EMINEM
REC
VERY
Tracks:
1 Cold Wind Blows
2 Talkin' 2 Myself feat. Kobe
3 On Fire
4 Won't Back Down feat. P!NK
5 W.T.P.
6 Going Through Changes
7 Not Afraid
8 Seduction
9 No Love feat. Lil Wayne
10 Space Bound
11 Cinderella Man
12 25 to Life
13 So Bad
14 Almost Famous
15 Love the Way You Lie feat. Rihanna
16 You're Never Over
Album Chart Positions:
#1 Ireland
#1 New Zealand
#1 Australia
#1 UK
#1 US
#1 Denmark
#1 Norway
Songs Chart Positions (US and UK):
US:
#7 Not Afraid
UK:
#6 Not Afraid
What The Critics Said
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83
Entertainment Weekly
Gratuitous nastiness is nothing new for Eminem, but if he really wants to prove something, he could try recording an entire album without any.
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80
Rolling Stone
Recovery is his most casual-sounding album in years, with odes to a "white-trash party" ("W.T.P.") and songs that hearken back to his freewheeling early records – rhymes as goofy and imaginative as they are violent and profane.
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75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
While the endless atonement metaphors threaten to make Recovery a maudlin affair, at moments like these ["Won't Back Down" and "No Love"], Eminem soars over his lowered expectations.
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70
RapReviews.com
This will hold a bizarre position in his catalogue--Recovery is not his best, nor his worst, but either people will listen incessantly or barely at all. There is no middle ground.
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70
BBC Music
A wide array of producers means that Recovery isn’t as consistent as Eminem’s best albums – his second and third – but there are significantly more highlights here than on either of his previous two.
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63
Los Angeles Times
Recovery is thwarted by similarly ill-fitting decisions.... The central salvation is Mather's enduring virtuosity. Throughout Recovery, he weaves dazzling internal patterns and clever word play.
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60
PopMatters
It is, finally, the comeback we figured he’d manage eventually, and if his newfound honesty and self-awareness becomes more pattern than anomaly, Recovery will be seen as a turning point in his career.
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60
The Guardian
Sadly, a piecemeal approach to production (Dr Dre has just one credit) leaves the album lacking an abiding mood and drowning in fashionable soft-rock samples.
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60
NOW Magazine
Two fundamental problems: he’s got an incredible amount of energy, raging away in the high-pitched voice that Eminem haters can’t stand, with little to say that he hasn’t already said before; and the beats are often middling.
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60
Sputnikmusic
This album is audible therapy, complete with several cuts of Eminem apologizing, taking responsibility for being a terrible rapper, and promising to get better.
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30
Slant Magazine
Much of Recovery centers around such themes as romantic devotion and anxiety, but the resulting material rings unsurprisingly hollow.
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30
Dot Music
Therein lies the danger of building an iconic persona on your current obsessions and an unerring belief in everyone else's interest in your thoughts. When it hits gold, it's magnetic; when judgement lapses, the convictions seem tired.
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28
Pitchfork
Out of all the depressing aspects of Recovery, the worst is the realization that for listeners the album takes the opposite arc-- the more he motors on about having reclaimed his passion for hip-hop and finally figured out who he is, the more draining the album becomes.
Average: 61. Pretty good
EMINEM & RIHANNA - "Love the Way You Lie" Worldwide Update:
#1 - New Zealand
#1 - U.S.
#2 - Australia
#2 - Canada
#2 - Ireland
#2 - Norway
#2 - U.K.
#4 - Switzerland
#6 - Austria
#6 - Luxembourg
#9 - México
#10 - France
#11 - Denmark
#11 - Germany
#11 - Sweden
#14 - Belgium
#14 - Japan
#23 - Italy
#31 - Greece
#37 - Netherlands
#44 - Spain
(Thanks to Alien & Rainbows!)
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