Anyway, it's not like a small label can't buy its way up the chart, but it can be a little harder. And Maroon 5, once they got going and found some traction, were able to get onto top 40 radio, where PP and Rooney haven't (although I think Rooney might). Will you be hearing a lot of them for many years to come? Eh. The rest of the album is consistent, they seem to write a decent song, and I hear they're good live. That's how Matchbox 20 started off.
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
"Octone Records is a NY-based independent record label distributed by BMG Entertainment. The label specializes in developing lifestyle-oriented alternative and rock artists. After initial release, marketing and promotion on Octone, select artists are upstreamed to J Records as part of an exclusive artist development co-venture between J Records and Octone."
Yep, sounds pretty indie to me.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
Given PP's 180-degree turn from anything sounding like "California" on their newest album, I think they're aiming for obscurity a la Harvey Danger or the Toadies. Or they're trying to ape Yes New York.
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
I felt bad because I don't. I didn't tell her that. The worst part was she was trying to do air-guitar. Oh Lord! Awful! She was holding the 'guitar' like a baby!!! I wanted to burst out laughing. I just walked out of the class room and into the hall and headed twords the stairs to reccess instead.
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
Distro, maybe, but development? Anyway, I find it hard to believe that Maroon 5 made it onto MTV, VH1, radio, etc., without a big, big push ($$$) from a major label. The question is, if their ghost-underwriter dropped out, would they still do as well? I mean, Ruster Root still tours, as do a host of other like-minded bands, but their profile has dropped precipitously. So will I be hearing Maroon 5 for many years to come? Not likely, unless they stay as high-profile as they currently are, which means major label moo-lah.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
I begged and pleaded for my mom to change the station when their song came on. BUT FOR SOME REASON< SHE WOULDN'T!!!
What the Hell!!!
I was pissed. I laid down on the backseat of the car and tried to think of something to get my attention away from the god awful song!
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K, 65 (Andy K), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
I thought you already knew?
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
What on earth does this mean?
― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
― billstevejim, Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― billstevejim, Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
OMG!!
That's awful!! I dislike them even more!
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
Hahaha...is that true? I can't think of a more sure-fire way to actively discourage me from buying a CD.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
You know, I mill the drug. I don´t use the drug.
I have this feeling Ryan Adams wishes he was John Mayer now.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 21 February 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link
What song will they play?
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Scott, Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
uhhh
hear anything, rather.
― Scott, Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
They don't commit that much, the vocals a little bit. Possibly the dreaded Jam. meets John Mayer.
Early copies of Maroon 5's album came w/ wee stickers with praise from John Mayer
This type of thing happens all the time - I've seen 'indie' albums praised by the likes of that dude from 3 Doors Down and that dude from Creed. etc. And as Alexn'NYC this allows me to save time by immediately throwing said CDs into the I will never listen to this so long as I live and don't get a bad case of amnesia which would make me forget any music knowledge I might otherwise have accumulated pile.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 21 February 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
This is how The Strokes got popular, now.. remember, folks.
― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link
Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy whose shorts are packed with dry ice.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who always refers to guacamole as 'gwak'.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
"yeah... yeah no a little more... great yeah.. no yeah that's perf"
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
why don't you join us for margs and guac
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
def a dude who guacs that way
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 4 April 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
Adam, sweetie...you’re in a band. 😳 https://t.co/FVlZoQBsTX— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) March 4, 2021
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 5 March 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
new song with megan is terrible
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 March 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
Maybe he just means that he's run out of musicians who will be in Maroon 5?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 5 March 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
Maroon 5 blows but he's also not exactly wrong in that the last 10 years of American guitar bands also blow
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 5 March 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
yes, it blows my mind anyone's upset with this and it's some fun reading
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
idk the evolution from "shitty band with a hot singer" to "Adam Levine Super Bowl Halftime Show" maybe has something to do with it
― frogbs, Friday, 5 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
It's kind of anonymously inoffsensive and thereby offensive as a result, but then the line "she's naked in my bed" reminds you that Levine is singing this.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
What are we Adam Levine? CATS?!?!?— Garbage (@garbage) March 4, 2021
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
I saw a tiktok of someone saying Adam Levine looks like a chipotle bag and I can’t stop thinking about it. pic.twitter.com/mKeiMNpp4m— dara faye (@darafaye) September 23, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 September 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
One thing I’ve learned from these leaked text messages is that he definitely writes all his own lyrics
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 September 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
xp Twitter cliches like “can’t stop thinking about/and it’s everything/i’m dead” about as egregious as dude’s tattoos at the point.
― circa1916, Saturday, 24 September 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
tell me my display name isn't poetry
― i need to put some clouds behind the reaper (PBKR), Saturday, 24 September 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
OP seems p ironic at this point.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 September 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
this twitter thread p much covers the grossness of him & unsurprising nature of the “breaking news”
look if Adam Levine wasn't cheating on his supermodel wife with a Model Mayhem girl then I'd be worried— Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) September 20, 2022
Once w/in a 6 mnth period I ran into Adam 3 x’s. Each time he told me the story of how we went on a date when we were 10. Didn’t I remember? He was in love w me. I never called him again apparently. It destroyed him. I didn’t remember. I still don’t.— Katharine Towne (@KatharineTowne) September 20, 2022
Yet each time he told it to me again w more fervor. So excited. Desperate. Until finally the 3rd time at the Rosevelt after saying again I just didn’t recall & leaving him to his models, he walked past me & said,” why do you act like you’re better than everyone.” & flitted away— Katharine Towne (@KatharineTowne) September 20, 2022
It’s always stuck w me as it was intended to. Teach me not to forget a narcissist. Him and jake both the Jewish American princesses of Brentwood. Mean girls.— Katharine Towne (@KatharineTowne) September 20, 2022
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 September 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
OP got a shout out in the latest Your Favorite Band Sucks pod on Maroon 5...
https://www.yfbspod.com/maroon-5-sucks
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
Syphilis hasn't killed him yet?!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
My favorite messageboard sucks.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
I seriously doubt that Maroon 5 are Anyone's Favourite Band.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
I remember this thread, great revive
The 13-year-old poster from early on is probably now 31
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
People who say "I wish I'd been wrong" ?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
cheeky lad:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKi8f_bddfc
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 October 2023 18:55 (six months ago) link