FIRST KISS
| Kid Rock
FIRST KISS
First Kiss is the tenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Kid Rock. The album was released on February 24, 2015, through Warner Bros. Records and Top Dog Records, and is his first and only with Warner Bros. after leaving sister label Atlantic Records in 2014. - Wpedia
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RollingStone
e Kid’s joyful 10th album is full of nostalgic memories and huge hooks.
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billboard
First Kiss is hardly his most adventurous project, but it is perhaps his most easygoing, tuneful one.
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sputnik music
Kid Rock's retro-country album First Kiss shows the Detroit singer-songwriter's evolution in not only being a straightforward country album for the most part (tackling country-rock on some tracks like "Good Times, Cheap Wine"), but it's his most country-oriented album to date.
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The Guardian
torturous cliches and constipated insincerity.
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ALL MUSIC
it's a bit bumpy and sometimes sleepy but it finds old Bob Ritchie settling into his comfort zone, knowing that he's in it for the long haul.
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Entertainment
It’s no stylistic revolution, but the ambling melodies and smirky hooks of “Johnny Cash” and “Drinking Beer With Dad” make an undeniably solid soundtrack for domestic-beer hoisting.
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The Boston Globe
First Kiss picks up where 2012’s “Rebel Soul” left off, with Rock continuing to mix classic rock, country, pop, and, to a far lesser extent, hip-hop to craft odes to parties and the good old days, as well as to parties in the good old days.
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Daily News
Kid obviously lusts for the Man in Black’s bad boy image, but he ignores the demons that fueled it. Even the album’s production misses its role model’s core.
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USA Today
For a First Kiss, Kid Rock's new album lights off very few fireworks.
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The Bearded Gentlemen
To no surprise, you knew Kid Rock’s latest album First Kiss was going to be an all out turd Howitzer on your ear drums and sanity…and sometimes in this line of work you take a bullet or two…and let’s just say, this time, I was mortally wounded.
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Music and Festival Reviews
This is a damn good record, his best since Rock N Roll Jesus and this one, together with his other three rock albums, should belong in every rocker’s record collection.
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BlogKitch
If you haven’t heard Kid Rock since the 1990s or early 2000s, give his new album a spin. It will change your perception of him completely.
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POP Magazine
At the end of the day, First Kiss is an unapologetic mix of country, rock, and blues from Detroit’s native son.
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LOUDER
Reformed party-rock outlaw finds his inner Bryan Adams.
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abc News
“First Kiss” is a heavy-handed, sometimes hypocritical nostalgia trip that summons memories of Kid Rock’s southern youth. But…wait a minute. Isn’t he from Michigan? This album feels like a calculated attempt to keep the country crowd in his fanbase. I suppose this has been the case since his Sheryl Crow duet, “Picture,” but this just comes off as Rock’s latest pose.
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Star Tribune
Although the music, mostly provided by Band of Heathens, is generally good, it gets lost in Kid Rock's ridiculous rhymes. He's at his worst in "Ain't Enough Whiskey," worrying about gun control, calling lawmakers "monkeys in suits" and dissing President Obama: "Ain't enough change to change my mind." His solution? More "whiskey, women and wine," plus moonshine and cocaine.
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The Renegade Rip
All in all, I enjoyed this album, as I do most of Kid Rock’s albums. I like the fact that he switches up his game. Each time he re-invents himself, he gets that much better.
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E Times
You’ll like this if you’re a fan. For the rest, there are his older hits to revisit.
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the music
First Kiss' is bubblegum nostalgia par excellence.
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Dorset Echo
is an easy-going, crowd-pleasing, middle-aged rock affair.
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TMR Zoo
Look for “First Kiss” to be the soundtrack of the trailer parks and NASCAR tailgates this summer.
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The Currency of Cool
I listened to it so you don’t have to. Not since Larry The Cable Guy have I seen a performer so blatantly pander to a woefully simple audience as on Kid Rock’s new album First Kiss. Allow me to list some of the words that are peppered throughout the embarrassing lyric sheet – wine, whisky, beer, bourbon, Jim Beam, Jesus, Bocephus, white lines, guns, America, Johnny Cash, highway, Chevy, truck, banjo, cowboy, Tennessee, moonshine, and more that I can’t remember because I’m sure my brain shut off at some point.
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The Sil
The final step in Kid Rock's country evolution lacks depth.
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CHERWELL
First Kiss is simply song after song of regurgitated Country on autopilot.
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