so far the only tracks i like are my mom, old times sake, and medicine ball

5/14/2009 8:32:31 PM

Same song and dance would be great if he just rapped, and quit with the stupid whatever fuckin accent he uses now. It's so annoying.


I WANT OLD SHADY

5/14/2009 9:21:39 PM

damn, stay wide awake is pretty crucial though

5/14/2009 9:25:45 PM

i really dont like Insane

or We made you.

5/15/2009 12:11:35 PM

bagpipes from baghdad is hands down my favorite.

i also enjoy hello, medicine ball, and old time's sake.

5/15/2009 1:09:32 PM

i do not enjoy this album

dude just doesn't have anything interesting to say

5/15/2009 1:32:18 PM

Quote :

"bagpipes from baghdad is hands down my favorite."

5/15/2009 1:49:38 PM

I wanted to hate this album, but I kinda like it.

5/15/2009 1:52:13 PM

must be the ganja isnt a bad song

it wouldve been a great song to smoke up to back in the day

I really dont like Hello or My Mom, I'll skip them just about every time they come up

I can listen to most of the other songs on the album though

5/15/2009 1:53:11 PM

2 bonus tracks just leaked

Careful what you wish for

and

My Darling


Careful what you wish for is crazy. its a serious song. starts off with like a news report about proof and obie trice getting shot, and how eminem has wen't into hiding. then the first verse he starts rapping about his career and all his albums.. he drops a really crazy line though

"encore just didnt have the caliber to match it, i guess enough time just ain't passed yet, a couple more years and that shit will be illmatic, and 8 years later i'm still at it"

i think he lost his mind on that, encore was terrible, it will not ever be illmatic. lol

pretty good song.


My darling is a little more dark. he raps back and forth with what is supposed to like the devil or something? it reminds me of those old dmx songs "DAMIEN".

[Edited on May 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM. Reason : .]

5/15/2009 2:32:04 PM

^I'm listening to that right now and thought the exact thing as that verse just passed.

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.7589/title.eminem-careful-what-you-wish-for

5/16/2009 11:25:48 PM

my friend popped this album in his car tonight and i was like why in the fuck is eminem putting on this wannabe jamaican accent and rapping with it

i fucking hate it and i wish he would stop doing that bullshit

i didn't know he's been doing that for some time now

i haven't listened to him since marshall mathers lp

5/17/2009 3:59:23 AM

not sure how "Deja Vu" isn't getting more love.

5/17/2009 2:58:33 PM

Must be the Ganja, Beautiful, Underground, Bagpipes from Baghdad, and Deja Vu are what I listen to.

I usually won't skip Hello, Same Song and Dance, or Old Time's Sake though.

5/17/2009 3:04:00 PM

yeah Deja Vu is probably my favorite track on the album



and the "accent" that ppl like to complain about isn't on every track of the album, its on a few diff parts at random times, but its not that bad. theres only a very select few where its blatantly obvious.

but people like to hate, so oh well

5/17/2009 5:46:54 PM

pitchfork's review of this (yes, i know, pitchfork sucks blah blah) is pretty spot on http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13034-relapse/

5/19/2009 12:43:41 PM

my mom and my darling, bagpipes from baghdad, stay wide awake, old times sake are the only songs i listen to now, the rest kinda suck- couple mix tapes came out recently with material i like more than this

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM. Reason : ^i hope thats on a 1-10 scale and not a 1-5 scale]

5/19/2009 12:45:36 PM

I actually enjoyed this album; after hearing that horse shit single "We Made You" I was prepared to dislike Relapse. I really like "Beautiful," and also the bonus track, "Careful what you wish for."

5/20/2009 11:57:32 PM

I give the album an 8.5/10 so far. Really good. I might bump it to a 9.

5/21/2009 12:15:21 AM

if i had to judge it i'd give it a solid 6

5/21/2009 12:19:10 AM

^^there goes credibility. Really, possibly a 9?? If this is a 9 to you, the Marshall Mathers LP better be a 16.

[Edited on May 21, 2009 at 7:47 AM. Reason : .]

5/21/2009 7:46:28 AM

yeah, the album is growing on me, but I wouldnt give it anything over at 7

5/21/2009 8:10:01 AM

http://allhiphop.com/stories/multimedia__music/archive/2009/05/21/21592300.aspx

not from the album but pretty funny

5/21/2009 6:03:30 PM

I'm not ready to compare it to Marshall Mathers LP or The Eminem Show, but I like this album for the most part. Picked up 2 weekends ago, first listen wasn't all that impressed with the lyrical content (he really doesn't have anything to say that is "new"), but damn if some of these songs didn't grow on me. Its getting steady rotation...

Same Song and Dance
Stay Wide Awake
Beautiful
Deja Vu
Bagpipes from Baghdad
Old Times Sake
Must be the Ganja

6/2/2009 9:00:30 PM

this is probably a 4 for me, maybe a 5. Really not enjoying it hardly at all. Theres probably 7 tracks that I enjoy listening to out of what, 20? Glad I didn't buy it. The first 2 singles were absolutely terrible, so even at a 4 I actually enjoy it more than I thought I would

6/2/2009 10:46:28 PM

^i agree with your ratio of good songs but it should be noted that 5 of those 20 tracks are skits. So 7 good songs out of 15 isn't too shabby for a major release that you know is going to have some "filler" and pop junk on it...just saying. I'd give it a higher score than a 4 though. 6.5-ish maybe. Point is I think its better than Encore, and better than average.

Eminem has so much potential, so it's hard to watch him make an album where he still is forcing this shock rap attitude. I know that's what made him blow up, but that stuff ("OMG can you believe he actually said that!!!111") isn't the reason that I listen to him.

6/3/2009 8:48:32 PM

Quote :

"I give the album an 8.5/10 so far. Really good. I might bump it to a 9."

OK, total flip-flop from previous post...

I'll give it a 6 after listening to it a few times. I personally think Bagpipes is his best song as well. I do like Beautiful, Medicine Ball, and Must Be the Ganja. Stay Wide Awake was pretty good too. I couldn't get with songs like My Mom, Hello, and Crack a Bottle (hate that song). Other than that, I don't really listen to it half the time.

6/3/2009 10:07:51 PM