"Maroon 5 is band you're going to be hearing a lot of for many years to come!"

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OK, I'm going to listen next time I hear it come on the radio, but I am suspicious about the chord progressions in that song being interesting. Maybe I'm wrong.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

The comments above inspired me to listen to it again. Nope: his voice, lyrics, and the Jamiroquai-style music and melody still make me want to get as FAR away as possible.

This is definitely my least favorite flavor of current pop music: sensitive-dude pop-rock.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

They do sound a bit like Jokeyroquai, but for some reason they don't annoy me quite as much. "This Love" is okay.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

I forgot to mention that I would never willfully listen to it. It is grating. I just think it's interesting is all.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

the production is closer to a pop record than a radio-rock one, which is a wonderful relief

this sums up much of the appeal of both singles for me, actually

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

I think Little X is a good video director - check out his work with color on the (widescreen, I believe!) video for Wayne Wonder's "No Letting Go" (an excellent song too, I might add).

― djdee2005, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

Of course I kind of liked Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity" too.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

I like "This Love" in *exactly* the same way as I like Soul Decision's "Faded", although I can't at present articulate what "way" that is.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago) link

haha! perfect tim

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

Alex, are you big upping that Belfegore video that's just a bunch of swooping camera shots interspliced? It's only one warehouse and one air snyth away from being "Seperate Ways", y'know.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

Haha. Now that's a comparison I hadn't thought of!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago) link

OMG. "Harder to Breath" just came on the radio. Oh, Lord, and of course I put Extremities...., I can't remember the who title of the album, in my cd player.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link

The WHOLE

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

Alex, are you big upping that Belfegore video that's just a bunch of swooping camera shots interspliced? It's only one warehouse and one air snyth away from being "Seperate Ways", y'know.

(1) It's a great deal more complicated than that --- and you know it.

(2) "Seperate Ways" is without question Journey's finest hour.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

All I remember from said video (caught once while I OD'd on VH1 Classic a while back) was grousing, growling, and lots of camera diving.

And Journey's finest hour is clearly Steve Perry's "Oh Sherry" - and you know it. ;)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

Steve Perry's "Oh Sherry" is no more a Journey tune than Ric Ocasek's "Give Me Something to Grab For" is a Cars tune.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

Of the current crop of sensitive rock, Maroon 5 seems to be best at delivering toons that don't inspire homicidal urges.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

America at last has its own Del Amitri?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link

I wouldn't say "This Love" is brilliant or anything, but I can appreciate the craft of the thing. I'm really glad I don't know what the band looks like -- I imagine a bunch of short, paunchy, balding musicians and a black singer with dreadlocks.

― Kris (aqueduct), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

Kris is sadly off the mark. The singer is very very thin and reasonably fit, the ones who play instruments... I can't remember what they look like, but I think they all have hair and waistlines.

I like "This Love" but not the singer's voice. Instruments which strive for funkiness can be tolerated even if they don't quite manage it, voices which do the same cannot. It's catchy as fuck though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

the musicians dont look like the music they play. when they were on SNL they looked kind of alternative-y with old t shirts and hip jeans. they're all young.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

They look (and sound) basically indistinguishable from Rooney, Phantom Planet, etc.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

It's music for future Gap/Tommy Hilfigger ad campaigns, basically.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

"This Love" seems more schlocky retro commercial pop to me than Rooney's powerpop. more kinda Supertramp meets some 80s slick mtv new wave...

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

While reading this thread I totally forgot that it was about Maroon 5 and not SNL. Maroon 5 sound like Tindersticks except good. Discuss.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

It took me a while to figure it out, but the backing vocals at the chorus of "Harder To Breathe" finally tipped me off: they're secretly Terence Trent D'Arby.

and Bill Murray (who is up there with Ferrell)

This sentence fragment has no place in creation.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

and Bill Murray (who is up there with Ferrell)

Filet Mignon (which is up there with Steak'ums!)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Maroon 5 teams up with Kanye West to expand their fanbase to a more street-savvy crowd

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news/images/m/Maroon_5/sq-with-kanye-studio.jpg

and who knew that our own @d@m shared names with the lead singer?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 15 May 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

"Of the current crop of sensitive rock, Maroon 5 seems to be best at delivering toons that don't inspire homicidal urges. "

Some poisons are colorless and tasteless.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 May 2004 05:23 (twenty years ago) link

"Maroon 5 vaguely recalled by virgins deflowered during 05/2004"

Makes sense.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 15 May 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago) link

turns out i have heard their hits, "this love" is fantastic - ALT-ROCK IS BACK!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 15 May 2004 07:06 (twenty years ago) link

at the bottom of that mtv news report, resides the worst "pun" known to man:

For a full-length feature on Maroon 5, check out "Maroon 5: A Room Of Their Own."

And for a feature on Kanye West, see "Kanye West: Kanplicated."

i think "kanplicated" should become the new something or other.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 15 May 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

And all these bands, even the Maroon 5, are better than Third Eye Bland.

Agreed. Even though Maroon 5 is absolutely vile.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 15 May 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

"Maroon 5 vaguely recalled by virgins deflowered during 05/2004"

Makes sense.

-- Ian Christe (ia...) (webmail), May 15th, 2004 3:06 AM. (Ian Christe) (later) (link)

GENIUS

― NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS REMIND YOU THAT ZERO IS ALSO A NUMBER (ex machina), Saturday, 15 May 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

the amazing thing about "Kanplicated" is that Kanye didn't think that up!

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 15 May 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

From my friend Maya, who is funny about her weird tastes:

"i heard maroon 5's second single this morning and feel only lukewarm about it. like john mayer and dave matthews but less perverted. which is disappointing b/c in their first song they were promisingly perverted."

― chuck, Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

That Maroon5 guy is MAD about sex judging by his Blender interview. Evidently their show is an intense sexual experience and that you can look forward to open sexuality and goddamn that guy needs a cold shower something fierce. It's possible he was just trying to get the word out to groupies that he was more than available.

I really like their two songs now. I never would have though Lenny Kravitz + Matchbox 20 would work but they really, really do.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"This Love" is right up there with "She Wants To Move" on my Songs I Can't Wait To Do At Karoake Once They're Available list.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

As for my opinion about them, I am still tickled to report that I don't have one yet.

― chuck, Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

The Maroon 5 singer acts/looks like a total cocknob. The Third Eye Blind comparison is a good one but I don't know which band I hate more. Unlike Jason Mraz, based on his I Love the 80s clips, is the kind of person whose music I wish I liked more. But if I ever met him, I'd knock that sideways baseball cap off his bedhead.

― Sara Sherr, Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually kind of LIKE Third Eye Blind -- especially their first album (especially that one amazing single that sounded like Ian Hunter, "Losing My Whole Year"), but also that Badfinger/Boston sounding single on their second album. I don't think Maroon 5 are anywhere near as good, from what I've heard so far. I also don't think they're as good as Matchbox 20, come to think of it. Though it's entirely possible that I am losing my hack-pop open-mindedness in my old age (despite my admitted Skye Sweetnam fandom that is, and the fact that Anthony will be happy to know that I finally wound up liking that one Good Charlotte song that sounds like Blur's "Girls who like Boys who like Girls" song, whatever it/they is/are called.)

― chuck, Friday, 25 June 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

but not the "Don't Close Your Eyes" re-write? or the Social Distortion-style suicide/born again song? or the "Basket Case" re-write or the murder song? I'm glad you caught one great track but gawdamn there's sooo much more.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 25 June 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Thing is, I REALLY despise the guy's voice, Anthony, which is almost as thin as the rhythm section. I kinda like the little Def Lep type electro-fillgrees or whatever hear and there; I see what they're *trying* to do, and why you'd think I'd like them. I just don't. (Even the Blur ripoff is nowhere near as good as what it rips off...I dunno, maybe if some of those other songs had wacky videos with old people making out I'd like them more, too.) (Heck, maybe they DO have videos like that, and I've never seen 'em. I can't see everything!)

― chuck, Friday, 25 June 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

the rhythm section doesn't strike me as any more thin than Van Halen's but yeah the voice is probably the biggest stumbling block I can see.

Hey the Maroon 5 and the Hoobastank dudes have nasal little whines too!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 25 June 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

hey, wait a sec, you dig AFI...goofy.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 25 June 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't dig AFI *that* much. But anyway, they remind me more of Bang Tango than Good Charlotte remind me of Kix, you know? (Though H.I.M. and Rock City Morgue and the Icarus Line and I forget who else remind me way more Bang Tango than AFI do, so I like of them way more too.)

― chuck, Friday, 25 June 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

the third maroon 5 single has the vocals pitch-corrected into unbearability.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 26 June 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

ok how can you tell when something is pitch-corrected? Complaints about that confuse me cuz I just don't know to how to hear it. It's like when people complain about guitars being "overcompressed." What are some good examples of this stuff?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 26 June 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

An update from my friend Maya:

"me and maroon 5 are doing fine, btw. in fact, we're on good terms. i heard the song again this morning and it turns out it IS perverted. there's this part about an 18-year-old beauty queen, and how he wants to sneak into her back door. ok, maybe those aren't the exact lyrics, but i detected a distinct sliminess."

― chuck, Thursday, 1 July 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

More bands need to be rated on the level of their biological viscosity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

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