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Encore by: Eminem

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Publisher: Polydor Group
Release date: 12th November, 2004
Media: Audio CD

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Track List

• (Curtains Up - Encore version)
• Evil Deeds
• Never Enough
• Yellow Brick Road
• Like Toy Soldiers
• Mosh
• Puke
• My 1st Single
• Paul (skit)
• Rain Man
• Big Weenie
• Em Calls Paul (skit)
• Just Lose It
• Ass Like That
• Spend Some Time
• Mockingbird
• Crazy In Love
• One Shot 2 Shot
• Final Thought (skit)
• Encore/Curtains Down

Editorial Review

Marshall Mathers has always delighted in confounding expectations, so we should have guessed he'd respond to the title Most Important Artist Of His Generation with Encore – an album peppered with puerile humour, myriad references to his past career, and plenty of farts, burps and vomiting. Thankfully, even Slim Shady on a bad day can be a fairly mighty proposition: the seething "Mosh" is a rare moment of high seriousness--a trudging anti-Bush epic in the vein of "White America" that positively vibrates with bile – while the skittery "My 1st Single" proves that Mathers can be engaging even when he's rapping about basically nothing.

The key to understanding Encore is through its pursuit of sheer offensiveness for offence's sake, be it the comic accent on "Ass Like That", or the relentless gay jibes of "Rain Man" – all of which seem to be more about prodding the hornet's nest of controversy that any genuine prejudice. Still, it's occasionally hard to escape that there's a certain weariness to Em's delivery, an impression that sometimes extends to the arrangements – see "Like Toy Soldiers", a jaundiced account of rap feuding, rendered unnecessarily corny by a sample of "Toy Soldiers" by '80s two-hit wonder Martika. --Louis Pattison

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Rating: - encore eminem album

my sister has been bugging everyone to get her this great album, so i got her it for christmas to get her off our backs, and as she doesnt have much music taste she needs it.

Rating: - Encore

I dont think people should think this album is bad. Although it is not as good as the eminem show which is easly his best whats bad about not being as good maybe we expect a high standard and this album is and can be looked upon as a great rap album which is very entertaining

Rating: - Encore? - Not again please!

One of the greatest fell off. That's what the sound of this offering tells us. 'Mosh' is reasonable and 'Never Enough' is quite good and that's it, seriously that's it. The rest is ridiculous peurile nonsense that Eminem has got away with before because it was funny but not any more.

What's wierd is that around this time he guested on 'We Aint' on 'The Documentary' from The Game and 'Gatman and Robbin' on 'The Massacre' by 50 cent and blew them both away, yet his own stuff is this paltry.

Only once have I ever felt this let down by an idol, that was when Prince Naseem Hamed decided not to make a decent comeback after being taught a lesson by Barrera. The difference here is that Eminem has done this to himself.

Rating: - It's OK.... Nothing special

This isn't really a bad album it's just not that good. Overly silly and not really edgy enough to MEAN anything. If you are new to Eminem buy any of the albums, they're much better. If you're a fan get this, there are some good tracks.

Rating: - Where did it go so wrong?!

I cannot, nor will I ever manage to comprehend how an artist of Eminem's supreme quality manage to create an album as poor as this. His first three albums are simply excellent, some of the best examples of Hip-Hop, period. They are touching, insightful and inpirational. They are brilliant.
So, how... how in God's name did he ever release this pile of absolute garbage? The only explanation I can come up with is that the drug problem (i believe) he was dealing with at the time severely affected his work. It is like Van Gogh or Da Vinci scribbling onto a dirty scrap of paper with a crayon, it is just shocking. The songs have no real meaning and they do not 'touch' you. The only decent tunes on here are 'Encore' and 'Never Enough'. To write an in-depth review of this album I would have to listen to it again, and I am not going to do that! When he was childish before, he was clever with it. On this album, it really is as though a careless child has been let-loose in the recording studio. And not even a talented child at that!
Avoid this album like the plague, it will ruin your (jusified) opinion of Eminem as one of the best rappers ever (along with Tupac and Jay-Z). Listen to his first three which are excellent, so much better than this it is untrue. Polar opposites.
I just hope that his upcoming album is a return to form, although based on the evidence of its' debut single it would not appear to be. Let's hope that I am wrong, because I would like nothing more than to hear another 'proper' Eminem album; one that helps to erase the memory of this waste of my money, my time and helps to restore his reputation!
How fans could rate this highly I do not know! How?!

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