Songfacts®:

• A fallout in 1995 with the band's manager Bill Richardson was financially disastrous for Collective Soul, but provided inspiration for some of their weightiest songs, including "Heavy." In a Songfacts interview with lead singer Ed Roland, he explained: "I was being a little bitch I guess - I felt like I was being taken advantage of, so the whole thing is, 'All your weight it falls on me.'"
• The guitar solo uses six different types of Wah effects: two standard pedals, three Auto Wah pedals, and a digital Wah via Pro Tools. >>

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• The title doesn't appear in the lyric. "I was looking for a word that would fit what I was describing, like 'All your weight it falls on me, it brings me down,'" Roland said. "The riff I felt was a heavy riff, so, 'Heavy' just came up."
• "Heavy" rocketed to the #1 spot on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and then set a record for longevity at that position by cruising for 15 weeks. It was their seventh and final #1 on that tally.
• Dosage is the fourth Collective Soul album. It was near completion when they decided one more song was needed, which is when Roland came up with "Heavy." Running just 2:55, it's a fast-moving song that took up little space on the CD and fit nicely on rock radio playlists.
• The band performed this at the Woodstock '99 festival, along with a cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train."
  
  And "Crazy Train" pretty much sums up the Woodstock '99 experience. As opposed to earlier attempts to recapture the Woodstock spirit, Woodstock '99 was marked by riots, looting, fires, and reported rapes and assaults. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis compared viewing the fires from the stage while performing with scenes from the film Apocalypse Now. Riot police broke it up, ending it abruptly. Looking back, one has to wonder what got into people. Y2K jitters?
• Anthony J. Resta was the producer for this album. Along with being a marquee producing talent for acts such as Duran Duran and Megadeth, he also snagged his 11th RIAA Gold and Platinum certification for his production work on the soundtracks for the Twilight films. See, that's just what Collective Soul fans wanted was to be reminded of Twilight.