Creed: Awesome or Sucks?

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― Robert Nanaza, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst Band in the history of the world.

― Geoffrey Balasoglou, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

creed=bad taste!

― kiwi, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i find them pretty damn bad - It's funny to think this is where grunge ended up.

― Andrew, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd really, really, really like to hear lots of detailed opinions on this one. Because Creed arepop, both in terms of their songs and in terms of the word being a shortening of "popular." They're grungy pop, yep; overblown Christian pop, sure; but about as pure a pop as exists. I think "My Sacrifice" is in fact the temptation in the wilderness for you pop-lovin' people: do you really love pop music, or do you only love it so long as it keeps part of its face hidden?

I personally am utterly fascinated by Creed for boring political reasons: that they sold umpteen albums out of the trunks of cars in a Eazy E stylee, that their popularity actually rose up organically (I worked with teenagers who had the albums before "Higher" had charted or even been noticed by radio; Creed was uniquely their band). Musically...well, what can one say? Let's hear it, then!

― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but those political reasons are all interesting, john!!

i don't believe i haf evah heard a note by creed

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is this a fucking joke? Complete shit.

― Chris, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

john just becuz you like some pop doesn't mean you have to like all; glorious parade of maniacs, shit-flingers, beautiful ones, etc.; nothing wrong with jesus in pop inherently blah blah blahzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

― jess, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You would think a pop-lite version of Pearl Jam wouldn't be so terrible, but people forget the fact that he still sounds like Eddie Vedder ie a dying yeti.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pop sounds worse with guitars.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i automatically read that as "in a dying yeti", which is probably the best description of eddie vedder/scott stapp ever (i.e. clawing their way out of the inside of the abomninable snowman.)

― jess, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely indefensible. If you like Creed, you are clearly a moron. There is no argument. It ends there.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i automatically read that as "in a dying yeti", which is probably the best description of eddie vedder/scott stapp ever (i.e. clawing their way out of the inside of the abomninable snowman.)

But that sounds cool, Jess! And Scott Stapp would never do something that cool.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel the same way about Creed as I do about the Strokes - seperated from the non-musical elements of The Band, the music's OK. Granted, my poles are aligned in such a way where the Strokes' OKness is more my style than Creed's OKness - the spectre of grunge is still too fresh in my mind to for my nostalgia receptors to properly receive signals just yet; shiftless amateurism, though, never goes out of style, baybee.

It's tough to separate Creed from their recent output, though, with their messianic posing and uplifting message. Gimme some of that Old Testament whips & chains action (cf. "My Own Prison"). By the way, the acoustic version of "My Own Prison" that made the rounds here in New England a couple years back trumps every attempt by Alice in Chains to get in touch with their soft dark underbelly. AND, comparing "Higher" w/ "My Sacrifice", one might get the sense that they're mailing it in - some barely inperceptible capitulation to the Pop gods. Maybe that's because both songs feature the same sort of rising action.

One thing that isn't disputable - their cover art is wretched. I am amazed they're selling CDs featuring pics of the 3 Creedsters' visages set in the bark of a tree.

― Daver, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seperated from the non-musical elements of The Band, the music's OK

Yeah, if you like HORRIBLE.

― Ally, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well said.

― jess, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The worst is when your own little sister get an expression of incredulity/condescendance when you diss them and their likes (silverchair, bush), silently argumenting that you're too old to get it, this is the next generation: it's her+their time!
This being just too much, I gave-up on influencing her music taste (2 years ago).
I mean some people litterally like to eat shit so who am I to judge?

― The Hegemon, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Liking Creed = coprophagy.

I can get behind that.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

do you really love pop music, or do you only love it so long as it keeps part of its face hidden?

interesting! now, it is this that has been at the bottom of a lot these pop/indie threads recently. and it seems to me to be a little something like this (this happens IRL life too)

1. person knows i like pop music
2. a horrible pop record comes out
3. person says "ha! so you must like this then?" knowing i won't
4. i say "no, its rubbish"
5. they say "ha! you faux-populist i have trapped you, you have been caught in a trap of your own making, you don't like pop at all, bring on tha modest mouse/primal scream mothafucka. hahahah!"

lets look at this a little bit more closely. i like pop. where does the idea that i must like all pop. i have some indie albums, and some hip hop too. i do not like all indie or hip hop

― gareth, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

creed's music - absolute, lovelace levels of suck. creed's videos - high energy, computer-generated comedy!

― your null fame, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The missionary traveler David Livingstone (1813-1873) believed that the slave trade could only be suppressed by a combination of Christianity and trade. He travelled extensively from east to west in southern Africa dedicated to bringing Christianity to all, but never staying very long anywhere. He was most successful among the Tswana people (in modern Botswana), even though conversion to Christianity upset the status quo of this community.

Neither Livingstone nor other missionaries had much impact on the slave trading which went on between the interior and the East coast. They failed to convert any significant numbers of Muslims to Christianity. Livingstone's well-intentioned call for colonisation as an antidote to the horrors of slavery, paved the way for a host of missionaries and speculators to follow in his footsteps and cause immense hardship for the people of southern Africa."

- from The Story of Africa

― Daver, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mulletsgalore.com/picturebooks/!pix/yu/Reign.jpg

Your typical creed fans....

― Chris, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Georgia Satellites look horrible these days, fuck.

― Ally, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh, sucks. Possibly my least favorite band in the world.

― J-hn D-hl-m, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, you guys. I mean -- I try to keep day-job related stuff out of this, though I've felt impelled to bring it in twice now in recent threads. The fact of the matter is that while the kids I've been working with since '97 like Destiny's Child, Backstreet Boys, Li'l Bow Wow (whose "Take You Home" by the way is v. wunnaful), Mandy Moore, Christina Aguilera etc., the only music they get really passionate about is Creed. The first time I heard Creed was on an adolescent psych unit and I asked the kid who'd brought it in: "Doesn't this sound an awful lot like Pearl Jam?" I got the same look The Hegemon referred to above, along with "I don't think they sound like Pearl Jam at all," "No way Creed are way better," etc. The songs "Higher" and "My Sacrifice" (which are essentially the same song) are commonly understood touchstones among the people to whom pop music means the most. Creed is hitting a rather resonant chord with pop's actual demographic: not people who talk a lot about pop & our reaction to/engagement with it, but people who live it.

Seriously I think Dealing With Creed is the imperative task facing those of us who think/write about pop music. Although it's hard to confront Creed directly, because yes, they do suck.

― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think -- perhaps very, very wrongly -- that the reason they resonate with the folks you're working with is that they MEAN IT, MAAAAAAAN. And I don't mean in the Sex Pistols sense so much as a certain heartfelt-or-seen-to-be-heartfelt something. You're saying yourself that bringing in the day job might not be the best of examples -- might it be the case that you're working with people predisposed to wanting something that suggests hope and rising beyond the crap of the world, given what has happened to them? If I'm projecting too much in terms of these people and what they're experiencing and hoping for, my apologies, but it's crossing my mind. Is that what you mean by 'living' pop, ie looking for the godstar-as-lodestar-as-popstar?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At any rate, I would think that P.O.D. would make a bigger impact than Creed, seeing as they actually are a Christian rock band.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No Ned I don't think so -- I spend a fair amount of time with the "normal" kids from the schools: Creed is generally-agreed-upon great by Kidz, though I feel confident that somebody'll bring in a counterexample like "my nephew says they suck, therefore you got no argument."

I say Creed=real pop, though a poster above is right in noting that that doesn't mean anybody "has" to like it: but certainly when the consumers of Bootylicious are generally agreed that Creed is better, then "our" own understanding of these musics may reasonably be thought to be one somehow apart from the pop understanding

This is ultimately a question about perceived audiences and our relation thereto, which means it's mark s's baby

― John Darnielle, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Ned's OTM in regards to the undeniable pop appeal John was bringing up. While those kids may love Li'L Bow Wow, Christina Aguilera et al (and more power to 'em - what do I care what shit they listen to? I listened to utter crap when I was 15 too!), Creed is one of the few bands on the pop charts that tries to project any kind of seriousness and dignity and, gosh darn it I'm gonna say it, AUTHENTICITY. That's right - they're into Jesus and stuff, ergo they are more serious than other pop lightweights because they aren't out to party/make a lot of money, etc. They're FOR REAL. They make these rock anthems because they want to uplift people and work out their problems. For yr average 15-year-old pop fan, this is legitimizing - this is the pop music that legitimizes and crystallizes their deep-seated adolescent fears/longings/etc. - this is something that they feel okay taking seriously. It's theirs, older people hate it, it's loud and rocking, ad nauseam.

That's my take on the psychology of it. I could be completely wrong, could be projecting, but I would think that's the dynamic at work here. I can't recall a single note of the band's music so I can't say how godawful they truly are. I may have seen them on some awards show or something. Frankly, I have zero interest in them and their press/image/marketing is completely unattractive to me. But the fact that they're pretty much the lone grunge holdout right now is rather... interesting.

― Shaky Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh goody --> i tht i chose my lifestyle so i didn't have deal wiv babies

what do you mean ppl who LIVE pop? i tht that was like rod stewart and christine aguilera?

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure the reason those kids are most passionate about Creed is because of the groups listed, Creed is the one that makes the most passionate music. People aren't going to react to teen pop the same way they'll react to Creed- they'll either buy the earnestness or they won't. If they do, they love it, if they don't, they probably hate it. I'd imagine they're so popular because they can appeal to a pretty wide audience. I know for certain they get played on pop and hard rock stations around here, and it wouldn't surprise me if they get occasional airplay on light rock stations as well. Maybe like the good kids version of Linkin Park.

― J-hn D-hl-m, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I agree, Shaky Mo. They seem like they stand for something incorruptible, so all that their music has to do is service this larger feeling competently enough, and with enough promotion the job's done.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops, Shaky Mo said the same thing. Damn you sir.

― J-hn D-hl-m, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but most rock is about the PROBLEM of authenticity: even when it's announcing "we're the real thing" it's feeding the worry of not being the real thing, and ensuring that worry is placed right at the heart of lived life => this is why ordinary xtian rock is onto such a loser, because it's having to fight such a radical (and such an attractive) xtian heresy

i'm a bit loth to believe that creed have solved this problem by arriving fully armed on the ordinary xtian side, unless their pop gift is genuinely stupendous (but i've never heard a note so maybe it is)

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, how well do you like blustering power ballads? As opposed to effortless ones? ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Creed => Why do people ignore the sexuality/gender role education? It's obvious that in said band they can invest more energy, relate to the singer, identify/emulate him. (This in my opinion explains why they don't like Pearl Jam as much, maybe, because GOD DAMN did Vedder wallow in his own imagined misery or what? One of the MAIN reasons I didn't relate to it AT ALL, thanks VERY MUCH, I rather ignore my problems.) Whereas with Pop, it's obviously something entirely different. You, as a guy, lust for Aguilera et al. It's a whole different uh... ballgame. But that's just silly, whereas Creed is about brute raw power, MAN. heh. Okay back to Simon Frith's On Record. Tara.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if creed = "total eclipse of the heart" then they haf stormed mine

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Did I just forget about the whole transcendental shit that obv hovers between the christian and sexual zone? I so NOT know what I am talking about OBV. heh)

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if creed = "total eclipse of the heart" then they haf stormed mine

Scott Stapp is no Jim Steinman, alas.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark- I really don't think the average pop/rock listener worries too much about whether or not it's authentic.

― J-hn D-hl-m, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Listen to Creed aged 12

Become rockist aged 14

Start defending prog aged 16

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna Rose is defending prog without ever being a Creed fan, though.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Would anyone be so kind as to tell me what a rockist is? I've seen this term used a couple times before. Classic rock lover?

― J-hn D-hl-m, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Ned, and she lives in Kenya. Riiiiiiight.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna bypassed the Creed stage. She was borne from the womb with a copy of "Silver Machine" in her hands.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Cuba Libre, we all live in Kenya. Except for me, I'm in Tibet.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

J-hn D-hl-m, the abiding panic abt authenticity is one of the defining features of rock fandom, arguably THE defining feature (even among ppl who don't know the word): hence the notorious hostility towards "manufactured pop crap" etc etc, or the look the Hegemon's sistah gives him. It structures pop fandom far less (fans just argue abt quality or sexiness or whatevah): maybe this is what Darnielle is getting at, that Creed soothe the panic rather than exacerbating it. Anyway, I didn't raise the issue, Shaky Mo did, so argue with him: I'm just saying, I'm a bit surprised if Creed embody the routine rock authenticity-nag in a way which SQUARES with their faith, as I think this is intrinsically impossible, given the gravitational pull of the form.

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Creed soothe the panic rather than exacerbating it = they are pop not rock)

there are endless threads debating the meaning of rockism in the archives: i am sorry i am v.old, so it peppers my sentences unbidden, like the pox scars of a syphilis contracted in my youth in a pirate barque in the south china seas ho-hum

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant that they were *perceived* as authentic, not that they actually WERE authentic. Some kid can look at them/hear them and make the logical leap that they are more "honest", "real", "soul- baring" than the more blatantly contrived emotive attitudes of other pop stars (Li'l Bow Wow, Christina Aguilera, etc.)

― Shaky Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

First, I think the hostility towards pop might be a bit exaggerated. Though I live in a small, isolated town which probably does not well represent the most popular American viewpoint on any issue, many of hte kidz here seem to have little problem with pop music even though the favorite is undoubtedly modern rock. What maybe you don't realize is that just about anything played on the rock station of choice or MTV isn't really questioned. I can't imagine anyone in my class saying they don't like Creed because their music isn't authentic enough (not to say they're a popular band around here, I don't believe they are); if you need evidence that the kids don't care about authenticity, look at the success of Linkin Park.

― J-hn D-hl-m, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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that is some gob bluth shit

― imago, Monday, 19 November 2018 17:05 (six years ago)

I share this with friends every thanksgiving, I watched the full performance in 2001 and it remains the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.

― omar little, Monday, 19 November 2018 17:50 (six years ago)

thank you bg for giving me something to be thankful for this year

― Saddo Wannabe (rip van wanko), Monday, 19 November 2018 21:55 (six years ago)

Cool, I'd been looking for the musical equivalent of drdoomcrying.jpg.

― My mother set great store by that microwave oven! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 November 2018 22:39 (six years ago)

stapp's fist-pump gesture after the angel's departure just kills me every time

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 19 November 2018 22:50 (six years ago)

the moment in its full glory (all praise to Him, of course) is here, at 1:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prLQhRYh_Ls

― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 November 2018 22:53 (six years ago)

not to actually the tweet, but

that's not even the best part of that performance pic.twitter.com/1thBAYil5R
— Zach Scott (@weinventyou) November 19, 2018

― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 November 2018 23:02 (six years ago)

while it was unfolding live i couldn't believe what i was seeing. cheerleaders, a tot with a salvation army kettle, a gospel choir, a bunch of Ed Kowalczyks flying through the air on sashes, Scott Stapp #11 and his ill-prepared lip-syncing.

I doubt there's a pop culture time capsule that better explains the immediate post-9/11 era and atmosphere of the U.S.

― omar little, Monday, 19 November 2018 23:12 (six years ago)

Idgi... it’s just a dude doing aerial silks?

― rb (soda), Monday, 19 November 2018 23:12 (six years ago)

I doubt there's a pop culture time capsule that better explains the immediate post-9/11 era and atmosphere of the U.S.

yeah, my partner and i were just talking about that. it is incredibly over-the-top nov 2001

― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 November 2018 23:20 (six years ago)

idg how this is any different from every other stupid superbowl halftime show

― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 November 2018 23:25 (six years ago)

it's that, but up for six days on meth

― Saddo Wannabe (rip van wanko), Monday, 19 November 2018 23:34 (six years ago)

xp Owl City is def way worse than Creed wtf

At least Creed is lulz

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 09:51 (six years ago)

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https://pre00.deviantart.net/19ae/th/pre/f/2010/139/2/a/can_you_take_me_higher_by_dark_amy_rose.png

― My mother set great store by that microwave oven! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 11:24 (six years ago)

idg how this is any different from every other stupid superbowl halftime show

look I share your antipathy toward halftime shows (except the Prince one) but shirtless flying dude taking wing past Scott Stap singing "Higher" in a Dallas Cowboys jersey and fistpumping ascends his bald angel ascends to the upper air of the stadium, if you can't see how that's special then you need to get higher

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 12:45 (six years ago)

*as his bald angel ascends

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 12:45 (six years ago)

stapp looks a lot like kenny loggins. i sort of always knew that but didn't really.

it's that, but up for six days on meth
― Saddo Wannabe (rip van wanko), Monday, November 19, 2018 11:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not to nitpick but he looks a lot more like he's on downers to me. his lukewarm performance and the fact that he looks like a blurry character in a mcnaughton painting is what makes the aerial stunting so embarrassing imo.

― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:54 (six years ago)

when he puts his arms out to his sides and sashays around he looks like a figure skater.

the "christian" and the "rock" and the b+ theater are a perfect storm of camp

― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:58 (six years ago)

i can't believe i'm dissecting a creed super bowl video

― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:59 (six years ago)

i'm right here with you for this

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 02:59 (six years ago)

two years pass...

well, um... huh.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/tv-film/9501073/scott-stapp-frank-sinatra-ronald-reagan-biopic/

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:19 (four years ago)

Everything about this sounds awesome. A Reagan biopic starring Real Hollywood Conservatives Dennis Quaid and Jon Voight, with Scott Stapp as Frank Sinatra, directed by the guy who made the Bratz movie, two Casper sequels, and 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain starring Hulk Hogan. (The latter having the distinction, per Wikipedia, of being "the worst of the four" in the 3 Ninjas franchise.)

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:55 (four years ago)

two years pass...

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https://www.villagevoice.com/2023/02/14/creed-the-musical-not-an-unserious-production-by-unserious-people/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 20:54 (two years ago)

should be more plays/movies where Scott Stapp goes to jail imo

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 21:45 (two years ago)

eleven months pass...

let's go there

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:55 (one year ago)

has anyone here played creed on a jukebox as a joke?

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:56 (one year ago)

this thread should only be updated with clips and gifs of that halftime show performance

― ivy., Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:58 (one year ago)

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6191dfb6-e20f-42c2-9544-1f0edabe6a27_352x262.gif

― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:08 (one year ago)

thank you omar

― ivy., Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:09 (one year ago)

@medranothelion
1 year ago

Love or hate Creed, you can't deny that after the attack, this performance was what we needed to start healing. Creed were heroes on this days.

― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:14 (one year ago)

there's something abt Stapp's performance which really reminds me of some extremely bad acting you might see on a basic cable tv show, from an actor who knows he's very good looking and just every single look and expression is an overemphatic and false, just an absolute masterclass in unctuousness.

― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:20 (one year ago)

I interviewed Stapp and Tremonti (and their producer, John Kurzweg) some years ago, when their debut album turned 20. They were all nice guys, and interesting to talk to.

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:38 (one year ago)

xp Lorenzo Lamas

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:42 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwDNSCsD8w8

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:53 (one year ago)

I saw Creed live once. it wasn't necessarily "on purpose", because they were opening for Metallica (very odd lineup of Sevendust, Kid Rock, Creed, then...Tallica). he did some bullshit spiritual philosophy crap between each song.

but, at the time, they only had two albums, and...I still kinda like My Own Prison, so...it wasn't the worst thing I ever heard.

well...except for the lyrics. and Stapp

― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:52 (one year ago)

back in I think 1999, when Yahoo was still doing live chats with bands where you could log in and submit your questions and listen to the audio of them answering, I asked Scott what he thought of his comparisons to Eddie Vedder, and he said "Oh I kick his ass completely, he doesn't even do the same voice on any of his albums", and giggling about how awesome he was vocally.

someone snuck in the question "what Creed song would be on the compilation 'crap songs of our time'" and then Stapp got mad that the moderator let that one through

― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:01 (one year ago)

then he answered "none because Creed is not crap you see"

― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:02 (one year ago)

On July 19, 2023, the band announced that they had reunited and would be headlining the Summer of '99 cruise in April 2024. On October 30, 2023 the band announced The Summer of '99 Tour, with more than 40 shows across the US for the first time in 12 years with special guests 3 Doors Down as direct support on a majority of the tour, with Finger Eleven, Daughtry, Switchfoot, Tonic and Big Wreck joining the band on select dates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_(band)

With any luck, the ship will hit an iceberg.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:22 (one year ago)

3 Doors Down will donate $5 to the military every time they boff a chord change

― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:29 (one year ago)

haha who the fuck is finger eleven

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:58 (one year ago)

Nabbed $28 presale tickets to the Southern California stop. ("Summer of $19.99" deal) I'm pretty stoked.

― DT, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 06:27 (one year ago)

two months pass...

I don't know a lot about Finger Eleven, but I do know that the band's original name was

Rainbow Butt Monkeys

and that Paralyzer (2007) was a huge hit in Canada and can still be heard on Canadian radio quite frequently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJk6gZuPKRE

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 29 April 2024 04:32 (one year ago)

two months pass...

OK so I'm not great at keeping up with my bookmarks.

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 29 April 2024 04:34 (one year ago)

With any luck, the ship will hit an iceberg.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, January 30, 2024 5:22 PM (two months ago)

Haha, I knew someone who shelled out for the cruise. He shared vids & pics on FB all weekend.

So...many...wallet chains.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 April 2024 04:39 (one year ago)

https://i.imgur.com/xwl392s.gif

― c u (crüt), Monday, 29 April 2024 04:45 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHKGlumSuAA

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 April 2024 05:35 (one year ago)

oh they posted a version that wasn't ripped from the stream in potato quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdKfaq1YN8

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 April 2024 05:38 (one year ago)

lol that photo

― dyl, Monday, 29 April 2024 05:42 (one year ago)

i encountered "my sacrifice" in public for the first time in who knows how long the other day

― dyl, Monday, 29 April 2024 05:42 (one year ago)

five months pass...

I interviewed Scott Stapp for Stereogum. There's some good stuff in there about maintaining sobriety and mental health on the road.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 11 October 2024 15:41 (nine months ago)

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