What wonderful news to wake up too. Although, I'm sure we'll have to endure a Stapp solo project now before he falls off the face of the earth for good.

The thought of this aboration being thrust upon the world is spine chilling. I wonder how you bust a J-Pose while doing hip-hop?

Also, the statement that Creed was one of the most successful rock bands in the last ten years is mind-blowing, I'm not doubting it one bit, just seeing it in black and white just proves to me the vacuos wasteland that the rock world has been in the last decade.

They're just making way for The Features.

Or better yet, a full scale tour with the living members of the Doors. Maybe they can dig up Morrison's corpse and defile him on stage as the encore.

I thought this was already in the works with Ian Ashbury from The Cult.

Do you think they'll need a permit to dig up the remains?

Maybe not. France has wanted to get rid of the Lizard King for quite some time.

ahhh....you got my hopes up--i thought they really might be dead. anyhow, let the worldwide badmusic purge begin!

I saw Creed live about 4 years ago when they came to Knoxville. They could have just blasted the CD really loud, I couldn't tell a difference. That was one expensive date. Of course, true love(at the time) transcends bad music.

(Edited by Bowl of Fire at 4:07 pm on Jun. 4, 2004)

"ORLANDO, Florida — The biggest rock band of the past decade has broken up."

since when were they the biggest rock band?

I guess when they sold 24 million albums. When it comes down to it, there haven't been many popular rock bands in the last 10 years. I mean, I don't know how many albums Limp Bizkit sold, but as sad as it is, they are probably the next closest thing to "biggest rock band." Nirvana may have been bigger historically speaking, but a)they were already done 10 years ago, and B)I'm not sure they even sold as many albums as Creed. Maybe Fact Checker can get that sort of information...

(Edited by Keith at 4:14 pm on Jun. 4, 2004)

According to SoundScan, Nirvana's career album sales break down as follows: the group's 1989 debut, Bleach, has sold 1.44 million copies to date, followed by 1991's Nevermind at 7.65 million, the 1992 B-sides/rarities collection Incesticide at 1.13 million, and the band's final studio album, 1993's In Utero, at 3.58 million. Nirvana's two posthumous live releases, 1994's MTV Unplugged in New York and 1996's From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (both of which were assembled by Grohl and Novoselic) have sold 4.11 million and 1.15 million copies, respectively.

total sales: 19.06 million records

Oh, and the Greatest Hits album sold somewhere between 1 and 2 million (it was certified platinum, but not multi-platinum). If someone wants to pay me to subscribe to Soundscan, I'll find you exact numbers.

(Edited by fact checker at 3:27 pm on Jun. 4, 2004)

Damn, you're handy to have around.

I would have thought In Utero would've sold more than 3.58 million. I mean, that's like, a dissapointing effort for Britney Spears, right?

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 4:54 pm on Jun. 4, 2004)

will you check the dryer?
for the sock that i lost last week...

i don't know anyone who has a creed record in their collection.

i used to give guitar lessons to a guy who wanted to learn a bunch of creed songs. he wa spaying me good money so i had to oblige. needless to say...creed songs are not that difficult! the things i do for money......

The above may be more correct

I don't know anyone with Kenny G in their record collection, but he's sold a shit-ton of CDs.

even before the fact checker identity

and old people bought kenny g records. old people.

(Edited by richarddawson at 9:42 pm on Jun. 4, 2004)

my parents listen to kenny g, and any other kind of smooth jazz they can get ahold of. i used to stick my head out of the window as a child and teen to avoid listening

(Edited by stopforme at 11:40 pm on Jun. 4, 2004)

This is my favorite part of the article:

The pinnacle of Creed's problems took place in Chicago in December 2002. Whether Stapp was inebriated or simply sick, as he had claimed, his performance was so terrible that some members of the crowd sued the band for sucking. For a band proud of its reputation for exciting and passionate performances, such a show was inexcusable. Some fans even balked at Stapp's heavy-handed Christ-like poses, which he claimed symbolized that he "had some things going on in [his] life," "kind of felt alone" and "didn't think anybody had [his] back at the time" (see "Creed Singer Defends 'Symbolic, Personal Gesture' He Made At 'Drunken' Show").

I was THRILLED when I found out this news. My friend Neal (who actually likes the "old" Creed stuff..haha) messaged me and said that he thought that I would be happy. He was right.

Fuck a bunch of Creed. I'm glad they're over.

creed had seemingly been exhaulted from the major rock radar anyway. I'm pretty apathetic about their departure at this point. however, it (hopefully) could be a symbolic sign for the future of that genre, which has been dead to sensible people for years.

(Edited by richarddawson at 1:19 am on Jun. 7, 2004)

Frankly, I'm slightly bothered that this is even news. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad there will be no more Creed albums, but I hadn't even heard of the band in ages. So help me, if this is some publicity bullshit so they can sell some more records and then get a "reunion" show together next summer, I'm calling up Jesus to stake someone with a cross.

Hopefully this isn't the case. In fact, it sounds like the rest of the band has already moved on. From MTV.com:

For everyone who wants to lash out all of their antisemitic anger towards the purely "christian" creed visit creedsucks.com

I don't understand. Is Scott Stapp a member of the lost tribe?

anti-semitic means anti-jewish. christian and jewish are not even close to being the same thing...it worries me considerably i would have to point this out to anyone; i trust i just misunderstood and you don't hate jewish people or christians, just creed.

(Edited by andrewjsmithson at 7:37 am on Jun. 11, 2004)