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Eminem's four studio albums shattered so many sales records that you might think just about every man, woman and gerbil on the planet already owns a bulk of the songs that make up this greatest hits collection. But Curtain Call presents the perfect opportunity to have another look at the life of Marshall Mathers. Starting out in the vein of the Beastie Boys and Slick Rick, he grafted filthy verses over bubbly nursery rhyme melodies and primitive Casio beats to come up with comical singles like "My Name Is" and "Real Slim Shady." Then angst and reflection set in, resulting in rare moments of vulnerability ("Lose Yourself") and a richer musical experience ("Stan"). The three new tracks reflect the entire spectrum, with "When I'm Gone," a bittersweet goodbye letter, signaling the raw emotion and youthful enthusiasm of his early days have substantially faded, while "Fack" counters that the Detroit rapper still has the dirtiest mouth in the business. --Aidin Vaziri

Album Description
Curtain Call includes three new songs--"Fack," "Shake That" (featuring Nate Dogg) and "When I'm Gone"--both written and produced by Eminem. In addition, the Curtain Call bonus track marks the album premiere of the controversial Eminem-Elton John live duet of "Stan" from the 2001 Grammy Awards presentation.

Executive produced by the nine-time Grammy winner, Curtain Call boasts all five of Eminem's gold and platinum singles to date, from the platinum, Oscar, and two-time Grammy-winning "Lose Yourself" (#1 Pop/#2 Rap) from the 8 Mile soundtrack and platinum "Just Lose It" (#6 Pop/#7 Rap) and "Mockingbird" (#11 Pop/#10 Rap) to the gold "Without Me" (#2 Pop/#5 Rap) and "Like Toy Soldiers" (Top 40 Pop). The other Grammy winners included are "My Name Is" (Top 40 Pop/#10 Rap) and "The Real Slim Shady" (#4 Pop/#7 Rap). Also heard are "The Way I Am" (Top 30 Rap), "Stan" (featuring Dido) (Top 40 R&B/Hip-Hop), "Sing for the Moment" (Top 20 Pop/Rap), "Guilty Conscience" (featuring Dr. Dre), and "Cleanin' Out My Closet" (#4 Pop/#5 Rap).

Curtain Call: The Hits spans contributions from all four of Eminem's major-label solo albums: 1999's quadruple-platinum The Slim Shady LP, 2000's nine-times-platinum The Marshall Mathers LP, 2002's eight-times-platinum The Eminem Show, and 2004's Encore, which is almost five times platinum. The three most recent charted #1 Pop and #1 R&B/Hip-Hop, with his major-label debut #2 Pop and #1 R&B/Hip-Hop. Each of his first three albums also won the Best Rap Album Grammy (Encore will be eligible for the 2006 presentation). Eminem has to date sold more than 65 million albums.

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5 out of 5 stars

A Fifth of Eminem December 6, 2005
81 out of 98 found this review helpful

Let’s all hope that this isn’t really the final curtain call for the multi-talented rapper Marshall Bruce Mathers III. Launched by Dr. Dre, Eminem has stamped his distinctive style all over the rap genre, winning nine Grammies and an Oscar for his innovative beats and flow, and of course his controversial lyrics have kept him in the spotlight one way or the other.

This is his fifth album, the first Greatest Hits compilation, and includes three new songs as well as most of his hit singles from “The Slim Shady LP”, “The Marshall Mathers LP”, “The Eminem Show”, “Encore” and the “8 Mile” soundtrack. It also includes the live version of “Stan” performed at the 2001 Grammy’s by Eminem and Elton John. The one omission that comes to mind is “Superman”, and also maybe “Encore”, but there are enough hits to make most people very happy.

The new tracks are “FACK”, a funny track that more than earns a PA warning, the infectious “Shake That” (featuring Nate Dogg), and one of the best new songs around - “When I’m Gone”. Lyrics from “When I’m Gone” strongly hint that Eminem may be taking a break to spend more time with his daughter and niece, and he also may be working on expanding his production portfolio.

“What happens when you become the main source of her pain
"Daddy look what I made"
Dad's got to go catch a plane
"Daddy, where's Mommy, I can't find Mommy where is she?"
I don't know, go play, Hailey baby, your daddy's busy”

This album represents the very best of Eminem, plus a couple of excellent new tracks. Highly recommended.

Amanda Richards, December 6, 2005

5 out of 5 stars

Perhaps The Final Bow December 9, 2005
34 out of 46 found this review helpful

Curtain Call is a greatest hits collection from Eminem that shows why he is one of the biggest selling artists of the last few years. Eminem's albums have always been stuffed with some goofy filler, but this album distills down his best moments and shows his artistic greatness. "Stan" is one of the most haunting songs in the past twenty years and stands as his crowning achievement. "Lose Yourself" has anthem like qualities with it beat that pulsates to the breaking point and it won an unlikely, but well-deserved Academy Award for best song. "My Name Is" shows off the class clown persona that would become his trademark. The album has three new songs the best of which is "When I'm Gone" which is an exercise in the psychodrama that is his other trademark. Eminem has suggested that he is leaving the music business for good ("When I'm Gone" suggests this as well) and if he does, the music he left will definitely leave its mark on the musical landscape.

1 out of 5 stars

Isn't this guy dead yet? December 9, 2005
12 out of 46 found this review helpful

Ok, so the Vanilla Ice rip off artist has a greatest hits cd out. Who cares? How many cd's does he have out anyway? 2? 3? And he already has greatest hits? Um, ok. So, in those 2 or 3 prior cd's, after he b*tches and moans like a whiny schoolgirl nancyboy about his bothersome ex-wife, now he's back with her. He's worse than little girl. He needs to actually grow a pair, as well as backbone, realize he is talent-less, and do the world a favor, as well as his so-called daughter, and just stick a .45 in his mouth and put an end to it. Or, I guess to be rap enough, it'd be a "glock." Whatever, just do his civic duty and end it already. Out. Semper Fi.

1 out of 5 stars

One of those reviews where I get 100 people to disagree with me. December 15, 2005
12 out of 33 found this review helpful

I hate to tell you people, but Eminem sucks. Royally. He is the most overrated MC to ever grab a microphone. All of his lyrics are childish, and when they aren't childish, he sounds like a ****ing emo. He tries to be funny, but he isn't. He has no flow whatsoever, and his annoying, prepubescant voice makes my ears bleed with discomfort. He's even worse at producing, since his beats are just like Dre's today; they ALL sound the same.

Eminem doesn't have one good song in his whole discography. Lose Yourself is the most overrated song in music history. The production is horrid, and the lyrics are overly simplistic. On most tracks, he attempts screaming into a microphone; VERY few people can pull off screaming into a microphone, and Eminem is most definitely not one of them.

Whoopie. He writes songs about how much he loves his daughter; do you think he's the only hip-hop artist to dedicate songs to his children? Hell, Ja Frickin' Rule did it on his very first album, and yet, everyone hates him. He writes songs about wanting to rape, and have incest with his own mother. He writes songs about killing his own wife.

He's influenced REAL PEOPLE to kill over stupid songs like Stan.

Eminem sucks. The only reason he ever got over in the hip-hop industry is because Dr. Dre was backing him, and he's a white rapper not named "Vanilla Ice." He completely ripped other rappers' styles, such as Esham and Cage, and then start beefs with them, and disses them because they speak the truth about him being a biter. He starts beefs with rappers that would absolutely kill him in a battle(Esham, Cage, Royce, Bis).

Eminem is garbage. Eminem is overrated. Eminem looks and sounds like a thirteen year old child, who is going through puberty.

Eminem sucks people. Get over it.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent December 6, 2005
9 out of 14 found this review helpful

This is a great compilation of all his good hits. I'm not his biggest fan, but love all the songs I've already heard, and now they are all on one album. Some songs will make you blush, but overall, the music is so good and catchy and this shows his amazing talent. His songwriting is great whether you like rap or not. Sing For The Moment, Lose Yourself and Mockingbird are my personall faves, but there really isn't a bad song on here. No wonder he has won 9 Grammys. I hope he's around for a lot longer.

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