All Summer Long

-All Summer Long (Kid Rock, 2008)Kid Rock hasn't done anything interesting except for this song. But this is one of the best recent pure rock songs, even though it steals from two songs. Not just the obvious Sweet Home Alabama, but also from Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London. The song really does manage to make you feel the atmosphere of Kid Rock's favorite summer. It just is that nobody can believe that Kid Rock really feels that nostalgic about that summer. He most probably still smokes funny things and drinks whiskey out the bottle, while making love.



This is is a much more interesting clip, than the previous two I've discussed. It celebrates both Sweet Home Alabama and Kid Rock as true American icons. The first thing we see in the clip is an American flag attached on Kid Rock's motorboat. Kid Rock is riding his boat on, presumably, Lake Michigan where lots of people have fun while listening to rock and roll. Just like he did in 1989. The message of course is that these old-fashioned American rock songs like Sweet Home Alabama are timeless. Unfortunately the original singers are too old, or even dead now. Someone has to replace them. That's where Kid Rock comes in, according to this clip. He is both a real American and a real rock star. That becomes obvious during the scenes on the stage where he is singing. First of all he is dressed and behaves like a true rock star. on the floor we see stars like on the American flag and when we get a long shot of the floor we see it is painted, patriotically, in red white and blue. And in the final shot of the clip we see the word cowboy on the back of his boat. It can't get more American then that. So this clip tries to sell Kid Rock as the natural heir to the old great American rock stars. This is in accordance with the name of Kid Rock's album, Rock and Roll Jesus.


I also have All Shook Up (Elvis Presley, 1957) on my Ipod. It's a good old simple Elvis rock-song that is simply about a man in love with a girl. I am not a big fan of Elvis, but he was a pioneer and probably the first of those great American rock stars. Not much else to say about this one though and of course it doesn't have a videoclip.