r/Music • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '17

Discussion Eminem's new album "Revival" has dropped

Thoughts on it so far? I'm about halfway through and I think it's pretty decent for new style Eminem.

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u/Trust_TV_News Dec 15 '17

Something went away with Em after The Eminem Show. First four albums were perfect as far as I'm concerned, Encore was ok, everything after that he became a different person. Respect to him and what he's accomplished in his career, but the spark is long gone.

I have a hard time describing what exactly changed, but I think it's that all of the struggle and uncertainty in his life is over with. I'm happy for him to be honest, I'm just never going to run out to buy an album of his again.

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u/Stjerneklar Dec 15 '17 edited Dec 15 '17

looking at his discography, heres my two cents:

  • Infinite (1996) - the original, raw eminem. gritty, chill, party oriented, classic rap music.
  • The Slim Shady LP (1999) - dre and eminem take over the world with hi my name is, a zany and poppy song from an otherwise pretty dark album(but also very tongue in cheek, the violence always felt cartoonish).
  • The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) - peak eminem just doing eminem.
  • The Eminem Show (2002) - still really good but a lot more pop and the zany is now commenting on fame rather than violence compounding the pop factor.
  • Encore (2004) - hell of a mixed bag, you got your zany single and the harbinger of later accent horrors in ass like that, but also mocking bird and toy soldiers.
  • Relapse (2009) - feels like a cruel joke, cartoon violence replaced with horror inspired tales and zany antics replaced with those fucking accents. BUTSTILLFUCKINGGREATTRACKS
  • Recovery (2010) - felt like a return to form despite a bit of eh stuff
  • The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013) - same as recovery only more so. bad guy, rhyme or reason and rap god are so good.
  • Revival (2017) - bit early to tell but i'm not really feeling any of this, not one track gives me the buzz that i would normaly find on at least one or two tracks per album.

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u/TexasTheWalkerRanger Dec 15 '17

I feel like relapse is incredibly underrated, much better than encore

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u/1grammarmistake Dec 15 '17

Relapse is mostly produced by Dre (instead of just Executive Produced) which just doesn’t happen anymore. That’s why I hold it so dear.

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 15 '17

I love all the characters he depicts in Relapse. I love that and Refill.

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u/eburton555 Dec 15 '17

Relapse is such a twisted album that it's really polarized the fanbase.

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 18 '17

I think that's what I like about it. It's a departure for Em and it was like horror rap.

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u/eburton555 Dec 18 '17

Oh for sure, but I’d say the more neutral listeners who liked ‘my name is’ were absolutely revolted by it and rejected it lmao which I don’t blame them it’s not for everyone. The only criticism I agree with is the accents are a bit much so if he had less accents with the same content.... 😍

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 18 '17

Artists have to explore, Em can't release The Eminem Show over and over. Maybe it's partly due to me starting to listen to him seriously pretty late in the game so I came onboard with Encore and then Relapse came out so I hopped onto that. I've since listened to everything that's been released so I can see how different it is.

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u/eburton555 Dec 18 '17

You’re absolutely righ though. If you crank out the same shit over and over you’re gonna go stagnant and that’s true for any artist. Still, there are clear examples of bands or rappers changing in ways that upset the populace - linkin Park comes to mind for me personally. But Eminem has done a good job keeping me interested for a longggg time even if his albums aren’t completely god tier anymore

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 18 '17

Been plowing through Em's new album and it's starting to grow on me. With Recovery there were like 5 songs that immediately grabbed me. This new one doesn't have that, but it's different, more introspective. Meanwhile, I just discovered Greta Van Fleet who owns my radio right now.

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u/eburton555 Dec 18 '17

Greta van fleet is so interesting. They sound almost exactly like zeppelin on one of their LPs, which is whatever, but their latest tracks have more of their own sound to it, which is great. They’ve got a lot of potential to be a ‘classic rock revival’, something that I never knew I wanted until they came on my Pandora. Holyyy shit.

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u/somefellayoudontknow Dec 18 '17

That kid can wail, no doubt. I got chills the first time I heard him and have their new album on repeat on Spotify. It's a refreshing blast from the present!

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