The Almighty Nasquad said:
Me on the other hand, when I first heard "my name is", I was instantly liking it, it made me laugh, and rap music wasn't making me laugh at the time. Funny punch lines, clever word play, that type of lyricism draws me to an artist. I was a fan ever since, "Slim Shady LP" is my favorite Eminem album. What did you think of "The Real Slim Shady" when it came out?
It's funny you say that, because that's exactly why I hated Eminem at first. Because I thought he was, as Joe Pecsi says in Goodfellows, "he's a fucking clownshoe". The Real Slim Shady I didn't like either. I haven't liked ANY of his pop shit like those two songs or Without Me (though of his pop shit, this was the best) and ESPECIALLY NOT Just Lose It. I heard "The Way I Am" and I was like "hell yeah". I loved that song because it was so me. Just to give you an example of my tastes, here are my favorite songs from Em:
Soldier
Till I Collapse
White America
Cleaning Out My Closet
Like Toy Soldiers
Marshall Mathers
Kill You
Yellow Brick Road
Mockingbird
Who Knew?
Drug Ballad
Under The Influence
Sing For the Moment
We As Americans
Those are the ones I like most. Em songs that I'm not really fond of:
My Name is, Without Me, The Real Slim Shady, Just Lose it, Amityville, Remember Me, Drips, Rain Man, Big Weenie, Stan, Kim.
Also, the one thing I DID like about SSLP was "Guilty Conscience". That was a good song.
So other than SSLP, what songs on his other albums do YOU like?