Weathered
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Weathered
Weathered is the third studio album by American rock band Creed, released on November 20, 2001. Some versions are enhanced CDs and include videos. It has been certified 6 platinum by the RIAA. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number one, selling 887,000 copies in its first week of release, and remained in the top spot for eight consecutive weeks, a record which Creed shares with The Beatles compilation album 1. The album has sold more than 6 million copies in the U.S alone.-Wikipedia
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AV Club
March 29, 2002. Like P.O.D., Creed invests its songs with soul-searching spirituality, but the result has been a succession of mirthless dirges, each dragged down by Scott Stapp's windy emoting, . . . but Weathered improves dramatically in its second half, as Stapp and company belatedly brighten their sound.
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Slant Magazine
November 19, 2001. With their third album, Weathered, Creed have mastered the art of echo. . . . .But it’s not Creed’s insinuation that has shocked but, rather, their head-over-heels spiritless sanctimony.
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PopMatters
November 19, 2001. While Weathered is flecked with imperfections, the album still manages to offer some fairly serviceable rock.
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AllMusic
Their hearts are in the right place -- let it never be said that they're only in this for the money or the fame; they even advertise Stapp's With Arms Wide Open Foundation charity in the liner notes -- but the earnestness in their approach is magnified by their resolutely unimaginative neo-grunge.
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Rolling Stone
2001. On Weathered, Creed's lucid powerhouse of a third album, the Orlando, Florida, trio emerge as masters of hard-rock atmosphere. As Soundgarden proved with Superunknown, there are a million little intricacies to pulling off what sounds like big enormous rock.
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The Guardian
Something in singer Scott Stapp's torturous rasp speaks to fashionably pessimistic teenagers as Kurt Cobain's did to an earlier generation, though Creed's take on the usual angsty "issues" is tempered by Stapp's Christianity. The result, while still crushingly morose, is less inward-looking than contemporaries such as Bush and Pearl Jam.
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Metal Reviews
What a poor album, what a conventional record, what a miserable US grunge record. After astonishing the metal scene a few years ago, Creed is already "dead" ... killed by the system, killed by the money, killed because they are simply not true with themselves.
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Plugged In
But while they seem more aware of life’s hardships and pain, they still manage to avoid despair. Where there’s a shadow, there’s a light. If Human Clay looked at life from a Mark 16 perspective, you might say Weathered views it through the filter of Jeremiah 20. For fans of this hard-rocking genre, it’s a good mainstream alternative to the likes of Korn, Staind and Drowning Pool.
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People
January 14, 2002. . . . the dudes from Creed are now ready to rock. With guitars blazing and dark, ominous bass lines rumbling, their third disc will quickly have you wondering if you mistakenly picked up a Metallica CD.
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Slate
October 21, 2009. Creed Is Good. Scott Stapp’s nu-grunge foursome was seriously underrated.
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Melodic Net
With 1000 000 sold albums of their two first records the expectations of this record cant be anything that enormous. And I can guarantee you that this one will sell at least as many as their previews ones did. Because on this one the level of the songs is "Higher" than before and has couple of more pure hit songs.
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antiMusic Reviews
WEATHERED strives to turn up the volume on all elements of Creed's creative process. The rockers are harder and the ballads are intricate with beautiful guitar solos, compliments of Mr. Mark Tremonti, that frame Stapp's voice like a gilded masterpiece.
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Blast From the Past #3: Weathered
Musically, big triumphant stadium rockers are Creed’s modus operandi no matter what the songs are about. Scott Stapp’s delivery of lyrics about great and fulfilling friendships that make you a better person (“Stand Here With Me”) no matter how long it’s been since you last saw each other (“My Sacrifice”) is the same kind of singing he uses to tell us all that he’s “raging on in holy war.”
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inReview.net
2001. Dark, cryptic rock still prevails on their most spiritual album to date, bringing along with it more questions, fewer answers, and excess listening enjoyment all in Creed's trademark style.
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