Creed: Awesome or Sucks?

My problem with Creed is not Stapp's voice (works well in context) or persona (rock music is chock full of douchebags) or the guitar riffs (decent hard rock). My problem is that, like pretty much every post-grunge rock band in America, the songs are too fucking slow. They do not "rock." They shuffle from foot to foot. It's no wonder their videos have so much slo-mo in 'em; their drummer plays in slow motion. Staind are actually worse offenders in this regard (did they release one single that wasn't a fucking dirge?), but Creed are a prime example of trudge-rock. The only Creed song I like even a little is "Bullets," because for at least part of its running time the drummer wakes up, and the band gets into second gear. They don't sustain it, of course. But for a minute or so, they are a genuinely rockin' band. (They pull the same trick on the new single, "Overcome.")

i guess the fact that creed has actual pop songs and stuff make them automatically better than a lot of bands i don't even know the name of. shinedown? is that one of them? i just hate this type of music tbh

CREED ARE THE WORST BAND EVER, JUST SAYING

worse than nickelback?

they might be tied, but you are so right, nickelback are awful

What's up with Creed doing that WHOOOAAAAOOOHHHOHHHH YAAAGHASEXIZONFIYAAAAH song a year back or so?

I've been trying to get people to refer to this vocal style as "reer" for many years.. Here's something I wrote about it a long time ago on my friends facebook..

"Reer" is a vocal style that became popular by a young surfer named Edward Vedder from The Pearl Jam.. it's main characteristic is how often there's extra emphasis on the "err's" and "rree's".. a few years later the style was adopted by singers from far more mediocre bands such as Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish, and eventually an entire mainstream rock subgenre was built around it starting in 1998 by the emergence of Creed's Scott Stapp, eventually resulting in its peak in popularity which took place between 2000 and 2002 with Chad Kroger from Nickleback, Aaron Lewis from Staind, and that asshole from Godsmack.. one of the most recent big hit songs of this type was "Lips Of An Angel" from Hinder. lots of modern mainstream country singers also use this vocal style, but it's normally used to describe bullshit bar-rock where the singer sounds like eddie vedder.

I recall writing that during that during work using my phone keypad which is why I'll have to apologize for the poor grammar and word choice, but you get the point..

The next year, at home in Orlando, Stapp put two guns to his head, intent on blowing out his brains.

Sorry for laughing but, seriously, two guns for the suicide attempt there, Scott?

I don't feel sorry laughing about that at all.

"Higher" might turn out to be the nu-grunge "Don't Stop Believing"

Can definitely see this -- along with the inevitable rehabilitation down the road. Oh well.

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Even with a suicide attempt things had to be overblown. TWO GUNS.

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/08/hardboiledpic.jpg

wooicide

sorry that was lame.

i meant attempted wooicide

Hold up, before I get my twin suicide guns let me release the doves.

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I've been trying to get people to refer to this vocal style as "reer" for many years.

I always thought it was called yarl?

awesome article.

And thus I roffle.

Stapp is also slated to be one of the featured singers on a version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" for the new Santana album, "Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time,"

Oh man, I can hear this in my head and it's horrible.

i hate creed so much.

so excited!

Guys I have to admit I think "My Own Prison" is kind of an awesome song, and that I did it at karaoke once.

It's also about Scott Stapp being damned, so that's fine.

Ok, that's really only true of the the first verse, but he doesn't really enunciate the rest.

I'm prepared for the sbs, but Creed's first album isn't completely awful as far as post-grunge mall-rock goes. It all went downhill starting with that second album.

I always thought One had kind of a taut rollick in the verses

I mean, basically they went from being a band that I didn't completely mind when "My Own Prison" came on the alt-rock station to being a band that made me want to SMASH whenever I heard them.

In 2004, former Creed members Mark Tremonti, Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall, found themselves searching for the perfect new singer…enter the one and only, Myles Kennedy. Since then, they have been a mainstay on rock radio and now releasing a new record, AB III on November 9! (Miles also performs on Slash’s new solo record and fronts his touring band).

http://gizmodo.com/5739091/how-creed-saved-a-norwegian-boy-from-a-pack-of-wolves

Earlier this week, in the Norwegian town of Rakkestad, 13-year-old Walter Eikrem was walking home from school when he crossed paths with a pack of wolves. With his life on the line, he had to think quick. He blasted Creed.

"At first, I thought it might have been the neighbor's dogs," Walter told a Norwegian TV station after the incident. In fact, all alone amongst the sloping, snowy hills that separated his school from his family's farmhouse, he was about to encounter four wild wolves.

Fearing that they were getting ready to attack, Walter remained calm, remembering his mother's exhortation not to run away if he ever encountered the animals in the wild. So he stood his ground and figured he might be able to scare the animals off with the music from his cell phone. He yanked out his earbuds. Out blared Creed's Christian rock anthem "Overcome."

Walter waved his arms wildly and screamed at the top of his lungs along with the music, and sure enough, the wolves turned around and walked the other way. I'm sure Creed has saved many fans in its career but never quite like this.

wolves should have eaten the kid for that imo

I'd rather been eaten by wolves than listen to Creed.

There's another version of this story that the band in question is Megadeth.

I'd rather been eaten by wolves than listen to Creed.

otm

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Music tames the savage beast, whereas Creed makes it cringe and slink away with a feeling of cultural superiority. Reply
Edited by hilikusopus at 01/21/11 9:26 AM

i honestly can't think of a band off the top of my head that i despise more.

that shit about creed vs. owl city where the latter won the poll for being worse is super rong imo

june 10, 2002...my first post ever.

Saved by Creed? Norwegian Boy Fends Off Wolf Pack with Heavy Metal

Has anyone heard about this in the past two days??????//?

no

first paragraph of that article... eat yr heart out goalkeeper:

While walking home from the busstop this week, a 13-year-old Norwegian school boy stumbled upon four wolves. In the end, it may have been his love of heavy-metal music by the band Creed that saved his life.

ppl who hypenate 'heavy metal' are disgusting savages im indubitably correct o

ppl who can't spell 'hyphenate' = life's winners

i hope this sorry sack of shit band does not get critically rehabbed when the 00s revival comes about.

don't have to settle no god damn score

My bartender looks like Scott stapp

this brings tears to my eyes

He has a pooka shell necklace with a cross on it.

Long brown locks that scream "I am beefing with kid rock"