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 Alright cd October 15, 2007
A. Pierre (Somewheres)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I first loved Kid Rock with Bawitdaba. The rest of the cd though, stunk. I never thought Kid Rock as one of my favorite singers and I hated the song Picture. That made me hate Rock for awhile. I saw his new cd coming out and I thought i'd give it a try, plus it was eight bucks. I do respect Kid Rock trying so many different genres of music and this cd was good. It's only 8 dollars and probably be #1 on the Billboard charts because of that reason. People who love 70's rock and country will probably enjoy this cd alot.
 Like a (Kid) Rock October 16, 2007
Otto Luck (Detroit)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
If the cover of 2006's "Live Trucker" wasn't a sign that Kid Rock wanted to step into the blue-collar, working-man-for-the-people shoes sitting vacant by the back door of Bob Seger, "Rock N Roll Jesus" clinches it.
There are still some vestiges of Rock's stoned suburban wigger schtick here that he just can't or won't shed, like the braggadocious "Sugar" (sample food for inspiration: "I'm not no nudist/I'm fully clothed/And I f*ck hot p*ssy until it's cold") and the bulletproof swagger of "Don't Tell Me U Love Me," but the album is closer to a drive-time Seger request block at your local classic rock radio station than background music for a bunch of saggy-drawered, backward-ballcap, gangsta wannabe's hanging at Oakland Mall on a Saturday afternoon.
The title cut opens with booming drums half-inched directly from either "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" and/or "Heavy Music," the loud tubs damn near a necessity when you're making such a bold - some would say blasphemous - statement. "Amen" may be cut from the same sonic fabric as "You'll Acomp'ny Me," but rails against everything from lawyers to starving children to the senselessness of war.
"All Summer Long," with a subject matter vaguely reminiscent of Seger's "Night Moves," welds Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" to Lynyrd Skynyrd''s "Sweet Home Alabama" and seems targeted directly at denizens of a certain mitten-shaped state with its images of "up north" (for the uninitiated, that section of the state north of an imaginary east-west line bisecting Bay City) like campfires, sand bars, and fishing for walleye. Tagging along for the ride is Skynyrd's Billy Powell, providing gratis piano. If this album had been released a few months earlier, "All Summer Long" would've been a can't-miss single, unavoidable on pontoon boats all the way from Cheboygan to Grand Haven.
There's a perfunctory poke (no pun intended) at celebrity hose beast Pamela Anderson in "Half Your Age," a hokey country shuffle that rings hollow with the sound of a cheap shot. When I snap my fingers, Bob, move on and forget about it. The ability to learn from our mistakes is what separates us from the lower primates.
Besides the steady crunch of hard rock guitar, a spot of soulful crooning here and there, and the colored girls going "Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo," "Rock N Roll Jesus" is chock full of something else which may seem out of place on an album from a guy who made his bones rhyming; messages - everything from truth and salvation to success, family, and selflessness. And if you find it difficult to place much credence in advice doled out by a guy who's fallen lock, stock, and barrel to the fully-cantilevered, brain-tumor-for-breakfast charms of Ms. Anderson on more than one occasion and whom you can bet is still smitten, welcome to the club.
In the end, though, "Rock N Roll Jesus" delivers 12 dependable rock `n' roll songs from the backwoods of Clarkston, Michigan, probably the most consistent set Rock's ever wrapped up and submitted to his record company and one that's sure to sell by the bushelful. While it remains to be seen if his internship at Seger Academy will be a lengthy one, for now at least he seems content with apple polishing and staying after school erasing the blackboards while the old codger races his yacht.
 This album is trashy and cool October 25, 2007
Dan Billings (Louisville, Kentucky)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Kid Rock did a number on this one! This is a cool album that is full of Kid Rock classics-to-be. The music blends 80's style metal with country rock and a touch of hip hop for good measure. How does this manage to work? Only Kid Rock can pull it off. How in the heck can you blend Werewolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama? Only one way... Kid Rock's way. Personally, I think it's the best album he's ever done, and it's a hint of what we can expect from him down the road.
 Uhhhh.....NO November 8, 2007
Sharon R. Beckham
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
So Hott is a good song. That's it. Not the right name for this cd. Also all of this fake public fighting is ridiculous. Please!
All of his other cd's are great though.
AhhhhWooooo! October 9, 2007
Pyezahn (CA, USA)
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was just listening to the sounds clips and POSITIVELY identified "All Summer Long" exact as the same melody as "Werewolves of London", lol! No joke - listen to the piano. Has anyone else picked up on this?
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