What's so bad about Creed?

Treyert14 said:

EarlWelsh said:

Just my humble opinion, but you asked so....here goes....

Creed embodies everything that's wrong or could possibly go wrong with mainstream-bro-rock music.

1. Shirts with flames on them and leather pants
2. Melted-Swiss-cheesy-as-fuck riffs played with the appropriate I'm-rocking-so-hard-that-it-hurts faces
3. Watered down, unoriginal tunes. I'm sorry, but mashing together AiC's Rooster and PJ's Alive and covering with spitshine from a corporate shit eating grin doesn't make it anything but shit worth flushing.

Oh, and top all of that with poorly written songs about god. Sorry, but they're the worst, or at least they're up there pretty far.

To each his own, though. All music is there for someone to enjoy. Liking Creed is a tough job but someone's gotta do it.

Melted-Swiss-cheesy- as-f? What does that even mean? Lol and what's this Rooster and Alive combo? What song is that?

Haha, come on man. Really? It means what it says. To my ears, it's super hammy, overly-emotional music played with a fake sincerity. And I wasn't referring to a specific song but it could be any of them, I suppose. Dark and brooding but with uplifting, life-affirming, super fucking hokey choruses. They pulled pages from the "grunge" book and just watered it down. That's their sound to my ears. Nothing more.

Also, when they made their comeback I saw some live footage on TV and Scott Stapp Infection sounded seriously fucking tone deaf. My heart went out to anyone who paid to see it and didn't learn from the first time the band was around.

Treyert14 said:

EarlWelsh said:

Treyert14 said:

EarlWelsh said:

For the life of me, the only band I can think of that MAY be worse is Nickleback. I'd rather listen to a 13-year-old's first band practice in his parents' garage then have to listen to any of that shit.

Nickelback is absolutely horrible. But I can name way worse bands the that. Just to name a few....
Volbeat at number 1
Five Finger Death Punch
Pop Evil
Three Days Grace..

I've only heard three days grace out of that group and, yes, they're terrible. Haha.

You must not listen to the radio then.. Lol consider yourself lucky.

Only Sirius radio and you know what I'm listening to there.

Treyert14 said:

EarlWelsh said:

Treyert14 said:

EarlWelsh said:

Treyert14 said:

EarlWelsh said:

For the life of me, the only band I can think of that MAY be worse is Nickleback. I'd rather listen to a 13-year-old's first band practice in his parents' garage then have to listen to any of that shit.

Nickelback is absolutely horrible. But I can name way worse bands the that. Just to name a few....
Volbeat at number 1
Five Finger Death Punch
Pop Evil
Three Days Grace..

I've only heard three days grace out of that group and, yes, they're terrible. Haha.

You must not listen to the radio then.. Lol consider yourself lucky.

Only Sirius radio and you know what I'm listening to there.

PEARL JAM!!!
\m/

That or '40s on 4. Good shit!

shortstack said:

EarlWelsh said:

Only Sirius radio and you know what I'm listening to there.

a washed up grunge band trying to stay relevant?

+1

Wait....what?

Treyert14 said:

So nobody here liked Creed when they first came out? Cause I kinda feel like alot of the hate towards them comes from overplay.

I'm sure everyone liked Creed but they won't admit it because it isn't hip. When a band gets too big, suddenly everyone hates them for it. It's hipster logic. Creed had some great songs, but should have never made a music video (or at least should never had any creative control over one). My god they were all terrible and self indulgent and really over-played the regilious themes of some of the songs and stopped people from being able to have their own interpretation.

dustinpardue said:

Treyert14 said:

So nobody here liked Creed when they first came out? Cause I kinda feel like alot of the hate towards them comes from overplay.

I'm sure everyone liked Creed but they won't admit it because it isn't hip. When a band gets too big, suddenly everyone hates them for it. It's hipster logic. Creed had some great songs, but should have never made a music video (or at least should never had any creative control over one). My god they were all terrible and self indulgent and really over-played the regilious themes of some of the songs and stopped people from being able to have their own interpretation.

False. Can't say that I, myself, or one single person I was friends with at the time Creed came out was a fan of that band. Not in the least.

And became a steaming pile of dogshit.

My own prison is good album. Saw them at a festival right after it came out. Our Lady peace and foo fighters were the headliners after them. I just grew tired of their musical formula after they got so big. Their behind the music and them being compared to a pearl jam rip off ruined their career as far as being huge in the public eye. Their bass player was originally fired for comparing Eddie Vedder and Scott stapp. The media had a field day with it. They broke up cause their was no creativity. Alter bridge formed, and alter bridge is amazing. I guess the guys in Creed divide their time between the two bands now, cause Creed still goes out on tour here and there, and makes albums latest being 2009.