Human Clay

Infobox Album
Name = Human Clay
Type = studio
Artist = Creed


Released = September 28 1999
Recorded = 1998–1999
Genre = post-grunge, hard rock
Length = 56:18
Label = Wind-up Records
Producer = John Kurzweg
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kr2ibkr90akz link]
*"HM Magazine" [http://web.archive.org/web/20010308152438/www.hmmagazine.com/issue81/reviews_signed81.html link]
*Robert Christgau (C) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2173&name=Creed link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/creed/albums/album/194123/review/5944925/human_clay link]
Last album = "My Own Prison"
(1997)
This album = "Human Clay"
(1999)
Next album = "Weathered"
(2001)

"Human Clay" is the second album by Creed released on September 28, 1999. It was certified 11x platinum and 1x(+) Diamond by the RIAA, and is 54th on the top 100 selling albums of all time in the United States (as of February 2007). [http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=tblTop100] The album has sold 11,504,000 copies in the USA alone according to Soundscan numbers as of January 2008. It has also been certified 6 times platinum in Canada, 5 times in Australia and 7 times in New Zealand among others. The second single "With Arms Wide Open" has won a GrammyAward for Best Rock Song. The album had three video released from it: "Higher","What If," and "With Arms Wide Open," the last of which was voted the 92nd best video of all time by VH1.According to Mark Tremonti, the cover for the album represented a crossroad which every human finds himself in his life and the man of clay represented our actions, that what we are is up to us, that we lead our own path and make our own destiny.

This was the final album that featured Brian Marshall on bass guitar; he departed from the band shortly after the tour for the album in August 2000. Mark Tremonti filled as the bassist on their third and final album, "Weathered", while Brett Hestla became their touring bassist.

The album artwork was rated in a tie with Creed's followup "Weathered" as the "worst album cover(s) in the first hundred years of recorded music" by review site Drop the Anvil.

Track listing

#"Are You Ready?" – 4:45
#"What If" – 5:18
#"Beautiful" – 4:20
#"Say I" – 5:15
#"Wrong Way" – 4:19
#"Faceless Man" – 5:59
#"Never Die" – 4:51
#"With Arms Wide Open" – 4:35
#"Higher" – 5:17
#"Wash Away Those Years" – 6:04
#"Inside Us All" – 5:49

Some editions include a hidden track version of "With Arms Wide Open" with additional string and hi-hat accompaniment and slightly different vocals (which was the cut of the song that got most of the radio play). Some imported editions of the disc include the bonus track "Young Grow Old". Another edition includes 2 CDs, the first containing the 11 tracks listed above without the hidden version of "With Arms Wide Open". The second disc in this edition features the B-sides "To Whom It May Concern" and "Is This The End", a live version of the Doors classic "Roadhouse Blues" and an acoustic version of "With Arms Wide Open" and "What's This Life For".

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