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My Own Prison by Creed
My Own Prison is an album by Creed, released in 1997. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 77 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “My Own Prison”, on 37 lists with a best position of #3.
My Own Prison, Creed's debut, first came out on the band's own Blue Collar label on April 14, 1997, a $6,000 record paid for by manager Jeff Hanson and produced by John Kurzweg, which the Tallahassee band shopped around Florida radio themselves. Wind-up signed them and reissued it that August.
Scott Stapp sings like he's hauling the weight of the world uphill, while Mark Tremonti's riffs, schooled on thrash metal, give the grunge-era gloom real teeth, with Brian Marshall on bass and Scott Phillips on drums. The songs wrestle with growing up, faith, sin and finding your place, and Stapp and Tremonti drew the title track and "Torn" from their own early adulthood. Critics grumbled that it sounded like Seattle warmed over, but radio didn't care: the album peaked only at number 22 on the Billboard 200 and still went six times platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from My Own Prison on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Own Prison | 37 | #3 | – | 1997–2026 | |
| 2 | One | 19 | #2 | – | 1999–2023 | |
| 3 | What's This Life For | 12 | #4 | – | 1998–2020 | |
| 4 | Torn | 9 | #18 | – | 1998–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.