CREED FINALLY BROKE UP - NOW WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THESE GUYS
by Pearl Jams lion "the official lion of Pearl Jam" San Diego Reviewed on January 1st, 2005
Much like the band 'U2' - When you reach the status of merely being able to sell albums based on your name alone, you don't have to worry about how good your songs actually are... & much like U2, when Guns N' Roses & Stone Temple Pilots were first starting out - the motivation was there to write good songs, because they didn't have their name & fame to rely on...
& Much like 'U2', all that is gone now - Now the very idea of 'GnR', & the singer of STP forming a band together, is excuse enough to put them on the cover of magazines & promote them to death...
But then one has to wonder... how much effort would they actually have to put into this album to sell it? the answer? ... not much at all - the motivation for writing good songs is replaced with the "rock star" attitude & thinking frame of mind such as, "we're big, everyone knows us, they'll buy it 'cus we're big" - Which is exactly what makes this album so uninspired & boring, quite frankly...
I heard 'Slither' on the radio, like all of you did...
"Yar, here crums the water it crums to wrash awray the sins of you & I, this time I see YAR!"
- Is it just me, or do those lyrics sound way too awfully familiar to the mediocre lyrics Scott Weiland has written in STP 1000 times before?...
& then theres, 'Fall to Pieces'...
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR DEPRESSING HARD ROCK SONGS SUCH AS "FALL TO PIECES", I GOT 3 WORDS FOR YOU ABOUT A BAND THAT DID IT MUCH BETTER & MORE SINCERELY - ALICE IN CHAINS
- The rest of the songs on this album lack of any real coherent effort to put together a moving, or original idea - When I say, "Creed broke up, now we have to deal with these guys" - I mean it...
Creed was famous for releasing incredibly accessible songs, with albums where any song that wasn't released as a single was practically unlistenable to any Creed fans in the first place - this is why Velvet Revolver is the new Creed, they're doing the same thing - relying on a few songs, & their name to sell records...
- My advice? if you're looking for a great supergroup, check out 'Audioslave' - Soundgarden & Rage Against the Machine both had substance & importance in their music... which is what makes Audioslave such a great idea...
Audioslave's evil twin, 'Velvet Revolver' is a supergroup consisting of the opposite - a group of 2 bands that had no substance, nor importance in their music
- Want my advice?
Pick up
1) Pearl Jam's greatest hits album, 'Rearviewmirror' 2) Pick up 'Audioslave's' album
That is all... much like U2 - Velvet Revolver needs to learn they can't just go selling albums based on their name alone, it should require effort - with that said, don't buy albums from artists like VR & U2 - It'll hurt their ego when their record sales go down... & if you want better music from them - that's the best thing you can do to help
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