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| 4 by Rolling Stone |
With The Eminem Show, Eminem just may have made the best rap-rock album in history. And that's not only because he reworks Aerosmith's "Dream On," on "Sing for the Moment." The Eminem Show is a hybrid... |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
He's playing the same old marshall vs shady real-or-fake game as usual and its as interesting and complex as it ever was. |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
Where The Marshall Mathers LP sounded like a primal howl of rage, The Eminem Show showcases an artist trying to make sense out of the chaos and turmoil in his personal and professional life. |
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| n/a by NME |
It's a third album that avoids all the pitfalls of third albums: introspective without being self-pitying, expansive in scope without being pompous, exploring new directions without disappearing up its own arse. |
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| n/a by www.dotmusic.com |
We've heard it all before, we know the punchline, we've bought into the joke, but still we want the delivery again and again. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
Beyond allowing peeks into his life, Eminem's other gambits are self-pity and self-mythologizing, and they aren't nearly as potent. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
This is mainly an improvement on a brilliant formula. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
"The Eminem Show" is not a great artistic step forward, but it reaffirms Eminem's stature as a talented and prescient pop star. |
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| n/a by www.cdnow.com |
The Eminem Show lacks the overwhelming, single-minded force that The Marshall Mathers LP had. |
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| n/a by www.culturedose.com |
With each successive album Eminem finds new depth and excitement within the same themes and structures he used way back on The Slim Shady LP, so even if new songs contain earmarks of Eminem classics, they still feel reinvigorated. |
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| n/a by www.splendidezine.com |
A thump-and-groove driven Cadillac ride down the shadowy streets of Motown. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
He often riffs for too long, so by the time he's singing to his daughter on "Hailie's Song," you feel the album's nearly 80-minute length. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
A disappointing combination of promising musical experimentation and uninspired lyrics. |
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| n/a by www.salon.com |
We're unlikely to hear another platinum-selling album in 2002 that sounds as tired and thoroughly played out as the fourth offering from the troubled young Marshall Mathers. |
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