Kid Rock - Rock n Roll Jesus
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Artist: Kid RockBrand: KID ROCK
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Atlantic
Product features:
- Promo stamp on front insert.
- Rock N Roll Jesus
- Amen
- All Summer Long
- Roll On
- So Hott
- Sugar
- When You Love Someone
- New Orleans
- Don't Tell Me You Love Me
- Blue Jeans And A Rosary
- Half Your Age
- Lowlife (Living The Highlife)
Music reviews of Rock n Roll Jesus
Music Review: Kid Rock Should Do Some Penance For This One
Rating: 1 Stars
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.
Description of Rock n Roll Jesus
Rock Is Back. After 22 million records sold in the US and a three year hiatus, Kid Rock is back with the brand new album 'Rock N Roll Jesus'. Kid Rock hustled in the Detroit underground for over ten years before he burst into the mainstream in 1999 with the timeless rock anthem "Bawitdaba." Other hits like "Cowboy" and "American Bad A**" followed while ballads like his "Picture" duet with Sheryl Crow and "Only God Knows Why" helped to propel him forward as one of the greatest artists of our time. His latest offering Rock N Roll Jesus is no exception, running the gamut from hard rock to hip-hop to country and soul. Of the album, which Rock co-produced with Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, My Chemical Romance), he says: "I am proud of every single song on this record. It works from start to finish."Kid Rock Photos
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Kid Rock maintains a remarkable propensity for wearing his contradictions on his sleeve, and more than anything he's previously released, Rock n Roll Jesus finds fuel in unresolved opposites. Is he a hard-core chauvinist ("Half Your Age") or a would-be gentlemen ("When U Love Someone")? Is he a God-fearing everyman ("Blue Jeans and a Rosary") or a bohemian hero ("So Hott")? These questions are nothing new, even if the album at hand takes them to freshly delirious extremes. Ever since he first began shedding his rap/rock posture to be the next Ted Nugent, Kid Rock has constructed his public persona out of full-frontal ambivalence: race, class, sex, religion, money, whatever it takes. This album's bookends--the title song and "bonus" track, "Lowlife (Living the Highlife)"--demonstrate all this irreconcilable nonsense in no uncertain terms, but all his polar wobbling is at least stabilized by a firm commitment to southern-styled rock, tinged at times with gospel, blues, a lingering need to rap ("Sugar"), and a rare, soul-fed instrumental jambalaya ("New Orleans"). In the end, Kid Rock may be a remarkable self-promoter, but a musical Messiah he is not. --Jason Kirk People en Español
Pareciera que Kid Rock está madurando, en Rock and Roll Jesus ha dejado atrás al típico rockero que se conformaba con escandalizar, y se ha atrevido a navegar las aguas de otros géneros como el country y el blues en canciones como "New Orleans" y "All Summer Rock," además Rock se ha olvidado del hip-hop, hoy denuncia la muerte absurda de soldados en Irak y el racismo. Pero no crea que el músico se ha convertido precisamente en un santo, el disco incluye canciones poderosas como "So Hutt" que es puro rock o "Half Your Age" en la que no es secreto que vuelca todas sus frustraciones por haber perdido a Pamela Anderson. En la canción él dice que ahora tiene una chica más joven y más hot. En suma Rock and Roll Jesus es un material mucho más maduro, pero si quiere escuchar al Kid Rock escandaloso y despreocupado de antes quizá no sea buena idea comprarlo. Por el contrario si le gusta el hard rock de los años 70 y el country, este es un álbum que le gustará. --Ernesto Sánchez (People en Español
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