electroencephalogram wrote:It's funny looking back at people's reactions. People on the forum were calling it an instant classic when it came out, and then were saying it was trash a few months later. I'm sure people are going to like it even more after his next solo album is released.
I just listened to it after a while I think it is phenomenal. I didn't even release how his style changed from then to now (as I've been listening to BME a ton). I loved it at first and played it like crazy, but I think what happens to people is that they get too much of it and it's not interesting anymore. So you need to give it a rest for a while and re-listen to it with fresh ears to really appreciate it again.
It's just music people. You have no capacity to be objective about music whatsoever. I love seeing people give tons of seemingly "logical" reasons why something is either good or bad, when really they don't exist. You can rationalize anything.
Well, I never thought Recovery was good. Btw, I'm about to hops IN my Park Avenue, go out for a spin, and bump ''Encore.'' People critique that sole album very mindlessly and brashly without realizing that if ''We as Americans'' and ''Love You More'' replaced a couple of songs on Encore, then the general consensus would have blatantly different. Throw in ''You Don't Know'' or ''No Apologies'' then the album would blow Recovery out of the water.
The thing I love about that album was that it was still old Eminem. It was the last part of that chapter in his life.