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“Simple Creed” by Live
From the album V (2001)
“Simple Creed” by Live appears on 9 radio countdowns from 9 stations in 2001. It was first released in 2001 on the album V. Its best result is #56 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #121 alternative song of 2001.
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"Simple Creed" was the first single from V, Live's fifth album, in 2001, and it finds the American alternative rock band throwing open the doors to an unlikely guest: the English rapper Tricky, who raps a section and co-wrote the words with Ed Kowalczyk. Kowalczyk wrote the music; Alain Johannes and Michael Railton produced it with the band, Johannes engineered and Tim Palmer mixed, and bolting a rapper onto the band's hard rock crunch makes for one of the stranger alliances of its season.
It reached 18 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and 11 on Mainstream Rock Tracks, and also charted in the Netherlands and Australia. Marc Webb's video cuts the band playing outdoors against a street fight egged on by a crowd; one fighter walks away, a growing crowd of young people falls in behind him, Tricky's part plays on a living-room TV, and by sunset the whole suburban street stands behind the band.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 90 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001 | 91 |
| 2001 | 103 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 56 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
| 2001 | 96 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 59 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 | 89 |
| 2001 | 76 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 88 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 | 191 |
| 2001 | 74 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 | 103 |
| 2001 | 74 | 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL | 97X Top 97 Songs of 2001 | 97 |
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