Mt. Rockmore | Season 4 | Episode #402 - Creed

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Breaking down the best four songs.

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This, this, this is the rock.

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Great evidence.

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What kind of radio show is this?

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Only the greatest kind of radio show.

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It's Mount Rockmore.

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Yeah, before career defining songs of any one particular rock artist,

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the boy are we bringing it to you today, 100%.

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Welcome you creed bombers, you crypties.

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I guess that's a term now in fans of the unironically cool.

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I am your host for this climb up Mount Rockmore as we pay tribute

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to the four career defining songs of a clean cut,

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earnest muscular rock band, I get kind of as a genre,

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who became synonymous with unsophisticated,

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unsalpha-wear pricks who love themselves a little too dearly.

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What? Yeah, that sounds like almost every rock band in the late 90s.

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Sure.

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But the one we're going to talk about here today,

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the one and only, creed.

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Now, you may or may not know that last year the band creed

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reunited to create a blast from the past

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with the summer of '99 tour,

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with bands like Three Dores Down, Dottry,

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Mammoth Wolfgang Van Halen, and your headliner of course being creed.

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More on that tour in just a second because if you missed the first round of it,

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you're going to want to catch the second.

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But first, just as a quick note, programming wise here,

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we ended off Mount Rockmore's third season,

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a couple years back with the four career defining songs of pop punk legends,

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Green Day.

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If you don't believe me, you can even ask Alexa or Google

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to even play the Mount Rockmore of Love or Boy,

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which really wrapped up season three, but also get this

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our most listened two season debut from a week ago,

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Metallica, the pre-black years.

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You can find all of those additions of Mount Rockmore as we head into season four here.

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Now, not one, but two big questions around the band creed these days.

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One.

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Are creed on their way back?

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And two.

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Why did half the country, which I think that might be being generous?

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Why did half the country hate the band creed?

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We'll dive into both of those questions throughout this climb up Mount Rockmore,

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but it seems for the year plus, the past year plus,

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the 90s chart toppers have been teasing something coming

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that might just be bigger than a reunion tour.

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In anticipation, we hear Mount Rockmore decided to determine

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their four career defining songs, because creed delivered some timeless material

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and doing so over the course of not one, not two,

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but three studio albums before they split up in 2004.

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And then they came back.

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They returned in 2009 armed with a new album and the full circle record

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gave us some new classics to add.

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It's now been over ten years since creed were last recording together,

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but their music remains to lift the spirits of athletes apparently.

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Seems like that's some of the locker room motivational music,

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or when you're coming out of the locker room or when you're out on the field to get motivated,

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if you're starting quarterback or backup quarterback or just cut cousins,

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supposedly creed gets you through whatever you need to get you pumped up.

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Just think back for a second.

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Creed had standouts like higher my sacrifice with arms wide open my own prison.

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One, what's this life for overcome and plenty more,

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but not all of those song titles are going to end up on the four career defining songs of creed

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that we will chisel into the side of Mount Rockmore today.

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Now I am fully 100% aware that I will not be able to satisfy every grouchy,

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still wearing a wife beater fan who says this guy doesn't get the positive messages creed passed on to me when I needed it most.

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Well listen, Kurt Cousins, I've been called worse and look with almost 30 years since the release of my own prison

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and on the heels of that amazing worldwide rejuvenation tour.

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Look, when it kicked off in 2024, the summer of 99 tour quickly became,

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and I quote, one of the most anticipated tours of the summer according to USA today.

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One of the hottest rock tickets of the year according to Billboard magazine and a return that quote may be something this industry has never seen according to poll star.

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To date, creed's Scott staff, Mark Tramani, Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips have performed over way for the numbers 60 sold out concerts throughout North America selling over 800,000 tickets

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in breaking venue records in multiple markets.

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And regardless of how you feel about them, with that kind of resume, there's absolutely no debate you deserve a play in.

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Now, quick note about this play.

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You may find this hard to believe at the onset, but that's very sarcastic.

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This track focuses on the loss of a friend to suicide.

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The song addresses the struggle to find happiness and your place in the world but ultimately urges the person to, hey, stick around.

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Just stick around.

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This power ballad became one of the bands first mainstream rock number one hits.

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The music video was directed by Rama Mosley.

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The official version of the video was filmed in Southern Los Angeles near Joshua Tree National Park, which I have no idea if that's still standing today after the fires.

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Mosley, who had a fascination with weather, looked to capture the power and mystery of it by pitting men against the forces of nature.

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And get this as far as the lyrics go.

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It is reportedly the only creed song to use profanity.

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Yeah, what's this life for?

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The play in on the Mount Rockmore of Creed.

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They've known just what to do. The songs are lost because they could never find who's his life for.

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I see your soul, it's kind of grey. You see my heart, you look away. You see my wrist, I know your home.

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I know your purpose on your plane, don't say I swear because you could never find who's his life for.

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Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle the score.

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Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle no God damn score.

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Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle no God damn score.

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Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle no God damn score.

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Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall.

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Yeah, that one is just the plan. That's not even one of the carvings on the Mount Rock.

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More Creed also performed what's this life for at the closing. It was their final song to their set at Woodstock 99.

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And Robbie Krieger, guitarist for the doors, also played the song with the band. Well, guess what? Now, now it's time for the carving.

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And to dad rockers all across this country, this goose bump inducing single was the one that first put Creed on that map.

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Google has no recognition of it. There wasn't even GPS back then. But this song is about Scott Stapp coming to terms with his own bad decisions in life.

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After leaving home as a teenager, his quote in Billboard magazine, quote, it was my own fault that I did shitty in school that I got fired from my job that I was living in my car. I had to grow up.

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So the first song on the Mount Rock more of Creed was a band's first ever single to be released. And the lead single to their debut album of the same name.

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Because Creed singles were not initially sold in the United States. They were ineligible for the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. This single managed to peak at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay Chart in March of 1998.

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The song also managed to find success in the Billboard mainstream rock tracks chart as well as the modern rock tracks chart.

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Where when modern rock was a thing? The song peaked at number two on the former for the week of November 8, 1997, where it would remain for nine consecutive weeks being kept off the top stop by touch, peel, and stand by days of the new.

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The song also finished at number two on the 1998 year end chart.

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On that chart, the song managed to reach number seven for the week of April 18, 1998. It's time for the title track to my own prison called, "Will you figure it out, my own prison?"

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The chorus and the song, "The Virgin's Is Now" no peel on the docket to the ages, my whole song. The walls cold and hair on the pitch made of steel.

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Screams filled, no, no, I drop and deal. Silence now the sound, my breath the only motion around.

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Demons clutter in around, my face showing no emotion. Checkled by my sentence, expecting no return.

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Here there is no pens, my skin begins to burn.

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So will my ear, all by, I can make them broken, so my tone and blues are still bright.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's some sound, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I thunder in the distance, see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a set dear of loss.

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A lion roars in the darkness only he holds a key. A lion to free me from my burden and bring me life eternally.

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So do bring there all of a sudden they won't end begging my head no time for more than a year no time.

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No time for more than a year no time. Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move.

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Ah, that one brings back to memories. First time you ever heard Creed, it was that song. The band originally demoed that song along with the rest of their songs at their producer John's house, which was called the kitchen studio in Tallahassee, Florida.

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And then also criteria studios in Miami, Florida, six grand is what they had to do to produce their first songs.

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Now during the original recording sessions, which were recorded analog directly to tape, the first song that was tracked was that one, my own prison.

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The final cut from those sessions would appear on the blue collar records release of my own prison, but once the band was picked up and signed to wind up records, the song along with the entire album was remixed by Ron St. Germain at the long view farm recording studio in Massachusetts.

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And that's what you heard on the radio.

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On the way, the Creed song, the band knew they had written something special with however they did not know it would go on to become so successful and then stand the test of time.

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Their words, not mine. That's next on Mount Rockmore.

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