Track Listing

1. Are You Ready?
2. What If
3. Beautiful
4. Say I
5. Wrong Way
6. Faceless Man
7. Never Die
8. With Arms Open Wide
9. Higher
10. Wash Away Those Years
11. Inside Us All
12. Young Grow Old
13. With Arms Open Wide (Strings Version)
14. With Arms Open Wide (Video)
15. Higher (Video)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44344 in Music
• Released on: 2001-01-22
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
Creed's second album continues in the vein of MY OWN PRISON, combining heavy guitar rock with lyrics that aspire to something beyond standard rock & roll hedonism. There's plenty of head-banging riffs for lead singer Scott Stapp's Vedder-esque wail to ride over (although the band is surprising nimble considering how heavy it plays) and this time out there'salso some softer stuff --"Say I", "Wrong Way"--with more than a hint of Led Zeppelin in its Middle-Eastern experimentalmode. Even more surprising, there's actually a ballad here--"With Arms Wide Open"--with a wistfully beautiful melody.

Customer Reviews

Very Good!!
Like most people who own this album, I was inspired to buy it by the single, "With Arms Wide Open", and also the song "Higher", the video for which I had seen on a digital TV music channel. These are both great songs, and I wasn't disappointed with the remainder of the album either! Although some songs do sound a wee bit samey to start with, if you give them a chance, they really start to stand out in their own right. My favourite song from the album would have to be a toss up between "Young Grow Old" and "Faceless Man", although I never skip directly to these tracks. By that I mean this is one of those albums which you can just put on and listen to every song, and enjoy it - there is hardly a weak point in sight. Scott Stapp's passionate vocals seem to lift the songs to a new level, as well as Mark Tremonti's crunchy guitar riffs. I can't remember the last time I heard a band with such emotional lyrics, to which the listener can almost instantly relate with every track (especially "What If" and "Higher").....

"Human Clay" is a fantastic album, and it is good to know that someone, somewhere is making decent rock music - keep it up guys!

Fantastic album from a band the UK is yet to hear!
The second album from Creed makes marvellous leaps and bounds over its predecessor. featuring the singles 'Higher' and 'With Arms Wide open' (Top 20 in the UK). Also from the Scream 3 soundtrack they produced, comes 'What If?'. Combining personal issues as well as wider ones, 'Human Clay' is a great album to just sit back and enjoy the melodies. A very worthy purchase too for the haunting melodies of Scott Stapp. There are some 'harder' rock tracks on here, such as 'What If?' ... but if its just something you want to listen and chill to at the same time, then this is it. Their sucess in the US with 9 millions sales of this album just goes to show, they are not another flash in the pan.

Underestimated, becomes awesome the more you listen.
I read the other reviews of this album before buying it and have to say some of them would have positively put you off. Good job I bought 'Weathered' first and decided to take a chance.

Now I know why some have given bad or mediocre reviews.. shame they stopped listening to Human Clay.

This album does sound mediocre on first listen and I almost regretted buying it. But thanks to my two year old boy who insisted I play him 'With arms wide open' video (included on the album) virtually non stop I started to get it. By the way, I tested him, if it wasn't Creed he didn't want to know.

This album is awesome (not quite as awesome as 'Weathered' but little could be). 'Are you Ready?', 'What If' can compete with the best heavy tracks while being considerably more tuneful (a 'crime' according to some).

One thing that comes over in all Creed records is the strong lyrics, this stuff is poetry of the most hard hitting and realistic. So many times the words get to you and make you say 'heh, I feel like that' or 'that is so true'.

So do yourself a favor, put on the earphones, turn it up and listen, that's LISTEN. It gets five stars, because my two year old insists on nothing less.. and I agree with him.