Eminem Recovery [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) e6a 1966 and November 7

1966 and November 7

taking baby steps in new directions

as the group slowed their speed metal to a Black Sabbath-like crawl

which helps more than one might expect

THE JOKER is most interesting as a look at Miller in transition: it contains many of the elements that would go on to make him a superstar over the course of his next two releases

Eminem Recovery [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) e6a 1966 and November 7With Recovery, it becomes obvious that Eminem's richest albums aren't necessarily his most structurally sound, which isn't much of a surprise when considering the rapper's full on embrace of flaws and contradictions. This lean, mean, bipolar machine began life as Relapse 2, but when Shady decided he wasn't really Shady at the moment, and that he was no longer keen on Relapse or the last two albums, as he states on "Talkin' 2 Myself" it became Marshall