Track Listing

1. Torn
2. Ode
3. My Own Prison
4. Pity For A Dime
5. In America
6. Illusion
7. Unforgiven
8. Sister
9. What's Life For
10. One

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6720 in Music
• Released on: 1997-08-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
It took a few years, but the "Seattle sound" migrated south. In 1997 Creed emerged from the sunny state of Florida wielding dark and dulcet postgrunge tones. Their 10-cut debut, My Own Prison, has became a surprising success by filling a niche for needy teen gloom-rockers. Singer Scott Stapp has the soulful and rich Eddie Vedder inflections down pat, but despite Creed's slightly hackneyed approach, My Own Prison is full of strong, memorable, tuneful songs (and numerous solid singles) coupled with compelling and dark emotions. Titles such as "Illusion," "Unforgiven," "What's This Life For," and "Torn" clearly peg Creed as dour introverts. But despite lyrics such as "Their souls are lost / Because they could never find / What's this life for," Creed is musically tight and dynamic, drawing on melodies that are often moving and uplifting... in a depressing sort of way, of course. --Katherine Turman

Customer Reviews

Creed Great First album !!!!!!!!!!!!
A great cd to is My Own Prison alot of good songs on here. Alot high place fast songs on here like unforgiven and ode and my own prison is a great song. So is One a vey clever song well written are these songs on here. Feeeling bad or good it is great cd to listen to.

Good Start
Never was a big fan of christian metal as it's almost a contradiction in concepts. For spiritual uplift I'll just listen to Handel's 'Messiah' or just great standard christian rock like Kansas. Anyway, this was a good start for Creed: too bad they couldn't keep it up. I guess God isn't all that inspiring when it comes to hard rock or metal. 'My Own Prison' and 'Unforgiven' are the best songs on the album I think. One thing about Creed is that, despite having great vocals and bass, there is really no solo guitar work to speak of and that's pretty disappointing. Still a good album though and that's why I give it 4 stars for effort.

Good Start
Creed does a good job. I can't say I can listen to them long though. I seem to get a headache everytime I listen. Something in the music doesn't agree with me, but still good.