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Post by The_L on May 7, 2009 16:39:22 GMT -5
Just when you thought it was safe to listen to mainstream rock...
So yeah, unless Scott Stapp's sober now, I don't see this going well--or making Christians look good.
It's one thing to be in a secular rock band and abuse drugs. But these guys sang blatantly Christian songs like "My Own Prison"--and then came the debacle six or seven years ago. Way to make Christianity look good, guys.
Anyone want to make bets as to when Creed will fuck up this time around? Or perhaps the method: sex-related indiscretions, more substance abuse, ONOEZ NONCHRISTIANS ARE TEH DEBBIL!!?
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Post by SimSim on May 7, 2009 16:50:49 GMT -5
I'm ever so excited, I can hardly contain my joy. <sarcasm meter explodes> Please oh please don't let them become huge again. I hated it when I'd turn on the radio hear Creed, switch stations, hear Creed, switch stations yet again and hear Creed yet again.
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Post by Bezron on May 7, 2009 16:54:47 GMT -5
Ahhh, the memories...
seeing Scott Stapp with a pile of blow backstage at the Metro in Chicago (no I wasn't there to see them)
being yelled at by Scott for taking a beer out of my friend's dressing room...apparently all the beer in the place was theirs...
telling Scott to go fuck himself and that his band sucks...and then being threatened by his own personal bodyguard...
and later hearing about how 3 bouncers from Metro told that same bodyguard that if he touched anyone in their club, he was going to the hospital...
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Post by Rat Of Steel on May 7, 2009 17:19:00 GMT -5
*quizzical look* Who the hell are they?
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Post by SimSim on May 7, 2009 17:27:00 GMT -5
Youtube them at your own risk.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on May 7, 2009 17:33:02 GMT -5
*quizzical look* Who the hell are they? They were years back what Nickelback are today. |
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Post by Aqualung on May 7, 2009 18:27:24 GMT -5
*quizzical look* Who the hell are they? They were years back what Nickelback are today. Except with Creed there's more Bible-humping. X( I actually really liked the video for "One Last Breath", but now whenever they come on the radio I have to change the station. |
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Post by skyfire on May 7, 2009 18:27:50 GMT -5
*quizzical look* Who the hell are they? Back about 10 years ago, Creed tried to be both "Christian rock" and "mainstream rock" all at the same time. They produced several radio hits, some of which still get airplay, but the band disintegrated beneath genre confusion and frontman Scott Stapp's ego. The other members of the band hooked up with a few new guys to form a group known as Alter Bridge, which tried to be closer to mainstream rock but didn't last very long. |
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Post by wisechild on May 7, 2009 18:51:54 GMT -5
Just when you thought it was safe to listen to mainstream rock... So yeah, unless Scott Stapp's sober now, I don't see this going well--or making Christians look good. It's one thing to be in a secular rock band and abuse drugs. But these guys sang blatantly Christian songs like "My Own Prison"--and then came the debacle six or seven years ago. Way to make Christianity look good, guys. Anyone want to make bets as to when Creed will fuck up this time around? Or perhaps the method: sex-related indiscretions, more substance abuse, ONOEZ NONCHRISTIANS ARE TEH DEBBIL!!? Creed is not a Christian band. They are a Post-Grunge band, suited for stale music radio formats. They have this dichotomy of 'Aaargh! - life is misery' with lyrics of spiritual redemption, which don't really work - for them. But if you are a teenager with Fundie parents who only allows popular music that fashions itself as "Christian", then passing Creed off as a Christian Rock Band might work. Scott Stapp can still act like the biggest douchebag in the world. Doing more drugs and getting in more fights won't hurt his image, at all. I saw an ad this afternoon for their Summer tour, I too am disappointed in this. |
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Post by mistermuncher on May 7, 2009 19:37:04 GMT -5
Is post-grunge the polite way of saying "Turgid ould shite by a squad of reasonably technically gifted musicians and some silly fucker who reckons he's Eddie Vedder"? Totally digging the Nickelback comparison. I was shooting for "Like POD, but somehow even less funky", or "Fisher-Price rock for ballbags", but, dammit, calling them Nickelback is just so, so much better.
Somehow, there's a copy of "Human Clay" in the CD rack in my living room. I deny all knowledge of it's origins, and so does Mrs Muncher. I know neither of us bought the bloody thing, so it's a matter of which one of us filched it from a really shit party when pissed up students. Thinking on those lines, probably me.
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Post by Aqualung on May 7, 2009 20:14:35 GMT -5
Is post-grunge the polite way of saying "Turgid ould shite by a squad of reasonably technically gifted musicians and some silly fucker who reckons he's Eddie Vedder"? Totally digging the Nickelback comparison. I was shooting for "Like POD, but somehow even less funky", or "Fisher-Price rock for ballbags", but, dammit, calling them Nickelback is just so, so much better. Somehow, there's a copy of "Human Clay" in the CD rack in my living room. I deny all knowledge of it's origins, and so does Mrs Muncher. I know neither of us bought the bloody thing, so it's a matter of which one of us filched it from a really shit party when pissed up students. Thinking on those lines, probably me. ;D On a sort of similar note, my godmother once gave me a DC Talk album for Christmas years ago. I think I listened to it once, went WTF?  and donated it to the library just last year. ;D |
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Post by wisechild on May 7, 2009 21:02:37 GMT -5
Is post-grunge the polite way of saying "Turgid ould shite by a squad of reasonably technically gifted musicians and some silly fucker who reckons he's Eddie Vedder"? Absolutely. The sad part is Scott Stapp and the rest of Creed have no quams about this, either. On the Wikipedia entry, Stapp said he nearly committed suicide, thinking he would become a "Kurt Cobain martyr-type." - according to Rolling Stone. That was probably the most amusing thing I read today. |
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Post by Hades on May 8, 2009 8:41:18 GMT -5
Ah, Creed. Like an old girlfriend you regret. I feel ashamed to admit that I listened to Human Clay regularly when it came out. I believe I was 13 or so at the time, and still quite religious. It really is one of the few cd's from my childhood that I can't listen to all the way through anymore, it's just terrible.
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Post by schizophonic on May 8, 2009 9:06:10 GMT -5
Creed makes me laugh. I loved how the Christians in my school were using this as some justification that Christian music was on the rise. At least, the loud and obnoxious ones.
POD is even funnier, though I liked the Satelite Album. I just could never get past how hilarious Christian Rastas are (though not entirely mutually exclusive, it's still FUNNEH)
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Post by CtraK on May 8, 2009 9:58:43 GMT -5
 Also, I'm still avoiding listening to Creed. As I said on the IRC, I've never heard them, I'm not in the US so I possibly don't have to either. Although now I'm probably gonna get Creedroll'd. |
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and donated it to the library just last year. ;D
