Eminem's best album

[UofLCard]

I'm surprised how badly Eminem Show is beating MMLP here.

[Cheers]

I'm surprised how badly Eminem Show is beating MMLP here.

It's a much better album and generally by consensus considered his best album. Both are classics though.

[EminemBase]

Artistically - The Marshall Mathers LP.

Lyrically and Musically - The Eminem Show.

Overall = The Eminem Show.

[Kill You]

What EmBase said, though I'd tie SSLP with MMLP as well. As a whole album TES is his best, it's a very coherent body of work. Every tracks hits home.

[Cheers]

Artistically - The Marshall Mathers LP.

Lyrically and Musically - The Eminem Show.

Overall = The Eminem Show.

Artistically The Eminem Show is superior remember he did more production on The Eminem Show while he just produced half The MMLP compared to The Eminem which he produced almost the whole album and Artistically he did something experimental that he has never done made a whole song just singing. He also as far as being Artistic expressed himself on The Eminem Show like he has on no other album so i agree Lyrically and Musically The Eminem Show is better but it is also Artistically better if you look at the facts.

[Kill You]

His ideas were a lot bigger on MMLP...

[Cheers]

His ideas were a lot bigger on MMLP...

Not really he was personal on The Eminem Show it touched the listeners

[Kill You]

His ideas were a lot bigger on MMLP...

Not really he was personal on The Eminem Show it touched the listeners

I didn't say personal, I said IDEAS. His subject matter was complete social commentary. Mocking society. Artistically MMLP does beat TES. TES is still a better album though.

[Cheers]

His ideas were a lot bigger on MMLP...

Not really he was personal on The Eminem Show it touched the listeners

I didn't say personal, I said IDEAS. His subject matter was complete social commentary. Mocking society. Artistically MMLP does beat TES. TES is still a better album though.

There wasn't really any social commentry/conscious songs on The MMLP aside from Stan, The Way I Am, Who Knew making fun of society isn't hard to do if we talking creativity

[EminemBase]

Artistically - The Marshall Mathers LP.

Lyrically and Musically - The Eminem Show.

Overall = The Eminem Show.

Artistically The Eminem Show is superior remember he did more production on The Eminem Show while he just produced half The MMLP compared to The Eminem which he produced almost the whole album and Artistically he did something experimental that he has never done made a whole song just singing. He also as far as being Artistic expressed himself on The Eminem Show like he has on no other album so i agree Lyrically and Musically The Eminem Show is better but it is also Artistically better if you look at the facts.

I don't think The Eminem Show isn't superior artistically. Some of his targets and more valid, the themes are more cohesively covered; the song structures and subject-matter is all more committed, but just in terms of raw artistic qualities, and originality and a piece of work...

The Marshall Mathers LP is a reactionary masterpiece and it absolutely defines Eminem as an artist. The Eminem Show is a better album; it's more coherent, it's more cohesive and it's more ambitious MUSICALLY, but not artistically.

When I say musically, I mean that phrase to be all-encompassing so I am agreeing / saying that it is better in terms of hooks, production, musical scope, melodies etc.

However, The Marshall Mathers LP is conceptual brilliance. Running on the basic concept of "I am whatever you say I am" for the album's course; he flip-flops between reality and fiction; entertainment and fantasy, horror and drama, comedy and tragedy and it's the epitome of a dichotomy. Nothing else he's done comes close to its mixture of humour, balls, intelligence; persona indulgence... it's just, brilliance. Top to bottom.

The Eminem Show is an excellent album, and a classic, and I think his best.

But The Marshall Mathers LP is his masterpiece.

[Cheers]

You really like that fantasy music EminemBase? i don't get how you can like too much fantasy

[EminemBase]

You really like that fantasy music EminemBase? i don't get how you can like too much fantasy

Well it's not really fantasy music...

That's partially why The Marshall Mathers LP is so brilliant, because he treads that line so carefully. "Kim" for example is a fantasy in terms of its concept yet its execution is SO realistic and he's setting scenes in each verse, like a screenwriter in a movie... the dialogue is the lyrics and yet it's not... contrived; it sounds like you're 'listening in' to this event, it feels LIVE, even to this day.

And that's what makes the entire album so compelling; that style and that blur of macabre, humour, personal struggle and reality, personal fantasy... it's a complex blend and it's extremely well-done. And he pretty much tries to do it on all his albums to a degree but on none is it so well done than The Marshall Mathers LP, it's like a documentary of madness.

It's as realistic and down to earth as it is on another planet and psychotic.

I like compelling material. And The Marshall Mathers LP is compelling, and thrilling.

[Cheers]

Can't blame you for liking what you like homie it's your taste

[cooper121]

Lyrically MMLP is better
But i enjoy listening to eminem show more.

Its hard choice honestly lol.

I listen to both albums alot tho.

[Kill You]

You really like that fantasy music EminemBase? i don't get how you can like too much fantasy

Well it's not really fantasy music...

That's partially why The Marshall Mathers LP is so brilliant, because he treads that line so carefully. "Kim" for example is a fantasy in terms of its concept yet its execution is SO realistic and he's setting scenes in each verse, like a screenwriter in a movie... the dialogue is the lyrics and yet it's not... contrived; it sounds like you're 'listening in' to this event, it feels LIVE, even to this day.

And that's what makes the entire album so compelling; that style and that blur of macabre, humour, personal struggle and reality, personal fantasy... it's a complex blend and it's extremely well-done. And he pretty much tries to do it on all his albums to a degree but on none is it so well done than The Marshall Mathers LP, it's like a documentary of madness.

It's as realistic and down to earth as it is on another planet and psychotic.

I like compelling material. And The Marshall Mathers LP is compelling, and thrilling.

/Aftermathersdead