Recovery is Very Fucking Good...

[Ice_Scarred]

I hate mainstream reviews of any rap albums. The reviewers never have a clue about the genre, it's ridiculous - they based their opinions purely on the beats/content. I still dont understand why Kanye's album is getting ridiculous reviews - it's got good production but NOTHING else.

I like Recovery but it lacks replay value to me. Plus it sounds so unnatural/forced compared to Relapse.

I see it the other way actually, when I hear Relapse it felt like he was just doing what everybody expected him to do, Relapse felt like Jimmy Iovine came in and said "Controversy sells marshall, diss some more pop stars and rap about murder or your fired"......... the whole album kinda had this "Why am I still doing this" vibe to it, even in his interviews he seemed un-intrested as fuck last year........

He recorded shit loads of tracks with Dre in 2008 after he got sober, before an album was even decided on, so I doubt he was forced to by Jimmy. We Made You obviously was but you could say that about his first 4 albums as well. It has it's desperate moments, without doubt but it seemed like he wanted to make it - his flows and rhymes just felt like Em. Not as good as prime-Em but felt natural.

He decided on the style of Recovery mainly due to the fans moaning about an accent. I also remember shit loads of rumours a few months after Relapse came out that Interscope had told Em that he needed to make more tracks like Beautiful (ie emotional) - this was before it was announced he'd scrapped Relapse 2. Might not be true but seems like a weird coincidence.

Not Afraid is one of the most un-Eminem like songs I've heard from him when he wasn't addicted.

At first I didn't think I would agree with you on this one....but your right. Recovery was a return-to-form thematically and musically to me....but did sound extremely forced at times. I agree...Relapse was a lot more natural in a sense. While I don't like it nearly as much as Recovery....i'm gonna have to agree with you there,

[goblue418]

youve realized what most of us realized the first day.

[Jimmy Conway]

meh

[Jimmy Conway]

Recovery made me appreciate Relapse a lot more.

This

I loved Recovery at first. But after the hype of a new album died down....it's just....meh. I just two songs off of Recovery. 25 to life and almost famous. I could listen to the majority of the Relapse session and enjoy it.

Weak ass beats and Em trying to please too much hurt the album.

[NicoleEM]

I liked most of Recovery from the first listen.The tracks i didn't liked then,i still dont like lol.Same goes for Relapse.But it feels like these 2 albums were kind of experimental .

Recoverys a step in the right direction. His next album will decide his legacy in my opinion.

I feel that way too for some reason.

[slimsoxshady]

he's not gonna have anything to rap about except for made up romances and how he can rap circles around everybody...thats why i think Recovery was the last great album we'll hear from Eminem...hope i'm wrong though

[Emadyville]

Man fuck yall, I've always thought Recovery was dope. And lyrically, it's his best album to date.

Imo not lyrically, TES has that for me, but I agree as well with embase's OP, fuckin been bumpin this since it leaked, always playing some songs off it and frankly there isn't one I dislike, really just a few I might not listen to as often.

[DarkSideOfEm]

Recovery is the real comeback album, IMO

[Mahmoud48]

Every CD critics gave it a 3, then 3
Years later, they'd go back and re-rate it
And call the Slim Shady LP the greatest
The Marshall Mathers was a classic
The Eminem Show was fantastic
Encore almost had it
Relapse was drastic
Recovery was a tragic

LMFAO jk
but the more album he puts out the better the old ones seem to be

I guess enough time just ain't passed, yet
A couple more years, all his shit'll be ill-matic

[pfati]

Recovery would be a great album if it didn't have tracks like W.T.P.(seriously a disgrace to listen to just on the content alone) and WBD. Those 2 songs felt like really bad fillers to me. When Eminem said he was wishing to make the perfect album, I seriously hope he didn't think Recovery is anywhere near it.

he had a really clean flow on WTP,,, i think it balanced the album out really well, i mean come on,,, i dont always like to listen to really emotional stuff when i listen to music u know

[professor]

WTP is a great song. Flow and wordplay on that track is ridiculous. Recovery needed a song like WTP and So Bad.

[Fa-Q]

WTP and WBD are amazing tracks.

WBD is...at least

[Jimmy Conway]

Recovery is good for a 8th studio effort. Usually when artists(especially rappers) get in the elderly years they suck. But....I still don't like it very much. It's just not good. Beats are really generic. Eminem sounds like someone going through writers block.

He's got so much material it's hard to hate though. There is always something to listen to. And if you sick of all the 8 millions songs he's made, then you listen to him way too much.

[embm4ever]

Its a classic

[Shady50]

Recovery is good for a 8th studio effort. Usually when artists(especially rappers) get in the elderly years they suck. But....I still don't like it very much. It's just not good. Beats are really generic. Eminem sounds like someone going through writers block.

He's got so much material it's hard to hate though. There is always something to listen to. And if you sick of all the 8 millions songs he's made, then you listen to him way too much.

I agree. Em has so many qualitiy songs that I never get tired of listening to him and I listen to him pretty much everyday.