Devil Without A Cause

Hmmm... On the one hand this really isn't that bad. I think most of the exuberant 1-star reviews are really over-reacting. On the other hand, it's also not very good. And the whole sexist racist neofascist antiscience thing makes me not feel like defending it at all. Like, this isn't a hill I'm going to die on.

nicht so bad wie erwartet, aber started out way stronger als es dann tatsächlich war.

definitely bad, but not as bad as i thought it would be.

Not good. One star extra for surprise Slim Shady

For some reason I thought I was special and would enjoy this. It is pretty shit. Like 71 minutes of WWE entrance music. I do like some of the bass though.

I'll admit to knowing absolutely nothing - zero, nada, zip - about Kid Rock. When putting this album on, I thought to myself that it was a harder-edge, rappier pastiche of a Beck album. Odelay for aggressive ex-High School American Footballists who, no longer bound by sportsism, are now free to snort coke from the tits of girls who are anything but ex highschoolers. It does not bear continued listening. The point was made in the first couple of tracks and as it progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that Kid Rock is not a good performer. I tire of it. Won't be finishing.

Some good tunes and backing tracks, but the braggadocio and slackness of Kid Rock are pretty tiresome

It’s like if Trump was a musician instead of whatever he is.

6/29/2022 - ALBUM #153 https://open.spotify.com/album/7nFlAxnXMrQRpM1R80pKQm?si=zxgztEEiTS6K97Nb_3-3tQ Today's Album: "Devil Without A Cause" by Kid Rock - This was one that I was expecting to dislike going in, and although there were a few decent moments, I just couldn't get out of my mind the entire time how much I dislike the entire aesthetic of this artist. Essentially, it's a white guy rapping about how cool he is and occasionally like how he's better than black rappers, while simultaneously directly ripping off the style of black rappers that were doing this style and better at the beginning of the decade. By the time this came out in 1998, Dr. Dre's The Chronic had been out for 6 years and that album at least had production that didn't sound like hicky garbage. I think the opening track is kind of fun cause I've always heard the main chorus in memes, but the metal instrumental gets so grating by the end of it. The track Cowboy is half saved by it's decent beat, but it's sort of the only decent one for the entire track list and there are so many lines on this track that make me upset it only barely squeaks into a 7.5. The ballad track Only God Knows Why has probably the #1 worst autotuned effect on the vocals I have ever heard. It is so bad that it makes me angry this song has almost 50 million plays on Spotify. The rest of the tracks I haven't mentioned yet are all pretty much carbon copies of each other, with a really shitty and aggressive beat that's poorly mixed being poorly rapped over by the whitest trailer trash you can probably imagine. Overall, there may be one or two ideas on here that might have inspired someone great to do something better because it truly is a unique work, but it is so insufferable as an album that I earnestly had to take a break from these reviews after giving this one a full listen for fear of having to give it a follow up review. Give this one a listen if you're a trashy person bc you'll probably dig it, or if not then just give the first two tracks a listen and leave the rest because it's really not worth it. Highlights: Cowboy Score: 3.5/10 Terrible white rock-rap

Some of this actually Bangs, but you need to be on the same wavelength as KR. And Im not

I am getting wafts of Rage Against The Machine, I am getting very mild background notes of NWA, I am getting a strong scent of Insane Clown Posse, I am getting a lot of toothless Southern rock loving trailer park hick oder and I am getting an overwhelming stench of cheese and horseshit. The last couple of years of the '90s really were a wasteland for popular culture.

It's tough to balance the nostalgia I have for this album with the general disdain I have for present-day Kid Rock. But - objectively - this album did not age well. When the biggest boast on your rap album is that you now have that "fuckin' Matchbox 20 money" - you may not be as bad ass as you thought you were. Most of the album is still "fun" to listen to, but not as much as it used to be. It's full of old (bad) hip-hop cliches and tropes. He reuses rhymes. Each song is the same 2-bar guitar riff repeated for five minutes.

Country and cringe rap fusion. Not my cup of tea.

A very generous 2 star rating. That was ass

Gets a 2 for Bawitdaba bringing me back to old wrestling promos. The rest....nah.

Weird and not very good.

I used to like a few Kid Rock songs as a kid, I couldn't finish this though.

I was tempted to not even listen to this, but it actually wasn't terrible. Some Rage Against The Machine Vibes on a couple of the songs. Glad I listened to it, but that's enough Kid Rock for me. Not sure why it's deemed worthy on being on this list.

A little surprised. Better than I thought. But won´t go over 2 stars. You had to treat Pam better ;)

A combination of some of the worst elements of rock and rap. Most of the lyrics are pretty cringe. On the plus side production value was pretty good. Some good guitar tones too.

Wel prima maar de vibe is iets wat cringe

Absolute trash. The only saving grace is the organ every so often. Most of the tracks I couldn't even get through. This is a few hours after the listen: This album pisses me off. Its whiny. Its boring. The cadence in the lyrics isnt even interesting. I take back what I said about the organ. Its a bummer this record has suck a funky instrument

This album would be 100 times better if it wasn't for the arsehole singing

Besides nostalgia purposes, this album doesn’t belong on this list.

No estuvo mal

Who let the rednecks out? Second question, why is this here? Frat boy rock at its worst. Don’t give this guy credit for nu metal/rap rock. That goes to Beasties, FNM RATM

I went to a kid rock concert in Brixton once. It was a good show. During one song, he rotated around all the instruments taking turns to play them himself. And he had Rockettes in cages dancing. Belongs in a previous era when we mistakenly believed his blend of country rap and metal was a good thing

Not as bad rap, but still

Guð minn góður, þetta er 71 mínúta að lengd. Skellti í private session á Spotify af þessu tilefni. Hrikalegur maður á allan hátt, en ekki eins mikill hávaði og ég reiknaði með. Ef við tökum gerpið og textana hans úr jöfnunni sleppur þetta sem late 90s eitthvað. Ekki minn tebolli, en ekki eins slæmt og ég átti von á.

Still a terrible human. Well mixed I guess.

Knew this album when it came out. It hasn't aged well, but is still enjoyable. Half the songs are good, the other half are pretty bad.

The background music is alright - rap-rock is always good for a head nod - but the lyrics are trash. I get it. You are a redneck pimp. That doesn't need 70 minutes of exposition.

At first I sort of got along with the music, but eventually all the profanities and the demeaning language put me off

the music part is a lot more interesting than a lot of rap music, but still... why?

Nu metal? Or just Rap with rock backdrop? Eitehr way, a few fun tracks, but it got tired pretty quickly. And Only God Knows Why is awful auto tuned drivel

Meh, generic and tiresome

This was a tough and long listen, not gonna lie. But I gotta give the man credit he had a couple classics I totally forgot about. BowDiddyWowDeBangDeBangDiggyDiggy!

Je ne suis pas un grand fan des mélanges de genres comme celui que Kid Rock propose. Mais ce dont je suis encore moins fan, ce sont les photos que m'envoyait Ludvig pendant que j'écoutais cet album.

First two songs were good, the rest were pretty shit

Devil without a cause Roving Gangster Bonne surprise

2 star because I enjoyed the riffs. Lyrics on this are terrible.

I thought this would be worse, some parts were enjoyable. First track is in the simpsons. The lyrics are like what my mum thinks all hip hop lyrics sound like

not a big fan, just a weird mix of heavy metal guitar and a vague attempt at rapping as there is no melody at all. not a pain to listen to but close

I was ready to listen to something kinda wild, but this was difficult to listen to. Some good parts, and it is interesting as a genre-mixing album, but he brought in all the parts I'm not fond of from each genre it seems

Some nostalgia exists here but no.

Kid Rock is on the same level as Fred Durst for me. The bravado borders more on pathetic, not cool. Fuck kid rock. Still, bullgod alone is worth 1 star, only god and the rest of the album gets one more star.

🤠

Meaningless rap music.

One of the better rap albums I've heard. Although there were some songs I've heard before which were OK, it's not for me.

only listened to a bit. very listenable to

Not entirely sure what's going on here with this album. It's like this rock / rap fusion that's I'm not sure about. I can see how this might speak to some people. Oh man, I forgot about JOE-C, what a guy, what a voice. I feel like this is music targeted towards Midwestern people who wanted to listen to rap, but didn't like Eminem (even though he's on a track??).

Sorry couldn't finish this my ears were complaining

lol, how did this piece of shit make the cut here? I hated this dumb shit when it was originally released, and I can’t imagine that time has been this record’s friend in any way whatsoever. But, I’ve never actually listened to the record except for the songs that you couldn’t escape hearing in 1998, so we’ll see. Maybe I’ll be surprised? Nope, not surprised at all. This is actually worse than I anticipated. If dropping weak ass bars about meth and enlisting your disabled buddy to rap about his 10 foot dick is your idea of compelling and rich musical composition, this a great record. Holy shit, this sucks. I don’t even care about his political leanings. I find Kid Rock’s body of work so much more offensive. 2/10, and that extra point on the rating is only because there are actual instruments featured on this record. I think. But even those are pretty uninspired. Man, I wasn’t expecting to like this record, but I also wasn’t expecting to loathe it like this either.

Too corny for me

Not the :35 second ominous ambient sound intro?! Ok that’s a pretty epic entrance to album, not gonna lie. “Match Box 20 money” - man this guy just couldn’t handle other people making it so he had to create a persona of a guy from “the streets” but also small southern towns? And then he has a full early 90s grunge thing on “I am the Bullgod.” Was not anticipating Eminem showing up, and displaying what actually originality looks like. And that oooof of a last song, I feel like I may be in a simulation because I truly don’t know how this album made it to this list. The first track is the only redeemable one, and I’m stretching.

Man, don't even really know where or how to begin. Let's start with - this was a shit album when it was released. This is not the first album I've massively disliked on the list, but it is the first that I've come across with absolutely, utterly, unequivocally zero reason to be on the list in the first place. It did not move anything forward in music, it did not pioneer anything of value for music, and arguably took away progress from multiple genres in bridging the differences in art. In fact, from my memory, the only thing it accomplished was separating the wheat from the chaff in friendships because of how polarizing it was at the time - you were either a decent person, or you liked Kid Rock. It's not aged very well considering how much of a shit this ass turned into. It's a shit combination of far better genres put out by a wannabe artist that was only embraced by the worst people you knew who went mask-off earlier than others because suddenly they could pretend it wasn't that they hated rap because of black people, it was that they hated rap because of the subject matter of gansta rap - while singing along with this wannabe about hooking up with little girls (which, it turns out, is the most important thing to them). This is worth a negative 1,000,000,000,000 stars, but I'll settle for giving it one.

Why?

Ew

если в начале первой песни я ещё думала почему ТАКОЕ количество единиц здесь, то на третьей песне я уже перестала удивляться, а на последней вообще поняла ВСЕ. Вау.

This feels like being stuck in a conversation with a white teenage boy who's trying way too hard to impress you with his "coolness."

Fuck Kid Rock. Zero stars.

Been so long since I had a one star! Here we are!

Bawitdaba is a real insult; I'm surprised I ever got past this song. I'd never consciously listened to Kid Rock before and always thought he made something like heavy rock, but to me this sounds more like hip-hop rap garbage. Sure, there are probably enough people who like it, but sorry, not me. There are also country influences, for crying out loud! The fact that the guy's a right-wing redneck doesn't make it any better. Let him play for Trump, but he's not coming near my plate.

🤷🏿‍♀️ can’t get into it

had the mercy of starting with the only good track on the record so i could stop listening early

No.

It felt like a bunch of admittedly talented musicians and producers got together to produce a Kid Rock parody album. Somehow before Kid Rock actually existed. I almost wanted to give a bonus point because he rhymed ducat with fuck it, but the album deteriorates into such low quality, I couldn’t justify it

Absolute garbage. Some of the p oduction is not the worst thing ever. But the rest is.

The soundtrack of drinking Bud Light, Monster Energy drinks, and beating your wife. The music is bad, the lyrics are worse.

I tried but it is difficult sometimes to separate the art from the artist. Not sure how this one made the list but it isn't something that I need to relive.

Fuck you Kid Rock, you piece of absolute human garbage.

I’m not a fan of kid rock or his music

The arrogance of this album is infuriating and makes it unlistenable. It is so inauthentic and annoying. Not to mention it is over an hour long.

Shit. I give it zero

Listens: 1 Standout Tracks: Nope I am happy to jump on the bandwagon and completely skewer this album. It's comically bad, despite the critical acclaim it garnered when it came out. He sounds like an ego maniac, mentioning his name on literally every single track on the album. It all feels so dated. Not to mention that I broadly dislike the Country music genre (and most nu-metal too) to begin with. The whole political thing with Kid Rock is especially weird, considering in the 90s he was absolutely a target of Republicans due perceived offensiveness of his music. And then 20+ years later, he's latched onto and is dangling from the proverbial Republican tit, and where that previously never would have flown, now half of the country seems totally okay with it. I would also be remiss if I didn't call out all of the rampant misogyny and sexism, but I would be a bit of a hypocrite there, not because I am in favor of those things or "traditional values", but because I am able to separate the art from the artist; That sort of thing is especially prominent in gangsta rap and the golden age of hip-hop, many of which musical acts I quite like. Biggie Smalls, NWA, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, etc. all have participated in this level of sexism towards women at one point or another in their careers. How many of these artists actually believe what they say can go both ways. If you can't separate the art from the artist, you either have to accept it all as offensive or none of it. If you can separate the art and the artist, you will find in some cases that some of these musicians are actually assholes, and in some cases, that's just the culture they're surrounded in and the audience they're trying to reach. You can of course make the argument that, because of the reach these artists have, saying sexist and misogynistic things is tantamount to them actually having those opinions, even if they do not actually believe it. The way I tend to think about this is in terms of comedians: Almost everything should be on the table when developing comedic material. Jokes about all races, sexes, creeds, religions, political parties, etc is on the board. Because if you start to chip away at what is and isn't "appropriate", you then have to define what "appropriate" is, and that's a shifting goalpost and means different things to different people. Who controls what is and isn't appropriate? The same thing should be said for the artistic expression of opinions/social commentary through music. Anyways, this album is bad, but not because of the misogyny in the lyrics or politics surrounding Kid Rock, but just because its its a mashup of two already bad genres and the lyrics are vapid, over-the-top, try-hard edgelord and simply corny.

Omg what a giant pile of shit

haha yeah right

The first song Bawtidaba is decent at best, the rest of the album is horrible. Cringey, poorly written vocals over clichéd metal & rock riffs that leaves little to be excited about. The mesh of rap and rock doesn't work when not curated carefully, and here it certainly isn't. Also, and probably the biggest criticism I can make, is that the whole thing makes me 99% certain that this guy is an utter arsehole.

Oh hell no I'm not listening to this he thinks he's better than Bad Bunny nahhh

Fuck Kid Rock. Would have rated 0 stars if possible.

This felt like a prank.

Trash

DNF. I was prepared for it to be bad, but it was honestly so much worse than I imagined. I'll admit that the hits from the albums have some punch to them both musically and lyrically. And I think that it makes sense as a snapshot of things that were going on in America in 1998. People were figuring out new ways to combine rap, rock, country, and metal -- but by now we have so many more effective examples than this. The filler tracks truly feel like a high school student doing a "rap" skit for a class project. In the long term, I think the only real significance of this album is that it was a preview of the kind of white male resentment that became MAGA. And maybe the couple of fun moments on the album show that resentment could have become something less nasty. I wish I heard more of that. But I hate to say that even setting aside the kind of interesting political and cultural aspects... it's just dreadful. Couldn't make it to the end.

Terrible

Kid Rock has become quite the controversial figure, being somewhat of a beacon for MAGA “artistry”, which obviously makes him someone I’m don’t willingly listen to, but I did my best to put that to the side and evaluate this for the music. Jesus Christ this was a hard listen. Kid Rock’s whole persona is a ridiculous misogynistic fantasy about pimping and being very much a badass. As a start, that’s pretty bad, but the lyrics make it exponentially worse. Kid Rock’s writing is so lacking, so overly simplistic and fantastical in the worst possible sense. How many times do we have to listen to Rock’s violent fantasies of beating people up, and pimping out girls? It’s ridiculously repetitive and poorly written, so limited and so unbelievable. I can’t believe “Over there with a bad attitude ‘cause I just don’t care” is an actual lyric. Kid Rock is a one-trick pony, and that only trick is fantasizing about being a badass over rock-rap tracks. And this trick is repeated for an excruciating 1 hour and 11 minutes. There’s slight variations, most of them for the worse. The worst offender by far is Only God Knows Why, an autotune-filled criminally bad song where nothing really works. There’s also a song called “Black Chick, White Guy”, which is so on the nose I thought it was a joke, especially because it’s 12 minutes long. For moments, I’d say there’s some good guitar riffs, the tones are harsh and heavy, but it’s all ruined with generic and bland attempts at Hip Hop beats. If anything, it’s another downside that Kid Rock and co. decided to waste good guitar lines on this crap instead of writing some proper music.

SÓ TEM, praticamente, EXPLÍCITAS!! Cara, é bizarro. Vou ouvir a versão clean Nunca tinha ouvido falar dele, mas gostei do nome do álbum The chorus is nice on Badwitdaba. The whole song is basically the chorus. 7.8 de 10 Cowboy is nice, but have a lot of bad things written in the song. I liked the end minutes. 3 de 10 Nossa, UMA GIGANTESTA QUANTIDADE DE CENSURA. A devil without a cause is 0 out of 10. I can´t rate something that i can´t look the lyrics Bulgod is sinner, pure sinner. 5 de 10 The only one that is not explict, is explict.(i got one for ya) 2 out of 10 I would love this album if it didn´t curse that much or had the themes portrait

Not a f@cking chance...

It is… so obvious that this is awful. The mistake Kid Rock made when making this album is allowing his lyrics to be so audible. You gotta be like the Chilis and scat your way out of public dissatisfaction!

get outta here with this!

Nope.

Nope

Meh.

I didn't go into this album with high hopes, but during the opening track I thought that maybe I had underestimated Kid Rock. Then "Cowboy" started and wiped out any goodwill earned by that first song. This album isn't great. Musically a lot of tracks are fine, some truly obnoxious autotune notwithstanding. Most of the title track is even pretty good, but the lyrical content of this album is pretty abysmal. While there were a few moments that surprised me, I cannot say that I enjoyed this album or that I would ever listen again - and I absolutely cannot say that this album is essential listening.

Hihiiks huonoa ja Rokiksi liian new metallia. Vihaan tällasta juntti hiphopia joka näin 20 vuotta myöhemmin on todistautunut juuri sellaiseksi mitä silloinkin ajattelin kun nämä levyt tulivat.

Utterly pathetic. There is no redeeming qualities.

bad

Straight garbage and that's before the music. I wish I could vote 0

more like shit without a cause that last 12 minute song is pretty fucking rough 😭😭

Morally and aesthetically bankrupt. Not in the way that a stuck-up contemporary reviewer describes rock in the 50s or rap in the 90s that makes that music somehow sound even cooler, no, there is no *cool* angle here because there is nothing cool here. I thought it couldn’t get any worse and then Eminem showed up. Then Kid Rock dropped the N word. Morally and aesthetically bankrupt.

Unrelenting MAGA dogshit

How in the hell did Kid Rock make this list??

Literally unlistenable. Gave up after 12 minutes and it felt 2 hours

wow... so many things going on with this album. first and foremost, fuck kid rock and his politics. dude is a douchebag, and also came from an estate in Michigan. his whole person is a lie... its a big fat lie and all you need to do is read his wikipedia page to discover that. he profited off of the mix of late 90's hiphop/metal culture, despite not bringing anything really to the table. that said, lets review the album lets start with the beginning track... the famous Bawidaba i mean, on its surface, its catchy. i don't think it really needs to be more than it is. its nonsensical, but i think it touches on just enough different genres in this one song to keep it fun. the lyrics are lame, but lets be honest... if you're listening to a kid rock song for the lyrics, i assume you stopped reading after 8th grade lets move onto Cowboy. shit is kinda a banger. again, it doesn't have much going for it, but the sound is unique enough to keep you involved with it. while the opening track hits more of the nu-metal/rap vibe, it kinda flips and goes more country. again, its a fun track. then, we hit devil without a cause... and from there, i think we really start to see this album fall off. kid rock goes between genres which on the surface keeps the album interesting, but it doesn't mature AT ALL as you go through it. the lyrics are basic and don't speak to anything in particular. its exactly what you would expect from the conversations that take place in a trailer park and with people that are going to be cooking meth out of their trailer until eventually they get picked up. there's absolutely no substance. its all just screaming about how awesome kid rock is, and this conflation of ego that just gets placed over multiple genres and song styles. i will say, i'll give him credit for mixing different styles and that he apparently played all of the instruments. thats talent, for sure. fast forward across this album that just kinda feels the same over and over again until we get to 'Fuck Off' which included an up and coming Eminem (un-credited, by the way). then, my oh my, we get to 'Black Chick, White Guy' - and oh my fucking god, what an absolutely deplorable track. this song is about how there is a black girl who has multiple children with different partners, while still trying to get with the white boy she used to have a relationship with in middle/high school . this absolutely racist and vile track details this woman's journey through clearly a 'white savior' lens, detailing that she went through the same cycle as her own mother... but with an attitude of "hey, thats just how it goes sometimes" . not to mention, we get a n-word with a hard r drop in this song. its white savior racism bullshit put into song form, leaving a really bad taste in your mouth after a tasteless album. in the end, fuck kid rock. album is trailer trash made by a guy who had everything handed to him. i normally don't let the artist get in the way of a review, but honestly kid rock could have just sailed off into the sunset with his crappy music and had his piece. instead, he decided to continue being a piece of shit who, much like his music, never decided to grow or learn.

Irony is having the lyrics “I’m self-made” and “I see through you” on the same album when coming from Kid Rock’s background. Objectively, this just doesn’t age well, even the autotune sounds terrible. Were Bawitdaba and Cowboy popular in the late 90s? Sure. But so was a lot of other weird shit. Other than those two songs, I can’t see a reason this made the list. Picture is the only other Kid Rock song I care to hear in my life, but he’s going straight to Do Not Play on Spotify. Kid Rock is a terrible human being.

Picture it: Fairview, North Carolina in the year 2000. I'm 7 years old and my best friend lives in a trailer park walking distance from where I live. His dad wasn't around very often, but anytime he was he was showing us something that he probably shouldn't have. This was usually excessively violent movies or some sort of drug paraphernalia. I'll never forget the day that he showed us the Kid Rock - Cowboy / Trigun AMV. I was 7 years old looking at big titty anime ladies trying to figure out what "Ima head out west with all of the women equipped with fake breasts" ment. It's a core memory that still sticks with me....... My friends dad died of a heroin overdose 1 year later. Seams on brand for a Kid Rock fan.

Music for r*tards

Surprised I could understand a single word he said, with his head so far up Trump's bum.

Do we really need country rap ?

no. not even once.

no. fuck him -5

never been more afraid whether my headphones are connected while listening at work or not. How is this album an hour and 11 minutes long

The author of this list is a moron

Music for idiots

no!

How did this happen? I don't mean how did this get on the list, but how is this even a thing in the first place, why does it exist? I would prefer a world where this never happened at all.

wow. top tier shit

this may genuinely be the worst album i have ever listened to and i don't have a single good thing to say about it. cowboy was the only song i didn't absolutely despise and i still did not like it

"i don't steal from the rich and give to the poor / i take from my bitches and give it to my whores" thank you kid rock, real american patriot poet right here. i can't even be mad about how terrible this really is because it's hilarious.

Better than I was expecting!

Flicked through just to confirm it was a no with every fibre of my being

Fuck that shite

Why do we have to listen to this before we die? I honestly think this is the worst thing I've listened to. Absolute unadulterated horse cum

Fuck this fucking fuck

im from tel aviv and this is my favorite ablum

I was wondering why this has such a bad ratio since the first couple of tracks are listenable: the guitar riffs are good and while the vocals aren't as good as The Beastie Boys or Rage Against The Machine they still kept me interested. And then I looked him up and oh god is he an instant 1. Kid Rock is nothing but an ass kisser and fakest man alive. Most recently, he's been sucking Trump's cock by playing at that Turning Point USA and meeting with cabinet members, clearly in support of them. He denounces democrats but then, years back, was seen supporting Obama, Bush, and Clinton? And then there's that whole Bud Light controversy where he shot at cans of Bud Light after they aired a commerical with a transgender influencer, saying "Fuck Dylan Mulvaney" before supporting a brand partnered with Caitlyn Jenner?? And then being spotted only a couple months later he was spotted drinking Bud Light???? Mf can't even commit to being a fucking dumbass bigot let alone commit to his music. -5/5

Ugh

This sure isn’t a much liked album on here. Not an American but aware of his politics which presumably has something to do with it. But then heard the music which is based on that said persona, and to be fair to the detractors he appears to just be a fake act in that he was not street or country but rather from a fairly affluent background. Not really aware of his music, guess from hearing this it’s rap rock with a toe in country and not very subtle in its methodology to get there. From the wiki, appears was more rap but added the then popular nu- metal, he wasn’t the first and it was definitely done better, maybe for him it was natural development or cynical cash grab, as his background was fake guessing at the latter but who knows, it worked anyway. He just seems to be one in a long line of singularly brand driven showmanship, living up to an image, which I am fine with but I’m not the target for his brand so it does nothing for me. It’s very teenage in its demographic, all empty swagger n such, confrontational just for the sake of being so. All the usual bravado, American exceptionalism, hubris, arrogance, swearing and trite vocabulary because that’s what we do, etc etc. with the rock being identikit 90s metal and the country 90s stadia ballads, empty and dumb. If I have memories of hearing this as a teen it might have a touch point, but I don’t- so it just a dumb rapping rock record, with little subtlety, limited nuance. That it has its place in the wider picture fair enough but I can’t say I enjoyed. Don’t like his shtick and what he’s selling. So musically, dumb, vacuous empty calories, cynical; rap(tick) metal (tick) country ballad (tick) - but there is worst, and worst on here 2 Star, though when got to the song fuck off, exactly I will, really Eminem, lean into that shit persona, that is cheap shit - actually any positives I had like the man says can fuck off, puerile, cheap crap, this is actual garbage - 1 Star

lol wut

Kid Pebble making the suckiest of music

It was shit in 1998 and it's even worse now. Country Vanilla Ice meets Limb Bizkit.

Why

Not very good at all - often just seems to be chanting syllables. Not rock, not rap, not good.

To quote E-40, “nope!”

Can't believe I bobbed my head to the first 15 seconds of this. Kind of wanted to make it through the whole things because it's impressively bad. Could not and would not. Probably the worst album on this list so far. RYM: N Saved a song: N

Confusing. I liked the music but the lyrics are dumb and offensive and junior school level. Also the man is a massive bellend.

I couldn't endure this. 1.5/5

What a terrible album. I can see how some people may enjoy the first track on the album, it's definitely got that nu-metal feel, but the rest of the album hardly matches its energy. The worst track was probably "Welcome 2 the Party" which sounded like a parody of 80s rap. The highlight of the album was Eminem's verse. Also lyrically? Ew. I would rate it 2 for just the music, but since the cowboy pimp act wears thin, especially considering he's a rich yankee. I'm going to give it a 1. Fuck Kid Rock.

I think this is the one album that met my expectations on how much I would hate it. Judged it as soon as I saw “Kid Rock”. I want my 70 minutes back.

Just plain bad could not finish the whole thing but heard enough to rank

I’m doing something I haven’t ever done, and will try to never do again, with this list - rate an album without listening to it. I refuse to give this idiot a second of my life. I have no idea why this is on the list. I would put it on a list of 1001 albums to make sure you avoid for your entire life, but that’s just my opinion. I wish I could rate something 0 or a half a star.

I like Kid Rock notwithstanding the fact that he shields for the orange menace; that said, this album sucks

Listenable, maybe a plausible plastic ripoff in 1998, but almost 30 years later it's just the sound of fash. Junk. Fuck nazis.

so bad it made me reevaluate the way I rate albums like THIS is a true 1, maybe I've been too rough on all those other records I gave 1's to

Almost alright in it's time. Hasn't aged well.

Yuck. I’m a huge proponent of separating the art from the artist, but recent activity and politics aside, I can’t shake the feeling that kid rock is doing a dorky Eminem cosplay. Also I’m normally impressed by albums ahead of their time, but this has got to be one of the first county rap fusion albums and that is an unholy marriage that should never have escaped the abyss.

So much edge, I almost came in my pants. In all seriousness, this sucked. It's so fake and gratuitous, even Pamela Anderson's tits blushed (sorry for the stray Pam, you're so much better than this). I was actually angry that I was upping Kid Rock's listens count. Knowing this was popular helps me understand why we elected Trump a 2nd time. In a non-cursed universe, the record exec tazes Kid Rock and his producer rather than putting this into production. I fucking hate it here

Best Track - "Devil Without A Cause"

⭐ Dålig rap, töntiga texter, Nu-metal. Detta är skräp! Vad gör detta album på en lista över 1001 album du måste lyssna på??? Tar emot att spela albumet i Spotify och därmed ge streams till denna artist. Hade aldrig lyssnat på detta album om det inte vore för att jag vill fullfölja listan. Nu har jag lyssnat på och kommer aldrig göra det igen, det blir en 1a.

Nope, not at all. Quite literally some of the lamest shit out there.

Well, that was awful.

It's not that I didn't want to play it (I mean, in fairness, it is partly that), it's more that I simply can't. I brought it up in Apple Music, went to press play, and my finger just... stopped. I tried pulling the phone towards my finger, but again, like opposing magnets, I just couldn't make contact. Then, when I brought it up in YouTube, I just fell to the floor shaking, vomiting and crying, and I found myself overwhelmed by an all encompassing despair for the future of the human species. My instincts in these matters are generally pretty reliable, so I decided it was probably best to just move on and hope that tomorrow's record isn't a horrible dollop of shit by some vile, witless, dick.

Haemorrhoids are more entertaining than this.

Surprisingly listenable. I wonder if to some people this is what rage against the machine sound like. Still terrible (for me)

Fuck all the way off with this rape ass MAGA Nazi bullshit.

The reviews seem to be split between people giving it one because they don't like it, people giving it one in part because they don't like him and 5s because they think it is ok but like him. Firstly, I'm British and my only experience of Kid Rock is "All Summer Long" which is a sampled song and is ok. This album at best is cringey. The lyrics are horrendous and like teenager would do in their bedroom. He seems to try and replicate lots of different artists but does it really badly. There are also loads of samples from lots of better songs. I went in with an open mind, but it was hard work and thoroughly dislikeable, I suppose in some respect, like him.

Best Song: Only God Knows Why I listened to this enough in college because my roommate was really into it. It sucked then as much as it sucks now. Kid Rock is a silver spooner cosplaying as white trash to take the money from the hillbillies. I didn't even want to give him the pennies of streaming this. I remember enough of this terrible album to not need to relisten. It's an easy 1/5 for me.

Didn’t like an had to skip a lot, only God Knows Why was ok if wasn’t so auto-tuned. Black Chick White Guy was ok.

The actual music was okay I suppose maybe a 2/3 but kid rock can piss off

I didn’t have much enthusiasm going into listening to a country rap album. All they needed to do was throw in some disco to hit the trifecta of my favorites. At any rate it did suck just like I thought it would.

1 star for trailer park Bob

Holy fuck is this worse than I remember. This was the first burned CD I ever had. When I was in high school, this one rich kid was the first to have a CD burner, and he was trying to sell a copy of that album for $5 to show his parents it was like a business. Nobody would buy it. I finally gave him a dollar to shut the fuck up and stop crying. It was the best and worst dollar I ever spent. I vastly overpaid, but it was worth it to make him quit whining. This album is just so stupid. Music for slobbering mouth breathers. The absolute worst lyrics in this entire project. F- and 0 stars.

Makes me feel like I have meningitis.

Sorry. I can't overlook his ultimate doucheiness. He sucks.

De Hund isch so en goof. Ha e Stund glitte. Hät d Streams nöd verdient. Wird vermuetlich mis erste und letzte 1 si, will niemert topt de Dünnschiss

Hahahahaha. Hans nd emal durchs album gschafft

This one takes me back. I was a rock/rap/nu metal fan back in the day (still am) and this was a fun album. That said, he's a giant piece of shit and there are some instances where I can't separate the art from the artist. Fuck this guy.

no es mi tipo = mierdaa 1/5

Skippin this one lol

I’m with Joe!

lol what's this loser doing here?

Nah, I’m not giving this idiot money.

Fuck MAGA, listened to Bad Bunny instead -47/45

Einfach nur Mist!

Horrible

Bawitdaba will always be a banger, and I’ve always liked Only God Knows Why.. that said, I wish this fucking idiot would disappear into his own asshole. The world would be better

This album is just Beck for people who haven't found out about Beck... Even if I rated without knowing what's up with Kid Rock these days, I would still just say go and check out Limp Bizkit, or Beck, or Eminem. Also, just a very bad taste was left in my mouth from the last song, where he just straight up says the N-word, and just makes a racist ass anecdote. Abstaining from saying a favorite track cuz yikes...

Politics aside (I am not an american), that sounds just boring, like a bad version of Limp Bizkit or whatever

Ongeïnspireerd samenraapsel van gepikte muziek ideeën. Slechte plaat

Ik luister ni nr maga retards

a 40ish minute album might have been enough for me to sorta appreciate that kid rock just messily mashing up all his favorite music does result in something that feels fairly authentic and idiosyncratic (tho for a supposed hip hop head he sure raps like rakim doesn't even exist yet) but 70+ minutes rly dilutes that feeling for an album that is bad for literally every reason you would guess it's bad before listening to it. the existence of this thing on the list at all is an increasingly infamous quirk of the 1001 book (its notoriety increasing as the very website im using has gotten more people to give the whole project a shot), and it is really funny to have this between all the sissy britpop. nothing at all to chew on musically tho unfortunately...im not a fan, but limp bizkit made this stuff seem easier than it clearly was

I hate this. He's a piece of shit. And if he was gonna make bad music he should have only ruined one genre instead of 17. Thank you and goodnight.

What a crock

A travesty of confused heterosexuality.

One good song

0 stars.

1001 albums to make you feel dead inside.

Day 78 and the second album I could get to the end of. Complete pish

Rap

A tragedy

Absolutely no rizz

I hate this, I hate everything about this, I feel dumber for listening to it, I wish I could rate it 0 stars and may god have mercy on our souls.

I am really happy I listened to this, so I can say that while I obviously disagree with Kid Rock politically, his music also sucks. This is Limp Bizkit, but somehow worse. His lyrics are disgusting, his country rap style sucks, and this is just garbage. On a side note, Ill give it a half star because the backing band is pretty good, but Kid Rock ruins it everytime he opens his mouth. Liked Songs: I don't think I liked any songs, but the instrumentals I liked were "Bawitdaba" , "I Am the Bullgod" , "Wasting Time" , "Fist of Rage"

Couldn’t get through more than 20 seconds I wish there was a 0 star option

Jedinica iz principa. // Ja otprilike mrzim ameriku kao jedan monolit, u smislu da ne mrzim ovog lika puno više nego bilo kojeg drugog genocidaša s ove liste. Tako da slušam relativno bez predrasuda. U prvoj pjesmi sam se malo prepala da ću imati nešto pozitivno da kažem, nije dugo potrajalo. Očaj teški kojeg je 99% plagijarizam i imitacija u kombinaciji s degutantnim tekstovima. Jedva čekam kolaps njega i njegovog cijelog društva.

I'm sorry...no Deftones on the list, but we have to endure this absolute disaster of a human being

For the record; i hated this guy before it became fashion. I remember seeing him on mtv and i wondered what he had on the record company.

the beginning is there, the rest is a tumor and it makes shit shit, honestly I don't know how it ended up on this list now I'm going to de-infect my ears

This is music for the type of person who thinks WWE is real.

I'm not even going to listen to this trash AND I'm still going to give it a 1. Because fuck no.

-5

I went into Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock fully expecting to hate it and, if I’m honest, it didn’t take long to confirm that feeling. I tried to give it a fair chance and listen with an open mind, but it really does feel like over an hour of brash, wrestling-style rock. The album sounds incredibly dated, rooted firmly in that late-90s rap-rock crossover that hasn’t aged well. The lyrics are a real sticking point what might have been intended as humour comes across as crude, misogynistic, and ultimately pretty empty. Musically, there’s energy, but not much depth, and it quickly becomes repetitive. If this is considered a defining moment for rap-rock, it’s not exactly a glowing endorsement of the genre. There are fleeting moments where it almost clicks, but they’re few and far between. Favourite tracks: Wasting Time (just about) Least favourite tracks: Most of the album, to be honest Album artwork: Feels very on-brand, loud, brash, and not exactly subtle

facilmente a pior coisa que eu já escutei na vida deus sabe que eu daria tudo por uma máquina do tempo pra voltar 1h (!!!!!! 1 HORA NESSE LIXO DO CACETE) no tempo e nunca ter escutado essa porra, intuitivamente dando 1 estrela pq a figura kid rock me causa repulsa essa porra é tudo que eu detesto musicalmente!!!!! rap rock com riff de metal, country sem criatividade e o iniciozinho do nu metal (que na minha opinião nunca deveria ter existido) vai se fuder esse aqui me deu vontade de largar esse site

parece que o nu metal e o rap rock estão muito ligados. o que faz sentido, porque eu odeio bastante os dois. DE BRINDE uma pegada de country, que também não curto. esse aqui eh uma das pior coisa do mundo memo puta merda. 70 minutos dessa merda com esse fudido do kid rock se achando o maioral. música pra adolescente (com mal gosto) que queria quebrar tudo dentro do quarto mas não tem mta coragem. enfim. paia. entrou pro top 3 piores do site, pra mim. muito triste de ter passado por isso. se eu encontrar o robert dimery na rua eu dou porrada nele, que curadoria PÍFIA!!!!!!!!

The music is bad. The lyrics are worse. Why is this on this list?

Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause (1998) On Day 84, I approached this album with low expectations, and while the production initially caught my attention, a closer look at the lyrics significantly changed my perspective. Despite the strong influence from acts like Run-DMC, Public Enemy, and NWA, the lyrical content often feels shallow, crass, and lacking in substance, which undermines the album's potential impact. Tracks like "Bawitdaba" and "Only God Knows Why" have their moments, but the juvenile and at times offensive nature of the writing makes it hard to take the music seriously. Even the high-energy production and genre-blending can't fully compensate for the lack of depth in the lyrics. What could have been a bold, unapologetic statement instead feels more like a missed opportunity. Ultimately, while the album has its moments of raw energy, the poor lyrical quality drags it down considerably. A disappointing 1/5.

Fuck Kid Rock!

Absolutely horrible

If donald trump was an album

Sigh... I'm ashamed to say that I'm from the same state as Mr. Ritchie. Listen, I get it: Kid Rock fused hip-hop with rock and country. It didn't NEED to be done, but it was done nonetheless and thus I can see how this album would be considered "influential" in some regards given the similar acts that rose to fame in this little (but loud) sector of music at the time. I was exposed to this music growing up, but didn't really pay much mind to it as it was just there. However to this day, I know the kinds of people who STILL unironically listen to this type of music. To each their own I guess. I think almost everyone knows Kid Rock is a poser at this point, he's not fooling anyone with the character he raps as vs. his actual upbringing. But his attempts to be tender completely miss the mark in a track such as "Only God Knows Why", it's almost laughable. Put almost anyone else on vocals there and it's probably half-decent, but that doesn't excuse the songwriting. That track being sandwiched between "Fist of Rage" and "Fuck Off" is a funny juxtaposition too. It all just hasn't aged well. I'll hate all I want.

As I go through the to do list that is my 1001 list I have been strongly advised by Tim that Kid Rock is not cool

Rubbish

i just dont care. listened to half of this on youtube cus i dont want to give this dude streams on spotify lol. a messy album. i was vibing with the first song, beats are fun. but he's just a gross man. no thanks, i'll pass. 1/10

I'm not giving a single penny for streaming to this asshole. I've heard some of this album before and I don't need to revisit it. Pulling out "Not Gonna Listen" #3. Congrats, you're on a level with Kendrick and Kanye.

Did not listen. WTF is this doing on the list? Does this feature the song about having sex with underage girls?

One has to separate the art from the artist and I have been very rigorous in applying that rule, as my ratings for Morrissey and Miles Davis attest. But I have a limit. Quite aside from Rock's increasingly loathsome outlook on life, two words that should never be in the same room, let alone right next to each other, are 'country' and 'rap' - which fittingly portmanteau as 'Crap' (portmanteauing being the same reason why you never find RAP + Early Reggae together). 'Fuck Off' has to be one of the worst songs I have ever had the displeasure to have heard, ending with fake bullshit answer machine messages to try and sound like a hip-hop album. And the messages are his family quite reasonably asking why he's acting like such a dickhead - yet Kock revels in his obnoxiousness and thinks that makes him look cool. It may all have an ironic charm if we didn't know that Kock is being deadly serious about his pimpin credentials as attested by the album cover where he looks like the prototype for Andrew Tate. It's all vaguely upsetting.

I wish I could give it a zero

There was potential here for a quirky, fun album and then Kid Rock opened his mouth

I listened to enough of this garbage. Rap is bad enough without this asshat throwing his trucker hat into the ring. Wannabe cowboy rapper should’ve stayed home and lived off his parents’ wealth rather than leaving his brown stain on music. 0/5

Weeping sad soundtrack.

So I came into this biased, which I tried to avoid, but in the case of an artist like this, that's hard to do (God I'm going to seem like such a hypocrite when I get a Kanye album). Unfortunately, my attempts to be open-minded were defeated by how much I hated almost every part of this album. The pseudo-rebelliousness that Kid tries to portray in every song just comes off toothless and vague. Whenever he does get close to actually taking me aback or being crass, I find myself wishing that I was listening to classic Eminem or nu-metal. The main theme of the album seems to be how desperately Kid wants to have a hit album and get the respect he deserves, which is probably the reason why every song feels like sanitized rebelliousness. There's really nothing here to get excited about or be offended by. Favorite Songs: "Bawitdaba", "Fuck Off" (without that outro) Least Favorite Songs: "Cowboy", "Only God Knows Why", "Black Chick, White Guy" Mid 1.

Hard pass

Loud and boring. Considered whether it might be a 2 but the dude sounds like a dick.

Stop pushing the MAGA agenda on me!!! Also, what are these lyrics?

I refuse to listen to this piece of trash

2/10

There is some "music" in this album that is actually not that bad. Some is very bad. Most is mediocre. But, all of the lyrics and vocals are very bad, and it's just embarrassing and trashy.

We'll have the death, thanks.

No one needs to hear this before they die

Tried to spoof the form request that's made on these rating actions in order to override the 1-5 rating and give this album a zero, alas, they protect against that type of behavior so this album gets a 1.

How did this sell 14 million copies? I feel stupider for having listened to it. Made the Red Hot Chili Peppers look like poetic wordsmiths on the level of Stephen Merritt. Hated this even more than the two (dear God, why were there TWO?!) Slipknot albums we were subjected to. Not the first time I've wished we could award zero points.

Oozes an aura of insincerity. Not particularly heavy or groovy, lyrics are incredibly uncreative and offensive in the least tasteful way possible. It seems like he thinks people don’t like him for his profanity, but in reality it’s just because his music is pathetically garbage. 1 star for the king of chuds.

Bro wants to be the beastie boys but he’s a hick and makes bad music. A few songs were catchy at the absolute best

I genuinely believe that this guy should kill himself

pretty close to the end. giving this a 5 unless he says the n word

Ik heb een heel betoog geschreven over hoe je de persoon moet scheiden van de muziek bij Kanye West, maar Kid Rock heeft niet My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy gemaakt. Wat hij wel heeft gemaakt? Een soort supergefrustreerd boos, witte mannen 'hiphop' countryrock album. Je ruikt bijna de Monster energy drink, dit is muziek voor knulletjes die in een truck rijden en hun vrouw/vriendin/moeder slaan. Blijkbaar is dit de start geweest voor het Country Rap genre. OK? Was dat een hoogtepunt in de muziekgeschiedenis? Niets op dit album doet mij echt beseffen dat het goed is dat het bestaat, en het is al helemaal niet nodig dat dit album een belachelijke 72 minuten duurt... Nee, ik heb dit echt geprobeerd een kans te geven, zelfs al vind ik de persoon Kid Rock een van de domste personen ooit. Maar een dom persoon kan nog steeds prachtige muziek maken, denk ik althans. Dit daarentegen? Nee dit is rap op het niveau kindergarten, de beats zijn vooral hele harde scheurende gitaren en ook niet echt onderscheidend. Dit voelt als de blauwdruk van Nu-metal, en dat is een van mijn meest gehate genres. God, wat een lang klote album is dit zeg... Oh mijn god en dan komt Only God Knows Why... een ballad, EEN FUCKING BALLAD. Nee, dit album verdient de 1 die het gaat krijgen, ik heb het een kans gegeven maar dit is gewoon troep. en dan moet ik nog 4 nummers met een laatste nummer dat 12(!!!!!!!!) minuten duurt. FAVO:

Full transparency, I'm having trouble separating the art from the artist on this one. I was familiar with the singles. They were heavy on radio rotation for a time. Fun but dumb songs. That was what I always assumed a Kid Rock album would be, but I never felt the desire to listen on my own. Honestly, the music itself isn't terrible. Some good samples blended with decent beats and serviceable guitar work. The lyrics and content though are so sophomoric. Kid Rock wants to present himself as a trashy asshole and he is succeeding. Yet, he constantly contradicts this self-image: he only has eyes for one woman, and all his hoes; he's the pimp with all the riches, and only gets paid nickels; the ultimate poor country redneck that struggled and made his own way when his real life background includes being raised on a property with it's own apple orchard and horses. The imagery is repetitive, misogynistic, and generally what a middle school bully would spout while trying to sound hard. Bawitdaba Cowboy

I don’t really want to talk about this

Garbage

Aged like milk.

Muito ruim.

I’ve listened to every song on every album so far including tubular bells and bjork but I just can’t for this one. Listened to half. Its just garbage.

I would rather listen to bjork cover yoko ono while putting my dick in the garbage disposal than listen to the trash

Mr. Ritchie: Zero point zero

gross

Uh, no

No

As a 911 dispatcher, I once had a lady put the phone on speaker and proceed to have the most violent diarrhea imaginable without any warning. I would rather listen to that.

There's a few things that instantly make an album a 1 for me. This album makes me uncomfortable. I don't care about the politics in this review. I'm just rating the music. This is awful. Might be the worst album I've ever heard. I don't hate everything about it. I actually like Bawitdaba. It's not bad, if only a little cringe. Cowboy is fun, but the lyrics deprecating women is not my style. I just don't vibe with that lifestyle. (Kid Rock definitely isn't the worst one when it comes to that either. It's way too prominent in rock and rap). Also, so many lyrics about drinking and smoking. It gets annoying. I like listening to music that is relatable or universal. If it isn't relatable, I should be able to put myself in the shoes of the narrator and not feel like a creep. I really don't mind this being a Kid Rock album. He has some good music, but this is just terrible. I gave Korn a 1 for very similar reasons. This genre is very polarizing for me. You can have a fun, sexual, weird, and good album. Early Red Hot Chili Peppers is a great example of that, although this album is more metal than that. This just doesn't make me want to continue to listen any more.

WTF is this? Would give zero stars if I could. Pure garbage. Quick Google search and Kid Rock has written some very questionable content. Don't waste your time

Whichever reviewer said “I would rather be deaf than listen to this” was really on to something…

Not good, couldn't finish

Fuck Kid Rock

This album sucks. Kid Rock is a douche and he’s only gotten worse. I would rather listen to The Black Album.

Man this was rough to get through. This is the music that the rich kid who went to your high school makes to seem tough, but they're too dumb to realize everyone is laughing at them.

Fuck this guy

Pretty difficult to get into an album celebrating statutory rape and racial slurs. I see it’s unique in the sense of it’s genre as cowboy nu metal / trash-hop. Very depicting of an era of influence over of American pie loving Gen X men. It’s not a guilty pleasure- it’s just guilty and ears want to press charges.

Honestly I wasn't the happiest chap getting this one on the list lol, I really didn't want to listen to it but I did because I didn't want my judgement cloud my review. I genuinely really liked the opening track 'Bawitdaba' was fun and heavy - I think the best singing on the album was in this song by Kid Rock and on other tracks the backing singers made the songs. Fist of Rage was also kind of a different track on the album(?) reminded me of Rage of the Machine, kind of. The Auto-Tune on 'Only God Knows Why' did break up the album with something different. The lyrics were also rough to listen to - like all of it, certainly not the most inspiring. It just isn't what I'd ever choose to listen to - will probably listen to 'Bawitdaba' again but not the rest. I feel kind of dumber for listening to this hahah

Bootlickers Anthem

Fuck Kid Rock.

f him

Well, it's certainly something. Nu Metal is reliably shit and Kid Rock isn't that good at it. No picks, just happy to have it over with

fuck you kid rock

Denied.

I almost gave this a sympathy 2 for Joe C, but then I heard that last song. Then it snuck an identical version of Bull god into the end. Gen X is sorry about this

The only Kid Rock song I want to listen to is All Summer Long, and that's basically just Sweet Home Alabama. This doesn't start horribly tbh. Song one and two are fine. By song 6 I detested the man. Shut up!!! Songs added to playlist: - Bawitdaba - Cowboy

I thought nostalgia for the few hits might carry this a bit, but even the hits were better in the past. Sounded like he so desperately wanted to be cool by being edgy. As the kids that was cringe

So, obviously this is a one, but it's more for the cretinous lyrics than the music. Musically, while I don't like Devil Without A Cause I do at least think it is significantly better than Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.

I mean, I don't like the guy, but I'm trying hard not to let my opinions on people (re: Kanye) affect my opinion on the art they create. That being said, this is the most vapid and hollow album I've heard in a long while. It's entirely meaningless and fully generic. Decent guitar work, though; it almost makes up for the literal actual racial slurs!

Pure, liquid shite for your auditory system

Trash from a trash human. Not listening.

I don't think it's possible to say anything funny or interesting about this album.

Listening to this makes me feel dirty that I gave it one additional stream on YouTube music.

Slop. Kid Rock is as great of an artist as a mediocre high school band, and that would even be insulting to all high school bands out there. Maybe white incels or single dads think this is cool music, but it only exists as conservative slop who thinks mainstream music is too "woke". If I could give less than 1 star, hell, even less than 0 stars, I'd do it. Get this shit off the list, please, thank you. 1 / 10

no

Come on man, the Limp Bizkit one was at least funny

I'm done with this fascist fuckin loser

I’m gonna kill myself

His nerdy voice sounds like he's never experienced anything he sings about. He ain't no Hank Williams III. And his rapping comes off pretty lame as well. Lyrically poor and generally W E A K, it's barely saved from oblivion with the instrumentation and accompanying vocals but all in all it's just a frat boy's pool party album with Mr. Try Hard acting like he's some kind of hard man.

Not really a Kid Rock fan

"The song "Cowboy" is seen as being instrumental in the development of the fusion genre country rap." And it is for this reason alone that I bailed after the third track. What a bloody racket.

The only possible explanation for this being in a book called 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die is if it is the last album you ever here because it makes you lose the will to continue living in a fallen world.

I did not need to hear this and my life remains unchanged after listening. The only people I know that like Kid Rock, unironically, are 45 years old or older, and they probably just enjoy him because of the nostalgia.

I'm A Cowboy Baby 1001 Albums Generator 214 (1/27/2025) Devil Without A Cause is an album with a really sinister aura, since you spend the entire time wondering what the hell a 12 minute song called Black Chick, White Guy could consist of. And you have to listen to Kid Rock for an hour before you find out. Also, Uncle Kracker was in Kid Rock's backing band?? Are you joking? 1.5/5, for Bawitdaba and Cowboy, rounded down to a 1. Favs: Bawitdaba cowboy I Am The Bullgod Least Fav: Welcome 2 The Party

I cried while listening to this. Such an emotional response was not triggered by it being really moving and beautiful, which is usually what makes me cry to music, but rather because it was just so fucking awful. That's a first for me actually, I've never cried from music being so bad, but this album brought it out in me. If you think that there is absolutely anything worthy of praise in this, don't ever speak to me or anyone I love. This is truly one of the most disgusting and grotesque musical experiences a human being can have, I never want to hear this or any kid rock album ever again.

This album is like a a pile of neglected compost where rap-rock cliches and oversaturated production go to rot into eternity. He goes for volume over substance, masquerading nonsensical tantrums as some teenage vision of what rebellion is. It's as if a 12 year old kid was given an hour and 11 min to convince the world that he is fact, a man, who should be taken seriously. This is an album that had to convince itself that the main character is dangerous while sounding desperately insecure. This is not street-outlaw music (as it claims more than once), it’s store brand rage for people who think yelling is their entire personality

What a crook of shit 1/5

uninteresting

I wish I could give it 0 stars, terrible.

Morally bankrupt

I would have given it 1.5 because I have to admit the first track was a little catchy but the rest is godawful and Kid Rock is a trash human being so I'm rounding down.

Didn't like this at all when it was released, it was cheap and blatant, and don't feel any inclination to repeat.

I'll begrudgingly say "Bawitdaba" still has a catchy hook, but that's it. THAT'S IT! Much like Kanye, if I knew his politics in later life, I would have avoided this like a plague, because it's a plague... Its childish music for any of the stunted man-child out there who never grew up once they turned 14 and like to talk about all the bitches they fuck but never do, because thats the only brag they can think of. 1999 has a lot to answer for.

Fuck you Kid Rock.

Kid rock is like the guy in his late teens/early twenties who hangs out pre-teens/high schoolers - when you're younger he seems like the coolest guy ever, but then when you're in your late teens/early twenties you realize that he's a fucking weirdo and always has been Now, stepping aside on my feelings on kid rock as a person and providing my comments on devil without a cause: it fucking sucks. There are no redeemable qualities to it. In regards to the lyrics, I had to look up to see how old kid rock was when this album released - based on the gross out disgusting "heh women are objects" elements of many lyrics throughout, I would've guessed that he was no older than 13 when this album released, but to my shock he was actually twice that age. The backing music itself sounds like a parody of 70s and 80s traditional country, which I myself questioned how/why kid rock would even consider himself country. Pair that with the worst, most overly produced guitar/drums and you have the shit sandwich that is this album. The only way I could see anyone enjoying this album is if they go into it acting as if it is a parody of country/rap/rock tropes from the past 30+ years, however even then you have to deal with putting this crime against music into your head and I wouldn't wish that against your worst enemy I listened to this album all the way through to you wouldn't have to. If you're still reading at this point, take heed to this warning: don't listen, give it a 1, and spend the hour plus you would've listening to this album to do something productive with your life, like going on a walk or volunteering at your local food bank

Bit of a dafty.

Вау. Лучшая песня - Bawitdaba.

Garbage person, garbage album

Lots of cheesy fucking music (Welcome 2 the party - I mean cmoonnnnn) 1/5 - only redeeming quality is bawitdaba

No thank you. Not for me

It physically pained me to listen to Kid Rock. When I got to the last song I was happy for it to be over- HOWEVER, I was absolutely GAGGED to learn it was 12 minutes!! Torture!!