STEPHENIE SATURDAY: STEPHENIE'S PLAYLISTS - 'TREMBLE FOR MY BELOVED'

Happy Stephenie Saturday! We’ve got another installment of “Stephenie’s Playlist” coming your way today, and this week we’re highlighting another song for you straight from Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book playlist. For this week’s playlist highlight, TA Staffer Rebecca brings us a video for the song “Tremble For My Beloved” by Collective Soul. If you remember, this song was actually also featured on the Twilight movie soundtrack! In addition to the video, Rebecca gives us a little background information on the band, their music, and how exactly they fit into the Twilight universe. As always with Stephenie Saturday, Rebecca has added some questions for consideration for you to think about and respond to.

Questions:

- Where do you think this song fits into ‘Twilight’?
- Are you a fan of Collective Soul? If so, were you a fan before Stephenie included them on her playlist for ‘Twilight’, or did you become one after?
- Why do you think Stephenie included “Tremble for My Beloved” on her playlist?
- What’s your favourite Collective Soul song?

About Collective Soul:

Collective Soul formed in 1993 in Stockbridge, Georgia, USA.

Before forming Collective Soul Ed Roland studied composition and guitar at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since the mid 80s he had been involved in uunderground music but performing and making unpublished demos. In 1991 he recorded his own demos and released his independent solo album Ed-E Roland.
In the lat 80s/early 90s ha had a band named Marching Two-Step with Shane Evans, Michele Rhea Caplinger, Matt Serletic. After a few years, never making it past the club scene and not getting signed by any record labels the band went their separate way but were still involved in music

Ed Rowland continued to play in clubs and in 1993 his song “Shine” became an underground hit on an influential college radio station in Orlando. At around this time Ed brought in Shane Evans, his brother Dean Roland, Will Turpin and Ross Childress and they became the official line up for Collective Soul.
The exact Collective Soul song “Tremble for My Beloved” to Stephenie Meyer chose for her playlist to the Twilight novel, was chosen in 2008 to be on the Official ‘Twilight’ Soundtrack, shown in the movie in the scene where Edward saves Bella from being crushed by Tyler’s van.

Albums Include:

- Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid (1993)
- Collective Soul (1995)
- Disciplined Breakdown (1997)
- Dosage (1999)
- Blender (2000)
- Youth (2004)
- Afterwords (2007)
- Collective Soul (Rabbit) (2009)

Band Members:

- Ed Roland - (1992 - Present) - vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards
- Dean Roland - (1993 - Present) - rhythm guitar, vocals
- Will Turpin - (1993 - Present) - bass guitar, vocals
- Joel Kosche - (2001 - Present) - lead guitar
- Cheney Brannon (2008 - Present) - drums, percussion

Former Band Members:

- Ross Childress - (1992 - 2001) - lead guitar
- Shane Evans - (1992 - 2005) - drums, percussion
- Ryan Hoyle - (2005 - 2008) - drums, percussion

Official Collective Soul Websites:

- www.CollectiveSoul.com

- www.Twitter.com/Collective_Soul

- www.Myspace.com/CollectiveSoul