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For music of Collective Soul's kind, with its tightlywound crisp guitar hooks and foot-tapping three-minute longenergetic numbers, capturing its sound live and making a record outof it was a natural progression.

It is surprising, though, that the band tookMetallica's route and did a symphony live record, especially sinceit is not known to be drastically experimental or even eccentricenough to take such a step. Moreover, when the symphonic orchestrain question is made up of teenagers, it makes for a bigger surpriseto this unexpected move from a band, which one would expect no morethan a straightforward live record from.

But for a outfit that is not meant to bepath-breaking, and is underrated all the same, such a move is agood way to show the world that Collective Soul is capable of beingunconventional, and that there is more to these guys than justtheir catchy pop-rock anthems.

Though this project may sound too weird, Homecan be treated like any other live rock album. The band doesn'tallow the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra to take over its songscompletely; instead, Collective Soul performs like a regular rockband, and the Youth Orchestra provides an additional layer to thetracks without indulging in them too much. It acts as a part ofCollective Soul, and not as a separate collaborative unit.