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The History of Rock
by Kid Rock


9.3

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A collection of previously unreleased Kid Rock tunes and other miscellany, including demos and re-recorded tracks from early in his career.

LABEL:	Atlantic
RELEASE DATE:	30 May 2000
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Rock, Rap, pop, Pop

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All Music Guide

It might not make for a great listen, but its swagger and white-trash style make it the second-best record in his catalog.

Wall of Sound

Rock affirms that he is no overnight sensation...

Village Voice

The History of Rock, despite being not nearly as funny or fruggable, despite mostly haphazardly handpicking rerecorded renditions of old songs that are no match for new hesher-hop product by upstarts like Kottonmouth Kings and Brougham, and despite leaving such fuzzily boinging Beastie-beatboxed scratch-rap goodies as "Live" and "Classic Rock" in the vault, is still a keeper.

CDNow

The album provides hard evidence that the dynamite punch of 1998's Devil Without a Cause album was no fluke.

Sonicnet

Perhaps what makes The History of Rock most interesting -- and what ultimately validates Kid Rock as the real deal -- is that these old tracks prove that his love affair with rap and rock wasn't something he just cooked up to weasel onto MTV's "TRL."

Dot Music

Kid Rock's sound rarely deviates from the explosive metal guitar rap synthesis he has made his trade mark...It is when Kid Rock strays from these familiar musical pastures that he gets into trouble, as in the case of 'Abortion', a rather pathetic attempt at soul...

Rolling Stone

The History of Rock is proof that he's always been able to smell a good line from a mile away.

Q Magazine

There are few surprises here: white trash raps hollered over a musical backdrop that sounds like an evil pub rock band.

Checkout.com

Kid's rapping is righteous, he's a fine vocalist, and like most musicians, his appalling persona contradicts his renown as a sweetheart of a guy. Nonetheless, as History repeats itself, his constant bragging only serves to undermine his credibility, and as a result, he becomes an idiotic parody of his own sick constructs.

New Musical Express

As essays from high-flying, high, high school dropouts go, however, 'The History Of Rock' isn't bad, if a little low on inspiration.

Entertainment Weekly

Compared with ''Devil Without a Cause,'' it's also underwhelming, a push mower to ''Devil'''s lawn tractor.... The shelved compositions he's finally put on tape didn't necessarily need to be resurrected...

Nude As The News

Is The History Of Rock the worst album of all time? In a word: Probably. I suppose I can’t say for sure, as I haven’t heard Kid Rock’s other records.

The average user rating for this album is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 23 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Donald D gave it a10:
Kid Rock is the bomb

badass bitch gave it a10:
its the hsit bringing stuuff back from the old albums and putting unreleased songs on there was great

eilene gave it a10:
great best of early days although could have chosen better songs to put on like pancake breakfast from the polyfuze method and krack rocks from emsp the reworked underground classics prodigal son and my oedipus complex r gems and the 2 previously unreleased trks abortion and dark and grey r just as good of course american bad ass is the hit from it and its freat as well

Jill RN gave it a10:
If Kid Rock is singing it, then I like it!

rob b gave it a6:
im just ere 2 got less famous

[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
very good album!

hannah f gave it a 0:
ew

The History of Rock by Kid Rock

The History of Rock
by Kid Rock