Devil Without A Cause

6:50 in the morning on December 10th, on my way to work, taking big swigs of room temperature Mountain Dew, cranking Devil Without a Cause with the windows down. Pull up beside a vehicle full of young people; I look at ‘em and ask, “Jealous”? They look confused and respond, “What?… No”. But I know they are because I’m a cowboy, baby. The frickin’ Bullgod.

Starts good but then it's simply repetition, repetition, repetition. Could have been an album with three songs and you wouldn't hear the difference

Il y avait quelque chose, mais j'ai eu besoin d'un Doliprane à partir de la 3ᵉ musique

1 song added to my favorites. Would not listen again.

Usually I'm a vibes over lyrics guy and the actual music on this isn't bad! But my god, these are some of the douchiest lyrics I've ever heard.

I honestly can't stand Kid Rock

I did not know that Kid Rock rapped lol 2

Brought me back to high school with this one. Wasn't a big fan back then. Still am not. But the singles from this album will always put a smile on my face.

This album and him as a person have aged like shit (especially him as a person) but have to admit this has some songs that were viewed as bangers in late 90s. Saw him open for the Smashing Pumpkins at a one day festival back in 2007. He spent part of set going to all of the instruments to try and show off, only to do the simplest things imaginable on each including the Smoke on the Water riff. One of the most embarrassing things I've seen at a concert.

I noted to someone once that it's sad how many musicians in their music claim to be against discrimination, patriarchy, and the established system.... But then use all their wealth and influence to support discrimination, patriarchy, and the established system. But I guess Bawitdaba was a good bop.

Not only is Kid Rock today kind of a sleazeball, his music back then was vulgar, raunchy, and intentionally counter to traditional songs. That doesn't make it good.

Album #964 This dude’s attitude far outweighs his talent. He’s really proud of his badassery, drug doing, and sex having. But we also get a glimpse of his embarrassing softer side, complete with horrific auto-tuned vocals. Surprised to hear Eminem on this. I never got into the grungy rap rock nu-metal whatever you call this. I did enjoy the Fat Boys reference.

No!

Nope. Not a good album. I didn't need this at any point. It's about twice as long as it needed to be, which is still about a half hour more than I would be typically willing to put into this record.

Not a fan of Kid Rock but can appreciate how popular he was in the 90s. Favorite Song(s): Cowboy

This album has some good moments. Certain songs are very hype, in a similar vain to nu metal at its best. For example, the first two tracks come out swinging. Kid Rock’s lyrics are often pretty stupid though, and certain songs like Only God Knows Why are abominations. The misogyny wears old after a while as well, and the length is a detriment. By the end, I was waiting for the album to end. I probably won’t be coming back to this one, but there are undeniably some tight songs here.

At least his music is better than his politics…a little.

Not my thing

Rap Metal - one of the few types of Rap that I can tolerate. I quite liked the opening track "Bawitdaba", but after a while the other tracks all began to sound the same, part from the ballad "Only God Knows Why".

Always & Forever, Fuck Kid Rock.

2/5. This was a wild listening experience. Never listened to Kid Rock before, only knowing him for his corrosive moral opinions and political preference. Now I went into this with an open mind as I have with all other albums on this list, and to be fair, this did start out strong and then... it kind of devolved into Kidz Bop version of Beastie Boys or Rage Against the Machine, but still with cursing and swearing, as if he just figured out what those curse words mean, fulfilling the "Kid" aspect. It also does cover the "Rock" with some pretty clean licks and riffs. However, with just a little more focus, the novelty wears off and the absolutely crude and simple lyrics shine through. Especially the last song, what a terrible song, it's not even a good story, it's just about how much this guy hates this woman. It's truly not a great album, and the Eminem feature is hilarious, he 100% does not want to be there, his vocals don't even match the beat. Just bad all around. The other funny part is Kid Rock's involvement in the Republican Party. I feel like, if he hung out with just a slightly different crowd, he could have been cool. Just tone down the misogyny and read a book, there is potential there for sure. He is really just two steps away from Rage Against the Machine honestly. The path from 1998 onwards differs entirely but for a brief moment there was a connection. Also pretty much every single song on here if performed by a black artist, this would be a prime example from the conservative politicians why rap is harmful to our country. But, since he is white, that doesn't happen. If anybody listens to this while also having Republican values unironically... I just feel like no one has actually listened to Kid Rock. Anyway, I hate that this is my longest review, putting so much energy into this one. The album, musically, has potential, and there is pop sensibility here that gives him the capability of writing hits. Unfortunately, almost everything that comes out of his mouth is god awful to listen to so it doesn't really save itself. I can't even say it is all bad, there are even jams here that really do work. It gets such a light 2, like 1.1 rounded up. Best Song: Cowboy, Bawitdaba, I Am The Bullgod

Not for me.

Lowkey boisterous.

Is it possible to dislike the artist but like the art? Of course, but this prick doesn't make it easy.

Si no fuera una edición americana este disco no estaría en el listado. Tuvo un tremendo éxito a finales de siglo, pero no dejó huella más allá de ese pelotón de grupos de rap metal que tuvo a este junto con Limp Bikit o Linkin Park como arietes. Bawitdaba es hard rock, Cowboy mejora la cosa pero no termina de convencer, Devil Without a Cause es otra cosa , mucho más funky y sobre todo Only God Knows Why que fue otro enorme éxito (el duo con Sheryl Crow). Aún así, es un disco que tiene su punto pero está lejos de ser una obra maestra.

Subpar.

Being charitable with my ⭐⭐

Not my thing

It’s not THAT bad but it is bad.

Honestly started out alright but just kept piling on questionable line after sexist line. I think this is what racist old white dudes think all rap is.

Too vulgar for my taste

Album 896 of 1089 Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause (1998) Rating : 2 / 5 I’m not really a big fan of Kid Rock the person, but I try not to let that get in the way of an honest listen. Overall, I found the album a bit laughable, though there were a couple of tracks I could get into. “Only God Knows Why” and “Cowboy” stood out as decent, but beyond that it felt more like a novelty than something I’d come back to. I can see why many might rate this one below average. The lyrics can come across as juvenile, and the mashup of rap, rock, and country doesn’t always blend smoothly. It leans heavily on attitude and image more than substance, and that makes it feel dated quickly. Still, it had its moment, and I can respect that it connected with an audience, even if it didn’t with me.

Didn't get through it.

Bawitdaba is a certified banget, and prevents the album from receiving a lonely star. Only God Knows Why might be the worst song I’ve ever heard

Overall, the album felt like a teen movie soundtrack to me. I didn’t really feel like listening to most of the tracks again, but I could listen to “Cowboy” more than once, even though it’s a bit long. I can see why this album sold well, but for a “must-hear before you die” list, I feel there are many others that deserve a spot first.

Okay, I wanted to hate this out of principle. I gave it a shot, kind of dug the first song, specifically the line “get in the pit and try to love someone”. And then cowboy came on and it was a similar vibe and I was like “didn’t this guy grow up in the suburbs of Detroit? Is that cowboy territory” and then the rest were just like these first two. They’re catchy I guess but after you hear the first one, there’s nothing really redeeming about them. They are what they are.

Only gets the extra star because of the catchiness of a couple songs. Otherwise it's wedding music for siblings.

Inflated-ego-music. 1.5/5

I'm going to guess that Mr. Robert James Ritchie is probably an interesting and maybe down to earth guy to talk to. I was in my late teens early twenties (I think) when he became popular and I didn't like the music at all upon first hearing it. All these years later, it still doesn't really do much for me. The music itself is ok, but the whole delivery just doesn't do it for me. I find the persona and feel of it to be kinda cheesy.

Not as bad as I expected, but my expectations were extremely low. Not 1 star bad. Obviously not great. His flow is awkward like a lot of 80s rap. More varied than Rage Against the Machine. Lyrics are cringe. Favorite song: I got one for ya

I completely forgot about Bawitdaba. Actually thought it was like Limp Bizkit or something. Gave me a good laugh this morning. I dont care about this guys political beliefs, actually, I dont care about any of his beliefs. I guess I can give credit where it is due, he invented a genre. I just wish we could get rid of said genre. White Trash redneck rock.

I mean I respect the genre-combining aspect of this, but the material is kind of rough and I can't get past his need for shock value.

Mauvais Rock + Mauvais Rap + Mauvais country = Mauvaise musique Quelques bouts plus musicaux peuvent être catchy, mais c'est une longue heure.

Mélange entre du Rage against, Beastie boys et du country. Ça sonne ass et fake. Pas été capable de passer au travers d’un album de 1h15 aussi plastique que ça

La sample de Second Hand News m'a tué. C'est pas mal toujours la même chose, Kid Rock imite les Beastie Boys et parle de à quel point il est cool et hot par dessus un instrumental insipide simili-country-nu-metal. Très mid. Beaucoup trop long aussi.

bawitdaba was cool when I was a child. Not now.

Too noisy! Not my fave

Why god?

Kid Rock has some talent and some decent songs on this album. However, this album was too long and too vulgar to get a high ranking.

This just didn’t feel or sound/seem right.

uggggggghhhhhh. not a fan of lyrics at all. or his persona. only reason it's getting a 2 is due to music & the variety in sound.

1. Bawitdaba - 10 Brilliant track. The verses are incredibly solid and the sound is just awesome. Absolute great deep and loud rock sound that was given a nice and length intro to build into. Superb way to open the album. 2. Cowboy - 9 Awesome sound. Everything about this track sounds and is placed perfectly. The background vocals add an amazing sound to dump out of the choruses. Kid Rock's flow is superb during the verses. The guitars and drums sound amazing. All around a great track. 3. Devil Without A Cause - 11 Great track. Amazing guitar underpinning each line of the lyrics, which have an impeccable flow. Opening verse is absolutely massive. Chorus is solid as well. 4. I Am The Bullgod - 8 Instrumentally fantastic. Lyrically it's very weak at times. The track comes and goes lyrically because of this between solid flow and very off lyrics. Overall not a bad track. 5. Roving Gangster (Rollin') - 5 Lyrcially very weak. The MC beatbox drop after the first portion of the track was fantastic. Instrumentally a strong track but the complete pause in the middle of the track was unnecessary and ruins a lot of the enjoyment of it. 6. Wasting Time - 2 Lyrically it's the weakest track so far. Background vocals that sing the chorus are the highlight of the track but overall it's not a great piece. 7. Welcome 2 The Party (Ode 2 The Old School) - 0 Instrumentally it's okay but lyrically this is absolutely horrible. 8. I Got One For Ya' - 3 Chrous is nice but the rest of the song lacks any quality. Verses are pretty weak. Instrumentally it's alright but the compliation feels a bit out of place compared to the rest of the album. Outro is also not enjoyable. 9. Somebody's Gotta Feel This - 4 It's an okay song. It's a little bit simple in the track's construction and overall that makes it a bit of a pass over track. Definitely a return to the kind of tracks the album has opened with. 10. Fist of Rage - 3 Exact same problems as the previous track only exemplified. Instrumentally a lot better however. Bridge is particuarly enjoyable. 11. Only God Knows Why - -1 Autotuned atrocity. 12. Fuck Off - 0 The great flow from the opening tracks returns but the lyrics are not up to snuff. The opening verse is like giving an edgy teenager a mic and telling them that anything they say is okay so they just say obscene stuff for the sake of pushing the envelope. The bridge is the same thing. Eminem is the highlight of the track. On top of that, the track should have ended 4 minutes in but then there's random voicemail notes on the end that are absolutely useless being on the track. 13. Where U At Rock - 4 Much better and a lot like the opening tracks. Has a pretty weak opening but if gets better lyrically the deeper you get into the track. 14. Black Chick, White Guy / I Am The Bullgod - 4 It's alright for a closing track. Bit too long and the song loses itself in the story at times before completely changing tone back to I Am The Bullgod. Average Rating: 4.43 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.21 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I enjoyed Bawitdaba a bit in my younger days but it’s about half way through Cowboy when you realize what a disaster this album is going to be. Some real cringe here and very few redeeming elements. I’m being generous here with the score.

You say "fusion genre", I say "a mess of styles". Almost all the songs feature some combination of rap lyrics, heavy rock riffs, and then country and western sounds. It's very noisy and hard to listen to, hard to get a handle on. It's very hard to tell how much or if this guy is taking his bragging seriously. I found some moments of amusement in the lyrics, but I'm not sure if I'm laughing with him or at him. I think he is probably for real, which is a little tragic, but the final verse of Welcome 2 the Party is so hilariously crass that I can't help but smile: "Kid Rock and I'm the same old fool I'll tell ya to drop your boyfriend then drop outta high school I got a whirlpool, don't even ask Lickin' pussy underwater shootin' bubbles up your ass I'm so crass that I'm the last of my kind ... I don't steal from the rich and give to the poor I take from my bitches and give it to my whores" Only God Knows Why is one of the most manufactured, over-produced things I have heard, with obnoxious autotune and embarassingly faux-authentic lyrics, he's really trying to make us think he believes in what he's saying, but I don't buy it for a second. But overall, I have hated albums much more than this. Is it worth 2 stars? I don't know. I think I was really laughing at this more than I was enjoying it. But I did enjoy it, at least a little bit.

While his redneck pimp persona is fun for like one or two songs, after a whole album, it is so incredibly cringey. Like what a dork. Bars were hella weak too, like written by an elementary age kid

Took every ounce of willpower I could muster to listen to this and separate the artist from the man in the process. The rap rock sound is actually pretty good and the energy is undeniable. Still, there is an underlying element of Vanilla Ice in the rage and inferred victimization. Sure, the swing to country is readily evident and a choice Kid Rock made but, ultimately, this feels like the Kid's real name is Clarence.

The hits are catchy. The vibe is douche-y.

Dear Aerosmith + Run DMC 'Walk this Way' and Beastie Boys: You owe us an apology. Signed, Everyone ever P.S. I feel really guilty even giving this douche one stream.

I obviously didn’t enjoy anything about this album, but it wasn’t actually as bad as I expected based on its reputation.

Kid Rock can get stuffed.

I was once tempted to get a Kid Rock album based on one song. A friend said, "don't do it", and I respected his opinion enough to not but it based on one song. Years later, I don't think I can identify one song other than the first one on the album, which I don't think was the song I heard that intrigued me. So, after listening to this full album, I need to reach out to that friend and say, ..... thank you. I was considering a three after a few of the songs and then it grew painful. Irritating at times. So I'll give it two stars.

Hah, not many fans here! I thought BAWITDABA has some merit. Driving musical support.Not my genre, but again, I was able to listen for longer than anticipated thanks to the music, rather than voice and lyrics. WASTING TIME a nice upbeat melody. SOMEBODY'S GOTTA FEEL THIS reminded me of Deep Purple in Rock actually. But songs like WHERE YOU AT ROCK... make me lose the will to live

Don't know what to think of this.... is he just trying to create an image? Is he embracing the 'thug life'? It is schtick and very superficial.

Kid Rock ist scheiße, die Musik ist scheiße. Allerdings muss man im einen Gewissen Rhythmus eingestehen und das es nicht scheiße produziert ist. Von daher mehr als 1 Stern.

The inclusion of this album, again, is an example of inclusion because of music history significance and not music quality. This album came out during, and arguably even influenced and helped form, the nu-metal/rock-rap craze. "Cowboy" is even historically significant in terms of pioneering country-rap, although really the entire album is presented through an intentional "redneck" lens. There's a bit of interpolation at play on this album, too. Kid borrows from the likes of Soundgarden's "Spoonman" and Fleetwood Mac's "Secondhand News" for "Roving Gangster" and "Wasting Time", respectfully. Here's the thing. I will be brave and admit that at least a couple of the songs on this album are pretty catchy. The album as a whole is not as bad as some reviewers have made it out to be (in my opinion), but it is certainly far from worthy of this list.

This album is absolutely dreadful. Starts bizarrely, no variety and lyrics are terrible. But it made me laugh so much I couldn’t give it a 1, had entertainment value despite being awful

This was tough to get through. Every track feels like it belongs on Kevin Devine’s ‘Give It a Chance’ podcast - ooooof. Giving it one extra star for fully leaning into the redneck chaos.

The filler is really rough on this

Sounds like angsty teenage rebellion. I don’t mind it but maybe in small doses

Reminds me of Rage Against the Machine, and therefore doesn’t seem to have its own individuality a lot of the time. I appreciate the country cross-overs, as country rap you do not hear very often. However, the hard rock sound with the rapping is accomplished a lot better by other artists.

If I wanted to listen to a Rap album, this wouldn't be it. Its not awful (mostly) but it's Kid Rock and that carries a fair bit of baggage. Its not entirely obnoxious.

Emphasis on "Kid." The vapidity is fatiguing, but still, I’ve heard worse on this list. Bawitdaba in particular is quite good.

Combination of rap, rock and metal from the late 1990s. The lyrics are offensive, the production is quite good, though. It's not an album I like but it isn't completely unbearable as many other 1 star albums. It's close but I'll give it a 3 out of 10 or 2 stars.

no exaggeration, i whined like a petulant child when i realized i had to listen to Kid Rock. similar to my rating of Kanye West's albums, i refuse to let this guy profit off my streams, so i've gotten creative with how to accomplish rating this 🏴‍☠️ Bawitdaba - 3/5 Cowboy - 3/5 Devil Without a Cause - 1/5 I Am the Bullgod - 2/5 Roving Gangster (Rollin') - 3/5 Wasting Time - 1/5 Welcome 2 the Party... - 1/5 I Got One for Ya' - 2/5 Somebody's Gotta Feel This - 4/5 Fist of Rage - 3/5 Only God Knows Why - 2/5 Fuck Off - 2/5 (Eminem carried lol) Where U at Rock - 2/5 Black Chick, White Guy - 2/5 (it's obviously commentary on his life, but i do not have 12 minutes to waste hearing it) Average score: 2.2/5 ugh... where to begin i already know of Bawitdaba and Cowboy from the radio, they're relatively tame tracks in comparison to the rest of the album so they get a generous 3-star rating for that alone. Someone's Gotta Feel This was surprisingly inoffensive to me as well for some reason. it's all pretty much downhill from there i'm afraid i don't want to write about every song i hated (this'd turn into a 10-page essay if i did), so i'll just mention one that really stood out to me as particularly bad: Devil Without a Cause. i had to stop listening by the 4:00 mark due to that child (Joe C?) rapping my biggest issue with the majority of this album isn't necessarily how these songs sound, but rather, how *long* they are. some of them feel like they go on forever, and it took a lot of restraint for me to not just give up on reviewing all together. most of these songs could've been easier to sit through if they were just 1-2 minutes shorter in conclusion, this was pretty damn bad, but not bad enough to end up among my lowest-rated. if this hadn't been on this 1001 albums list, i would've been fine having not heard it. there's nothing revolutionary happening here; artists like Rage Against The Machine, Run DMC, Beastie Boys and Limp Bizkit had been blending rock and hip hop long before him, and they did it far better

I mean, at least he has some more intelligence with the tongue in cheek stuff than Limp Biskit. My 13-year old self came out a little bit…

An extra star for the joy I had reading the YouTube comments on each track as I played it through in an incognito window.

A crossover of rap and rock, quite a cool concept. The songs are long and loud. Questionable lyrics.

I’m from New York - I’m no stranger to blue language and have a reputation for it’s liberal usage in my day to day speaking - but Lord have mercy rap music sometimes just goes over the top with it. Really can be too much.

It’s really simple and basic sounding. Lyrics are tired and lame.

This guy is irritating and writes stupid lyrics. It's a good thing the opening track, Bawitdaba, has a heavy metal-esque guitar and drums, because the vocals are mildly unbearable. Some of the remaining songs have good instrumentals too. I appreciate the cliched but fun guitar lines and old-school hip-hop percussive beats. ...But alas, all mediocre things must come to an end. Kid Rock's lyrics are bad and he delivers them with such gusto that it's clear he genuinely believes he sounds good. (He doesn't.) Confidence is cool and all, but when it's misplaced the result makes your cochleas want to curl up into a ball and refuse to continue taking sonic input. As the album slogs through its 71-minute runtime, it becomes increasingly difficult to ignore the vocals. Kid Rock shouts (raps?) in a sort of faux-gangsta way - à la Eminem, who is bad for the same reason. It's so forced, so artificial, that it makes your skin crawl. Which is a shame, because his singing (especially with harmonies) is decent, as seen with the choruses of tracks like I Am the Bullgod and Wasting Time. Only God Knows Why is an interesting case of a genuinely good song with a great chorus, piano, and organ - but it's marred by the autotune. I want to say that the sound aged poorly, except autotune is even more prevalent today. I guess society doesn't learn, eh? Re lyrics, there are countless gems in the title track alone: "So shut up now or put my balls in your mouth / Bet that ass hoss I ain't forgot" "Used to call me funny when my nose was fucking runny / Now my fucking bunnies getting fucking Matchbox 20 money" "Old as piss but small as ass / Watch me cash, smoke some hash" Plus a few from other songs: "People always talkin what they gonna do / They must want their face to maybe taste my shoe" "Don't wannt hear me cuss don't wanna hear me brag / So I'm grabbing on my thingy while I let my pants sag" "He's rocking dickies, sipping, licking, slipping honeys, pop that daddy steady" This guy is endless entertainment for all the wrong reasons. It's much more fun reading his lyrics than forcing yourself to listen to them. 2/5 Key tracks: Cowboy, Wasting Time, Only God Knows Why

One or two keepers but mostly self-involved garbage.

No, it's a 1 for sure, but I'm giving it 2 because you can't say it wasn't interesting. The classic car wreck you can't not look at.

Guy sucks and his music is not much better

I was torn between 2 and 3

Ugh. He's just the worst. What was interesting about this is how well the music is produced? There's a lot of influences in this music without it being pastiche. Too bad he has to rap? Song? Over it..

I don’t blame him. I blame the people who enabled this.

Sitting on his horse riding in al directions.

If it’s 1998 I might be able to enjoy parts of this album ironically, but it’s 2025 and while I was entertained by some of the ridiculous lyrics, overall this album just predicts exactly who Kid Rock has become, a stupid, loud m, racist MAGA Stan. As for the music, frankly it’s like someone took hip hop, grunge and rock, mashed it together and took out anything about those genres that makes them uncomfortable to white dudes and then added a truly phenomenal number of references to penis size. I don’t know if it’s for the greater good that music exists that allows a certain type of dude in a pickup truck to listen to music that’s loud and pretending to be edgy but that at no time asks the listener (if the listener is that dude in a pickup) to inhabit a reality other than his own. I got to inhabit a reality not my own and I’d like to get that time back. Two tracks in I quipped to a friend “it’s like Beck, but for dudes who want to imagine drinking on a yacht with women with big boobs.” Two stars for the mashup of it all and the dick rhymes. That’s it.

Really annoying

Nah not really a fan

listening to it, lets just say there was a time and a place.

Yeah. I admit it. I used to listen to this in high school. I still know a lot of the words, too. Objectively I know it's trash and I'm embarrassed I ever liked it, but the slight nostalgia I feel for it won't let me give it a lower grade than 2 stars. P.S. That n-word on the last track? We shouldn't be surprised that Kid has gone full MAGA.

Es el hijo de un rapero y un rockero basicamente, no lo disfrute.

A couple good songs in there, a couple songs i wish i coulda skipped. More of the latter.

Kid Rock is a fucking chode and this music sucks, but some of you gotta understand...when you are a high schooler in flyover country, you go to keggers in alfalfa fields where you drink Busch Light and listen to crap music like this and pop country and other annoying shit. It's not political, it's just a thing that happens. Or at least it used to happen before we all went collectively crazy and decided that we need to choose a side and fight to the death until "our" side wins and the "other" side is utterly destroyed. Maybe in some fucked up way we were better off when people of all stripes could drink watery beer and listen to Kid Rock together while yelling at the stars.

I don’t know what’s happened to me. First time of listening I hated this, then when I listened again on the headphones I was bopping around my kitchen. There are some decent grooves here. I hate the lyrics though and that autotune is awful. It goes on too long and I have no intention of ever listening again. Also, I have no idea what a bullgod is and the first time I listened I genuinely thought he was singing ‘pool guy’.

Wow. This is bad.

Much better and more diverse than many rap albums. The ballad is generally cool (compared to the rest of the album, of course). If the length of the album had been 2 times less, it would have been possible to add another half point. 4.5 out of 10.

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I did use a private session on Spotify because of Kid Rock. Trying to get over what I think of Kid Rock, the over the top misogyny on this album, the horrid use of the auto tune when he isn't "rapping", there are a couple of great novelty songs on it.

I understand the influence, but this is just straight up not a good album.

This is a difficult one to rank as it very much feels like an album of a certain era. I was transported to a time of South Park, Nu-Metal and Attitude Era WWF. That strange period in history where cartoonish rebellion was in. A nostalgic journey to a certain period of my childhood. The downside really was the actual music. There were a couple of decent enough songs, but by and large they were infantile and showed little musical skill. Not terrible, but not particularly good either. 2 stars.

A couple of the songs on the album were wildly popular when it came out. The rest of it was terrible. Looking at only this album, it’s probably a 2.5, it also might help to drink a Bud Light while listening.

2.5

Sexy cunt. Isn't this the guy that was caught blowing the Creed dude on a tour bus? In any case, I never would've suspected that a poser from Detroit could've done southern rock better than most any band in the south.

OK this was not as bad as I expected (at least, until I started listening to what he says), but still bad. Sounded quite trashy, if I have to describe it.

It was musically alright. Different than the bulk of the albums I listened to here. However, the lyrics and length of the album really drag it down

American country rap-rock. Sounds like a parody. Not my jam.

Back in the 90s, when this album was at its peak, I never gave it a second thought, mostly because it was too commercial, and I was deep into the underground scene, so I thought I was above it. Now that I’m older and (hopefully) more mature, I still find it pretty sleazy. Maybe it carried more weight when this album came out in the late 90s, but it really hasn’t aged well at all. That said, I’ve heard way worse albums out there.

First three songs are ok, rest of the album is just filler

Favorite Track: Bawitdaba

It's actually the first rap album that I don't switch off immediately. It reminds me a bit of a cross-over album. I don't need to hear it again and life without this album or Kid Rock wouldn't be any poorer. At least I hope to be able to categorize Kid Rock in the right genre in the future. 2/5

I can't bear to say that I enjoyed this one anymore.

I don't like this. It's boring and loud and generic. But I'm not giving it one star as - I think - it's not a terrible example of what it is. Even if it's not to my taste.

Honestly, weird. Just didn't do it for me. Some songs were actually quite unenjoyable for me, some weren't too bad. Not in a hurry to re-listen. Fav song: Devil without a cause?

# 403 : I see nobody loves this, I don't hate it, I just Didn't Make it all the way through with out skipping here and there. Another album which makes you reconsider whether there are as many as 1,001 albums you must listen to before you die. There's much better 'music' out there to be sure.

If you ignore the insipid uninspired asinine country equivalent of gangster rap lyrics, the production is actually really fun and enjoyable. Danceable and vivacious, until you listen to any lyrics, then you cringe too hard to have fun. Every single song is a loser's anthem.

It's not horrendous, though some tracks did force a skip from me for being awful, which is rare for me. But the try hard attitude of it is cloying, and am to often your want to term whoever is speaking reaping or singing to just stop, please.

70 minutes of this annoying persona is crazy

Why did it have to be Kid Rock? That guy's a complete jerk. This album isn't much better; it's just Limp Bizkit but worse. There are 2 good songs: "Only God Knows Why" (slightly ruined by autotune) and "Black Girl, White Guy" (tells an actual story)". I also liked Eminem's guest appearance. 2 stars for "Devil Without a Cause".

Other than feeling like I’m listening to the anthems of the cultist Trump votership, this album is too long, too soft (for what it’s trying to be) and generally, too shit. Starting off with the... interesting Bawitdaba and title track (complete with genius lyricism of “3 foot 9 with a 10 inch dick”, you’d be hopeful for a change of pace by the middle of the album, but no. Mr. Rock attempts to rally listeners to his cause with a hatful of “come on!”s and “my name’s Kid Rock”s, to no avail, as we’ve basically been listening to the same song for 45 minutes at this point. Then there’s a full switch-up with Only God Knows Why, and only God knows why he decided to place this awful ballad into his otherwise rap-rock heavy album, especially as it’s followed up by Fuck Off, something I’d like to say to Mr. Rock and most of his loyal listeners, if you’re reading. And to Eminem too, who just had to make an appearance, didn’t he. So edgy! And Jesus Christ, the TWELVE MINUTE Black Chick, White Guy is some of the creepiest commercial music I’ve subjected myself to. But hey, he hates the wokes! He says what we’re all thinking! Rock for President!

Catchy songs but the flows/rhymes recall Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. The samples reference all kinds of 70s bad taste.

This really isn't *that* bad, although it does sound like music that'd play during the credits of a Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil movie... For a gutter-tier rated album I expected much, much worse.

I think there's a pretty good rock band playing on this - there is one good song on here, worthy of mi "Like" list.

I normally try to push politics aside when reviewing albums but... for just so many reasons... fuck kid rock. That said, I did relisten hoping to have some of the fun I had in middle and high school when this album was popular but... fuck this thing aged like eggnog in the sun in July.

Entertaining! Why is this hated?

As expected, this mostly sucked, but I did laugh out loud at "Used to call me funny/ when my nose was fucking runny/ Now i'm fuckin' bunnies/ gettin' fuckin' Matchbox 20 money" and it was still a more musically and lyrically competent album than Chocolate Starfish, so the streak will continue!

Halfway into first track and to say it's not what I expected is a massive understatement. All I had previously heard from these is the one that ripped off the music from the Warren Zevon classic 'Werewolves of London'. Having said that though this isn't too bad so far. We'll have to see how the rest goes. Well... I was surprisingly impressed right up to the point where he started to actually sing, and to start with he did really well then the auto-tune kicked in and RUINED EVERYTHING!!!! It knackered the whole album for me. It's lost 2 points because of it. Can only give it 2 now.

2 stars. Musically decent but lyrically suspect.

2/5

Faith No More sprinted so Kid rock could copy them. I’ll admit I owned and listened to this album. I even saw him in concert back in the day. I am also from the Detroit area and we heard a lot about Bob Ritchie back then. I also later learned that the man who claimed to be so street and “trailer park” smart was actually raised in a mansion by a father who owned a large car dealership. His rewriting of his personal history aside……I gave this entire album another listen as I had not done so in decades. The nostalgia feelings this invoked aside…..this album sounds dated and, at times, cheesy with lots of male bravado cliches. Not the worst…….but definitely not 5 stars. Would I ever listen again? No. Would I tap along to one of these songs on the radio? Possibly. I wonder if Eminem has any regrets about his involvement?

For the most part, terrible.

I don’t like kid rock and this didn’t help very much. Hard R n word at the end for some reason

I didnt love this album but also dont fully understand all the negative reviews either. Nu Metal has never really been my thing but I got into the groove on a couple of songs. Kinda want to give it a 2 but cant quite give it a 3. Too bad 2.5 isnt an option.

Musically it was mostly fine, although it was too long. But I just get annoyed at an artist constantly acting like a victim. He just wants to believe that he grew up in a trailer so bad.

I said I'd go into this one open minded, because hating it is the done thing, right? It starts off actually pretty good. If you get rid of the self-mastabatory calling out of his own name, the opening track 'Batwitdaba' is actually a really solid nu-metal song. If Rage had released it, people would go nuts for it. Admittedly I unashamedly love nu-metal, so that commendation only goes so far for the average Joe. Even the second song 'Cowboy' is worthy of credit - it's not trying to be anything other than what it is. It's corny as hell, but in an almost endearing way. Aaaaaaand then the rest of the album arrives. By this point I was thinking "surely people haven't got this album so wrong??" and tragically I was right. What follows is some fairly decent instrumentation, some interesting ad-libs, sound effects and even choral interludes which make for an varied listen. Unfortunately all of that hard word is accompanied by misogynistic lyrics, truly awful usage of autotune and one part where a child brags about how big their dong is, so I can't defend it any more than that. Is it the best album ever? No. Is it the worst album ever? Definitely not - it's just the result of someone with mediocre-at-best talent being handed far too much money and attention. Edit: Oh my God I just listened to the last song on the album why did he think this was a good idea????

Ik heb Kind Steen altijd een flapdrol gevonden, maar dit album begint eigenlijk wel leuk. Huismerk Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine uit de budgetbak van de Aldi, Zack de la Rochmwoah, Korny (padoempats), tweedehands Beasty Boys. Daarna hinkt het op en neer tussen een soort flauwe nu metal en hick-hop. Vanaf dan wordt het ook een enorm lang album met enorm nietszeggende nummers. Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat track 3, 4 en 5 exact hetzelfde zijn. 40 minuten van dit was echt meer dan genoeg geweest, maar Kind gaat voor een dikke 70 minuten. Hij heeft daarvoor echt veel te weinig te melden, en dus verdwijnt bij mij langzaam het stukje goodwill dat ik hem na de enigszins verrassende opening nog wel wilde gunnen. Hij beitelt en beitelt tot er steeds minder punten overblijven. Af en toe druk ik stiekem een keer op next (wat ik bij deze lijst zelden doe), maar dan lijkt zich weer grotendeels hetzelfde riedeltje af te gaan spelen, totdat je aankomt bij die knetterfoute autotune track. Een wandelende identiteitscrisis, ongemakkelijk. Twee sterren is meer dan genoeg.

It feels a bit like the 1001 Generator is giving me the middle finger by making me listen to Kid Rock on Election Day. It is musical in places and catchy in others, so I'll give it two stars. That said, there is zero innovation, it's entirely derivative, and a great case study in a white person selling black music to white people.

For a rap album the music is better than others I have heard here and the rhymes are the usual kind of trash. 2 stars or D+ which is as high as I go for this genre.

Trodde nästan det skulle vara sämre än det var. Fast bra är det ju inte.

Not my kind of music. Its Not bad just not mine.

Get it off the list and forget it ever happened

Ugh, this is as if someone mashed together the silliest kind of braggy hip-hop with the most annoying kind of country and generic rock.

selten langweilig .. egal ob hip hop, nu metal oder country.

I usually like genre fusions but not this. Some of the music was good, but the lyrics are just embarrassing, trying too hard to be edgy.

Well, this isn't really how I wanted to spend a beautiful Friday in October, but my date with Kid Rock is finally here. I know the first two songs off of this album, but the rest of it will be new for me. This album came out right as I was starting eighth grade, but I don't remember really being very aware of it until maybe a year later. In the summer of 1999, I went on a trip to New York with my middle school theater group, and while we were there, I saw a strip club called the Playpen near Times Square, and it cracked me up, so I snapped a picture of it. Some time later, I was looking at a friend's copy of the booklet from this CD, and low and behold, there was the Playpen again. What a wonderful time to be a young teenager. Anyway, let's get after it! Eh, this was about what I expected, and while I didn't enjoy it, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The mashup of different styles is pretty unique, and I honestly don't mind Kid Rock's rapping; his enunciation and flow work really well with the music from the backing band (Uncle Cracker? I had no idea he was on this album, although looking at his personal life section on Wikipedia, I guess he fits well with Kid). The samples used on this album were pretty good too, especially on "Wasting Time," which samples Fleetwood Mac's "Secondhand News" (one of my favorite songs). "Cowboy" has to be one of the dumbest songs I've ever heard, but damn, I do enjoy listening to it, because it's got a great groove, and the lyrics are incredibly catchy. The biggest thing working against this album, other than Kid Rock's personality, is that the lyrical content and themes are just really off-putting. I almost feel like a hypocrite for saying that, because I've enjoyed the gangsta rap albums I've reviewed, but there's an air of trying too hard and phoniness that permeates everything Kid Rock is saying. Is some of that due to what we know about his personality in the present? Sure, but I think even in 1998 that most of this had to feel pretty forced and performative. This isn't the worst thing I've ever heard, but I don't have any desire to come back to this. However, if "Cowboy" starts playing, I won't be hitting 'skip,' unless my kids are around.

i wouldn't like to meet the kind of people who like this stuff... Some of the hooks were ok but it was filled to the brim with dodgy lyrics or production choices that put a bad taste in my mouth.

I don't completely hate the music, but the lyrics are not exactly the best. Actually, the lyrics are awful. It's Rage Against the Machine but not as good.

Gloriously crude and trashy – by design, obvs, and near-perfectly executed along those lines. But this is not at all one's thing, rap-rock being utter cultural detritus, a low point not just of pop music history but all of Western Civilization.

Pari hyvää rallia, muuten paljon tuubaa. Ja Kid Rock on pölö.

Rating low because the lyrics are stupid, the music is meh, and Kid Rock is not a great human being. That said, I can't give this a 1 because I've definitely heard worse.

Other than the two inescapable songs on this record it was not particularly remarkable.

I mean I guess it kinda bangs but it's hard to overlook who this guy is and everything he has done since

First few tracks were entertaining, but the album progressively devolved into garbage.

Musically, genuinely not the worst thing, but the album is too long. Lyrically aged horrifically in some places and atrociously in others🤢.

Parts of it want to be RATM, part rap, mostly just corny

Listened to as much of this as a trip to run errands would allow, ending it on track 7 of 14 and that will be enough, as I'm sure there are absolutely new depths to discover from this steaming turd of an album. Kid Rock is a moron, and a very boring moron at that. As least some of the music caused a little bob of the head, hence why it's 2 stars instead of a much deserved 1.

Ooh look at me I’m kid rock, I’m a cowboy, I smoke the whisky and drink the weed, ooh I see women as nothing more than hoes and bitches, ooh I do the same rap over and over with a noodley guitar. What a wee fanny.

2nd star is just for the idea to cross country‘ish and rap‘ish music. Overall not my thing

I had a fine time in middle school. But it is about the LAST period of my life I'm nostalgic for. I honestly thought to myself at the beginning of the title track that I was listening to a scared eighth-grader's ranting when the little kid started screaming and confirmed it. The production warrants a 3. I appreciate extending the lane that Rick Rubin carved out on Licensed to Ill But the vocals...I feel dumber for having listened to this.

um his aesthetic is silly. unfortunately I can only appreciate this sort of thing ironically...

Had a feeling this wouldn't be great, good instrumentals on a few songs saved this from a 1.

No está mal pero no es para mí, y después de leer todo tipo de reseñas sobre este disco, llegó a la conclusión que Kid rock cae mal por lo general, da igual que hiciera rap que canto gregoriano, en general para mí no me parece tan malo, y tiene alguna cancion curiosa pero seguramente no creo que vuelva ha escucharlo en la vida.

# Playlist track - Cowboy # Notes - Let me start by saying that I have no goddamned idea of what the lyrics say. I listen to these albums while working or doing something else, so it doesn't really get to my head. - I'm mentioning it because folks seem to thing it's REALLY shitty, and there's no way in hell that I'm listening to it all again just to make sure. - The album sets with the right foot. It's energetic, and have a pretty cool beat. - "Cowboy" instantly takes me to listening to MTV on my grandmother's house. - Mid-album it has become repetitive already. - When the ballady track and the bunch-of-talking one hit, I want to stop listening. - It's kind of experience for folks my age to take a listen, but not a very good album to be honest.

Why.

This album truly is analogous to America. How on earth could something with so many good ideas behind it turn out so cringey?

Rating: 3.5/10 This album is juvenile, obnoxious, and way too long. Despite this, it actually has some very good songs and some great ideas. The rap metal/rock sound has been done better before but this has some character to it at least. Kid Rock puts his own spin on the genre and he has pretty good flow, but awful lyrics and some absolutely horrendous songs. Did not enjoy it overall but not as bad as many people think. Favorite songs: Cowboy, Wasting Time. Worst songs: Welcome 2 the Party, Only God Knows Why, Fuck Off.

Trying to be open minded on this one. Not too proud to say I grooved to Cowboy back in the day. However i am much older now. The mesh of rock, rap and country is pretty good and it was revolutionary. His rap is decent. BUT...the lyrics are full on misogyny, racisms, reasons how amazing he is, and just tired and cliche after a while. Pair that with the fact that he grew up on a farm in a small town OUTSIDE of Detroit and his family was fairly well off. Its just poser music

The music isn't bad. It's the poetry of the lyrics that I have a problem with. He doesn't sing about anything that I care about. His songs seem to be mostly about him and how cool he is. It's pretty ridiculous. I got annoyed with it pretty quickly.

This album is not My style.

Ok

Yikes.

Vu les critiques, je m’attendais à un véritable ramassis de chiure auditif. Ne vous détrompez-vous pas pour autant, cowboys! Ça reste un album aux paroles écrites et «rappées» par un babouin arborant des treads blond sur des riffs de guitars à la Rage Against de Machine du Magi-Prix. Malgré tout, il y a une toute, toute petite partie de moi qui avait du fun, donc ça mérite un 2.

As a big fan of hip hop I feel the need to immediately knock Kid Rock for the blatant cultural appropriation. Before there was frat rap for rich white people there was party rap/rock for white trash people brought to you by the Kid. Despite throwing up in my mouth a little bit when I originally saw that I'd be listening to Kid Rock today, there were a few bearable songs on this album. Bawitdaba is actually borderline good. But overall, this album is a turd.

Love getting two of the lowest rated albums on the site in my first 100 albums, get them out of the way I say. Initially I was a little surprised and lowkey horrified that I REALLY was enjoying the sound of the album, but it starts going downhill after the third track and steeply declines for me after the fourth. To be clear, I don't like the lyrics for any of it. I can overlook "edgy" lyrics if I feel like it's an act or for the art or w/e, but because I know Kid Rock is a POS human being it's really hard to separate the art and artist. Because I love the sound of the first three tracks so much I can't rightly rate it 1 star, but I am admittedly relieved I don't feel the need to rate it higher than a 2.

I’m totally biased, but so is he.

Over-produced, over-hyped, some good elements... but not quality... the industry was trying to make a Eminem clone to sell music to white kids. Not interested

Ugh... I'm giving it a 2/5 because I guess there is worse -- there are some hooks and funky bass lines and stuff in there behind the trash lyrics, but overall this is cringe.

Kid Rock is a loser dumbfuck. That being said the hits off this album are just fun nonsense, everything else is shit. Listening to this as an adult made me realize how corny his rhymes are, along with the whole raprock attitude having all the bluster of a pissed off teenager.

LP without a Pause, Tell em about yer Flaws - I was going to give this a 3 because I like the sound of the band, but the onslaught of moronic and unimaginative lyrics finally got to me. 2/5 I tip my hat to Kid Rock and his management team for making so much money on such vacuous baloney. I understand that his dad is/was into car sales. What was that about the apple and the tree?

It has it's moments but overall just didn't age well. 2/5

Obviously Kid Rock is a bit of a bellend. I wouldn't have listened to this album if it wasn't for this list. And that's again the main argument for me: This album doesn't deserve to be on this list. Others blended rap with other styles and did it better. Still, I wouldn't say that this album is bad. It feels lame by today's standards but it's all right for a background listen. I was surprised to find out that Kid Rock can really play instruments and was involved in production and all that. It's an all right package. Nothing that sticks out and surely this crossover stuff runs its course very fast.

not for me

I tried to give this a good shot. I know Kid Rock has entertained our troops overseas so he started in my good graces. The first song was not bad—could definitely see working out to it—it’d keep me moving. Went downhill from there though. Too much foul language and goofy lyrics. He’s getting a 2 only because I appreciate those who take their time out to support our military.

Does this album deserve to be on the list? No. Is it a reminder of how low we once were in our music taste? Yes. Does it have one or two bangers? Also, yes. Is KidRock a piece of crap? One hundred percent. We all should be embarrassed for ever giving this guy a musical career.

Rap rock, van een soort neppe cowboy, een stoere grappenmaker. Het voelt allemaal heel erg nep aan. Dan komt op het derde nummer ook nog een of andere kiddo meerappen, dan is het al helemaal niet meer geloofwaardig. Alsof het 1 grote act is, wat het waarschijnlijk ook is. De teksten zijn in ieder geval net zo kinderachtig als veel van zijn mederappers. Het is wel grappig om te luisteren op zich, maar dit is niet echt wat ik van de snoblijst had verwacht. Al heeft die gast hier wel meer dan 11 miljoen exemplaren van weten te verkopen, wat een puike prestatie is voor meer dan een uur flauwekul. Op het moment dat hij zijn gemaakt stoere karakter even opzij zet en een gevoelig liedje gaat zingen (dat overigens volstrekt uit het niets komt), zit er zo'n verschrikkelijke autotune overheen. En als ik de wiki er op na sla, was hij dus de eerste, nog zelfs voor Cher met die vreselijke oorwurm Believe. Ik kan het wel afluisteren en zet dit denk ik ook liever op dan Frans Bauer of Joni Mitchell, maar echt goed kan ik het niet vinden. Ik voel niet echt de behoefte om meer van Kid Rock op te zoeken verder. Al is dat latere hitje best geinig, all summer long, dat zou ik in een zomers playlistje kunnen zetten.

I would put a couple of these songs in a time capsule that encompasses the 90’s/00’s rap/rock alongside limp bizkit. For its time it was huge. It does not hold up very well 20 years later however. A lot of the filler songs are just awful. Teenage me loved this shit, but adult me doesn’t have any interest in listening to it. Plus his persona is fake and his political views are shit.

A bit over the top for me.

This was better than I thought it would be. Don’t like rap/hip hop but when it is delivered in a heavy rocking style i can just about get along with it. Was going to give it a 3 but then read other reviews, who I assume the majority are better qualified and know their hip hop and who all seem to disparage the record and Kid Rock. Reading further about Kid Rock I learnt that he is a bit of a divisive character in the US so maybe that accounts for the bad reviews. I’m a white male in his 70’s from the north of England so this music is miles away from my comfort zone. I therefore amend my rating as advised indirectly by my American cousin's and hope tomorrow I get an album that I can review with a bit more authority, which has this process goes on seems to get rarer. 2/5 25/5/25

Didn’t quite have the visceral hatred that everyone else seemed to have for this, didn’t seem any worse than any other rap-metal that I’ve heard. Almost popped it a three, but that would just be been to annoy you all. Simpsons: Yes

Well you can't say he doesn't belive in himself. It's just unfortunate that this belief can't be converted to talent

I truly can't believe the number of Kid Rock songs that I know. It doesn't make them any better, but it tells me a lot about my youth...

The autotune in the beginning of Only God Knows Why was really awful. However, by the end, the song was fine. For me this album had some mid highs and some deep lows - there were times where it was kind of an interesting hybrid of Metallica and Florida Georgia Line and Notorious B.I.G., but other times the songs (“songs”) were just abrasive and hard to listen to. Like wtf was Fuck Off. ?? I enjoyed about 30% of the album so 3/10

3/10 - I am officially signing the petition for Lucas to go back to rating out of 10. The intro of the first song is so funny to me. The ragtime bit of Cowboy came out of nowhere. This album is probably better than Dub housing yet I want to listen to it less because at least that one was kind of interesting and funny to listen to because of how bad it was. What is with rap being so vulgar about having sex, maybe some people like kid Rock explaining how he aggressively has sex. But I am not that guy. Only God knows why was decent. I am confused as to why where u at rock does not have the part of the album where his mom is calling him asking where he is. Black Chick, White Guy had a story which made it a little better.

So you're trying not to let personal bias? Come in to play here as I saw kid Rock and his band perform in 1998 touring for this album at a place called the truck a Darrow in Philadelphia. Now let me tell you.This was one of the most fun shows i've ever seen and I was at about twenty before and a hundred or more cents and it remains one of my greatest live concert experiences. The musician ship on display was actually top.Notch and kid rock himself played every instrument multiple times during the show and it was just a lot of fun. Also I have no real issues with kid rocks, political views.Say what you want, feel what you want.Support whom and what you want. Only problem is that this is incredibly immature.Record with lyrics that not only in their scope but also in their style are about ten years late

Not sure kid rock does rap well

Just a note that I marked the last album as I didn’t listen, but I did and I was trying to give it a 2 star. My gut says either of those paths will be the same for this album here too. Damn...I didn't realize how much this Now-Trump-Supporting, corn rowed, white trash (his words) trailer boy asshole trying to be a rapper impacted me back in the day. What's crazy, too, is that is based strictly on the radio. Growing up in Texas I constantly heard Bawitdaba, Cowboy (which I think is a Tim and Eric thing? Stevie may have to correct me on "I wanna be a cowboy babyyyy) and Only God Knows Why. Having it be heard on the radio, Kid Rock doesn't sound at all like who he is. At moments he actually sounds a bit like the lead singer for Rage Against the Machine. Poor Kid Rock now is only known for being one of the few artists who publicly show up in Mar-A-Lago constantly, either to perform or just enjoy the company. I wonder if we will get his next album because there's another classic on there with Picture. All in all I am giving this a two star to replace the last album.

The album that no one was waiting for.

At first I liked it more than expected, but quickly got sick of it. A lot of poor attempts at sounding like other artists (RATM, Beastie Boys, etc)

some of this is still pretty damn infectious, but it all sort of generally sounds like a lot more like shit than i remembered. just wildly under and/or poorly produced.

The worst part about listening to this album was that I was actually enjoying the sound of it. If only his lyrics were better or he was a better person. I feel like I can’t give 1 star bc I didn’t really hate it, but I refuse to go higher than 2.

Recuerdo tener este disco y escucharlo algo, pero pasado el momento lo olvidé. Siempre que salía algo solo recordaba que luego se casó con Pamela Anderson. Musicalmente se quiso apuntar a demasiadas cosas: grunge, rap, rock, country, autotune, ... olvidable.

Kid rock feels kind of like limp bizkit for classic rock leaning people. There’s some interesting stories lifted up here but overall there’s too much violence and misogyny

A worse sounding country limp bizkit

Hear me out, I think this album needs to be on this list. The rap-rock genre was absolutely massive at the time, and this album encapsulates all the bad parts of the genre - over-produced, by a guy who was completely fake, terrible lyrics that a teenager would be proud of, an appearence from the flavour of the day (Eminem here). The genre died as quickly as it came about, so this acts as almost a time capsule into why it was a flash in the pan. 1.5* for the music, rounding up to 2 as perversely I think it needs to be on this list even though it's absolute dogwank.

Na ja, manchmal ganz lustig. Vorläufer für spätere Bands.

This was not something I usually listen to. I appreciate the passion and attitude the singer has in his delivery but I don't know if I enjoyed the album as a whole. The only song I really vibes to was "I got one for ya".

Based on the reviews I was expecting much worse. Sounds similar to Rage Against the Machine.

Idk Jack White on parempi. Ihan kova meno, mutta tuntuu, että on vähän enemmän imagonkohottelua kuin sydänverellä tehtyä rockmusiikkia? Ja tässä se vähän häiritsee. Onko tässä vitsiä? En saa selvää - sekin häiritsee. Muita tunteita ei herää.

Yllättäjä: jos levy olisi puolet lyhyempi, voisin realistisesti antaa kolmosen. Sanailu on vaivotonta ja huvittavaa, biiseissä on riittävästi ripoteltuja joskin hieman geneerisiä koukkuosuuksia, ja avaushitti on purkissa. 2+

Alright, I am going to take this seriously. "Devil Without a Cause" is the fourth studio album by American musician Kid Rock. This album marked the finalization of his stage persona as a "redneck pimp," for better or worse. Rap rock, rap metal, nu metal and hard rock are the classified genres. And, one song falls into the country rap genre. This album had massive success selling over 14 million copies and critical acclaim for its genre-mixing sound. This party starts with "Bawitdaba. I remember this video and had no idea what to think. A synth opening with the screaming vocal line "My name is Kid..." Heavy metal riffs with Rock rapping. He's setting his persona as the hard partying-bad ass pimp. That describes 90% of this album. "Cowboy" is a little different with its fusion of country and rap. Using a harp, harmonica, piano solo and slide guitar. If this song wasn't still so overplayed, I might actually like or at deal with it. "I am the Bullgod" adds some funk. Otherwise see the comments for the first song. "Wasting Time" is another song a little different with its slower pace. Melodic, more country rock and sounds more like today's Kid Rock. It took getting to song #11 "Only God Knows Why" before Rock decides to sing. It's a ballad and he's not feeling any better even with the fame. If only he had some more of these songs. On the positive side, every song tries some sort of fusion whether it's incorporating heavy metal, rap, country, funk and soul. The problem is that 90% of these end relying on a heavy metal riff which gets old and firmly plants itself in the nu metal category which I, for the most part, hate. The lyrics of the redneck badass pimp gets old especially when the album is 71 minutes long. There are some pretty good slower songs (mentioned) which he should have mixed with less nu metal and I might have liked this. But, what do I know, he's sold 14 million albums. So, party on Robert James Ritchie.

1998 Kid Rock made some good dude rap rock.

First of all fuck this guy Second the first two songs are not bad. Mostly because I’ve heard them so much on the radio. But seriously get him off this list.

music is good but lyrics are oudated, sexist

Sweet baby Jesus on a pogo stick. You couldn't get away from this back when it was released. Did MTv have an *ultra-double-plus-heavy" rotation? If so, this was definitely on it. Cynical production that's a fantastic example of style over substance. I can see it now: Some music execs were sitting around one day brainstorming some ideas. One of them says to the group, "You remember all those songs in the 80s that has a screaming guitar solo or a rap break?" The guy to his left perks up a little, "Yeah...?" "Those were awesome. Everybody loved those songs." "Where are you going with this?" Another guy at the table is sitting up now. Their collective interest is piqued. "What if we made an entire album that was just that? Screaming guitar and rap breaks?" "That would sound amazing! But you have to make sure the rap is performed by a white guy." "Well, obviously it has to play well with white kids in suburbia...." Naw. I couldn't get away from it back then, but I certainly can now.

ah, late 90’s era kid rock… when the only thing shitty about him was his music. honestly, some of the songs are ok, i guess. he has some entertaining lines, but overall still a pretty cringe listen.

2,5

Liked when he said “drink like a Mick”, “I don’t fuck with fairies”, and he got that child to rap about his ten inch dick. A true time capsule.

I’m not down with the ba-wit-da-ba like everyone else, I just can’t stand this guy.

A time capsule of white boy rage.

Trash (white)

Couple of genuine bangers on here, and the mix of genres is def unique but most of his rap flow sounds like summertime girls by LFO. The unironic fuck boy lyrics get very old after a few tracks. Also automatic -2 for rap rock.

The album is not good, there’s nothing special about the music and the lyrics are laughable. But there’s something to Bawitdaba and cowboy. They aren’t great songs but they are catchy so I have to give this album some credit

This album has definitely some parts I could enjoy, but -1 for kid rocks overall contribution and -1 for using auto tune this obvious in "only God knows why".

Didn’t listen but I know and don’t like kid rock

"his dick was metal, her pussy was a magnet" is one of the worst lyrics I've ever heard. 2/5 is generous.

There are 2-3 songs that I like, but on the whole the album gives me the creeps.

Honnêtement moins terrible que je m'attendais, mais ça reste très médiocre. J'imagine que c'est la raison de la nécessité de sa présence ici : démontrer des albums terribles qui ont tout de même eu un impact. Les instrumentations sont souvents bonnes, mais Kid Rock ne sait faire qu'une seule chose comme style de "rap" et ça devient très vite redondant. Plusieurs chansons paraissent plus longues qu'elles ne le sont tellement il a toujours le même flow. Et la balade à la fin est inexcusable. 3/10

Didn't expect much. Wasn't disappointed yet was at the same time.

I'm trying to separate the art from the artist. Some of the more country songs with background singers in them aren't horrible but half of these songs sound like you asked someone who sucks to make a Rage Against the Machine song.

Har aldrig bevidst hørt noget med Kid Rock, fordi jeg altid har tænkt på ham som country-type; så det var en glædelig overraskelse at første nummer var så hårdt. Pølsemandens (trailerparkens?) RATM.. Der er en del sange som er "hårde", men det virker bare aldrig som om at han virkelig er sur... De stille sange er virkelig tamme - Ville meget hellere have haft at den her plade var kortere.. 71 minutter....? Guitarerne har en hård lyd, men alle riffs er forglemmelige. Goddamn country auto-tune på "Only God Knows Why", wtf.. 👎 Hvis jeg savnede den her stil, ville jeg langt hellere sætte RATM / Beastie Boys på #EminemStyrerPåFuckOff lol jk, det passede sgu ikke rigtigt ind heller..

Rock!!!

This is a real art vs. artist scenario. Do I want to stan Bawitdaba and Cowboy, like my 11 y/o self might demand, or do I realize that this guy is an asshole who makes some stupid songs? Sort of in-between on this one. A lot of this sucks, but I do enjoy a fair number of the songs. Wasting Time is an early example of stealing other music to make a slightly catchier, but somehow slightly worse, version of a song that already exists. Kid Rock sucks, but this album is enjoyably stupid.

The lyrics leave a lot to be desired. Occasionally, there's a decent rhythm. Otherwise, really not good.

If your drunk on light beer, high on weed from a gas station and you spend all your money in strippers then this is 5 star music. I'll admit one or to songs are ok but yeah overall pretty bad.

Much ado with little content.

Make it stop

It’s easy to see why this is so hated. For starters he’s just an irritating guy (and that’s based on this album alone, ignoring the fact he’s now a MAGA nutjob). Yeah I know being bratty and offensive is kind of the schtick, but others manage to do it while retaining some likeability. The lyrical content is tediously superficial, the rapping is sub-par, the rock elements are derivative and it’s completely devoid of the charm that good country music has. AND YET… Did I enjoy some of the riffs? Did some of the choruses get stuck in my head? Did my irritation even start to transform into amusement after a while? Guilty, your honour… 1.5 / 2

Enjoyed the musical elements however was not a fan of the vocals one bit

Rating: 4/10

Trashy lyrics. One or 2 decent songs.

It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Sure the lyrics are corny, there's no uniform style and the rapping doesn't sound all too great. Some songs are okayish

Passabler Rap Rock.

started off really well but then bro was trying too hard to be somebody

I wasn't looking forward to listening to this, and it was exactly as bad as I expected it to be. It's not as bad as the alt-right drivel he's putting out today, but still not something I would ever choose to listen to again.

Never listened to this back in the day, and I was better off for it. Just drivel, through and through. The singles have some decent riffs at times though. 1.5/5

I vetoed Taylor, but I should have saved that for Kid Rock… credit where it’s due, this has its charms, I think he works better as a white guy trying his hand at Black music, the rock stuff clearly isn’t his wheelhouse at all. More often than not though, it’s a tedious listen. D

Not the most imaginative album.

If rap went nowhere since 79 except adding redneck guitar

Mamita. 6.5/10

No thanks lol

A lot going on here.

Ugh

So much misogyny. No wonder we are where we are.

Kid Rock is a garbage human being. That said, there was a time I enjoyed some of this record. Not so much these days....

At the time of writing this (Oct ‘23), this sits at the fifth lowest rated album on this website. There are definitely things holding this album back, like Mr. Rock’s weak bars, flow, rhythm, etc, but the production is actually decent. Also, it’s strange, but he, for some reason, is able to write really good hooks and choruses while everything else falls apart. Rap is not his forte, but I think he would really shine in other genres. That would be true if not for the lyrics on the verses. A lot of them are very problematic and downright disrespectful to the point where listening to the song makes me feel like I’m a bad person. On top of that there’s weird choices made with the arrangement of the album, like the decision to make it over an hour instead of cutting the weaker tracks and focusing on his stronger songs, or the additional 4 minutes to the closer, which should not have been the finale (or even on the album), which is basically an entire song which we all heard earlier in the listing. I could go on, but I’ll close with my opinion that Kid Rock had a lot of potential here and very effectively squandered it. Shame. 2/5

This is a lot less horrible than I wanted it to be. Yes the lyrics are comically bad. Yes Kid Rock’s persona is laughable now. But there are aspects of this that oddly work. For example, the sound of the raps/vocals over the solid backing band is surprisingly crisp. Despite the god awful genre it spawned, Cowboy is actually not the worst song. The album also makes an early use of auto-tune. I’m conflicted because usually being a pioneer is a positive thing, but then again you don’t see people praising the inventor of the selfie stick. So just like we can muster the courage to ask a stranger to take our picture, we can also bravely reject the need for country rap rock and auto-tune.

A lot can be said about his political views, but that's not why I'm here. I tried to listen to this album without having who he is as a person influence my judgement. How to create this album: 1. Take a Rage against the machine album. 2. Remove the 'rage' part. 3. Replace the lyrics with lyrics about how cool Kid Rock is, how real he is, what he's doing to your mom, ... (Spend some time on Voicechat in any of the competitive multiplayergames that are popular with 13y olds if you need inspiration) 4. Profit The result is a slogfest of an album that made me physically cringe at times. The only reasons this gets 2 stars instead of 1 are 'Somebody's gotta feel this' and 'Fist of rage'.

Alr let’s go down the list for this record Production? Terrible Lyrics? Corny and basic asf Features? Bro got Eminem to drop a weak verse in his prime Flow? The exact same one every track The hooks? I can’t recall a single one This is a painful listen 70 minutes is excruciatingly long the only saving grace is ig if you don’t take it seriously it’s semi bearable? Still was disappointed when I got this record and even more disappointed after listening to it, light 3

Nope. Bawitaba over and over, rapping with loud guitars, I am the bull God? I don't even know where to start, his rapping is mediocre at best. He wasn't the first to do rap rock, Rage Against the Machine at least had something to say in their music. The only track that is slightly redeemable is cowboy.

it wasnt bad but incredibly boring

Never really listened to Kid Rock, now I know why. God only knows was the only track that wasn't awful. Lacks the melodic quality of Eminem.

Horrible album.

redneck bangers but nothing i got in my rotation tho

Als je Pamela Anderson van Tommy Lee af kunt pakken, dan moet je toch wel een stoere vent zijn. Dat hoor ik echter niet terug in deze ontzettend suffe bende die hij op dit album heeft gescheten.

He truly is giving a voice to all of those horribly offensive rednecks on Facebook who dream of consolidating power amongst the whites. Don’t believe me? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFnLqJx-uU

C Bawitdaba - 3 Cowboy - 2 Devil Without a Cause - 2 I Am the Bullgod - 2 Roving Gangster (Rollin’) - 2 Wasting Time - 3 Welcome 2 the Party (Ode 2 to the Old School) - 2 I Got One for Ya - 2 Somebody’s Gotta Feel This - 2 Fist of Rage - 2 Only God Knows Why - 3 F*** Off - 3 Where U at Rock - 2 Black Chick, White Guy - 3 This was honestly way better than I expected, but the expectations bar was at the floor.

4/10. I mean, I grew up in a household where this album was quoted like a holy text. And with that nostalgia in mind, the front half or so of this album was pretty enjoyable. The songs I wasn't so familiar with were definitely a slog though, and at the end of the day, I wouldn't want to listen through this album again. I guess I've just gotten too old to kid, and too soft to rock.

kinda tacky

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Not as bad as Radiohead. Almost as bad as Kanye. Would be laughably bad if he just wasn't overselling the trailer park aspect. As it is, it's just bad.

This has no reason for existing. I don’t get it. There is no purpose. I can’t believe this is on the list and also that it sold 15 million copies and went diamond. Kid rock now plays at county fairs and cancels shows for poor turnout (but blames covid policy to drum up the perfect demographic). I feel like he is just going for shock value mostly. He doesn’t have much to say other than “drink my beer and smoke my smoke”. His legacy is waging wars on marketing campaigns. His rapping is not very creative and kind of weak. I will admit that I felt a tingle when I heard the record scratching in bawitaba. Is that… nu metal? Eminem’s verse in Fuck Off was cool. Instrumentals were okay and there is a range/blend of genres in this album. I am being charitable, would have rather listened to a lot of other stuff today. My friend told me that Kid Rock was a character in the animated film Osmosis Jones. I looked it up and it is true…"Cool, Daddy Cool" features both Kid Rock and his late hype man and rapper Joe C., and the song appears during a scene where Osmosis Jones goes to what appears to be a club with exotic dancers. Rock is actually portrayed as a performer during the scene, and there's a sign on the wall of the club that says "Kidney Rock," which is obviously a play on the musician's name. But Rock's parts of the song are, er, a bit inappropriate for a kids movie. "Young ladies, young ladies / I like 'em underage, see / Some say that's statutory," Rock says [via Genius (https://genius.com/Kid-rock-cool-daddy-cool-lyrics)], before Joe C. chimes in with "But I say it's mandatory." 

First and foremost, fuck Kid Rock. I don't really understand how this guy got big - I guess people really wanted a redneck hero. He is decent at rapping - but he can't sing for shit and musically this is fairly weak - though you hear the occasional harmonica or keys that are nice. Bawitadaba is a classic and the Eminem verse on Fuck Off is solid. Otherwise.....MEH

boff, c'est pas aussi pire que ce qu ele monde le note, mais c'est assez bas de game. 2.5

Not a terrible album considering he is a giant asshole. 2 stars.

I'm really not a big fan of Kid Rock... either musically or personally.

This honestly would have been almost decent if it weren't for Kid Rock. His rap sounds like texting autocomplete.

Woof, Bawitdaba is basically the only reason I would ever listen to Kid Rock.

A versão mais adolescente e obviamente pior do nu-metal.

C'è qualcosa di buono, ma anche molto di suprematismo bianco

C'mon! It's not too bad as it looks by looking at the worst albums on the 1001 list. It is over-egocentric and It lacks originality, lyricism, and production, but it still is important for some music genres(I don't know which genres, since Kid Rock doesn't either. Maybe Nu metal? Rap-Rock? We'll never know)

Literalmente tiene sentido. Lo muscial es básico pero digamos que cumple. Las letras parecen de una parodia de rap, parece joda enserio. Un disco que si no entendes la letra podes agitar la cabeza pero es que por el resto es un desastre y lo más probable es qeu canse porque dura UNA HORA Y 11 MINUTOS 3/10.

When I first started this I thought for a few minutes that this might be better than I feared. But in the 13 songs that followed, I kept wondering if I had accidentally repeated the previous tracks. The songs felt repetitive and most pretty much blurred together. On top of that the lyrics didn’t seem to have much to say. The instrumentation and mixing had talent, but I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that this was all cheesier than intended and ultimately wasted. Halfway through every song that started had me wishing for some variety. *YAWN* Wwith the opening notes of Only God Knows Why I thought maybe the switch to a more traditional country song might improve things - but the autotune really put off and the whole thing felt disingenuous and gross. Why am I listening to this? I went into this expecting to be annoyed, offended or irritated. Instead I ended up wondering how the hell all this commotion could be so boring?

I feel dirtier for having listened to this. I tried to keep an open mind, but too much braggadocio and too many cliches. Kid Rock is definitely a carefully created and maintained image and a success of modern marketing, but the music is trash even if there are a few catchy riffs.

Don't think country rap is for me. Unfortunately the album soured further for knowing anything about the artist

some bangers on here that’s for sure- mouth was on the floor for most lyrics though, wouldn’t throw this on for casual listening but to liven up a party, sign me up 2.5

I think it gets a slightly biased negative review based on recent behavior of Kid Rock. But regardless, not much at all to like about this album. The nu-metal rap is somewhat inventive. I didn't find any of the tracks catchy and all the lyrics were moronic.

Really funny if you look at this as an ironically funny album. If I didn't know who Kid Rock was I would think this is just some wannabe rapper who grew up in a upper middle class neighborhood. I love some of the radio edit censorship in this album. Welcome 2 the Party is a lyrical masterpiece

yikes.

Eh wasn’t exciting. I was over it at some points. In other points I’d be like it that wasn't awful. Some songs are catchy and some are just corny. One song reminded me of “loser” by beck and it was the only thing I was thinking about. Therefore I rewarded myself with the song after words. In some kind words the album was MID

It was fine for what it was but I sort of feel like any Kid Rock album is a bit of a parody of itself.

Ok

Seriously dated

Bawitdaba is so bad it's a straight banger, but otherwise this is a shit album

I used to blast this in the shower while getting ready for high school. Ahhh, youth.

I get this is fun and in the summer for a barbecue it might be good. But it's long and pretty smaey. And while I don't want to be a prude some of the lyrics are jarring.

I cannot imagine a worse experience during this list than getting two bottom ranked 70+ minute albums. Unfortunately, I actually enjoyed the first 4 or 5 tracks in a guilty pleasure sort of way. It’s embarrassing to even admit given how cringe the lyrics are but I guess I can take solace in the fact that the rest of the album fucking sucks and I don’t have to give it more than a 2. It’s all downhill after the party one, gets worse with the auto tune song then unbearable once you get to the racist final track. Also fuck kid rock as a person

Het is heel slecht maar wel origineel. Een soort country rap met metal geluiden erdoorheen. Hoe dacht hij dat zoiets ooit zou gaan werken. 2 sterren voor de effort

Wat een album. Ik merk aan de de reviews op deze site dat het bij Amerikanen bijzonder gevoelig ligt. Een guy uit de suburbs van Detroit die muziek maakt over Alabama met een zuid accent. Is Kid Rock de Amerikaanse Joost “Josylvio” uit Naarden?

Country rap? Nahhh