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Creed
My Own Prison


3.5
great

Review

by WrongWay USER (1 Reviews)
January 14th, 2005 | 15 replies


Release Date: 1997 | Tracklist


Artist-Creed
Album-My Own Prison
Release-1997, Blue Collar Records

Vocals-Scott Stapp
Guitar-Mark Tremonti
Bass-Brian Marshall
Drums-Scott Phillips


1. Torn- A general Creed song. Captures their usual sound very nice blending of guitar with the percussion and sudden bursts of metal. 5/5

2. Ode- Heavy guitar intro. A little over dramatized if you understand what I'm saying. Not quite my taste but many people still like it. 3/5

3. My Own Prison- Very simple, but brilliant guitar intro. What makes this song great is the lyrics. It makes my skin crawl listening to it. Guitar emphasizes the singing very well. Mark coulda made this an even more perfect song if the solo wasn't so easy. Competes for my favorite song of all time. 5/5

4. Pity for a Dime- I will probably be an elderly man one day, dieing of heart failure, cancer, age, or manic depression, and on my death bed i will say, "What in the freaking heck does pity for a dime mean?" Nevertheless it is still a great song. I hav no special notes for this one. 4/5

5. In America- A politically based song on America's problems. Not one of Creed's greatest, still exceptable though. 3/5

6. Illusion- Nice bass intro. Slower tempo song, but very heavy. Nice heavily distorted guitar and good drum patterns. Very nice solo by Mark yet again. The Bridge is the best part. 4/5

7. Unforgiven- Scott Stapp can whip up some very good lyrics, and he has a few duds here and there. This just happenes to be one of them. But the guitar is very impressive. The solo is great and the bass following it is very good. 4/5

8. Sister- The intro is, well, horrible. Sound like Green Day or Blink 182 or sumthin.But the rest of the song is very well written. If you can bear the first part of this song, its wonderful. 3/5

9. What's this Life For?- What is this song famous for? For some unknown reason, it was quite a shock for some fans to hear the same person that put on a concert drunk, vomited on stage, and had filed aclass action law suit against him for it, cuss in this song. Very brilliant guitar. Brilliant lyrics. Very good, softer side, deep song. One of Creed's best. 5/5

10. One- obviosly a unity peace song.Usuprisingly Mark pulled out a very nice verse with a good, heavy chorus. Whatever the harmonic sounding thing after the 2nd verse was awesome. 4/5


I still cannot say if this is Creed's best album since all 3 of them are equally unbelievable. I tried to make this as unbiased as I could, even though Creed is by far my favorite band. I have no choice to give but to give it 5/5 for the countless hours i have listened to this cd.

Moderation Note: Based on the ratings given to the individual tracks, I calculated a maximal score of 3.6 given by the reviewer. Hence, I edited the Rating to 3.5/5 - Damrod


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Comments:Add a Comment 
The JoZ
July 4th 2004


345 Comments


Again, this is why we need a 10 point rating scale...

Creed is not an album that must be owned by everyone...it's not that good, period

That being said, the worst part of Creed was Scott Stapp. Tremonti's got a bunch of good riffs, and the rhythm section isn't horrible...but I can't think of many people who like/d Stapp

br3ad_man
July 4th 2004


2126 Comments


Pretty good review man, although I disagree. Next time, try to put some band history and and a picture of the album cover. Nice work though.

Dark Hero
July 4th 2004


160 Comments


good review, my favorite track is One.

WrongWay
July 5th 2004


1 Comments


creed is my favorite band. grunge is my favorite music. music is all personal preference, my views are not gonna be like anyone else's. the main reason i picked this to be my 1st review was because it was my favorite cd. i still dont see why people dont like scott stapp. he's a good break from all these high pitched perfect voice pussies

mexicanfloydian
July 5th 2004


165 Comments


My favorite song is One as well

robnathanson
July 5th 2004


93 Comments


this is not a must own album, i would give it a 3/5.....

some songs are ok, but Stapp sounds too much like Eddie Vedder for my liking.....

also I don't enjoy Creed's music that much either.

Creed is by far my favorite band. I have no choice to give but to give it 5/5 for the countless hours i have listened to this cd.

If Creed are your favourite band, then it's obviously going to be totally one sided and biased.....
and you can't rate a cd based on how much YOU listen to it. Base it on how it stacks up to other albums in it's genre, and other albums that they produce...and base it on how good it is, technically and catchy and etc. Not how much YOU like it.

splashfreak
July 5th 2004


196 Comments


creed is my favorite band. grunge is my favorite music. music is all personal preference, my views are not gonna be like anyone else's. the main reason i picked this to be my 1st review was because it was my favorite cd. i still dont see why people dont like scott stapp. he's a good break from all these high pitched perfect voice pussies

Creed is one of my favorite bands, and I really don't dislike Stapp's voice. The reason no one likes him is because he is a poser, an idiot, and stupid all around. Which is why I can't wait for Alter Bridge's first album to come out (Creed without Scott Stapp! Yes!).

Good review, by the way. I don't think this album even compares to their other two, but it is still good. I think in america, is un"exceptable", by the way ;-)

HuntingMich
July 30th 2005


1 Comments


creed is by far my favourite band too. and no matter what people say, stapp was the soul of creed. even if tremonti is a good guitarist, stapp was able to take the songs to another level. if you dont trust me, listen to alter bridge album. its all creed members but with another singers. you'll find quickly the difference because alter bridge is only another modern rock bands that don't have any originality. but stapp without creed is only a crappy singer that we won't heard anymore. thats my opinion.

Good review of the album.

Meteora3255
July 31st 2005


194 Comments


Creed was ok at best. They were really just Nickelback only earlier, radio rock hits.

Meteora3255
September 20th 2005


194 Comments


I am working on a Creed review, i stopped when I was banned for 10 days, and never got back on it. Its the greatest hits album, and it is decent because, it is the best of the albums minus all the filler.

SkodaATOM
September 23rd 2005


69 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I can't count the Greatest Hits album as an album because it's just a compilation. "My Own Prison" is the best Creed album. There aren't as many fillers as "Weathered" and (even more so) "Human Clay." This is my favorite Creed album. I think Creed and Nickelback are two different bands stylistically.....Tremonti likes doing melodic stuff while Kroeger and Peake like just Drop-D power chord riffing.

screamo_rocks_101
September 26th 2005


88 Comments


ive always liked creed, dont hate me for it. Tremonti is a very talented underrated guitarist. As for stapp, i do like his voice even if he is an idiot and sounds like eddie vedder. Now days your always gonna sound like someone who came before you, i really think its no big deal. I think my own prison and human clay tie. Weathered i wasnt to thrilled about.

Meteora3255
September 27th 2005


194 Comments


I really don't like any album by them, just certain songs, which is why Greatest Hits is so great, it cuts all the filler crap, and gets to the best stuff IMO.

EDIT: I am still putting off finishing that review and I don't know when I will actually do it.This Message Edited On 09.26.05

SkodaATOM
February 14th 2006


69 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Alter Bridge has originality. They are a really good underrated mainstream rock group. Their album is the Tremonti-side of Creed....MAINLY BECAUSE THE WRITING DUO OF CREED WAS TREMONTI AND STAPP. You can't say a person or band doesn't have originality because they continue doing something they originally do (I am citing some lyric work on both Stapp's solo effort and Alter Bridge's debut effort). Your lyrics are you. If that's where the so called "lack of originality" lies in the AB album, you try to work with a successful band for ten years, writing the same style that is you, then losing that and trying something else. It's hard as hell. Myles has an amazing voice (better than Scott's IMO, although Scott's voice isn't extremely horrible).

Two-Headed Boy
February 14th 2006


4527 Comments


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