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[Alphahawk]

I remember buying the album back in 2004 and feeling so burned. I listened to it again recently and time hasn't improved it at all.

It has a couple cool tracks "Like Toy Solider", the title track and even "Just Lose it" but there were just too many joke tracks and weird experimental tracks that don't work.

So we can all agree on this right?

 

[forrest]

Rain man is my shit and I like Ass Like That. Can't really defend against Big Weenie!

I get why it's hated so much, but I might like it a bit better than Relapse. They both have good songs, but I think the good songs off of Encore probably just stick with me a bit better.

Also, We As Americans and Ricky Ticky Toc are SooGood.gif

 

[Tambini]

It's my least favourite.

 

[Acorn]

Relapse for me.

 

[Dereck]

No, it isn't.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

I remember seeing a list of the Top 10 Worst Eminem Songs, and 9/10ths of the list was Encore (the #1 was taken by a bonus track off his Greatest Hits album). I think that speaks to it's reputation.

 

[BocoDragon]

"That last Relapse CD was enhhhh...."

 

[SUPREME1]

Superman was the shit.

 

[Village]

That isn't relapse.

 

[Discotheque]

"That last Relapse CD was enhhhh...."

a lot better than shit ass recovery. bizarre how he apologized for it on a worse cd.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Like Toy Soldiers and Yellow Brick Road make up for it.

 

[Dereck]

but there were just too many joke tracks and weird experimental tracks that don't work.

What tracks though?

 

[BocoDragon]

a lot better than shit ass recovery. bizarre how he apologized for it on a worse cd.

Naw that was a great CD IMO. A comeback.

 

[Extra Sauce]

I used to love Ricky Ticky Toc from the bonus CD.

 

[Romars202129]

I remember buying the album back in 2004 and feeling so burned. I listened to it again recently and time hasn't improved it at all.

It has a couple cool tracks "Like Toy Solider", the title track and even "Just Lose it" but there were just too many joke tracks and weird experimental tracks that don't work.

So we can all agree on this right?

I always heard relapse sucked the worst.
Just getting into to Eminem for the first time myself, just familiarized myself with the greatest hits album[wasn't a bad track in it, imo], and am now starting on the new one[rap god is badass].

 

[Tambini]

I think Relapse is underrated and I'd definitely place it higher than Encore. I don't like the accents but it's good some good stuff on it.

 

[Alphahawk]

What tracks though?

Puke
My 1st single
Ass Like That
Big Weenie
Rain Man

 

[Angry Fork]

Encore is a bad album lyrically but has some good beats and flows, which is more than can be said for anything past it.

Eminem Show = 8 mile songs > MMLP > SSLP > Infinite >>>>> Encore > Relapse = MMLP 2 = Recovery

 

[cdyhybrid]

Are we just pretending MMLP2 doesn't exist?

 

[yyzjohn]

I would agree with Encore being my least favorite.

 

[forrest]

I think Relapse is underrated and I'd definitely place it higher than Encore. I don't like the accents but it's good some good stuff on it.

People always comment on the accents, but Bagpipes from Baghdad was one of my favorite tunes off the album. Opinions and all that I guess.

 

[Artemisia]

Can we all agree that Eminem is trash?

 

[Dereck]

Puke

ok

My 1st single

I guess

Ass Like That

ok

Big Weenie

good track

Rain Man

best track on the album to me

 

[Discotheque]

even though i kind of like relapse. it's apparent that eminem died after eminem show. great run of songs/albums up until that point though.

he's on "who gives a shit" tier now. hell i'd even put new jay z stuff over him because while his flow is boring as hell now at least he's getting LA FLAME beats.

 

[Dereck]

Can we all agree that Eminem is trash?

He has a wildly inconsistent discography, good rapper though.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Eminem hasn't released a good album since 2002. He's done folks, as MMLP2 illustrates. Honestly it might be worse than Encore, which at least had Mosh.

 

[Walshy]

Recovery is his worst album. Although Encore isn't far behind.

 

[massivekettle]

Can we all agree that Eminem is trash?

Encore had great productions and awesome tunes (Mockingbirg, Toy Soldiers, Yellow Brick Road, Spend Some Time, Encore (Curtains Down), Crazy in Love. But I do agree that the bad songs are baaad.

 

[Alphahawk]

Are we just pretending MMLP2 doesn't exist?

MM2 is pretty great IMO. Headlights, So Far and Rap God are some of his beat songs IMO.

 

[Romars202129]

Encore is a bad album lyrically but has some good beats and flows, which is more than can be said for anything past it.

Eminem Show = 8 mile songs > MMLP > SSLP > Infinite >>>>> Encore > Relapse = MMLP 2 = Recovery

I think there's a serious arguement to be made that Rap God might be the best song he's ever made, so I don't get this.

 

[forrest]

Are we just pretending MMLP2 doesn't exist?

 

[Dereck]

I think there's a serious arguement to be made that Rap God might be the best song he's ever made, so I don't get this.

Who Knew from MMLP is better than everything on MMLP2

I'm kind of joking, but then not really.

 

[Discotheque]

I think there's a serious arguement to be made that Rap God might be the best song he's ever made, so I don't get this.

WHAAAAAAT?! oh man. new eminem fans.

at least listen to his greatest hits and realize just how fire the dude's singles used to be when he had something to say. and then his stuff up until 2002 to see how good his albums were.

 

[Amory]

Relapse was really bad. It's like he wasn't even trying. I'd go with that.

 

[Talents]

The only good songs on the album are on the Deluxe edition (Ricky Ticky Toc, We as Americans). Mockingbird and Like Toy Soldiers are good with Stan being awesome but they were all on previous albums.

Can we all agree that Eminem is trash?

Taylor Swift's good? That's a new one.

 

[Artemisia]

Encore had great productions and awesome tunes (Mockingbirg, Toy Soldiers, Yellow Brick Road, Spend Some Time, Encore (Curtains Down), Crazy in Love. But I do agree that the bad songs are baaad.

Taylor Swift's good? That's a new one.

Well this is awkward.

 

[devious.one]

Encore has Yellow Brick Road and Curtains Down. Those two tracks alone keep Encore afloat in the Unofficial Eminem Album Power Rankings,

Spoiler

that I created.

 

[Romars202129]

WHAAAAAAT?! oh man. new eminem fans.

at least listen to his greatest hits and realize just how fire the dude used to be when he had something to say.

I think you just got nostalgia man. I've literally only listened to the greatest hits album, rap god, and a rhihana feat. That's everything I've heard so far from him.
If not the best, rap god certainly seems deserving to be among the best. IMO, of course.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

His rhyming and flow on Relapse was insanely good. It's just a shame he was rapping about fuck all interesting. Encore is definitely his worst imo.

Well this is awkward.

Lol, is that fucking metacritic?

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I love them all except of Encore. Oddly enough, his was the worst of the albums that had that 2003/2004 political tinge to it.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

I think you just got nostalgia man. I've literally only listened to the greatest hits album, rap god, and a rhihana feat. That's everything I've heard so far from him.
If not the best, rap god certainly seems deserving to be among the best. IMO, of course.

wat.

Go listen to his first 3 (studio) albums.

 

[Piercedveil]

Encore was absolutely awful. Can't believe I spent money on that.

 

[Discotheque]

Blueprint 3 > Reasonable Doubt
Nastradamus > Ilmatic
Recovery > SSLP and Eminem Show

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Well this is awkward.

Taylor Swift hasn't had half the time that Em's had. Give her a few years, and she'll fall like everyone else.

 

[Alphahawk]

It's a sad album, if you think about it. On many song's he's notably slurring, which in 2004 we attributed to an artistic choice but now knowing how gone he was now you have to wonder...

 

[flippedb]

Mockingbird is pretty fly. Same with Toy Soldiers.

 

[Artemisia]

 

[b&jy77VjiKn$#F]

I find it pathetic that one would trust critic rather than having his/her own opinion.

 

[Tashi]

Can we all agree that Eminem is trash?

http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff483/ydna2003/ny.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]

You change your name Oozer?

 

[Romars202129]

wat.

Go listen to his first 3 (studio) albums.

Kinda plan on it, but I was going to get to the rest of the new album first.
But, on a serious note, I don't really get the emotional stuff, so for me, to my own personaly entertainment, eminem's better when he's being funny, [or darkly ironic?].
So... Toy Soldiers< Stan kinda thing for me.
That's kinda my experience.
But like I said, I haven't heard a track I didn't like yet.