Creed breaks up after a bunch of shitty prom songs.
I can't describe my elation that Creed will not continue on their path to this generation's version of Journey. Scott Stapp might be the most annoying rockstar on earth and I hope any solo projects that he has fall flat on their face. I mean I am sorry to nail such an easy target, but I just can't help myself.
I am sure softball teams, nascar fans, and people with mullets everywhere are in mourning. As a result, I am laughing.
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1 - Felch
Creed sucks: Enuff said
2 - in10sity
I will never forget where I was the day that Creed broke up.....
In my room, laughing.
3 - Eric Olsen
hey, I like softball, played many years AND I MAY PLAY AGAIN!
4 - The Dude
Creed who?
5 -
Creed is the best Pearl Jam cover band ever.
6 - Tom Johnson
Don't insult an actually great band like Pearl Jam by associating them with the tards in Creed. Creed wished they were half as good as PJ, but since Scott Stapp thought he was apparently God, they played that card instead.
If only those meteors had hit Scott in that damned awful video . . . it would have been glorious. I can't count the times I saw snippets of that video and hoped, "Maybe this time!" One can dream.
7 - Craig Lyndall
Thankfully, there is no such thing as Creed with a different singer. There is no more Creed. I have been released from "My Own Prison" and I embrace this new day "With Arms Wide Open." I have been "Weathered" by this band for a long time and now and I feel like "My Sacrifice" is finally over.
8 - RJ Elliott
Oh, Creed was okay...yes the lead singer was a bit of a kook, but some of their songs were alright... :-/
9 - BRICKLAYER
Dude, softball rules. Especially the part afterward where you get to stand around drinking beer and talking about music.
10 - Eric Olsen
and the part where everyone moves up when the girls bat
11 - Craig Lyndall
I like softball too, but there is a certain type of guy that permeates softball games everywhere on the earth. This is the guy who couldn't make it to the majors and is trying to live out those fantasies in some beer league. He might have a story about the coach who cut him, or the injury he had that kept him from becoming the next Cy Young or Babe Ruth. He is sad, and I don't mean how he is feeling. Not all softball players are like that, but quite a few are. They think they are tough and based on my anecdotal evidence at bars here in Cleveland, they have a tendency to like Creed. That was all that I meant.
12 - Eric Olsen
Hmm, most people I know like tht wouldn't even know who Creed was.
13 - brown_boognish
You guys laugh now, but Creed's precense will be felt years down line. Ten years from now when classic rock stations begin to play music from the late ninties, Creed's singles will dominate the airwaves. They are easily one of the best selling rock bands of the last decade. You think they will fade away, but years from now we will all with the cock/christian rock of creed.
I also predict a popular Scott Stapp solo career. There are an army of creed fans the outnumber the rest of us. There is nothing we can do to stop them now.
14 - Bob A. Booey
Brown Boognish: please write more often. You are (quite unintentionally) the funniest writer I have ever read on here. I positively adore you.
"Cock/christian rock" is one of the greatest phrases ever uttered. Contradiction-in-terms to you at all? That label explains everything that was wrong with Creed so elegantly. We all know that classic rock radio is the Mount Olympus of great music, right?
The real reason those other idiots in the band ditched Scott Stapp isn't his substance habits or his touring behavior, it's that they stopped selling records and it wasn't worth putting up with anymore. Creed's career is over and done and so is Stapp's.
I will say this, though. I'll miss Stapp for one reason. He was a fat lead singer of an alternative band who didn't know he was fat when he extended his arms for the big Jesus pose in the rain and his big, fat gut hung out there. I mean, think about it. Fat lead singers in angsty grunge bands are so rare. And no, Smashmouth and Blues Traveler don't count because lame, fat- guy-in-a-Hawaiian-shirt party rock isn't what I'm talking about. Usually they're vaguely effeminate, lean, wiry guys who front alternative rock bands. Not only did Scott Stapp have the courage to borrow Eddie Vedder's secular, Godless vocal mannerisms and apply them to the word of the Almighty, Stapp also had the courage to say "one more beer" and always took on the challenge of another plate of buffalo wings where lesser, smaller men failed. He belted out those Pearl Jam riffs of those yearning for spiritual meaning and searched through personal truth and hurt in his own well-fed, hypocritical Jesus freak kind of white trash way. You're a hero, Scott Stapp.
We'll remember you always.
15 - Shark
Christian-Rock: possibly the greatest oxymoron EVER.
Sex, drugs, rock 'n... um... Jesus.
But I must admit -- as a raging agnostic -- I'll have to change my mind: Creed breaking up MEANS THERE IS A GOD!
Fuckin' fancy that.
PS: That singer... um...
he's...
GAY.
16 - jack e. jett
creed can never compare to my favorite jesus band of all time....stryper.
i still wear my stryper t shirt proudly.
i once heard them sing..
Smoke on the water
Jesus in the sky.
i would give anything to have sex with a jesus rocker. (male)
any suggestions?
jack e. jett
17 - Craig Lyndall
Bob, while I absolutely adore your name because I listen to Stern religiously every single day, but you do not have a clue.
Despite my protests and hatred, there is one thing you can't say about Creed and their albums. You said they stopped selling, and that was your flaw. This is my problem with them. They suck, but they can't seem to stop selling records. And I quote...
From this article
The next time Creed release an album, take Scott Stapp's hunches as prophesy. A week after predicting his band's Weathered would overshadow new albums by Pink, Kid Rock and others on next week's Billboard 200 albums chart (see "Creed Think They'll Beat Out Pink, Sting, Now 8 For #1 Chart Slot"), it did just that, while also achieving the honor of having the second highest first-week sales totals of any album released this year.
The Floridian rockers sold more than 887,000 copies of Weathered to land at #1 on next week's chart, according to SoundScan figures released Wednesday (November 28). Creed is now two for three when it comes to placing albums atop the chart, as their previous album, 1999's Human Clay, occupied the same slot after its first week in stores.
Weathered's debut-week sales rank it third among rock albums in the SoundScan era (since 1991), following Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, which sold more than 1.02 million in its first week last year, and Pearl Jam's Vs., which moved more than 950,000 copies its first week in 1993.
and then again in this one
January 16, 2002 05:00 PM - Creed (news)'s "Weathered" will again grace the top slot on the forthcoming Billboard 200 album chart, marking the album's eighth consecutive week at No. 1. The album is one of five Top 10 releases that will stay put this week.
"Weathered" (Wind-Up), the Florida-based rock trio's third album, sold about 138,000 copies during its most recent week in stores, and has now sold a total of about 3.9 million copies since its release less than two months ago, according to industry sources. The group, which today (1/16) launched a tour, continues to ride the top of the singles chart with its latest single, "My Sacrifice."
And trust me Eric, this means that the softball guys know them and bought their album from Best Buy.
18 - Craig Lyndall
Sorry, one more link.
This article tells about how My Own Prison went platinum 10 times over, Human Clay went platinum 5 times and weathered went platinum 5 times also. That was on Feb 9th of 2002. 20,000,000+ albums over 2 years ago.
19 - visualsimplicity
Despite Craig pointing out the type of person that likes Creed, I have yet to meet a single person that does. Apparently, there's at least 5 million of them right?
Oh and I sense sarcasm from brown boognish, so he/she doesn't count.
Good riddance by the way. Now if only the #1 ranked rock band for debut-week sales will break up.
20 - Craig Lyndall
Frankly, I don't care if Limp Bizkit breaks up or not. Those guys are insignificant now. The problem with Creed is that they are all over the radio. Imagine that! Clear Channel playing a Christian themed rock band heavily on its playlists.
21 - TDavid
Is it just me or does every Creed song sound the same?
I suppose other bands have had this same curse, but after the first album, the originality was well, lost. For this listener, anyway.
22 - Mark Saleski
ok...here i go:
i really liked the song "Higher".
but hell, back in the day i also liked the song "Afternoon Delight".
23 - Bob A. Booey
Creed sold well 2 years ago, but they haven't had an album since then and the music landscape has changed a lot. I'd be they've sold much less of their albums the past 2 years and I highly doubt they'd break platinum if they released an album today (before they broke up, that is). I do know that their concert tours were dissatisfying to a lot of people (including a lawsuit) and weren't nearly as successful as expected the past couple of years.
That is all.
24 - Craig Lyndall
It's true that is how the musical cycle goes, but based on the number of times I hear Creed on the radio around here per week, I think they could have gone at least a couple times platinum using the same formula that they used for the last couple of albums. It doesn't matter though. They are gone.
25 - Me
I LOVED CREED