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Eminem - Relapse (nya skivan)
Postat av isildur1 den 20 Maj 2009, 06:32
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Fetaste låtarna imo = Bagpipes from Baghdad/ Must be the Ganja
Den röda tråden på "Relapse" är föga överraskande drogmissbruket som verkar ha varit den främsta anledningen till att Eminem inte hörts av på snart fem år. Att lista antalet preparat i "Déjà vu" får inte plats i den här recensionen. Tack och lov låter han inte som den människotrasa som gömt nedåttjack i sina dvd-fodral och utvecklade en faiblesse för kombinationen rödvin och frukostflingor. Tvärtom. Dr Dres produktion går oftast i ett sävligt tempo som passar texterna perfekt, men som inte direkt bryter någon ny mark. "Relapse" är snarare ett glädjande friskhetstecken.
Source: Expressen
LACKS GROWTH AS AN ARTIST
I give this 2 stars, 1 star for Dre producing every track, but one and 1 star for Em's attempt to release a good album. Don't get me wrong Eminem is a great lyricist and has a way of making words rhyme that most people wouldn't think possible, but his rhymes lack content. You can only hear about his abusive mother, bashing celebrities, and murder so many times. Can he not come up with anything different? He's been gone for five years and still can't come with anything new? I expected at least one track dedicated to his best friend Proof that was shot back in 2006, but instead he provides a lame fantasy world to his listeners. I do think this is a better album than Encore, but that's not really saying much.
A thankfully good Eminem CD that erases the bad memories of Encore
Eminem first began his mainstream career with the release of his first LP, The Slim Shady, and it was a fast and furious CD mainly about the life of his fictional murdering alter ego, Slim Shady. The Marshall Mathers LP took this even further, bringing the angry lyrics to a slightly more personal level. I wasn't the biggest fan of this CD, though most regard it as a classic. Next came The Eminem Show, where he slowed his tempo down a bit but brought the CD almost entirely to focus on him and his life, and it was easily his most powerful work to date. How disappointing, then, that he followed it up with Encore, an almost entirely jokey CD focusing on juvenile lyrics and nearly completely lacking his complex rhymes and quick flow that we remembered him for. Many of the serious songs on it were just rehashed ideas from The Eminem Show.
After a long hiatus, Relapse arrives, a 1st half of reportedly a 2 CD effort, and I'm happy to report that it's a huge return to form for Eminem. While not perfect, I will say that this is a really good CD, with a nearly perfect second half that easily makes up for some iffy songs early on. It stands right up there with The Slim Shady LP and The Eminem Show.
Eminem speeds things up once again, with lyrics much more resembling those on his first 2 CD's with the more personal edge that made his 3rd CD so great. Like in Encore he does use some odd accents but this time (with a couple exceptions) they actually work really well with the music and don't get on my nerves as much as I thought they would.
The CD gets off to a great start with 3 AM, which clearly and immediately shows us that Slim Shady's returned to his evil ways as opposed to his role as the comic relief of the past 2 CD's. My Mom is a solid song, in which Eminem theorizes that his mom's drug use in the home was as damaging to his health as if she had crushed up her pills and fed them to him in his food. Things get a bit shaky with Insane and Hello, which, despite being somewhat lyrically great, are a bit immature. (Though Bagpipes from Baghdad is pretty good. Medicine Ball is okay. )
But then Same Song & Dance returns to form, which is another song more along the lines of the lines of '97 Bonnie and Clyde from Slim Shady LP. It's similarly dark and disturbing subject matter but a good song (though I really could have done without that Tonya skit,) and he continues with the catchy We Made You and then the CD just doesn't stop, with the rest of it being made of a collection of nearly perfect Eminem tracks. Stay Wide Awake, Must Be the Ganja, Deja Vu, Beautiful, and Underground are all perfect Eminem tracks. Old Time's Sake grew on me and Crack A Bottle's just a really fun song.
Dr. Dre, who produced each song on Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers, returns. Eminem produced The Eminem Show almost entirely himself, and Dre handled about half of Encore. Dre messed up with Encore, I thought, with the beats being mostly dull and lacking anything special. In my review of that CD I said I wished Eminem produced more of it himself. Thankfully, Dr. Dre steps it up here once again, so even songs that I didn't really like, such as Insane, at least sound great production-wise. Underground's got some of the best and most powerful production I've heard in a long time, as does Beautiful (the only song Eminem produced himself on here, giving it a very "The Eminem Show" sound.) This is a big step up for everyone involved.
My only complaints (aside from the aforementioned bad songs) are that I sort of wish there were a couple more "powerful" tracks on here. Underground and Beautiful are excellent, and are up there with greats like Till I Collapse from Eminem show, but I wished a couple more early on in the CD were this fierce and a bit less jokey. A couple more personal tracks like Beautiful, also, would have given this a bit more emotional weight. And I wish the CD wasn't programmed like Encore, where it put the songs where he features people as a "separate artist" away from the rest. What I mean is that when I put the CD into my computer and load the songs into my Itunes library, the two songs with guests end up in a different part of my library than the rest of the CD. (Because those aren't "Eminem" songs, they're "Eminem, Dr. Dre, and 50 Cent" songs. Ugh. And I can't seem to fix it.)
The Eminem Show remains Eminem's most powerful CD to date but this is easily his most consistently good. It's not perfect and occasionally the tone's a bit off but luckily this is only early on and not a problem for the entire CD. I can't wait to hear part two, and to put these together and see if we have Eminem's best work yet.
Better than i Thought it would be
Em's new Cd is really good i do not compare it to SSLP ot MMLP but it is way better than Encore. He keeps the catchy beats of that album but truly trumps that with the Lyrics it brings you back to the Lyrics of SSLP but are so much darker and even after 10 years in the rap game he proves to be the best mc alive. LOOKING FORWARD TO Relapse Vlm2
Source: Amazon
Tracklist
01) Dr. West (Skit) 01:29
02) 3am 05:20
03) My Mom 05:20
04) Insane 03:01
05) Bagpipes From Baghdad 04:43
06) Hello 04:08
07) Tonya (Skit) 00:43
08) Same Song & Dance 04:08
09) We Made You 04:30
10) Medicine Ball 03:57
11) Paul (Skit) 00:19
12) Stay Wide Awake 05:20
13) Old Time’s Sake f. Dr. Dre 04:35
14) Must Be The Ganja 04:03
15) Mr. Mathers 00:42
16) Deja Vu 04:43
17) Beautiful 06:32
18) Crack A Bottle f. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent 04:58
19) Steve Berman (Skit) 01:29
20) Underground/Ken Kaniff 06:19
Fetaste låtarna imo = Bagpipes from Baghdad/ Must be the Ganja
Den röda tråden på "Relapse" är föga överraskande drogmissbruket som verkar ha varit den främsta anledningen till att Eminem inte hörts av på snart fem år. Att lista antalet preparat i "Déjà vu" får inte plats i den här recensionen. Tack och lov låter han inte som den människotrasa som gömt nedåttjack i sina dvd-fodral och utvecklade en faiblesse för kombinationen rödvin och frukostflingor. Tvärtom. Dr Dres produktion går oftast i ett sävligt tempo som passar texterna perfekt, men som inte direkt bryter någon ny mark. "Relapse" är snarare ett glädjande friskhetstecken.
Source: Expressen
LACKS GROWTH AS AN ARTIST
I give this 2 stars, 1 star for Dre producing every track, but one and 1 star for Em's attempt to release a good album. Don't get me wrong Eminem is a great lyricist and has a way of making words rhyme that most people wouldn't think possible, but his rhymes lack content. You can only hear about his abusive mother, bashing celebrities, and murder so many times. Can he not come up with anything different? He's been gone for five years and still can't come with anything new? I expected at least one track dedicated to his best friend Proof that was shot back in 2006, but instead he provides a lame fantasy world to his listeners. I do think this is a better album than Encore, but that's not really saying much.
A thankfully good Eminem CD that erases the bad memories of Encore
Eminem first began his mainstream career with the release of his first LP, The Slim Shady, and it was a fast and furious CD mainly about the life of his fictional murdering alter ego, Slim Shady. The Marshall Mathers LP took this even further, bringing the angry lyrics to a slightly more personal level. I wasn't the biggest fan of this CD, though most regard it as a classic. Next came The Eminem Show, where he slowed his tempo down a bit but brought the CD almost entirely to focus on him and his life, and it was easily his most powerful work to date. How disappointing, then, that he followed it up with Encore, an almost entirely jokey CD focusing on juvenile lyrics and nearly completely lacking his complex rhymes and quick flow that we remembered him for. Many of the serious songs on it were just rehashed ideas from The Eminem Show.
After a long hiatus, Relapse arrives, a 1st half of reportedly a 2 CD effort, and I'm happy to report that it's a huge return to form for Eminem. While not perfect, I will say that this is a really good CD, with a nearly perfect second half that easily makes up for some iffy songs early on. It stands right up there with The Slim Shady LP and The Eminem Show.
Eminem speeds things up once again, with lyrics much more resembling those on his first 2 CD's with the more personal edge that made his 3rd CD so great. Like in Encore he does use some odd accents but this time (with a couple exceptions) they actually work really well with the music and don't get on my nerves as much as I thought they would.
The CD gets off to a great start with 3 AM, which clearly and immediately shows us that Slim Shady's returned to his evil ways as opposed to his role as the comic relief of the past 2 CD's. My Mom is a solid song, in which Eminem theorizes that his mom's drug use in the home was as damaging to his health as if she had crushed up her pills and fed them to him in his food. Things get a bit shaky with Insane and Hello, which, despite being somewhat lyrically great, are a bit immature. (Though Bagpipes from Baghdad is pretty good. Medicine Ball is okay. )
But then Same Song & Dance returns to form, which is another song more along the lines of the lines of '97 Bonnie and Clyde from Slim Shady LP. It's similarly dark and disturbing subject matter but a good song (though I really could have done without that Tonya skit,) and he continues with the catchy We Made You and then the CD just doesn't stop, with the rest of it being made of a collection of nearly perfect Eminem tracks. Stay Wide Awake, Must Be the Ganja, Deja Vu, Beautiful, and Underground are all perfect Eminem tracks. Old Time's Sake grew on me and Crack A Bottle's just a really fun song.
Dr. Dre, who produced each song on Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers, returns. Eminem produced The Eminem Show almost entirely himself, and Dre handled about half of Encore. Dre messed up with Encore, I thought, with the beats being mostly dull and lacking anything special. In my review of that CD I said I wished Eminem produced more of it himself. Thankfully, Dr. Dre steps it up here once again, so even songs that I didn't really like, such as Insane, at least sound great production-wise. Underground's got some of the best and most powerful production I've heard in a long time, as does Beautiful (the only song Eminem produced himself on here, giving it a very "The Eminem Show" sound.) This is a big step up for everyone involved.
My only complaints (aside from the aforementioned bad songs) are that I sort of wish there were a couple more "powerful" tracks on here. Underground and Beautiful are excellent, and are up there with greats like Till I Collapse from Eminem show, but I wished a couple more early on in the CD were this fierce and a bit less jokey. A couple more personal tracks like Beautiful, also, would have given this a bit more emotional weight. And I wish the CD wasn't programmed like Encore, where it put the songs where he features people as a "separate artist" away from the rest. What I mean is that when I put the CD into my computer and load the songs into my Itunes library, the two songs with guests end up in a different part of my library than the rest of the CD. (Because those aren't "Eminem" songs, they're "Eminem, Dr. Dre, and 50 Cent" songs. Ugh. And I can't seem to fix it.)
The Eminem Show remains Eminem's most powerful CD to date but this is easily his most consistently good. It's not perfect and occasionally the tone's a bit off but luckily this is only early on and not a problem for the entire CD. I can't wait to hear part two, and to put these together and see if we have Eminem's best work yet.
Better than i Thought it would be
Em's new Cd is really good i do not compare it to SSLP ot MMLP but it is way better than Encore. He keeps the catchy beats of that album but truly trumps that with the Lyrics it brings you back to the Lyrics of SSLP but are so much darker and even after 10 years in the rap game he proves to be the best mc alive. LOOKING FORWARD TO Relapse Vlm2
Source: Amazon
Tracklist
01) Dr. West (Skit) 01:29
02) 3am 05:20
03) My Mom 05:20
04) Insane 03:01
05) Bagpipes From Baghdad 04:43
06) Hello 04:08
07) Tonya (Skit) 00:43
08) Same Song & Dance 04:08
09) We Made You 04:30
10) Medicine Ball 03:57
11) Paul (Skit) 00:19
12) Stay Wide Awake 05:20
13) Old Time’s Sake f. Dr. Dre 04:35
14) Must Be The Ganja 04:03
15) Mr. Mathers 00:42
16) Deja Vu 04:43
17) Beautiful 06:32
18) Crack A Bottle f. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent 04:58
19) Steve Berman (Skit) 01:29
20) Underground/Ken Kaniff 06:19
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