Encore

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk 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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Product Description
Rap superstar Eminem returns with his fourth solo studio album, Encore. Includes the first, much publicised single "Just Lose It" and the politically charged "Mosh".

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Description
'Encore' is the fifth studio album from possibly one of thebiggest selling US rap stars ever. Produced once again by Eminem's mentor Dr. Dre, the album sticks with Dre's signature hip hop beats and Eminem's witty and sometimes controversial lyrics. The anti George Bush single 'Mosh' is also included.

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Customer reviews

review by: samboobe date: 2008-07-03 rating:
damn!
i only just ordered this album mainly because of a song i heard called rain man it had me in stiches so i listened to the rest of the album and it is one of the best albums ever

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review by: dynamitekid156 date: 2007-08-02 rating:
Oh, how the mighty fall.
When you're one of the greatest rapping talents of all time, producing brilliant album after brilliant album, it gets harder and harder to impress, to maintain your usual standards or even push them higher as you have before. Encore, Eminem's comeback album after a two-year absence and a prolific 2002, had a great deal of expectation thrust upon, partly because of his previous high standards and partly because of his time off. Eminem, for one reason or another, was not up to the task.

Encore feels in so many ways like a reaction to his previous peak, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and its follow up, The Eminem Show (2002). Whereas those two albums showed him reaching artistic maturity, Encore finds him revelling in the immature toilet humour that punctuated debut album The Slim Shady LP. Where his last album saw Eminem's production reach new heights as far as complexity, texture and originality, Encore is an album made of skeletal beats and piano, a very dry production throughout. And where his previous albums were bursting with wit and originality, Encore is predominantly medicore and devoid of ideas.

There's a long way to fall from genius, but Encore is far worse than we've come to expect even from Eminem at his worst. It's not all bad; the sample from the song of the same name on 'Like Toy Soldiers' is used to the full (check out its video to see a worryingly prescient storyline involving D12 member Proof); 'Crazy In Love' uses a similar sample from Heart, but its chipmunk-speed is a depressing rip off of Kanye West's treademark; both 'Just Lose It' and 'Ass Like That' are hilarious, and even if the former is somewhat of a retread of the funnier 'Without Me,' the latter features one of his greatest insults to date - 'Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.'

Unfortunately, the majority of the album is mediocre, below par, or simply bad. 'Mosh,' despite its often thrilling political rhymes, is a shameless rehash of the brilliant 'White America,' right down the melody being hummed at the end. 'My 1st Single' is his most immature song to date, punctuated by actual gas emissions from several orifices; and unlike on his first album, here it has none of the wit or guilty enjoyment. Meanwhile, the inclusion of 50 Cent anywhere on the album is a check against it thanks to his incoherent, worthless rhymes.

All in all, this is far worse than anything we could have expected Eminem to produce, even at his worst. Being his last studio album to date, aside from his Greatest Hits it more or less acts as his career's epitaph. Let's hope that elusive fifth album will let him sign off on a better note.

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review by: jbywong date: 2007-06-02 rating:
Ordinary Album with some stand-out tracks
Eminem is an amazingly talented rapper who (in my humble opinion) shows his talent much more when he's rapping about his past or when he's very serious. For example, compare one of his joke songs just lose it with loose yourself, one of his most serious songs. See what i mean? One is horribly pop, and the other one is one of the best rap songs ever written. Encore has more 'funny' songs that have no lyrical content than songs with lyrics that make sense.

2. Evil Deeds 5/10 doesnt show eminems skills at all
3. Yellow Brick Road 10/10 this song grows on you, at first i didnt like it but now it's my favourite song on encore
4. Like Toy Soldiers 9/10 Eminem talks about his beefs with other writers
5. Mosh 7/10 1st single of this album, but eminem isn't zach dela rocha, and he can't rap politically for his life
6. Puke 2/10 the song IS puke
7. my first single 0/10 even worse than puke
9. rain man 5/10 ordinary
10. big weenie 0/10 around as bad as my first single
12. just lose it 5/10 another ordinary 'funny pop' song by eminem
13. Ass like that 7/10 funny.
14. Mockingbird 8/10 everybodys favourite eminem song...not mine tho
15. Crazy in love 4/10 boring.
16. Encore 10/10 eminem, 50 cent, dr. dre-amazing finale

Eminem has matured, and you can easily see that from his serious songs such as encore, mockingbird, like toy soldiers, and yellow brick road, but his stupid filler songs spoil it all.

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review by: hip-hop-head date: 2006-12-12 rating:
Too Pop
This album can be summed up quickly and efficiently. As one of the top 3 rappers in history, Eminem always brings a nice flow alongside complex structures and multi's. However, since Infinite, The Slim Shady and Marshal Mathers LP's (his best albums to date in that order), his style has become pop both musically and (unfortunatley) often lyrically. On Encore this is the problem, the beats are predominantly weak, mostly fitting for children who tend to listen to the pop charts. His rapping, though still highly adequate and far better than the majority of other rappers, switches between too serious and too childish. I cannot help but think that if he applied himself properly to a set of strong hip-hop beats he could return to the form of Infinite, but he is consistently failing to do so and therefore has fallen off. There are so few genuinely talented rappers in the charts that Eminem is something of an enigma. On Encore he only manages to demonstrate a tiny sample of what he could have been if he hadn't turned so absurdly pop.

The reason that I give this album 3 stars is that Eminem still has amazing talent as a rapper, and if you can see past the beats and the subject matter then this is still very listenable to a fan of true lyricism.


review by: The King Of The UK date: 2006-08-02 rating:
Shady
This is the best Em album ever!!!!!!
It is great, i can't understand how people can't like it. Yes em does do an excessive amount of farts, but come on, lighten up!!!
The best 5 tracks are, in order:
1. Spend some time-10/10
2. Encore-10/10
3. Never Enough-10/10
4. Rain man-9/10
5. Mockingbird-9/10

This is great, Buy it

SSSSHHHHAAADDDYYY!!!!

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