I love Full Circle and I think it's the best Creed album, on a technical level, and my second favorite too, my top 1 being MOP. It was a bad era cuz he wasn't in a good place, but still, he had good music even back then, it's not like it was all bad. From TGD I think Surround Me, Broken and Justify are awesome. The album has some level problems, but sounds good. Only thing that bothers me are some filler songs like Let Me Go and You Will Soar and Reach Out could have some more work into it, specially the drums, the biggest turndown for me in that album.chtimixeur wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:51 pm Frankly, I've always thought the stuff he wrote between 2005 and 2019 project was mostly mediocre. That includes Full Circle and the couple of Creed V stuff we heard.
I remember that video (from what? 10 years ago?) where he played long snippets from future songs, and none of them impressed me.
He found his groove and voice back in 2019, and I have very little interest in hearing the material from his "bad" era. But that's just me.
POL sounds good but a little overproduced in some songs like Only One and New Day Coming, but it's a better album than TOG. Drums improved a lot and I think that's Josh Freese's fault, the man is a machine and did superb works like 13th Step by A Perfect Circle. I just think that Scott should drop some cheesy stuff he always put on albums, like New Day Coming, I just hate that distorted vocal intro and I think the song sounds blasé. Break Out sounds kinda generic to me but it's an okay song. Hit Me More is a great song IMO, and even Jesus Was A Rockstar sounds great too, despite what some people might think of it due to the lyrics. Slow Suicide, Who I Am and Proof of Life are solid songs if you ask me.
Aand I'll mention AoA here, I think it was a breath of fresh air in his career, I always thought he worked better in a band, when he is burdened to do lyrics, vocal melodies and the music, he falls short and doesn't deliver a masterpiece. Too bad they'll never get back together since the brothers sued him and I dunno the outcome of that, I think it'll remain unknown to the public for long, too.
So, my point is, even if we try to label his pre 2019 music as mediocre, I don't think it sums up most of his stuff, I think it's like a 50/50 or maybe a 60/40 ratio.