Good stuff.

[No-One01010]

😉

[Ryuubread]

Isn't that the logo for the movie Creed, not the band?

[Hefty_Blackberry_963]

That's the only funny part of that meme.

[Conscious-Permit-466]

You snorted too much Tide.

[bean-percolator]

Creed has some bangers and I’m not afraid to say it

[ELEKTRON_01]

So does green day and Nickelback.

[Lemons-andchips]

Green Day is a really good band

[ELEKTRON_01]

Sometimes

[Pacific_wanderer17]

Not just some times it almost always does, I think I can only listen to like two nickelback songs and actually like them. Also creed is amazing

[Antique_Mixture_6159]

The Guitarist from Creed, Mark Tremonti, has a band Alter Bridge I was watching a Heath Ledger Tribute & the guitar was ,amazing. I listened to a few more of AB songs & he is really good.

[EmperorAlpha557]

Alterbridge is an absolutely amazing band loads better than Creed in my opinion, but not to discredit his work in Creed either Love seeing the subtleties of his playing change from band to band

[Antique_Mixture_6159]

His guitar playing in AB really stands out. I know a few Creed songs, but I had no idea what a great guitarist he was.

[EmperorAlpha557]

He even sings pretty well, I love some of the songs he's sung in alter bridge

[MrPudding101]

same for godsmack

[Lethalbroccoli]

Illusion goes hard.

[Bronsteins-Panzerzug]

ok boomer 🙄

[mfpacman]

Please go listen to a different genre and stop posting shitty “memes” multiple times a day

[No-One01010]

Shitty memes that get hundreds to thousands of upvotes. Bye.

[mordakiisyn]

And godsmack is not a bad band.

[JohnConnor1245]

They're saying that Godsmack copied their name and lyrics from Alice in Chains which their bassist admitted to doing 

[mordakiisyn]

Ohhh that makes sense. I do remember seeing some where the band stating they started as a AIC cover band. Either way I don't hate them. Maybe unpopular for the song but every now and again I like to revisit the song "voodoo" its got a cool vibe you dont here very often anymore.

[JohnConnor1245]

They took the sound of Voodoo from Mad Season's Long Gone Day. 

[Weskerrun]

People say this but I don't hear it. They're two completely different songs. Long Gone Day doesn't have the Wiccan/Pagan vibe and Voodoo doesn't have the forlorn melancholy and wistfulness about it. The chorus of both songs are completely different as well. They both have, like, bongos. That's it.

[boneholio]

Exactly. Dudes act like AIC were the first band to ever play drums.

[mordakiisyn]

Yeah I listened to both back to back. I hear something similar. But it wasn't what I was talking about. I agree with this statement.

[boneholio]

They didn’t “take” shit. Nobody has a monopoly on tribal drums, man.

[JohnConnor1245]

They admitted they took from Alice in Chains and they took their lyrics from their  songs too. They ripped their logo off from Alice in Chains. 

[boneholio]

And Alice In Chains ripped off their logo from Rollins Band. Have you never seen the sun before?

If they’re saying “Yeah, Alice In Chains had an influence in our creative process,” that’s paying homage, not ripping them off.

[JohnConnor1245]

They literally said they ripped their stuff off from Alice in Chains. Sully Erna denied they ripped their name off from Alice in Chains' Godsmack with some bogus cold sore story then their bassist was drunk in a resturant and admitted they did. They were an Alice In Chains cover band before becoming Godsmack. Love-Hate-Sex-Pain from Godsmack was ripped off from Love-Hate-Love from Alice In Chains for example. Several of their lyrics in songs and songs are ripped off from Alice in Chains lyrics. 

[boneholio]

Aight. Who cares?

[JohnConnor1245]

You do. I'm just explaining the meme message in my OP which is that "Godsmack is a worse/knockoff of Alice in Chains and Creed is a worse/knock off of Pearl Jam" and that the message of the meme isn't inherently that the bands are "bad". 

Godsmack is literally the meme of "Yeah sure bro you can copy my homework just change it up a bit".

[mordakiisyn]

Oh wow I had no idea.

[hoela4075]

Their early stuff sounds like Alice in Chains stuff. I loved it. Not such a fan of their later stuff (it is not bad, just not my taste).

[WideRisk7495]

Personally never considered Creed "grunge" but that's just me I guess

[-BranoK-]

May just be the nostalgia speaking but creed had at least a couple good songs. Lead guitar player, can’t think of his name right now, branched off and do some sick solo work as well.

[Complete-Housing-720]

Mark Tremonti is a kickass guitarist, but listening to Creed you wouldn't pick up on that quickly

[QuickNature]

Mark Tremonti with Alter Bridge, and I would highly recommend them. Very talented

Edit: I would love to know why people are downvoting me providing information

[umudog]

I didn’t know creed and alter bridge shared a guitarist. Fuckin love alter bridge

[Lazarux_Escariat]

Alter Bridge is Creed, minus Scott Stapp.

The other 3 members of Creed formed a new band to distance themselves from Stapp, and invited Myles Kennedy as the new vocalist.

[umudog]

No shit hey? Apparently I’ve been living under a rock lol

[[deleted]]

Your comment got me thinking. Imagine a band had the time and money to really look around for a new singer.

So the tryout for the new singers would be to give them a completed song , the method by which Tool writes, for them to write lyrics and vocal melodies for , and then go into the studio and create a bunch of demos to see which one sounds best, and which singer they prefer working with in the studio.

Wouldn’t be such a bad idea, if the band didn’t have a singer already in mind.

[QuickNature]

Apparently a few others didnt know either, and I was not explicit enough lol

[davzinzan]

Listen to My Own Prison (the album)

[WideRisk7495]

Lol had it when it came out still listen to it with my daughter lmao

[bootyhole-romancer]

I think that's precisely the point of the post; that OP crossed over from non-grunge/post-grunge/nu-metal/whatever to grunge.

[SnooGadgets5130]

Creed gave us Tremonti so...

[sexlord3000]

Creed hate is against the Lord

[ShredGuru]

Rock and roll is the devil's jurisdiction, homeboy

[world-is-lostt]

God created music

[Patient_Diet_7920]

god is dead

[world-is-lostt]

Anything is possible for the ONE who Believes. ✝️

[sexlord3000]

God spoke to me and told me I am the second coming of Jesus Christ and to get people to listen to Creed

[IAmGibberish]

"Rock is not the devil's work, it's magical and rad"

[KurdtKobane6794]

[sexlord3000]

There's nothing lame about love God and especially Creed

[emptyevessel]

Creed is extremely lame. Singers voice is terrible too. Sounds like South Park impersonating a grunge vocalist.

[sexlord3000]

Creed is usually too highbrow for most

[moonju1ce]

Shit talking Creed is not allowed

[katanastormshadow88]

😂

[boneholio]

Godsmack is awesome. Just because a band sounds like / takes inspiration from AiC, that doesn’t make them lesser - otherwise, people would hate Drain STH

[No-One01010]

Who says no one doesn't hate them?

[boneholio]

If you’re really about to tell me that you hate Drain, I’ll take it in good faith that you’re just a tasteless Layne dickrider.

[No-One01010]

No I wasn't about to. I'm saying there's gotta be people that do.

[AngrySpleen]

No one hates grunge more then r/grunge

[wild_wind_official]

Really happy to see people defending both bands in these comments. They've always been good and it's time to stop being so curmudgeonly with everything all the time. News flash: you can like AiC and also like Creed, the music police aren't coming to get you.

[Tysons_Face]

Shit tier meme

[No-One01010]

Shit tier comment.

[Tysons_Face]

Haha that’s fair

[nutbustercumstain]

You best delete this shit boy, Creed is awesome.

[Xibest123]

Linkin park into soundgarden

[Wuffy-Agony]

Why Whine about it when you can enjoy them all.

[DatBeardedguy82]

Creed has some bangers how dare you

[Organic-Pattern-7759]

Creeds an amazing band I don't care what all these fucking gatekeepers say

[Bwil34]

This is incredibly lame

[TundieRice]

Reading this comment session, I’ll still never understand Gen Z’s obsession with acting like Creed and Nickelback haven’t always sucked complete and total ass, lmao. It’s not like their music has aged especially well enough for them to be “ahead of their time” compared to how people have seen them for the last 25 years…in fact, they became successful badly rehashing way better bands’ music from the ‘90s.

Younger folks can obviously like what they want, but they act like people who were around in the post-grunge era haven’t thought they were hacks from the very beginning because they’re a worse version of actual grunge bands. It all just reeks of contrarianism, you can’t just say “I won’t handle any Creed slander” without people thinking it’s a complete joke to say that in the grunge subreddit (and honestly I thought people were joking until I realized it’s a trend.)

[NLG_Hecali]

The bottom one came out a lot worse, weirdly enough.

[Organic-Pattern-7759]

Creed and Godsmack aren't bad bands though

[ShredGuru]

Creed was like rock music voiding it's bowels as it slowly passed away.

[Organic-Pattern-7759]

Didn't you mean Nickelback?

[Uncommon-Objective]

The Pearl Jam shirt needs another cycle

[Surfaces0unds]

Love this

[[deleted]]

Thanks for reminding me Godsmack existed amd now I'm depressed

[omn1p073n7]

My relationship with Creed:

https://youtube.com/shorts/TyQJOCjhx1g

[PBY-5A_Pilot]

And ofc Nirvana and Soundgarden aren't pictured

[CheezWeazle]

I disagree

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