After Hearing Recovery I Listened to TES Again...

[Bistnal]

I made a quick comparison song by song (in order), and seriously, Recovery stumps over TES, and I fucking love TES:

White America vs Cold Wind Blows: WA
Business vs Talkin' To Myself: TtM
Cleanin' Out My Closet vs On Fire: CoMC
Square Dance vs WTP: WTP
Soldier vs Going Through Changes: GTC
Say Goodbye Hollywood vs Not Afraid: NA
Drips vs Seduction: Seduction
Without Me vs No Love: NL
Sing for the Moment vs Spacebound: Tie
Superman vs Cinderella Man: CM
Hailie's Song vs 25 to Life: 25
When The Music Stops vs So Bad: SB
Say What You Say vs Almost Famous: AF
Till I Collapse vs Love the Way you Lie: TiC
My Dad's gone Crazy vs You are Never Over: YANO

Sure, comparing some songs with others is like apples to oranges, but still, Recovery feels better balanced and, like I said before, almost filler free.

Guess we have very diff. opinions, cause this is how I'd rate it:

White America vs Cold Wind Blows: WA
Business vs Talkin' To Myself: TtM
Cleanin' Out My Closet vs On Fire: CoMC
Square Dance vs WTP: Square Dance
Soldier vs Going Through Changes: GTC
Say Goodbye Hollywood vs Not Afraid: Say Goodbye Hollywood
Drips vs Seduction: Seduction
Without Me vs No Love: NL
Sing for the Moment vs Spacebound: Sing for the Moment (one of my all time favorite songs ever)
Superman vs Cinderella Man: CM
Hailie's Song vs 25 to Life: 25
When The Music Stops vs So Bad: When the Music Stops
Say What You Say vs Almost Famous: AF
Till I Collapse vs Love the Way you Lie: TiC
My Dad's gone Crazy vs You are Never Over: YANO
So it's 8:7 Recovery
That's weird, I didn't think it'd be that close actually. I guess nostalgia does have a big part of it. TES was the album that got me into Em so maybe that's why I'd still prefer it a bit over Recovery.

[OneFallsRich]

I made a quick comparison song by song (in order), and seriously, Recovery stumps over TES, and I fucking love TES:

White America vs Cold Wind Blows: WA
Business vs Talkin' To Myself: TtM
Cleanin' Out My Closet vs On Fire: CoMC
Square Dance vs WTP: WTP
Soldier vs Going Through Changes: GTC
Say Goodbye Hollywood vs Not Afraid: NA
Drips vs Seduction: Seduction
Without Me vs No Love: NL
Sing for the Moment vs Spacebound: Tie
Superman vs Cinderella Man: CM
Hailie's Song vs 25 to Life: 25
When The Music Stops vs So Bad: SB
Say What You Say vs Almost Famous: AF
Till I Collapse vs Love the Way you Lie: TiC
My Dad's gone Crazy vs You are Never Over: YANO

Sure, comparing some songs with others is like apples to oranges, but still, Recovery feels better balanced and, like I said before, almost filler free.

Guess we have very diff. opinions, cause this is how I'd rate it:

White America vs Cold Wind Blows: WA
Business vs Talkin' To Myself: TtM
Cleanin' Out My Closet vs On Fire: CoMC
Square Dance vs WTP: Square Dance
Soldier vs Going Through Changes: GTC
Say Goodbye Hollywood vs Not Afraid: Say Goodbye Hollywood
Drips vs Seduction: Seduction
Without Me vs No Love: NL
Sing for the Moment vs Spacebound: Sing for the Moment (one of my all time favorite songs ever)
Superman vs Cinderella Man: CM
Hailie's Song vs 25 to Life: 25
When The Music Stops vs So Bad: When the Music Stops
Say What You Say vs Almost Famous: AF
Till I Collapse vs Love the Way you Lie: TiC
My Dad's gone Crazy vs You are Never Over: YANO
So it's 8:7 Recovery
That's weird, I didn't think it'd be that close actually. I guess nostalgia does have a big part of it. TES was the album that got me into Em so maybe that's why I'd still prefer it a bit over Recovery.

White America vs Cold Wind Blows: WA
Business vs Talkin' To Myself: TTM
Cleanin' Out My Closet vs On Fire: COMC
Square Dance vs WTP: SD
Soldier vs Going Through Changes: Soldier
Say Goodbye Hollywood vs Not Afraid: SGH
Drips vs Seduction: both
Without Me vs No Love: WM
Sing for the Moment vs Spacebound: SFTM
Superman vs Cinderella Man: both
Hailie's Song vs 25 to Life: both
When The Music Stops vs So Bad: SB
Say What You Say vs Almost Famous: AF
Till I Collapse vs Love the Way you Lie: TIC
My Dad's gone Crazy vs You are Never Over: YANO

TES-Rec 11:7

[Norway kills]

When talking about mainstreamness, I'd say that Recovery is most mainstream, but The Eminem Show felt most mainstream because of the difference between MMLP and TES.

[EM-DZ]

TES =9.75
Recovery = 9.5 cuz new producers + new beats
SSLP+MMLP+RCVR+TES=

[GEMATRIA12]

Recovery is a good album but it's no where near as good as TES or MMLP. I don't care how many times he can rhyme in a line or how fast he can spit, that takes skill and I enjoy it, but that's not what makes a song good at all. Recovery is better than Relapse but it still doesn't feel like Eminem. He just doesn't have anything else left to say... At least it seems like.

I've been saying this for a year now. "It just means so much more to so much more people when you rap and you know what for"

What did Em really say on Recovery. The album is dope as fuck especially compared to Relapse and Refill but it doesn't have shit on TES or MMLP. Those will never be matched. His wit, creativity and skill was at an all time high; his prime. Those records had heart. Recovery is like a big summer action movie sequal. (Transformers 2, Iron Man 2) It's just missing something. It's missing a story and a reason. There's glimpses of Em but it still doesn't feel like Em all the way through.

EXACTLY!!

u said it perfectly.

[GenePeer]

SSLP+MMLP+RCVR+TES=

Finally a good post. Why do y'all want to compare which one's better? What matters is if Recovery is good that's all. Not if it's good as TES, come on.

[walend]

you have to start a new topipc for this, it's your opinion, just share in the OFFICIAL recovery discuss tread please, it's annoying for user who don't come often to see a bunch of new topics wich are pointless....

no hate,

[Drucifer]

I think the younger Em fans will like Recvoery more than TES and MMLP but the older Em fans are like

Not Necessarily, I been into Em since the begining, and not because of My Name is, I aint even like that, I read a review of the SSLP in blaze magazine and they talked about "97 Bonnie and Clyde", I read about it and was like "I have to hear this song", lol........Been on board ever since

MMLP is his untouchable, but I kinda think recovery is better then TES at the moment, too many silly joints on TES, Without Me/Business/Drips/My Dads gone crazy, I rarely play any of them anymore, so far cant find a definite skip track on Recovery.......But, on the flipside, Sing for the moment and Cleaning out my closet I think are better then anything on Recovery, so its debatable......

[Eminem4Life1006]

TES is definitely better then Recovery, don't care though this album and his first 3 will always be classics in my eyes .

[Trimss]

I guess TES has something that recovery doesn't.. Maybe i can call it Nostalgia..

[RealSickLindley]

I think it's normal to think it sounds like em over other artists beats, they're new to us, they mayswell be. I adore ES, IMO it's ems classic. But i put recovery over it. It has everything his CD's missed before, with all their strengths.

[Drucifer]

I think it's normal to think it sounds like em over other artists beats, they're new to us, they mayswell be. I adore ES, IMO it's ems classic. But i put recovery over it. It has everything his CD's missed before, with all their strengths.

Thats basically how I feel, same amount of emotion without the Silliness that came with it

MMLP - 5 stars
REC- 4.5
TES= 4
SSLP -4
RELA= 3.5
ENC - 3

Thats how I rate them right now

[dR3]

So far for me it's
TES
Recovery
MMLP

[kindafeelslikedejavu]

Recovery is a great album.. but was anyone actually expecting it to be on par with The Eminem Show after hearing Relapse? This album is way better than Relapse in my opinion but still falls short of TES and MMLP.

1. TES
2. MMLP
3. Recovery
4. SSLP
5. Infinite
6. Relapse
7. Encore

[Nahidul17]

The Eminem Show
Marshall Mathers LP
Recovery
Infinite
Slim Shady LP
Encore
Relapse