MAROON 5 SINGLES POLL

Where'd you get your material, I mean the sound bytes and musical clippets and all, you've been so forthcoming about it! With people who offer you their e-mail address, no less.

I mean, since you're such an avid music enthusiast and all.

wrong thread?

mount cleaners stays lurking in maroon 5 threads

is clippet a word

these guys are steaming garbage

haha

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3132/2644035779_a4fc9f7682_z.jpg

uhhh so the newest (awful) single is apparently #1 on the hot 100 now. when i first heard it i actually thought it would be squarely rejected by the public because it sounded so bad to me but APPARENTLY i was wrong. i should have known better considering that the gym class heroes/adam levine single was such a big hit earlier this year or last year or whenever that was.

Ehh, it's fine. After the double whammy of "Moves Like Jagger" and "Payphone" it seems pretty innocuous and hard to get mad at, kind of minor though, all the same. Kind of funny tho to go "oh of course it's a hit" cause of that Gym Class Heroes joint that everybody's already forgotten, instead of, you know, the two huge hits that immediately preceded this one.

haven't heard it in a while but "payphone" is dope iirc?

Maroon 5 have entered the 10,000 Maniacs phase of their career in which the lead singer humors a band that barely sounds like it's playing on their own record.

did they ever not sound like that, though?

If you ever want to be bored, listen to the "commentary track" version of this album on Spotify, as members of the band (or possibly Levine, with voice-shifting technology) riff without intensity about the songwriting process.

I own the second one and they still sound like a band playing distinct parts; they hadn't yet been Pro Tooled to sound like the aural equivalent of one of Levine's tats.

ha – "riff without intensity" is what these guys once did

it's definitely gotten more extreme, i'll admit

songwriting credits on the new album suggest an album frontloaded with songs levine did with pros, with two other members allowed to fill in the second half.

you guys ever heard kara's flowers? when levine and co were going for that fountains of wayne/possum dixon vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trkt9w_94To

huh, wow. No, never heard, it's almost worth pulling up on Spotify for less washed-out sound. Utterly generic in that "I think I've heard this hook before somewhere" way and not exactly punching its way out of the speaker but not the worst generic 90s-style power-pop you'll ever hear.

they played state college while promoting that album and bonded with some of the local music dudes, who then spent the latter half of the '00s going "wtf" at maroon 5's success. I love that maroon 5's narrative - failed late '90s alt-rock band breaks up after brief painful major label experience, singer gets more into classic rock/r&b and brings back the posse, sign to big indie and PROFIT - is the same as Spoon's. Only Britt kept the old name.

"wait" is my shit

i still find their turn into an adam levine sell out machine to be generally regrettable but red pill blues was half-written by john ryan and so i kinda fuck with it

the 11 min song is a banger

I imagine "11 minutes" and "Adam Levine" and I died of gross

alfred otm

the final 8 mins are instrumental!

Had no idea John Ryan was all over the new one, will have to listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2cE91sZAQQ