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

Yeah, he's a class act.

Although, color my face red. I started this thread in 2004 -- and holy crow, look at the time, it's late 2007 and we're still talking about them.

"It was so disillusioning that I went on Paxil (an antidepressant) for a month afterwards"

I'm not in the habit of defending Adam Levine but I think someone's been had re: this quote

The videos on the making of "Makes Me Wonder" are interesting.

Actually, come to think of it, "She Will Be Loved" is the only Maroon 5 single I've disliked. They're not half-bad.

and holy crow, look at the time, it's late 2007

Stop it! When people talk like we're in the next year and summer hasn't even ended it's depressing. Many months to go, my friend.

I've always said that Maroon 5 is like a crappy, crappy Hall and Oates for the current generation.

I've always said that Maroon 5 is like a crappy, crappy Hall and Oates for the current generation.

They fucking WISH they were as good as Hall & Oates.

this dude reminds me of patrick bateman

so does Gavin Newsom

I love their last two singles.

The new single sucks. If they'd released "Kiwi," they'd have another Number One. What a poet -- if Adam Levine were my boyfriend I'd want him to compare me to a furry fruit with gelatinous juice.

You don't mean "Wake Up Call" do you Alfred? That's the current single in Australia. So good to hear on the radio - I love a big fat obvious punch line.

Their photograph on the Rolling Stone of about a month ago could quite possibly be the most hateful, irritating photo to ever grace that periodical's cover in DECADES.

...hateful? was he bathing in babies' blood?

He was holding up a copy of Alex's first post to this thread in a "Dewey Defeats Truman"

fashion

i could totally see adam levine giving an enthusiastic description of some '80s pop nugget before slamming a wire hanger into some poor fan's vagina.

"Wake Up Call" hasn't really clicked for me, but random line deliveries from "Makes Me Wonder" stick in my head all the time. Usually the way he says "want to dive into you." Dude's got the most amazing/disturbing stare in music today.

I hate "Wake Up Call."

The only feasible number one single off IWBSBL apart from of course Makes me Wonder is the third single "Won't go Home Without You." Pretty much every song on the album is top ten material though.

He was holding up a copy of Alex's first post to this thread in a "Dewey Defeats Truman" fashion

Hahaha - I hope he's reading this. (Adam Levine that is, not Alex)

Not Truman either

Why do gay people love Maroon 5 singer?

because no one in the history of pop culture has ever overcompensated more.

possibly in the history of time itself

Why do gay people love Maroon 5 singer?

We gay people keep wishing he pens a song worthy of his looks and douchebaggery. He's almost there.

Actually I think part of it is that gay men have this weird mythology thing going for straight guys who appear to get a lot of sex. There are a lot of possible explanations for this.

Plus there's his occasional tendency to look like Jack from Lost:

http://www.obliquity65.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/052507.jpg

http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/resources/2007/05/10766013-10766016-slarge.jpg

Well, Levine projects promiscuity.

Yeah totally - much more than actual hotness oddly.

He's clever enough to sense this and start writing "pervy" songs like "Wake Up Call" and "Kiwi," both of which represent what his fans want him to be. I see him losing interest in future "She Will Be Loved"s.

I see him losing interest in female pronouns too.

feminine pronouns, rather.

Well, Levine projects promiscuity

Does he? I really don't understand why gay people thinks so.

"Wake Up Call" is kind of great, guys.

Does he? I really don't understand why gay people thinks so

All we do is think about sex.

there is no message to their music or videos beyond "women can't stop fucking Adam Levine."

i suppose these visuals and lyrics are picked up on their "gaydar."

there is no message to their music or videos beyond "women can't stop fucking Adam Levine."

That's such a classic message in pop music though. Remember Joe Jackson's 1980 single "Is She Really Going To Engage In Sexual Intercourse With That Chump From Maroon 5?"

"I Knew The Bride When She Used To Fuck Adam Levine."

Hall and Oates' "I Can't Go For That (Levine You Do)"

I met this guy, I'm pretty sure I get more sex thna him. Also, I am DRUNK.

this dude reminds me of patrick bateman

otm

I'd never heard this band before today, when their song "I won't go home without you" came on the radio in a shoe store. It sounded almost exactly like the Smoking Popes to my ears. Is this deliberate?

Every time this thread is revived Alex in NYC's thread-title becomes more lolsworthy.

Maroon5/PhantomPlanet/TheLike are all in the same liferaft. Let's see who eats the others and survives. Those hungry young girlies'll are already chowing on M5's toes and working north. Soon M5'll be opening for them, as opposed to the other.
― bh, Saturday, February 21, 2004 3:59 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

Guess it was M5 that survived after all.

Yeah, I don't think I ever heard "The Like" even. Whereas Maroon 5, I am dimly aware that they continue to have a career. And even though I can't specifically recall any songs they've done since "This Love," I still find myself trying to describe other things I hear as being vaguely Maroon 5-esque.

I'm pretty sure they had some decent size hits this past yeat. I don't generally listen to the radio, though, so I haven't heard anything.

People who listen to the radio would know:

She Will Be Loved
Harder To Breathe (I think this is what it's called)
Sunday Morning
Makes Me Wonder
Wake Up Call
I Won't Go Home Without You
If I Never See Your Face Again

That's a very big number of radio staples from just two albums.

they sound like a very very sleazy version of The Police.

I like them. Especially the one with Rhianna.

Actually I forgot to mention that although the tune (particularly the chorus) sounds like the great Smoking Popes, the song has none of the energy of the Smoking Popes, and in fact sounds like what the Smoking Popes might have sounded like if they had tried to get crossover appeal like all the other soulless bullshit on mainstream radio. Yuck!

well damn