Creed: Awesome or Sucks?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (292 of them)

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

well said.

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

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-one years ago) link

Liking Creed = coprophagy.

I can get behind that.

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

"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-one years ago) link

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

Your typical creed fans....

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

The Georgia Satellites look horrible these days, fuck.

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

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

(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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

Listen to Creed aged 12

Become rockist aged 14

Start defending prog aged 16

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

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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-one years ago) link

(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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

I don't follow the last step, though. They sing loud, they have loud guitars, they are Passionate About Frustrating Things = why can't they be authentic? It's just that Creed has God on their side -- but Dan's point about P.O.D. is good too.

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

wouldn't you think that a band that only had the trappings and background of true Xtian rock would have a wider range of appeal than a band that really WAS ham-fisted Xtian rock? Hence Creed's christianity can be a legitimizing factor, but the fact that they aren't IN YOUR FACE about it makes it all that much more appealing...? It's like the social psychology of the big strong guy who's just a little bit fallible being more popular than the big strong guy who never fucks up (and who everybody despises at little mister perfect).

I'm getting out of my league here, discussing a band I only know peripherally...

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

"if you need evidence that the kids don't care about authenticity, look at the success of Linkin Park": all this means is that "the kids" don't share your DEFINITION of authenticity, not that they don't care about whether or not the ppl making the music they like are doing it for real => they care lots

anyway, like i say, could you two please argue with EACH OTHER as you are claiming completely totally opposite and contradictory things abt creed; I REITERATE I HAVE NEVER HEARD A NOTE BY THEM!!

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

(you two = shaky and JD) (ned you can argue w. whoevah you like)

whether or not authenticity is a feature of this or that rockband, the WORRY ABOUT AUTHENTICITY is central to the defn of rock as a form: that's the point i'm making

linkin park lyric that is in a panic abt authenticity:
What do I do to ignore them behind me?
Do I follow my instincts blindly?
Do I hide my pride / from these bad dreams
And give in to sad thoughts that are maddening?
Do I / sit here and try to stand it?
Or do I / try to catch them red - handed?
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness,
Or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness?
Because I can’t hold on / when I’m stretched so thin
I make the right moves but I’m lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up getting hurt again
By myself [myself]
I ask why, but in my mind
I find I can’t rely on myself

note keyword: phoniness

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

You're all just a bunch of phonies!

― Holden Caulfield, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

christian and gospel albums sales rose 13.5% vs a 3% decline for the all music category. salem broadcasting has 83 stations and is expanding, businessweek says it is a good investment.

― keith, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

P.O.D., though they carry the Xtian Seal of Approval, are more in tune w/ the type of salvation offered by your grunge forefathers - even in a song as uplifting as "Alive", there's that sense of foreboding doom, of life being a temporary state, and a struggle. (That could be the Dropped D tuning talking, I dunno.) It's moody as hell, just as moody as anything offered by Pearl Jam or Soundgarden circa 1992-3.

Pearl Jam offered salvation through suffering - I know, when I was 17 and 18, I felt soothed listening to Eddie villify himself and The World. In a sense, he was dying for my sins, absolving me of my mistakes and faults by sticking my nose in the doo-doo. (Once a Catholic, always a Catholic.) Creed offer a guilt-free epiphany - doesn't matter what you did, or how bad you were, because you're free now. Hell, "My Sacrifice" manages to completely gloss over the messy sacrifice part; it just skips to the holy hossanas and the glorious light beaming through stained glass windows. It's the same sort of escape offered by any pop act, but it's couched in this portentious rhetoric, and offered via grandiose musical gestures that signify significance (or, at the very least, importance, in that BOOMING VOICE OF GOD manner).

Whether the band MEANS any of it or not is immaterial - the SONGS mean it. Pearl Jam's long since given up on the tortured messianic path to riches, but listening to _Ten_ nowadays (speaking as someone who was there when it happened), the power's still there.

― Daver, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

John, that is such a rockist reading of pop! Creed are "real pop", and their fans are "real pop fans", eh? So talking about pop is somehow less pop? I bet those "authentic" Creed-lovin' dronez never think about music like we meta-freaks do... (Not that this is necessarily your argument, but it kind of goes with it...)

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oops, maybe I should read further down threads before I post...

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

And doesn't the success of Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne -- young women who would have been marketed as Britney clones two, three years ago, now given guitars and pianos (and Billy Joel soundalike songs to boot in the case of Carlton) further epitomize the current trend towards "authenticity" in the way pop's being consumed at present? Even the way Pink's being treated as the next coming of punk, thanks to Linda Perry (and watch out Xtina is next!) belies this.

― maura, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Recipe for a Creed Hit:

Step One: Write down the first contextless sentense fragment that comes to your mind. (For example "With Arms Wide Open");
Step Two: Record yourself repeating the phrase incessantly, without clarifying what you are referring to, preferably in a parody of the singer from Jars of Clay pretending to be the singer from DC Talk pretending to be a very boring version of Eddie Vedder...on Thorazine.
Step Three: Record a dull corner-bar band with HORDE aspirations doing listless, sleepy "anthemic", "passionate" "riffage" behind the prerecorded vocal.
Step Four: Subtly insert a few subliminal messages advertizing Tim LaHayes new apocalyptic book "The Turner Diar....Left Behind."
Step Five: Payola Payola Payola.
Step Six Six Six: Sings the praises of Mammon for you new found wealth and "critical acclaim" from such respected musical experts such as the cast of the 700 Club.

― Lord Custos X, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait, so if we don't like it, it made the charts due to payola, but if we do like it, then it's genius pop which clearly made the grade on its own merits? Creed is pop Creed is pop Creed is pop

― John Darnielle, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Skipping 192 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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

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

xp Owl City is def way worse than Creed wtf

At least Creed is lulz

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

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/828/665/533.jpg
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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

*as his bald angel ascends

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

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

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

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

i'm right here with you for this

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

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

narroweyeFryFuturama.gif

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 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

eleven months pass...

let's go there

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:55 (four months ago) link

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

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:56 (four months ago) link

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

― ivy., Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:58 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

thank you omar

― ivy., Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:09 (four months ago) link

@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 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

xp Lorenzo Lamas

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:42 (four months ago) link

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

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:53 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

haha who the fuck is finger eleven

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:58 (four months ago) link

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 (four months ago) link

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 month ago) link

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 month ago) link

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 month ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 month ago) link

lol that photo

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

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 month ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.