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Creed Album: “Weathered [Import Bonus VCD]”
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Weathered [Import Bonus VCD] |
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Release Date:2001-12-04
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Rock, Mainstream Rock, Christian Rock
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:766488323429
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Review - :
The week {$Creed} released their fourth album, {^Weathered}, lead vocalist {$Scott Stapp} mentioned in an interview that they didn't really care about the widespread critical disdain for his group, since {$Led Zeppelin} wasn't appreciated either -- not until they released their fourth album in 1971, that is. {$Stapp}'s assessment is a little off; {$Zeppelin} never really enjoyed good reviews by most of the {\rock}-crit establishment -- at least until 1988 when {$Zep}-mania gripped the nation and even prompted {~Rolling Stone} to put {$Robert Plant} on the cover -- but his sentiment is right on target since he's saying {$Creed} isn't a band for the critics, they simply do what they do and the proof that they're right is in the millions of fans. Well, {$Creed} certainly isn't a critic's band, but not because critics hate heavy {\rock} -- {\grunge} sorta blew that bugaboo out of the water when it became mandatory to take anybody with heavy guitars seriously -- but because {$Creed} simply works very earnestly within a tradition without ever expanding it, without ever adding humor or even cracking a smile. {$R.E.M.} and {$U2} may have had the weight of the world on their shoulders during the first {%Bush} era, but they lightened up occasionally; {$Creed} never does. They are a very serious band, realizing that the world is very serious, so music is a serious business, a way of expressing their faith, passion, yearning, and love -- all things that are quite serious, so they should be treated seriously. Their hearts are in the right place -- let it never be said that they're only in this for the money or the fame; they even advertise {$Stapp}'s With Arms Wide Open Foundation charity in the liner notes -- but the earnestness in their approach is magnified by their resolutely unimaginative {\neo-grunge}. Try as they may -- and they do, bringing in {$the Tallahasee Boys Choir} for {&"Don't' Stop Dancing,"} incorporating a Cherokee Indian prayer on {&"Who's Got My Back,"} sprinkling the album with some keyboards, and stretching out to near-epic lengths occasionally -- they don't break from that template, and to all but the hardcore, this is simply another {$Creed} record, one that has the same faults or virtues, depending on your viewpoint. And that's why {$Creed} isn't {$Led Zeppelin}, even though both were slagged by critics, say what you may, {$Zeppelin} changed on each of those first four records, where {$Creed} has stayed the same. (This does get the honorary {$Fred Durst}'s Chocolate Starfish award for worst album cover of the year, however.) [An import edition came with a bonus VCD featuring the videos for {&"What If,"} {&"Higher,"} and {&"With Arms Wide Open."}] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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