 | Tracklist:
1. Dr. West
2. 3am
3. My Mom
4. Insane
5. Bagpipes from Baghdad
6. Hello
7. Tonya
8. Same Song & Dance
9. We Made You
10. Medicine Ball
11. Paul
12. Stay Wide Awake
13. Old Times Sake
14. Must Be the Ganja
15. Mr. Mathers
16. Deja Vu
17. Beautiful
18. Crack a Bottle
19. Steve Berman
20. Underground/Ken Kaniff
Release Date: 2009 | |
| | other reviews | Blswylde (4.5)
Eminem is back with a different, but outstanding album.... | sublimefan1991 (4.5)
Accent, schmaccent, this was Em at his straight up sickest in years, if not ever.... | Smevin Bravis (4)
Relapse shows Eminem at the top of his game once again. Brilliant rhymes, great beats, and he flat o... | HollywoodConstantine (3)
Relapse is a mature Slim Shady LP. It is not quite as entertaining as The Marshal Mathers LP and it... | Nihilum (3)
Relapse features an Eminem who can't decide with he's 36 or 26, can't decide if he wants to give a m... | Joe Schmoh (3)
Eminem is the most bipolar motherfucker of all time.... | Jayy (3)
Am I the ONLY one who likes this album?... | themindtrick (2.5)
Relapse - (n.) To regress after partial recovery from illness.... | BenjLaud (2.5)
An album that, for the most part, is not worthy to carry the 'Eminem' name... | Sam A. (1.5)
... | John Hyperbole Hanson STAFF (1)
It's about 10% as good as The Marshall Mathers LP, so how much did you enjoy that?... |
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5 of 5 thought this review was well written
There is nothing worse then watching a critically regarded and personally beloved TV show fall victim in its later seasons to mediocrity, characters that were once iconic in their representation of the high standards of what the show once meant now a hollow vehicle for poorly written dialogue and increasingly nonsensical, contradictory situations. The Simpsons may as well be dead.
Indeed, if the career of Eminem could be likened to an increasingly outdated animated sitcom Relapse would be somewhere around the overlong stretch to say... the fourteenth season. The clever writing of long ago has long been exhausted, everyone involved is clearly bored with what they are doing and fans have been claiming well into the earlier seasons that amongst countless re-runs the show had already lost its magic touch and sucked now. Oh well.
Yet somehow the project has been given the green light to continue on and will be begrudgingly hacked out despite the very conscious act of flogging a dead horse. Hell, Eminem once ruled the world and is still a big name in the business, if a few passable singles are conjured up after you count all CD sales, merchandise, radio slots etc there is an assured profit at the end of it all. If your critical acceptance has already reached an all-time low, why not scrape for the bottom of the barrel in the name of making a few more bucks while you can? Why not just sell your soul?
Everything that once made this show a force has been thrown to the winds. The satire used to be incredibly poignant, tragic and humorous all at once, affecting the listener in the best way possible. A dysfunctional world was painted through it's storytelling, often exaggerated for emphasis but cleverly written and still grounded enough in everyday life to provoke us and make us think. Sure, it didn't hit it's stride until a little bit later in the game and whilst the injection of pop culture references could be seen as cloying it was handled well and wasn't overbearing. It was a shock to the stagnant output of its era and worked on many levels, not just one. It is not a far stretch to say that in terms of consistency Relapse doesn't work on any level. Which is unfortunate.
Much like the depressing feeling you get watching Homer Simpson written into completely unfunny and irrelevant situations, Eminem's role on Relapse provides the same kind of hollow spectacle. Hints of the greatness that used to be threaten to break through at times, but it never quite does. Even on it's own merits nothing on Relapse stretches past mediocrity enough to warrant given this more then a single listen. It feels like slow death.
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lol this must be ridiculously bad... two 1.5 reviews in a row
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this gives a whole new perspective I see
don't worry I pos'd
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thanks man
lol this must be ridiculously bad... two 1.5 reviews in a row
oh man, you have no idea
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Good review i guess... leave Homer out of this though!
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I love Homer as much as anyone 
I honestly find it impossible to enjoy watching any of the characters in the later seasons of the Simpsons though. Album sort of reminded me of that, so I took the ball and ran with it.
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good review but I thought the album was decent
Digging: The Walkmen - Heaven | | |
mmm yeah just offering a personal opinion more then something concrete, it feels to me this isn't going to grow on me much though
| | | Album Rating: 3
Ive only listened once but I thought that the good songs (Beautiful was my fav) generally cancelled out the bad ones (Same Song & Dance was awful imo)
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each track had something I liked about it, still didn't do much to save it IMO
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I agree with everything aliw has been saying
| | | Album Rating: 3
Actual songs on this >>>> album filler + 99% of Encore
Digging: Kate Miller-Heidke - Nightflight | | |
I agree with everything aliw has been saying
If AliW1993 jumped off a cliff would you? I probably would he's a sexy lad :-D
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