A solid Southern Rock album

I received this album as a Christmas gift two years ago and it was a great gift. This was my first Kid Rock album, and it's a good place to start if you like the "Southern" Kid (I use that term loosely, considering he's from Detroit) better than his rap-rock stuff.



It starts with Rock 'n' Roll Pain Train, a solid country-rock song. Then it goes into the nearly-cookie-cutter-but-just-barely-saved song Cadillac Pussy with Hank Williams Jr. singing the majority of the chorus. As we come to Feel Like Makin' Love, there are mixed emotions on the cover. Obviously, RJ wants to spice it up Kid Rock-style, so he's going to scream in the chorus. If you like Bad Company and don't like it when artists change the style of a song, listen to this with caution. He changes it.



Overall, the album shows Kid Rock reinventing himself once again, and with success.



Reccomended.

loved it

this by far is my favorite kid rock album. He show grate talent. music varies from slow to some alternative. He shows some of his life. listen to this one a lot.

Rocks, but has its problems

First off, let me say it RIPS the COCKY record in HALF and SPITS IT OUT. Cocky sucked. It was like Kid Rock hitting puberty, not knowing whether to be his old self or be a Tobe Keith sell-out. Then again, his first two albums (1st two commercial albums, DWAC and Hist. of Rock) blew Cocky away too. This guy is an inventer, a rocker wanting to do everything he finds cool, but is still riding on his DWAC high. A little sold-out, you know.



I wish he would get himself in check a little more. This album feels that way slightly, but the songs he doesn't remake (I am against remakes for the most part, ecspecially when they become the selling points of an album) feel slightly disjointed and media infected. If he wants to go southern rock, go southern rock and still have fun with it but write a little better. All the Pamela Anderson influences are a little tiring. It's like he puts up a headline in the papers for his life, then sings about it through the entire album. The rock follows the headline type thing. A typecast rocker, a little too much infected by Hollywood. Trying to do his thing, while still worrying too much if people will like it. Then the audiences review too much with the sympathy factor, and not the reality factor.



In short: set your mind to what you do, Kid. Define your path for the album before doing it, and forget the media. Write with a passion, and absolutely artistically destroy the music scene. You can do it. This album, not COCKY, is the beginning testament that you can focus. Forget COCKY altogether. Leave DWAC in the past, memories of yesterday. Run with what drives you now, whether its southern rock, hip hop, nu-metal, whatever. Start the revolution the 21st century needs.



This album is good...for the most part. Rock N Roll, R&R Pain Train, and Hillbilly Stomp prove that. Jackson, Mississippi shows a Dark and Gray style that works (for the most part). Completely craft an album with 100% pure, creative pizzaz, and we'll be there listening. Keep it coming, but don't settle in the tracks now. The best is yet to come.



With that attitude, Kid Rock will finally prove to all that, like him or hate him, he can singlehandedly define the real music of tommorrow.



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