You know what, Recovery might be his best album in a way.

[bozothe1]

I consider Eminem's 3 best albums to go like this:

TES>>>Relapse>Recovery

But recently after listening to Recovery about 5-10 times, I have come to the conclusion that I still haven't heard every word said in the songs. Every night I listen, every night I find some new wordplay or metaphor I didn't hear before. It feels like each song is 3 songs, our brain sees and apparently even when it hears a word instantly assumes what it is (example: Arocdnicg to rsceearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm. Tihs is buseace the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

And because of this the songs on Recovery are just really difficult to fully get in a few listens.. Maybe this album doesn't have the best lyrics, the best beats or the best flow. Yeah, I'd say it has none of those. But this album has something that also matters, and it's called cleverness. It's just a stroke of genius I would say. Have you guys ever heard an album like this that just seemingly takes forever to understand each song?

[RichardDiNozzo]

I consider Eminem's 3 best albums to go like this:

TES>>>Relapse>Recovery

MMLP>TES>SSLP>Recovery

[Fa-Q]

Relapse at number 2?...you must have started your collection at Eminem Show

[77o77]

I consider Eminem's 3 best albums to go like this:

TES>>>Relapse>Recovery

MMLP>TES>SSLP>Recovery

TES=MMLP>>RECOVERY>>>>RELAPSE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.>>> encore

[bozothe1]

Relapse at number 2?...you must have started your collection at Eminem Show

No I listened to all the albums I'm just not a sucker for MMLP/SSLP because a lot of the songs are not for me. They're the only Em albums I skip more than 1 track on, I'll put it that way.

It's not a work of Shakespeare but the wordplay and nearly triple meanings in songs is just impressive, that's all. It's not something you can listen to twice and get all the words and so on.

[MikeNUFC]

^Spot on.

People keep saying how good a line "Every word comes straight from the fishes ass, other word I'm a bass turd" is. But it's terrible.

Every word comes from the fishes ass? I get the pun, but it doesnt mean anything.

My favourite punchline on the album is

"I'm a lightning in a skillet, your a fucking flash in the plan" cus it works both ways and has a meaning behind it (he's great).

[Kez]

People keep saying how good a line "Every word comes straight from the fishes ass, other word I'm a bass turd" is. But it's terrible.

Yeah i was thinking about that the other day after listening to the song for a while. I didn't actually get what it means lol.

I do still think the album's full of good ones, but that one's kinda meh

[luquew]

TES>MMLP>SSLP>RECOVERY>RELAPSE>ENCORE

[Omar Khalid]

TES > MMLP > Recovry > Encore > Relapse > SSLP

[mh2k55]

1) The Eminem Show
2) Marshall Mathers LP
3) Recovery
4) Slim Shady LP
5) Relapse
6) Encore
7) Infinite

That's so hard to decide though as Relapse, Encore and even Infinite are fucking amazing!

Tbh I can't say there is one bad song that I don't like by Eminem, all have their own meaning and even different types of songs for different moods that you're in

I think Recovery will become a bigger album than most because it's more commercial and alot easier for some people to listen to, rather than hearing him go on about some of the crazy shit he's done in the past

[Appleman]

I'm very surprised at how man people are willing to put Relapse ahead of Encore. Of all of his albums, Relapse is the only one that I don't like, and it has very few good songs. Encore, on the other hand, has a lot of great tracks and only a few misses.

[mh2k55]

I'm very surprised at how man people are willing to put Relapse ahead of Encore. Of all of his albums, Relapse is the only one that I don't like, and it has very few good songs. Encore, on the other hand, has a lot of great tracks and only a few misses.

It was a tough decision to do put Relapse ahead of Encore 'cause Encore is amazing but they're both very different albums, I've always liked Eminem when he's at his darkest with his very aggressive/insane lyrics, which I think only The Marshall Mathers LP, Slim Shady LP and Relapse do.

As I said afterwards thought they're all fuckin' amazing so I shouldn't even have to have a order they're all number one!

[MikeNUFC]

Encore is amazing

No, it's not. It's terrible.

[Appleman]

Encore is amazing

No, it's not. It's terrible.

It is definitely not terrible, it has some bad songs for sure, but there are enough redeemable tracks to make it a great album, unlike Relapse in my opinion.

[MikeNUFC]

Encore is amazing

No, it's not. It's terrible.

It is definitely not terrible, it has some bad songs for sure, but there are enough redeemable tracks to make it a great album, unlike Relapse in my opinion.

What tracks are redeemable?

The only track with replay value is Yellow Brick Rd and even that's nothing special.