Kid Rock made the leap from the
WEA association of labels in 2017, so it's not entirely a surprise that
Warner released
Greatest Hits: You Never Saw Coming. Unlike 2000's
The History of Rock, which cobbled together remixes and re-recordings of songs from
Kid's earlier records,
Greatest Hits: You Never Saw Coming is a straight-up greatest-hits album, containing every one of
Kid Rock's charting singles for
Warner from 1999's "Cowboy" to 2015's "First Kiss." Some staples fall slightly outside of this chart range -- "Bawitaba" peaked at 104 -- but they're here anyway, along with a bunch of songs that only appeared on rock radio ("You Never Met a Motherfucker Quite Like Me," "Wasting Time," "American Bad Ass"). All in all, it winds up as a good summary and introduction to
Kid Rock, tracing his evolution from rebel to retro-rocker. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
