Claude says:Collective Soul's 1994 alt-rock earworm "The World I Know" hit different in the post-grunge moment—that clean, almost pop-adjacent guitar hook and Ed Roland's guileless vocal made it an outlier in a sea of heavier flannel-and-distortion. You've circled back to it sporadically over the years, leaning hard on that title track and its 45 version like you're chasing the specific feeling it nails, something between earnestness and the radio-ready sheen that made '90s alternative tolerable.