Sam. wrote:Amaranthine wrote:Sam. wrote:It's a shame when people only see the fact that "Recovery" sold more in figures and call it his best works.It's undeniable that it sold more than Relapse but are these two albums his only work ? Definitely he is ignoring his older work.
I think you're confusing "best work" and "strongest work". The journalist used that wording for a reason. If he meant best, he would've said best. I think what he saw trying to say is that Recovery is his strongest album in terms of his mental state, in terms of Em being strong enough to overcome his 90 pill-a-day addiction [holy shit, by the way. I know we've all heard the numbers before, but it still blows me away that he's alive] and Em just generally being triumphant. It might not be what you think about Recovery, but I'd bet money that's what the journalist was thinking of when he wrote that.
Even then he is wrong to an extent ,Eminem was over a year sober when he did Relapse.Talking about mental state ,thinking from a Serial Killers point of view is not easy as we make it out.Relapse had moments that showed his strength as a writer,the deep multis and dope content can't be ignored.Relapse was done when he was close to recovering from his pill addiction and loss of Proof.He was strong enough that is why he was able to overcome the odds and make a comeback like that.Tell me if he wasn't at his strongest end ,could he come out of the whole drama that surrounded him at that time.
Recovery on the other end was Eminem acting all confident again with what he was doing.
Point taken.
That's actually pretty funny. I wonder what it does to you if you don't have schizo...
