Creed - Greatest Hits (w/ Bonus DVD)
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Artist: CreedEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Music Label: Wind-Up
Soundtracks:
- Torn
- My Own Prison
- What's This Life For
- One
- Are You Ready
- Higher
- With Arms Wide Open
- What If
- One Last Breath
- Don't Stop Dancing
- Bullets
- My Sacrifice
- Weathered
Music reviews of Greatest Hits (w/ Bonus DVD)
Music Review: Battle of the Greatest Hits: Creed vs. Pearl Jam
Rating: 2 Stars
Welcome, ladies and gents, prepubescent young boys and girls alike, to the musical contest of the CENTURY!!! Tonight's fight will feature two of the most heinously popular rock groups of the 1990s, clashing mightily in a contest to expose which `Greatest Hits' package will rise to superiority over the failing party.
In the corner to my left, let me introduce Creed's greatest hits, splendidly titled "Creed: Greatest Hits"! This collection weighs in at a near-pathetic 13 tracks, which include some of the biggest hits from one of the biggest bands in recent memory (of Creed's three recorded albums, 23 million total copies have been sold worldwide). A bonus DVD helps to give this album a bit more bite to its bark, toting three live performances and Creed's entire collection of videos. Slightly impressive, but "Creed: Greatest Hits" somehow seems a bit of a lightweight competitor, never mind how many albums they've sold.
In the opposing corner, let me introduce Pearl Jam's "Rearviewmirror"!!! Weighing in with 33 of the band's most successful tracks during last 14 years, this double-disc set is divided onto an `Upside' and a `Downside' disc; `Upside' serving as a collection of harder rock songs, and `Downside' stepping up with a plethora of PJ ballads. With such an obese amount of incredibly emotive, powerful rock anthems on "Rearviewmirror", it's already beginning to look bad for post-grunge Creed enthusiasts.
The bell sounds and the match begins. Creed starts off with its album's strongest track, `Torn', which rocks slowly and moodily, building to a powerful crescendo . . . until Pearl Jam leaps into action, whipping out a scathing triple-combo from the `Upside' disc: `Once', `Even Flow', and `Alive'. Each of these legendary songs systematically beat, pound, poke and slam `Torn' into the dust, utterly stripping it of any redeeming qualities by simply taking the same rage, same mood and same rowdiness that `Torn' utilizes, and then transcends it until it's an exhilarating, majestic, and effectively elegant rage, mood and rowdiness. The anger in `Once' is unequaled and nearly tangible; the frustration in `Even Flow' bleeds from each note and lyric; the majesty of `Alive' is impossible in every emotional and musical aspect, and `Torn' is reduced to nothing, stumbling to it's small corner in disbelief and shame.
For each song Creed presents in it's defense, Pearl Jam has three more to destroy it. The heavy crunching of Creed's `Bullets' explodes and singes the air, but PJ's `Animal', `Do The Evolution' and `State of Love and Trust' wrestles it to the ground and beats it mercilessly, utilizing incredible passion to great effect. The hypnotically affecting `Jeremy' and pleading power of `Corduroy' peel Creed's `My Own Prison' apart like a rotten banana. For every `Arms Wide Open' from Creed, Pearl Jam unleashes an unrealistically beautiful `Black', or a patently euphoric `Man of the Hour', or a relentlessly sincere `Elderly Woman...', or the gorgeous magnificence of `Nothingman', (all courtesy of the `Downside' disc) to smack it around like a sterile, soggy tennis ball.
Which isn't to say Creed doesn't put up a fairly strong fight. The first four tracks on Creed's `hits' album are among the best songs the band ever produced. The music videos are a nice touch too, but all of them together still can't scratch the immortal surface of Pearl Jam's own `Jeremy' video. The three live songs are pretty cool, but ultimately fail to bring anything new to the original tracks.
In short, it's obvious that this fight was entirely unfair. Each and every song (almost) that Pearl Jam presents to the listener on "Rearviewmirror" is improvement on perfection. Creed has garnered a ridiculous amount of success in its short history, and while their music is sometimes powerful and engaging, it can't stand against Pearl Jam. If you asked Santa for any `Greatest Hits' package last year, it should've been "Rearviewmirror".
Description of Greatest Hits (w/ Bonus DVD)
If Nirvana's Nevermind heralded alternative's ascendancy into the mainstream, Creed's mega-successful 1997 debut showed just how quickly--and craftily--alt.rock's musical hallmarks could be utterly co-opted by it. Fueled by vocalist Scott Stapp's Weiland-inspired growl, Creed rode the Seattle pop-suffused string of hits included here to become one of the 90's most successful rock acts--if one whose level of critical revile nearly matched its multi-million sales. This CD/DVD combo features 13 of the band's signature performances (including all eight of its number one singles), songs that often turn on a Christianity-inspired message that could be as opaque (the anthemic "Higher") as it was overt ("My Own Prison," "What's This Life For"). The accompanying DVD completes the career retrospective, anthologizing nine of the band's videos along with previously unreleased live performances of "Torn," "Higher" and "Weathered." --Jerry McCulleyAlternative Rock CDs
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