Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

What is the release date for this?

[thaima1shu]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

Aite, not gonna lie. This album is definitely growin on me.

Sweet. Just had to give it a chance!

What is the release date for this?

Today.

[bjf1377]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

Picked it up at Best Buy cause it was cheaper than iTunes (and after I rip it to iTunes I can always trade it in at The Exchange for some cash) and I'm very impressed. I was hesistant to get it at first but I'm glad I did cause I'm really liking some of the songs, and I'm a rock fan, so its rare for me to like more than a song or two off a rap album

[jb12780]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

Fire. First CD i've got in a while.

[BDKiiing]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

picked it up on the day it dropped, absolutely love every single track on it. Cinderella Man, 25 to Life, and Talkin' to Myself are my favorite songs by far, but unlike Relapse, there is no song on here that I can say I dont like. I put this as his 3rd best album, behind the Marshall Mathers LP and the Eminem Show

[marshallfever]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

Haven't listened to the entire album yet but i've heard around 6 songs or so and I to admit, i've taken a strong liken to Talkin' to Myself. Lie to me isn't bad as well and Cinderella Man has grown on me

[Hooe]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

So Pitchfork reviewed this album and gave it a 2 out of 10.

Like they normally are, Pitchfork is wrong.

[Gibbz]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

So Pitchfork reviewed this album and gave it a 2 out of 10.

Like they normally are, Pitchfork is wrong.

Wow, are you serious?

Not surprising seeing as music critics usually know nothing.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

So Pitchfork reviewed this album and gave it a 2 out of 10.

Like they normally are, Pitchfork is wrong.

That's surprising because pitchfork usually swoons over the big, mainstream rap releases and review the underground stuff harder.

[LingeringRegime]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

I would give it a 6/10. Maybe if you grade on a curve with the trash that is released now it would get a higher score. Can't stand the annoying singing, the beats don't do it for me either. His lyricism is the only thing that makes it bearable.

[bgeno]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

So Pitchfork reviewed this album and gave it a 2 out of 10.

Like they normally are, Pitchfork is wrong.

I read the review. It's very pretentious. The reviewer makes sure you know he's smarter than you are. Solipsism? Attenuated? Enervating? Does that vocabulary really belong in an album review?

And the review is really off-point, I think. He says he's not impressed with any of Em's lines/rhymes, but they're some of the most clever I've ever heard given that they occur over an entire album, not just a single song. And he says Em's verse doesn't fit with Wayne's in "No Love," but isn't this Em's song? Doesn't that mean Wayne's verse doesn't fit? lol... He clearly can't rap with the skill Em has.

[judgejudy]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

keep in mind, this is the same website that gave Drake's new album an 8.4....

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

I would give it a 6/10. Maybe if you grade on a curve with the trash that is released now it would get a higher score. Can't stand the annoying singing, the beats don't do it for me either. His lyricism is the only thing that makes it bearable.

My sentiments exactly.

[Hooe]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

keep in mind, this is the same website that gave Drake's new album an 8.4....

Yeah, generally I don't listening to anything Pitchfork says by rule, because most of the time if the reviewed album in question is by an artist anyone has ever heard something by and has the slightest bit of mainstream following then the album sucks.

This specific review though (which I saw while I was perusing Metacritic, btw) simply took the cake.

[Jano]

Re: Dear Eminem, Please oh please...

I loved it from beginning to end but I think this review on rapreviews.com was the best even though I don't 100% agree with the score he gave it.

to quote:

I've listened to this album a lot, much more than I planned to - that is because, pure and simply, it is enjoyable. Not perfect, not bulletproof, just enjoyable. Eminem is, arguably, still finding himself, perhaps even his voice. But this feels like HIM. For the first time, I listen to him on "Recovery" and don't feel like he's trying to hustle me; he seems to ask nothing of me, other than that I listen without prejudice, and give him another chance. He still sounds a touch lost, overcompensating with his flow and some weaker punchlines, but he looks to be steadying the ship. This will hold a bizarre position in his catalogue - "Recovery" is not his best, nor his worst, but either people will listen incessantly or barely at all. There is no middle ground.

He ended up giving the album a 7 out of 10 which I though was fair especially after reading the review.

I don't think its his best album production wise and maybe not even lyrically but for some reason its an album I love to listen to.

Every song from Cold Wind Blows to You're Never Over its just a fun listen and its an album I've been waiting for him to drop since Encore. So I guess that's why I like it a lot more then some because as a fan he gave exactly what I wanted.