Creed: Awesome or Sucks?

that creed video where they are 3D animated angelic/spartan warriors in some sort of bad fantasy scape, battling some weird alien lobster creatures with long swords and crazy kung fu skillz

1. their sound is an amalgam of traits pilfered from bands i like. scott stapp's voice is so affected, like the worst moments of scott weiland filtered through days of the new, with a dash of layne stayley. he's more histrionic than mariah carey. plus, the guitars sound awful, compressed to hell and run through the most irritatingly banal fuzz box ever made (possibly the DOD Metal pedal?). basically, they take the worst sonic qualities of grunge and make them even more irritating than that. 2. nothing they are doing is particularly interesting in the way that, say, chart pop is interesting to me. i like that brandy single because it's funky in a weird way, and i like songs about wronged lovers. on the other hand, i can't figure out what the hell creed songs are about, and they aren't interesting on any musical level. they simply take what others have done, and make it worse.

WILL NO-ONE COMMENT ON THE BRILLIANCE OF THIS NAME? Mr. Darnielle, we have a winner.

but creed still sux

But any self-respecting trailer-trash mullethead would not like Creed when they have their Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Metallica, and AC/DC.

I just see the trailer trash mullethead kids breaking beer bottles on the side of a junked-out double-wide saying, "TOOL IS THE FUCKIN SHIT!" instead of "CREED IS THE FUCKIN SHIT!"

Creed is pop music for "Ordinary Fucking People."

you know anthony, if yer gonna like cheese we gotta get you to like higher-quality cheese not cheez-whiz like creed!

I'd say this is almost true.

And how wrong you are.

The new Matchbox Twenty stuff is shockingly fun to listen to.

They have a new album?

Anyway, I will go on record as saying that I like "Higher". I wasn't listening to the radio or watching music videos when the song first hit, so I only ever heard it in shops or taxis and thus never had the chance to get sick of it. Divorced of its settings, it's a perfectly acceptable pop-metal song.

but creed still sux

-- Tad (llamasfu...), January 30th, 2003

god this band are shite

-- Tad (llamasfu...), June 5th, 2003

SUCKS!

-- Eisbär (llamasfu...), April 5th, 2005.

I mean, lots of folks assume that blues/jazz should be in the same bin b/c Sam Goody puts them in the same dark corner (pun intended) of the store, so why shouldn't they pay more attention to Creed b/c they used to be on giant posters in the front window?

I think Creed is an interesting study in what manu-pop, pop, and popular bands have as their key characteristics.

This saddens me so much.

Joy Division. The Bad Seeds. The Tindersticks. KINO. The National.

If I decoded your last post correctly, the bone of contention would be the Tindersticks. Fair enough; they're an acquired taste, and pretty monotonous as well. I like them still.

(As you can see, this a sore spot for me, for one obvious reason)