 08 |
Generate | 3:33 | |
| 09 | Compliment | 3:01 | |
| 10 | Not The One
Mixed By – Bob St. John
Mixed By – Bob St. John
|
3:49 | |
| 11 | Crown | 10:16 |
- Art Direction, Design – Benjamin Niles
- Bass, Percussion – Will Turpin
- Cello – Daniel O. Laufer
- Drums, Percussion – Shane Evans (2)
- Engineer – Chris Carroll, Greg Archilla, Jason Elgin
- Engineer, Musical Assistance – Sean Grove
- Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Ross Childress
- Management – Arthur Spivak
- Mastered By – Ted Jensen
- Mixed By – Tom Lord-Alge
- Musical Assistance – Chris Fleming (4), Femio Hernandez, Jim Z (tracks: 10), Mauricio "Veto" Iragorri, Scott Kieklak (tracks: 10)
- Photography By – Yves Bottalico
- Programmed By – Anthony J. Resta
- Recorded By, Mixed By – Bob St. John (tracks: 10)
- Rhythm Guitar – Dean Roland
- Strings, Arranged By – Ed Roland, Eddie Horst
- Viola – Paul Murphy (5)
- Violin – Christopher Pulgram, Jun-Ching Lin
- Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Producer – Ed Roland
- Written By – Ed Roland (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 11), Ross Childress (tracks: 6)
- Ross Childress – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Dandy Life"
- Shane Evans – drums, percussion
- Ed Roland – lead vocals, guitar, keyboard
- Dean Roland – rhythm guitar
- Will Turpin – bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals
- Anthony J. Resta – programming, synthesizers, drum loops, Mellotron
