Did Collective Soul ever really sound like Thin Lizzy, and if so, when and how?

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I think Scott Seward said they did once. I heard a Collective Soul song in a bar last night, and it sounded okay. I was really trying hard to make it sound like Thin Lizzy in my head, but I couldn't quite get there. Maybe it was just the wrong song, though. (Even the one C-Soul song I love, "Gel," doesn't sound much like T-Lizzy at all to me, sadly.)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Yer trying to get me laughed out of the buiding, aren't you. i think i heard one song on the radio once that had triple-diple tracked guitars and a definite 70's chugalug riff and that cool rave-up outro that wanders off into the distance and tries to climb jam mountain. it was cool. have no idea what it was called. there whole thang was 70's-derived, wasn't it? i don't hate them like most people, but i have been too chicken in the past to buy one of their CDs. i liked their hermetically sealed studio sound.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

And, dude, I told you this, like, 7 years ago. You are the art of remembering! Cuz I remember where i was when i heard it. at the corner store on 20th street after i had closed up for the night.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

"...and what was that waiter's name? JEAN-LUC!"

(Slightly sidetracking, could either of you list what you think the five/ten/whatever greatest Thin Lizzy ballads/slow songs were? I'm curious.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

there are slow songs on my list. it is your job to play all these songs and find them:

fuggit, here's twenty. i just picked 1 or 2 from most of the records. If not at random, then at first glance. Now I will go take off Chingy and play Thin Lizzy albums all night long. Loudly. and drunkenly. How does one play Thin Lizzy records drunkenly, you ask? Practice.

The Friendly Ranger at Clontarf Castle
Honesty Is No Excuse
Shades Of A Blue Orphanage
Rocker
Black Boys On The Corner
Whiskey In The Jar
Showdown
It's Only Money
Sweet Marie
Suicide
Rosalie
Cowboy Song
Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed
Jailbreak
We Will Be Strong
Cold Sweat
Dancing In The Moonlight
Opium Trail
That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart
Toughest Street In Town

-- scott seward (skotro...), August 2nd, 2003.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Most handy, that memory of yours!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

he's like monk!

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Wow, does Scott solve crimes? Is it like Murder, She Wrote but all the guest stars are from the Providence noise scene?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

I would add "Wild One" from Fighting to Scott's list. My favorite Thin Lizzy ballad by a mile!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Collective Soul is not good.

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

but Thin Lizzy is!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

if "She Knows" counts as a ballad then that's my favorite of theirs, I just listened to it, it's awesome. but maybe it's not a ballad. In that case, I pick "Honesty is No Excuse". Or maybe "Buffalo Gal". Or maybe "Little Girl in Bloom". Christ they were good.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

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