Dec 18, 2023 Cuz why not?- 1. PSA 2000 2. k--- You 3. Stan 4. Paul (skit) 5. Who Knew 6. If I Get Locked Up 7. What's the Difference 8. Steve Berman (skit) 9. The Way I Am 10. Purple Pills 11. The Real Slim Shady 12. Remember Me? 13. I'm Back 14. Don't Approach Me 15. Marshall Mathers (extended outro) 16. Ken Kaniff (skit) 17. Drug Ballad 18. Amityville (extended outro) 19. Devil's Night (no D12) 20. b---- Please II 21. Kim 22. American Psycho (no D12) 23. The Witch (skit) 24. These Drugs 25. Bad Influence 26. I Remember 27. Quitter 28. Under the Influence 29. Words Are Weapons 30. s--- on You (no D12) 31. Criminal Reasons for some of the track ordering: What's the Difference is heard in the background in the Steve Berman skit; The Way I Am is a fitting follow-up to a verse where he gleefully jokes about killing his wife and then parading her corpse around Weekend At Bernie's style; The Marshall Mathers hook is a continuation of the final thought in Don't Approach Me ("when I'm not behind the mic I'm a person who's just like you ... you see, I'm just Marshall Mathers"); the vinyl surface noise at the end of The Way I Am and at the beginning of Purple Pills makes for a smooth transition; at the end of These Drugs he talks about his friends and him being "bad influences" to one another; and "my words are weapons, I'll s--- on you, and I'm a criminal" is the perfect statement to conclude such a decadent, over-the-top album. This runs a whopping 2 hours. I’d have to be in a rare mood and probably on drugs to sit through it all but if I ever wanted to experience a full dose of 2000 / early 2001 Eminem, this would be it. This guy was f---ing nuts back then.
Dec 18, 2023 If you don't like them that's a big clue I'm doing something right! Jabba the Hut, biddy-bye-bye, biddy-bye-bye, it's time to die-die
Dec 19, 2023 They do make the album more bloated if that's what you mean. I've often thought it might be better to split this into 2 albums but never worked out the ordering of the second tracklist. And I don't care if they were recorded after MMLP (I think Quitter was, not sure about I Remember) or that they're diss tracks (besides, Marshall Mathers is partly an ICP diss with even an alternate hook for them). What matters to me is that the style of rap rock production and rapping fit. Both sound like they were produced by the Bass Bros. I'm pretty sure I Remember was at least. Besides the fact it's a low quality leak and unfinished, stylistically it would be out of place here. JBM was also recorded for the album but I didn't include that either for the same reason. They sound pre-MMLP, somewhere between SSLP and MMLP before Eminem updated his style and discovered more interesting ways to bend and manipulate his voice.
Dec 19, 2023 that "bass" guitar with eminem was godly. the songs you mentioned plus the devils nights ones like revelation through to lose yourself and i guess up to SFTM. has eminem really worked over guitars since the bass bros? the rubin s--- was awful in comparison
Dec 19, 2023 As he said in Rap God, he found a h--- of a way to fuse rock and rap, but by then he'd totally forgotten how he did it. The song Survival is probably his worst attempt to recapture that sound. I guess he abandoned rap rock after TES and 8 mile in order to further distance himself from white culture. If true then I think his wigger-gangsta stage is best be seen as him overcompensating for being white in response to being tarred as a racist culture appropriator. '
