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| Artist: Kid Rock
Label: Atlantic
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Rating:  161 reviews
Sales Rank: 75
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 290556
UPC: 075678997174
EAN: 0075678997174
ASIN: B000ULQUS0
Release Date: October 9, 2007
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Lots of styles and attitude covered: The "Kid" from Michigan gets it done. October 9, 2007
Leo Navarr (Donner Pass, California)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
The new kid rock release is perhaps his first full length album that really applies a large foray of coverage to KR's musical tastes and explorations. The title track has a 70s groove to it that would appeal to most classic rock fans. The track "Amen" is a softer, Americana song with downtrodden moods that has lyrics that encompass social issues much better than most, in the fact that it lays it all out on the table rather than show and tell one side of something. By far, the writing is much deeper than some of the regular riff-oriented tracks that fans have come to love from the KR discography. Track three is "All summer long" and starts out with the familiar piano pings of "werewolves of London", and while it later adds some tinges of Sweet Home Alabama, the song is a past reflection on high school days in Michigan in 1989. Lyrics are simple here, but with lines like "We never had no internet, but man I never will forget, the way the moonlight shined upon her hair" is able to capture a simpler time that was really not that long ago.
Song four dives back into slow, reminiscing lyrics surrounded by simple melodies that create a soothing, easy listen. So Hott is the fifth song and is every bit as classical in hard rock style as songs found on the breakthrough "Devil without a cause" album. Guitars, Female backing vocals and a whole lot of attitude make it one of the reasons this opening riff has been playing during commercial intermission during a recent Monday Night Football game. More mix is found with "Sugar", with the opening minute teasing a listener like they are in for another slow ride, before rocking into a full speed anthem. At times on this song the lyrics are less than appealing, with a lot of rehashing quips from past rock songs, but if one liked them in the first place, then it probably does not matter.
With twelve total songs that all together apply rock, hip hop, funk, soul, and country western styles, Kid Rock delivers an album that puts him back in the saddle. KR may have lost some fans along the way when he started branching out into different styles of music, but it was blending difference that got him into the groundbreaking arena in the first place. Although some may not think of him as an "artist", one cannot help but look back at the niche he has filled in the market and realize that it may be just enough. Want a sad song, a happy one or one that rocks out, look no more than Rock and Roll Jesus.
A great step forward. October 9, 2007
James Olczak (Detroit)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a great cd by one of the most undefinable artists of the past century. Kid has definitely grown up since his Devil days. Every song on here has at least a touch of the south to it. And there is a little bit of everything on here, hard rock, southern rock, soul, country, hip hop. Nobody mixes it all together better than Kid Rock. If you are a fan of Kid Rock or any of those genres, definitely buy this cd! And you can't beat the price either!
 Rock N Roll Jesus October 25, 2007
Robert T. Mooney (San Francisco)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a huge Kid Rock Fan. I have all of his albums and even some really early stuff.
RNR Jesus is junk! I'm sorry to say that this is a sell out album much like Metalicca when they sold out and went soft. The lyrics don't flow, the music is choppy. I am not a fan of this album.
RNR Jesus is decent in the beginning but ends weak. Amen is horrible. The only other decent song on the album is the Blues song about New Orleans (not sure of the title).
I agree with the person who said this was a production album written for Kid Rock. Waited 3 years for this? Don;t buy the whole album...go to ITunes and buy only 2 songs. I bought the album for $7.99 and I wish I had my $6 back.
 HOW DARE YOU CALL YOUR ALBUM ROCK AND ROLL JESUS November 7, 2007
jholla (OKC)
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Motley Crue are and will always be the rock genius's God is God kid rock should not have called his album that. White Trash
Kid Rock Should Do Some Penance For This One December 8, 2007
The Captain (Bridgewater, MA)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Perhaps he need not need any interesting introduction other than, "His name is Kiiiidddddddd Rock." At least I thought it was.
Apparently Kid has taken a liking for none other than someone who perhaps carries the same morals as he, none other than Jesus Christ himself. (Please not the sarcasm) With an album title that perhaps insinuates that Jesus was rocking out to some good old fashion Galilean metal bands, Kid Rock has released an album that simply put does not maintain the same sort mysticism and awe that Jesus was able to invoke back in the day.
Rock N Roll Jesus, Kid Rock's sixth album to date, is perhaps worthy of being listened to once but other than that do not expect too much to really come from this album. The lyrics put forth seem generic and banal and the music doesn't seem to pack the same punch as previous releases by Kid Rock were capable of doing. The music is certainly a branching out for Kid Rock and instead of the traditional Kid Rock success of fusing a rap sound to some rock backing he instead on this album attempts to infuse sounds of jazz and country into the music. The result is an album that falls short of any greatness and one that most listeners might not necessarily have been hoping for.
From the very first track, Rock N Roll Jesus, there is a much diffeent sound that emanates from the album. With deep undertones of an almost gospel-fed rock and roll the music is different and almost interesting to listen to momentarily. Perhaps Kid Rock sets out in his lyrics what he is attempting to create on this album. "It's a rock revival," sings Kid Rock. Rock's almost blasphemous lyrics sing that thanks to his ability to practice what he preaches, that being "sex, drugs and rock and roll," then he should be considered the Rock N Roll Jesus. I can only imagine what the church lady from Saturday Night Live's Church Chat would have to say about that.
After hearing a snippet of Amen on the radio, I knew right at that moment that the rest of the track held little hope of luring me into believing this would be a good song by any stretch of the imagination. Once again, Kid Rock lyrically seems to think he must have had a religious experience that would warrant people actually giving two hoots about the morality of Kid Rock or the messages he chooses to preach. "Habitual offenders, scumbag lawyers with agendas I'll tell you sometimes people I don't know what's worse," sings Rock. "Natural disasters or these wolves in sheep clothes pastors. Now damn it I'm scared to send my children to church." That should be alright, they can now subscribe to the Church of Kid Rock.
A true travesty can be found on All Summer Long, where Kid Rock brings in the same tunes verbatim from Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London and Lynyrd Skynrd's Sweet Home Alabama. Never will you hear such a musical injustice being done.
The jazz and blues feel brought into this album can be heard on the track Half Your Age. There is a much greater emphasis placed on the music on this track than perhaps any of the others and for that perhaps Kid Rock deserves some credit. There is a pretty well put together musical backing to this track that if it were put aside from the vocals and lyrics of Kid Rock would be simply ten times better.
Track listing:
1. Rock N Roll Jesus
2. Amen
3. All Summer Long
4. Roll On
5. So Hott
6. Sugar
7. When U Love Someone
8. New Orleans
9. Don't Tell Me U Love Me
10. Blue Jeans and a Rosary
11. Half Your Age
12. Lowlife (Living the Highlife)
Perhaps it is the overkill that I feel I have been subjected to by Kid Rock over the past few years that have left me with such a bad taste in my mouth. However, considering that I am an astute music critic I would like to think that I could put behind me the foibles of an artist and judge the music as it is. And that is what I feel as though I have done here.
Rock N Roll Jesus is by all accounts a very trite attempt by a star performer and doing something perhaps a little bit different. What the listener in turn is left with is a rather lackluster album and one that will likely not be listened to more than once. Perhaps Kid Rock should consider doing some penance for giving his fans such a poor album.
Rock N Roll Jesus was produced by Kid Rock and Rob Cavallo. The album is on the Atlantic Records label.
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