What's to hate about Kid Rock?

gangsta rap.

souls of mischief.

menace II society.

in living color.

X.

natural born killers.

la law.

chris elliot.

Dan Quayle jokes. No new taxes jokes.

the "information superhighway".

terrence mckenna.

jurrassic park (and sphere and that one with gorillas and etc)

gulf war I.

balanced budget.

end-of-soviet-union-kitsch

"slackers" (and that one dude who played "mr. cynical gen xer" on like four failed sitcoms straight -- especially the bike messenger one!)

jodeci!

"stop, collaborate, and listen"

"motown philly's back again"

mc skat kat (the first coming)

stussy.

knee-length shorts.

point break

queen revival (thanks to wayne's world)

Totally Krossed Out!

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0350/eddy.php

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0027/eddy.php

Anyway, the new album is only Sea Change if Atlanta Rhythm Section and Blackfoot are not distinguishable from Nick Drake. Which they are.

And again: His ballads >>>>>>>> Black Crowes's ballads. No contest.

I was at a bar last night and they were simply BLASTING Devil Without A Cause.

And I have to say it was better than hearing another round of Sirius-satellite-radio-approved college rock jukebox picks from late-20-something Juno-watching blog-reading New York shit-for-brains playing "The Killing Moon" and "My Name Is Jonas" and "Debaser" for the seven gablillionth time.

the recent single where he bellows "amen" w/chorus is god-awful

Devil Without A Cause is fully defensible.

haha - i remember an interview with angus circa 2 live crew trial where he decryed their music as 'crass' and the interviewer was all 'um, what about 'giving the dog a bone'?' and angus went all 'it's a metaphor innit' and how his mom thought it was actually about giving the dog a bone.

-- cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 15 December 2003 04:25 (4 years ago) Link

this is still an amazing WTF moment, FWIW.

i couldn't care less about kid rock.

iTunes shaken to the core!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7459796.stm

US music star Kid Rock is refusing to put his albums on iTunes because he says artists do not get paid enough for downloads from the Apple store.

Kid Rock is one of the last few acts not fully signed up to the service.

He said it was based on "an old system, where iTunes takes the money, the record company takes the money, and they don't give it to the artists".

More like Kid Cock, amirite?

zing!

i guess i couldn't be on EVERY 2 Live Crew thread back then...

he's right about itunes...it's the worst of both worlds for artists.

Wal-Mart to the rescue.

What's not to hate about Kid Rock?
I hate that you did this first.
More like Kid Cock, amirite?

-- Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 13:14 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

zing!

-- Neil S, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 13:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

YES
The thing is even Kid Rock doesn't believe in Kid Rock anymore.

the worst thing about Kid Rock is that what little charm his records used to have is gone now. he doesn't even rap on any of the 3 singles off of his current album, and I sure as hell don't wanna hear that guy sing.

He kinda raps -- because he's a shitty singer -- on that new tune where he drives around in his speedboat karaoking to a band playing a combination of "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Werewolves of London" badly.

Plus he's doing everything he possibly can to make bottom-out-of-sight sportsware store warm-up suits and fedora combos fashionable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AiXO1pAiA

What a badass!

haha wow

filmed during his senior year at yale.

cigarette comes off the ear and back on in how many seconds?

For all of it's ubiquity 10 years ago, I had no idea that Kid Rock song was called "Bawitdaba".

I still don't even know what that means!

My favorite Kid Rock story is that he was thrown out of a Waffle House in Atlanta a few years ago. Really sums him up.

I wonder what happened, if he was an asshole to the waitress or something. Also, i wish i had been there so i could have tripped him on his way out.

Holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMKP_HxRkzs

Looks pretty easy to pick a fight when you have 5 hired bodyguards.

as long as i don't have to look at him or listen to his music then i guess i'm pretty okay with him

You gotta admit, this guy is pretty ballsy, ramming his van through Kid Rock's gate and attempting to break into his house, alone, in broad daylight, ON CRUTCHES. Talk about an American Bad-Ass!*

* not an endorsement of criminal activity. Stay in school.

Didn't Kid Rock recently like cap his ticket prices at 15 or 20 bucks to keep it affordable? That's kinda admirable, right?

Was Kid Rock's "Only God Knows Why", the first blatant use of Auto-tune in a song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMk2fClfOjg

Most places on the net cite Cher's "Believe" as being first, but while that was released as a single in October of 98, Devil Without a Cause was released in August of that year, even thought it didn't seem to start getting hit singles till like summer of 99. Or is there an even lesser known example that predate both?

Didn't Kid Rock recently like cap his ticket prices at 15 or 20 bucks to keep it affordable? That's kinda admirable, right?

did a stadium tour with tickets capped at $20 through official sellers. which was mainly Wal-Mart.