ANOTHER Encore thread

[MakaveliTheDon]

Reading that actually made me facepalm in many different ways.

[Berry]

DAMN HE MAD...

And Mosh is a powerful song I dunno why it's that hated...
Puke was fun.. the chorus is awesome

Agree bout my 1st single and big weenie

I like ass like that... not just lose it though

Honestly I enjoy Encore more than recovery... there i said it

Encore > Recovery?

That's blasphemous. I would go as far as saying that you're the only one on the entire forum that would say such a statement.

Exactly.

Encore should be erased from Em's catalog... Men in black style.

[MakaveliTheDon]

DAMN HE MAD...

And Mosh is a powerful song I dunno why it's that hated...
Puke was fun.. the chorus is awesome

Agree bout my 1st single and big weenie

I like ass like that... not just lose it though

Honestly I enjoy Encore more than recovery... there i said it

Encore > Recovery?

That's blasphemous. I would go as far as saying that you're the only one on the entire forum that would say such a statement.

Exactly.

Encore should be erased from Em's catalog... Men in black style.

But, how would we erase Encore from people's minds?

[classthe_king]

Have you ever seen Men in Black?

[MakaveliTheDon]

Parts of it.

Not really a movie guy.

[EminemInsider]

Evil Deeds = 2/10
Terrible flow, disorganized lyrics, horrible chorus.

Never Enough = 3/10
Innocuous enough but Eminem using the cliched "ay-zee" rhyme scheme throughout his entire verse is just sad. This is the all-time king of multis and intricate lyricism...he should have been able to freestyle this verse.

Yellow Brick Road = 4/10
Third verse has some good moments but it also doesn't entirely make sense. The singing in the second verse really mars this track...which could've actually been semi-decent. At least he gets SOME of the results you'd expect from a rapper of his caliber.


Like Toy Soldiers = 3/10
Gets some credit for putting a little bit of emotion into this song, which is rare on this album...but he can't buy a multi to save his life and shows the patented Ambienem paranoia. Monotonous, predictable flow.

Mosh = 3/10
The first two bars are nice. He struggles to keep going with it, clinging for dear life, but he can't. The flow is terrible...beat sucks. The fact that he did a politically-motivated song and said such generic anti-Bush things is embarrassing. "No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil"...ugh.

Puke = Negative-3/10
This is the most entertaining song on the album because of how bad it is. The puke sound effects are gross. The lyrics are hilariously awful. The singing is hilariously awful. It's an exercise in "how much can I possibly suck?"

My 1st Single = Negative-12/10
Worst beat ever conceived. The drums were made by banging a spring door stop and recording it. Repeats the awful lyrics at one point...I've listened a few times in utter amazement and that's still all I can really remember. Something about Buffalo soldiers stampeding and stuff...in a monotone as he nearly falls asleep from his 24th Ambien. I think I naturally block it out of my memory.

Ass Like That = Negative-8/10
Triumph-the-Insult-Comic-Dog = Cool. A song dedicated to him...if it were actually clever, a sober Eminem could ALMOST pull it off. ALMOST. Eminem doing a shitty impression of him = *CRINGE*. "Hip hawp" card revoked.

Big Weenie = Negative-58/10
The title alone gives him about 15 negative points or so. I've listened to this...3 or 4 times, maybe. I remember something about performing an experiment in a corny, embarrassing voice...and token embarrassing Encore jibberish. Horrible lyrics, horrible flow...he basically retroactively lost the battle with Benzino with this, I think.

Just Lose It = Negative-109/10
The single most embarrassing song of his career. The beat, "ah ah ah ah ah," the singing, the insulting reference to Lose Yourself/8 Mile (Ambienem deserved the death penalty for mentioning that in this song)...and all the other annoying shit he does on there just makes me want to vomit. This is the song where I have a hard time not dissolving my fan-ship. It's one of those things where you're not only embarrassed for him...you're embarrassed to be associated with him in any way. What if my friends see this? They know I like Eminem...this is a reflection on ME...and I want to kill myself now.

Rain Man = 2/10
Put put in a man's butt butt. Something like that? This is more laid back shittiness, though...kind of a "cool breeze" sort of suck...so it's not as offensive as the others. Still shitty...especially useless when surrounded by utter shit. Put this on a good album and it's just a change-of-pace that you don't mind too much. But on an album full of shit, every track that isn't GOOD is a waste of a spot.

Spend Some Time = 5/10
Eminem's verse was actually interesting...he sounds like he might drop dead tomorrow from the pills, but he manages to do something halfway intriguing within the "bitches and hoes" spectrum. The dead voice actually kind of adds to the emotional effect of what he's saying in a strange way, too. The multis are pretty forced in parts but at least they're obviously there...even if the syllables aren't properly aligned half the time. The other rappers, on the other hand, are obvious trash and make the song as a whole pretty useless because there's only one listenable verse on it.

Mockingbird = Negative-247/10
What makes this song so bad is he was TRYING on this one. He wanted to make a great song about something that he actually cared about at that time. And yet he basically rapped something in prose...it was like he'd go 8 bars in a row without a single rhyme...and the bars that did have rhymes at the end would be some sort of embarrassing force like "everything always happens for a rea-sennnnnnn." The chorus is God awful singing.

Crazy In Love = 3/10
Second verse has its moments of nearly semi-decent. First verse is trash. The delivery is stupid and useless. His transition to the Heart sample chorus is a "WTF?" moment...it's bizarre and scary.

One Shot 2 Shot = 0/10
Complete crap. Useless. Eminem's verse sucks. Chorus sucks. D12 was sensitive to Eminem's condition and decided not to murder him on his own shit, so they all popped some Ambiens and sucked, too.

Encore = 5/10
Beat is great. Eminem must have found a sheet of paper with some old lyrics from when he was sober to use for a little of what he and Dre rapped in the middle of this (the "popular consensus/fresh cut grass" bars and stuff). But "get it krunk" and "get yo ass up for the docta" badly mars this track.

We As Americans = 5/10
Has a few good bars but mostly mediocre. This was the first song that alerted me (when it leaked in 2003) to Eminem not quite being on his game.

Love You More = 3/10
There's a flash of brilliance in the 3rd verse of this. The rest is needless repetitive sexual vulgarity in what he obviously intended as a serious song.

Ricky Ticky Toc = 1/10
Blehhhhhhhh. They study us so they can buddy buddy us. Nuff said.


Total score :

Negative-437/190 (39 total positive points)

Holy Hyperbole, that´s silly. Seriously.

The negative ratings were a joke...KIND OF.

But no, the album IS that horrible. It's not "silly."

[forgot_about_matt]

My version of Encore:


This is the official album cover.

1. Evil Deeds
2. How Come (feat. D12)
3. No Apologies
4. Never Enough (feat. Nate Dogg & 50 Cent)
5. Yellow Brick Road
6. Shake That (feat. Nate Dogg)
7. Like Toy Soldiers
8. Mosh
9. Puke
10. Stimulate
11. Spend Some Time (feat. Obie Trice)
12. We As Americans
13. Mockingbird
14. Love You More
15. When I'm Gone

Changes in songs:
- "How Come" is obviously not on D12 World
- No burp sound in "Yellow Brick Road"
- No vomiting intro/outro sounds in "Puke"
- No Stat Quo or 50 Cent verses in "Spend Some Time"
- "We As Americans" is completely uncensored

[OMEGA]

Those changes alone would have made of Encore a great album. Em, what were you thinking?

[Brood]

My version of Encore:


This is the official album cover.

1. Evil Deeds
2. How Come (feat. D12)
3. No Apologies
4. Never Enough (feat. Nate Dogg & 50 Cent)
5. Yellow Brick Road
6. Shake That (feat. Nate Dogg)
7. Like Toy Soldiers
8. Mosh
9. Puke
10. Stimulate
11. Spend Some Time (feat. Obie Trice)
12. We As Americans
13. Mockingbird
14. Love You More
15. When I'm Gone

Changes in songs:
- "How Come" is obviously not on D12 World
- No burp sound in "Yellow Brick Road"
- No vomiting intro/outro sounds in "Puke"
- No Stat Quo or 50 Cent verses in "Spend Some Time"
- "We As Americans" is completely uncensored

Those are excellent additions/changes

[forgot_about_matt]

My version of Encore:


This is the official album cover.

1. Evil Deeds
2. How Come (feat. D12)
3. No Apologies
4. Never Enough (feat. Nate Dogg & 50 Cent)
5. Yellow Brick Road
6. Shake That (feat. Nate Dogg)
7. Like Toy Soldiers
8. Mosh
9. Puke
10. Stimulate
11. Spend Some Time (feat. Obie Trice)
12. We As Americans
13. Mockingbird
14. Love You More
15. When I'm Gone

Changes in songs:
- "How Come" is obviously not on D12 World
- No burp sound in "Yellow Brick Road"
- No vomiting intro/outro sounds in "Puke"
- No Stat Quo or 50 Cent verses in "Spend Some Time"
- "We As Americans" is completely uncensored

Those are excellent additions/changes

Thank you! I thought so, too!

[forgot_about_matt]

Yeah, I'm halfway through my version of the album, and I think it would have been a classic that, while not better than The MMLP and TES, certainly would deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Em really should have used this tracklist, or at least got rid of all the silly shit that he ended up throwing on the album. I even like "Rain Man" and "Big Weenie", but that's mixtape shit. C'mon, son.