It's Time to Stop Hating Creed

They're reuniting, but listen before you groan
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 21, 2009 11:29 AM CDT
It's Time to Stop Hating Creed
Creed bassist Brian Marshall, guitarist Mark Tremonti, drummer Scott Phillips, Guinness World Records official Gareth Jones and singer Scott Stapp display world record certificates Sept. 25, 2009.   (Dave Einsel / AP Images for ROCKPIT)

Creed is back—the once ubiquitous (and “ubiquitously loathed”) rock group is releasing a new album later this month and going on tour. But “if your impulse on hearing that it has reunited is to groan, stifle it long enough to locate a copy of Creed's 2004 Greatest Hits collection,” writes Jonah Weiner for Slate. “It's a fantastic baker's dozen of first-rate schlock-rock, courtesy of one of the most underrated and unfairly maligned groups in pop history.”

Though the band was dismissed from the start “as derivative blowhards with a self-righteous Christian agenda,” it has sold 26 million records in the US to date—and now that it's been off the scene for a few years, “it's hard to reconcile the animus against the band with the music,” Weiner continues. “One of the surprises involved in returning to Creed with a fresh pair of ears is how rocking, exciting, and, yes, moving, the songs can be.” (More Creed stories.)

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