Nov 9, 2015

Not only does the album have nothing to do with The Marshall Mathers LP, it's basically incoherent, random, scattered all over the place. Even Headlights that should have been on the same level as Going Through Changes or Deja Vu sounds uninspired. He's focusing on rhyming million words instead of saying something meaningful.

It's almost as if Encore is a more enjoyable album. On paper it sounds impossible because there's focus on technicality here, rhymes, etc, but overall it doesn't feel enjoyable.

Rap God is boring. The only good parts are "Even though I walk into church and burst into a ball of flame" and the part that ends with the Columbine reference.

So Much Better is such a forced song. The whole "I hate women" thing has to stop. It was funny the first few years, but it's not funny when you're 40 something years old. He probably literally went "Alright, I hated on women in MMLP, I'm going to write a song about hating women now."

All in all, at first I thought this is a classic. Especially when the first song is Bad Guy, which is probably the only song that stands out now. Now instead of "classic" this album can be summed to another word: empty.

But, the bonus songs are great. I want an album of those bonus songs.

Relapse is a much better album than MMLP2.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Ikr, it's f---ing garbage

 

Nov 9, 2015

 

Nov 9, 2015

This SXN is insane. Turning on their own artist now.

 

Nov 9, 2015

I'm probably Eminem's biggest fan. I have huge expectations of his next solo album despite this. But this particular album is pissing me off. He's still the greatest rapper to me, he's just painfully misguided.

 

Nov 9, 2015

This is how i feel about Recovery

 

Nov 9, 2015

 

Nov 9, 2015

I love Recovery. Didn't care for it much at first, but now I think it's great. I love every song from it.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Hey, it's better than that Arabian serial killer album and that generic pop rap album he put out.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Fair enough, I didn't mind the album. Although I'm not as big of a fan of Eminem than the rest of the board so I'm not so emotionally attached to his music. ;D

 

Nov 9, 2015

Relapse and Recovery are great. Granted, Relapse is not for everyone so I can understand the hate. But you can't deny the flows on Relapse. A lot better than in MMLP2.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Relapse is horrendous from the song writing to the rapping to that horrendous accent. The only thing that was a success about Relapse as a whole was its production. Recovery is a safe/generic pop rap album that he decided to make after two failed attempts with Encore and Relapse. Many of the song concepts are cliche and take no type of chance. He went from rapping in a weird accent and stuffing as many syllables as he can into one bar to shouting cringeworthy punchlines over some really heavy production. Luckily for him, Recovery isn't unlistenable but it's not something I would to care to listen to in 2015.

 

Nov 9, 2015

The only "safe" songs are Not Afraid, Love The Way You Lie and maybe Spacebound. But they're all good songs on their own, no matter how "pop" they are.

I find Relapse to be lots of fun.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Op is right

 

Nov 9, 2015

I'd say wtp , 25 to life are also safe

 

Nov 9, 2015

Glad some of you are seeing the light and coming around to the fact that this is by far his worst album. Absolutely nothing redeemable about it.

 

Nov 9, 2015

Mmlp2 is his worst album by far

 

Nov 9, 2015

Really? 25 to life isn't safe? The whole personification of hip-hop as a women which has been done over and over again throughout the genres history. Won't Back Down isn't cliche' as f---? I mean seriously, when Em made motivational track in his prime we got tracks like Lose Yourself, now we get tracks like Won't Back Down (which is awful by the way) and Guts Over Fear which sounds just like a Recovery left over. Recovery as a whole was tremendously safe. He made an album that was going to cater to pre-teens and teenagers not his core fan base.

 

Nov 9, 2015

I find it enjoyable every few months or so.