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 Belovedâ 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 âTwilightâ?
- Are you a fan of Collective Soul? If so, were you a fan before Stephenie included them on her playlist for âTwilightâ, or did you become one after?
- Why do you think Stephenie included âTremble for My Belovedâ on her playlist?
- Whatâs 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 Since the mid 80s he had been involved in uunderground music but performing and making unpublished demos.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 musicEd Rowland continued to play in clubs and in 1993 his song âShineâ 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 âTremble for My Belovedâ to Stephenie Meyer chose for her playlist to the Twilight novel, was chosen in 2008 to be on the Official âTwilightâ Soundtrack, shown in the movie in the scene where Edward saves Bella from being crushed by Tylerâs 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, percussionFormer Band Members:
- Ross Childress - (1992 - 2001) - lead guitar
- Shane Evans - (1992 - 2005) - drums, percussion
- Ryan Hoyle - (2005 - 2008) - drums, percussionOfficial Collective Soul Websites:





















It’s probably on Steph’s playlist, because it was in the actual movie….I love this song…it fit perfectly where it was put! =)
I agree with Miranda, it fits perfectly anywhere in the movie! I love this song!
I saw them live.