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

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"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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

"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-two years ago)

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

Makes sense.

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

"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-two years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

"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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 25 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 26 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we talk about the bit from the video to "This Love" where the frontman illustrates the words "goodbye" with the limpest wave goodbye in recorded history?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Dom, was it you that pointed out the "bye bye" thing in an earlier thread? I don't think I ever thanked you.

naughtiest lyric in "This Love"
My pressure on your hips
Sinking my fingertips
Into every inch of you
Cause I know that's what you want me to do

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard N'sync's "bye bye bye" today while walking downtown and had to fight the urge to do the "one man clapping" flap in response.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Cause I know that's what you want me to do

I haven't heard a line that presumptious since Boys II Men's "I'll Make Love to You (...Like you Want me to)".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 July 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ant- I dunno, I've been kinda captivated by Mr Maroon (what's his name? He looks like a Ryan or a Kyle) in this video, specifically by the fact that he appears to have no bone structure.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 July 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I just remember somebody saying they stole the "bye bye" clap from the video. I didn't notice it at first because I was too busy reeling in horror from the bed-rumpus-with-flower-petals scene.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 1 July 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Maroon 5 try so hard.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 1 July 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

They're 3 for 3 so far!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

So were Third Eye Blind. And where are they today?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

In our hearts.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking another organ myself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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

I don't get it. Was this foreign version of VH-1?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

They're 3 for 3 so far!
-- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), September 3rd, 2004.

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So were Third Eye Blind. And where are they today?
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), September 3rd, 2004.

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In our hearts.
-- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), September 3rd, 2004.

and our cut-out bins.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephan Jenkins is currently deep inside of Vanessa Carlton and probably makes five figures a show, so I ain't gonna mock.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

nuff respect guy! "This Love" makes a nice contrast to Lil Jon on my Winamp. i don't like the way the guitars were recorded, though that actually might count in Maroon 5's favor since i like the way Jet songs are recorded yet i hate Jet songs like i hate raccoons attacking my garbage bags the night before collection day.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ok how can you tell when something is pitch-corrected?

Usually, when people say this they mean that the vocals have been over-processed with Auto-Tune, which is an effects plug-in that can be used within Pro Tools and other DAW (digital audio workstation) software.

Basically, Auto-Tune "listens" to the vocal for pitch variations, and will "correct" those variations based on user settings. Use it on a light setting on a singer who's generally got good pitch and it's barely noticeable - the vocal just blends better with the music.

However, the trend in production as of late is to over-crank the settings (which means fewer pitch fluctuations), even on skilled singers. This creates an artificial vibrato that is reminiscent of the old "vocoder" effect, and is VERY distracting once you've heard it a few times.

In dance music, and more recently in dancehall reggae, Auto-Tune is used as a special effect to create robotic pitch slurs a la Cher's "Believe".

For more info, check the manufacturer's site: http://www.antarestech.com/products/auto-tune4.html

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That new song sounds like a jam band covering Coldplay. Also: you can kind of sing "With or Without You" over the final chorus.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll leave it up to you to determine whether I think this is good or bad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc otm

― gainfully employed (ex machina), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

She Will Be Loved is a great song. I take back every bad thing I ever said about them, except of course that their first two songs still suck and hard.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard "Harder To Breathe" for the first time in a while the other day, it sounded really good.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to admit that this is one of those bands that I won't spend my money on, but will happily turn up the radio or tv for.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

This creates an artificial vibrato that is reminiscent of the old "vocoder" effect, and is VERY distracting once you've heard it a few times.

VERY noticable in most Robbie Williams ballads where he needs to hold long notes.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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