Creed: Awesome or Sucks?

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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 (five years ago) link

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

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

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link

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

rb (soda), Monday, 19 November 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link


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 (five years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Monday, 19 November 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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


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