Product Description

First best-of compilation from one of the most successful rap artists of all time. Eminem's strength has always lain inhis bitingly funny and often pensive lyrical content and his astonishing verbal dexterity. This release pulls together all his top tracks and also boasts two brand new tunes including the single 'When I'm Gone'.

Track Listing

1. Intro/ Eminem/ Curtain Call
2. FACK
3. The Way I Am
4. My Name Is
5. Stan - Eminem, Dido
6. Lose Yourself
7. Shake That - Eminem, Nate Dogg
8. Sing For The Moment
9. Without Me
10. Like Toy Soldiers
11. The Real Slim Shady
12. Mockingbird
13. Guilty Conscience - Eminem, Dr. Dre
14. Cleanin' Out My Closet
15. Just Lose It
16. When I'm Gone
17. Stan - Eminem, Elton John

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2266 in Music
• Released on: 2005-12-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 78 minutes

Customer Reviews

WHEN IM GONE REMEMBER THIS
Eminem is my favirute singer ever and this is one of my faviruta albums all the wicked songs dudes,Came out on my birthday as well im a p.i.m.p one bad thing though wheres ass like that because i love that song

Almost all killer, but some filler
In many respects I wish that Eminem rapped in a language I didn't understand...

Eight years, more controversy than JFK, and here we are. End of the line. Released for the pre Christmas gasp, yet in the post Christmas cigarette break, "Curtain Call" is... pretty darn good. No doubt it pleases the fans and bookend's Eminem's prolific career with a cash cow, but, but... BUT...

Firstly, of the three new songs they're almost all absolute rubbish. "Fack" is the immature ramblings of a grown millionaire going "oooooh Girls!". I wouldn't even think drivel like this, let alone release it. But then again, it's all about The T & The A.

...."I wanna facking fack
No, not f**k
I said fack
F A C K F A C K
fack fack fack facking freak me"....

Voice of a generation, there, kids. All you need is love.

"Shake That" is a Nate Dogg song with Eminem guesting at the odd point. Basically filler. And there's no space for filler on a best of. None. Joe Strummer was right, again. There's no space for hesitation, procrastination, timewastin'. A record is a military assault : use the time well or not at all.

But what about the rest? Well, it's almost all killer. In many respects I wish that Eminem rapped in a language I didn't understand. Then I could marvel at his rhythmic and aural dexterity and sonic eloquence. Instead I listen to him making juvenile rubbish about Facking, and abusing his talents as a wordsmith. The words, when he's not held hostage by his libido are fantastic : devastating the hypocrisy of The First World with an accuracy rarely seen. With a righteous fury not unleashed sine the golden years of Public Enemy when they were a weapon of mass destruction.

And then he writes about killing his wife, chopping her up, and burying her at sea. Give 'em enough rope. But aside from this, Eminem is without doubt probably the best high profile rapper in the world right now. A furious and eloquent political commentator on the dying days of a corrupt empire. The way he uncurls words like a machine gun, with the jibber jabber pitter patter of an AK-47, the words sitting on top of rhythms that sound like illadvised hiphop remixes of Martika, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin but expose the other thing I despise about modern hiphoprnbrap - the inability to write anything original.

I know. But hear this out. The memorable bits from these songs, the bits we sing, are taken from well known rock standards like "Dream On", "Toy Soldiers", that one by Dido, or - in the case of a morally and artistically bankrupt vampire - the entire of a Police song.

All I need to be a rapper is the Dub mix of New Order's "Blue Monday", splice up the beats a little, and yell about "chicks on my d**k they loving my wit you know I cant stop git gotta admit at the bar or the car feel like a star my fingers on her I'm above par her number one private porno star this is a hit she's my number one we be having fun.."

I just wrote a number one. Worked for Slim Shady anyway. All I got to do now is be dead for a decade, and the charts'll be my pigtailed gin n juice beatch.

Does what it says on the tin...
I've seen a few reviews here complaining that this CD only includes Eminem's 'pop' output and doesn't showcase his (in their opinion) best work. I'd like to draw their attention to the subtitle- "The Hits". This is a CD of Eminem's hits. 'Pop' is short for popular. Popular things become hits. Do you see where I'm going with this? If the subtitle were "The Best Of" I would understand. But it isn't.

If you like Eminem's hits then you'll like this. I do, and I do.

If you have trouble understanding what "hits" means, then buy a dictionary. :)