If you are in need of a new deity or a CD that rocks (or preferably both), today's your lucky day. Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus is in stores, and it's also streaming online at VH1.com.
Some notes on this album:
-Kid samples both "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama" on the track "All Summer Long." How he samples both these songs in the same track is something that can't even be explained; you just have to hear it.
-4 of the 12 songs on the album have abbreviations or intentional misspellings in their titles ("Rock N Roll Jesus," "So Hott," "When U Love Someone," "Don't Tell Me U Love Me").
-The VH1 album stream cut out after ten songs and I missed the one track I wanted to hear the most ("Half Your Age," the song about Pam Anderson).
-The album is roughly half ballads and half strip-club style rock anthems. In other words, it's exactly what you would expect from Kid Rock. The ballads are better, especially the songs "Amen" and "Blue Jeans and a Rosary." "So Hott" will soon be in heavy-rotation at strip clubs nationwide, if it isn't already.
-It sounds like Kid Rock was listening to a lot of music from the 1973-1980 era while making this album.
-I didn't get to hear the last song, "Lowlife (Living the Highlife)," because of the stream cutting out, but I am convinced this song title was inspired by Miller High Life.
Bottom line, Kid Rock set the bar pretty high when he named this album Rock N Roll Jesus. Rock says he wants this to be the ultimate American rock album, something that aliens could one day listen to in order to understand what American rock sounds like. I think this album has some pretty decent tunes, and even though I've only listened once, I'm ready to call it the best Kid Rock album since Devil Without a Cause. I'm pretty sure aliens could find a better example of American rock from the past 50 years, but this should be good enough to distract those aliens for a little while so future Americans can escape their pending anal probes.
If that doesn't help clarify things, then click on this link to listen to the full album stream from VH1.
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