Eminem Recovery is the best Album since Eminems comeback

Started by Renovator, Dec 15, 2014, in Eminem Add to Reading List

Best Album Since Eminems comeback

  1. Recovery

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    41.9%
  2. MMLP2

    32 vote(s)
    37.2%
  3. Relapse

    18 vote(s)
    20.9%
  1. CSW
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    Dec 16, 2014
    >infinite 6/10
    >recovery 6/10
    >mmlp2 6.5/10
    >xv dreadful

    my sides
     
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  2. Mike02
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    Recovery is easily his best album since his comeback. I think its still the best thing he's done since 8 Mile. It might be the most meaningful album of his career, which was pretty much dead in the water at that point. He seemed like a has been and a joke after Relapse. Recovery made him relevant again. He addressed so many issues on that album (his drug addiction and recovery, admitting he fell off, his life during his hiatus, Proof's death, leaving Kim again and all the frustration of that relationship). This was the first time since TES that we heard Eminem putting some fresh personal content in his music. Unfortunately by the time MMLP2 came out he once again didn't have anything too important to say, and we just got "a bunch of playful songs that he made for fun"
     
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    by 2010 I fully appreciated everything relapse and refill weren't and everything they were
    but first thought after hearing despicable on shade45
    he sounds amazing, the crutch I mean accent is gone! he's finally comfortable on the mic again
    to be fair I also liked the softer throw it up flow he still kinda uses
    I feel hts and xv more than make up for any shortcomings people think mmlp2 might have
     
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  4. Mike02
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    My rating of his albums..

    SSLP 9/10
    MMLP 10/10
    TES 10/10
    Encore 6/10
    Relapse 3/10
    Recovery 8/10
    MMLP2 5/10
     
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    can I ask, is the title choice factored into your mmlp2 rating?
     
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    Maybe slightly. That's just my rating of the standard album though. If you include the bonus tracks I'd say it's at least a 6/10. I couldn't rank MMLP2 higher than Encore because Encore has several classic tracks and MMLP2 doesn't have any. MMLP2 is just just steadily average throughout.
     
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    legacy is a classic
    with the bonus tracks especially groundhog day it's a 7 minimum
    mmlp2 is not a classic
    encore is a classic
    these are all facts
     
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    When I heard Forever, Drop The World, Despicable, and Airplanes 2 in particular I knew he had turned a corner and Recovery was gonna be something special. I would definitely take HTS and Shady XV over Relapse and MMLP2 by the way.
     
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    Bad Guy is the only classic of MMLP 2

    Brainless, GD, Legacy, Evil Twin, Beautiful Pain, etc are good track, but not classics.

    That said, MMLP 2 seems to me a more consistent and better as a whole than Recovery or Relapse.
     
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    Talkin To Myself, Going Through Changes, Not Afraid, Seduction, No Love, Space Bound, and 25 To Life are all better than any song on Relapse or MMLP2. Recovery also had the most successful single of his career on it (LTWYL).
     
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    I prefer more songs on MMLP2 than XV. I only like 3 on XV, compared to like 7 on MMLP2.
     
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    if you mean you like 3 of the xv solo tracks, then you like a much higher percentage of the material
     
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    What do you think he was doing with his first two albums? Lol SSLP especially.
     
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    The only savable things in Shady XV are Fine Line -despite the horrible delivery- and the verse from Eminem in PK.

    The rest is horrible and cringeworthy.
     
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    What do you think is better? Legacy or Deja Vu?
     
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    deja vu has a much better story. opening up about the methadone is one of the realest things he's done. but the rhyming on that whole album is by design textbook as f---

    legacy has only sixteen vowel sounds. it's one of the greatest rhymeschemes ever created. period.

    but it didn't tell me anything i didn't already know

    i won't say one is better than the other in this context because both songs are very personal to the artist and i feel it would be disrespectful
     
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    Legacy is one of the few songs on MMLP2 I really enjoyed (other than the pigs flying out of my a--- line).

    Beautiful > Deja Vu
     
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    yeah legacy has some tough to swallow punches but keep in mind they're all metaphors

    i don't normally rate my darling and beautiful with the rest of relapse because they're on another level frankly
    but deja vu, cwywf and music box are great too
     
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    I agree, best album since his comeback. There are a number of tracks I still enjoy listening to on a daily basis. Space Bound & Going Through Changes knock the s--- out of anything on Relapse & MMLP 2.
     
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    Relapse remains criminally overrhated smh
     
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