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

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are they like thrid eye blind in that they have one undeniable great song and everything else is ass and the lead singer is such a dick we get to feel really really good when their career tanks?

cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:55 (twenty years ago) link

That's prety accurate, actually....apart from the "undeniable great song" bit (well, "Harder to Breathe" is vaguely tolerable).

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:58 (twenty years ago) link

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, 21 February 2004 08:59 (twenty years ago) link

Don't forget Rooney!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:59 (twenty years ago) link

phantom planet is the one with jason 'i really really shouldn't've passed on donnie darko' schwarztman-coppola right?

cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 February 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago) link

Are they worse than Room 5, though? That's the question.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 21 February 2004 09:04 (twenty years ago) link

guarantee you they're worse than hi five

cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 February 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link

Buffoon Jive are worse than Fandom Plants.

bh, Saturday, 21 February 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link

phantom planet is the one with jason 'i really really shouldn't've passed on donnie darko' schwarztman-coppola right?

I believe he's since been outsted.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link

did they replace him with jake gyllenhaal?

cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 February 2004 09:08 (twenty years ago) link

Nah, just some other greasy ass monkey in a retro-ironic heavy metal softball jersey.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago) link

Phantom Planet, while I wouldn't go as far as saying they're good, are definitely more interesting than these other bands.


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

djdee2005, Saturday, 21 February 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link

Maroon 5? Awful fucking name. Worse than Pen 15.

weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 21 February 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link

Phantom Planet, while I wouldn't go as far as saying they're good, are definitely more interesting than these other band

Agreed.

I think this is Maroon 5's 2nd single. We got some sampler from the album at the college radio station like 2 years ago...its always odd how these sorts of bands catch on (or whatever they do). I think VH1 just played the shit out of their video, much like Jason Mrzrzasa (I don't know if radio was doing this or not). Suddenly there is all these 'funky' white guys and I would like a murder weapon to murder them with.

I checked allmusic and Maroon Five were entitled Kara's Flowers before this with an album under that moniker. Which begs the question which name is more terrible? (x-postish)

Also I am always bothered by allmusic's lack of balls to rip into shitty ass shit like this. Though the review of the last Limp Bizkit album was pretty classic.

christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 21 February 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link

shitty ass shit!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

I remember Kara's Flowers! In a can't remember anything about them except that they existed and I ignored them sort of way. I think they were one of those bands who tried to have a vaguely indie-ish crossover radio hit in the post-"Sex & Candy" era.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 21 February 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

The "hit" was called "Soap Disco" and it got heaps of airplay based on the idea that they were going to be huge. They weren't. Bit I remember: "hey mama/ BIG CRASHING BIT/I'm something/ANOTHER BIG CRASHING BIT/Check it out, see what it's all about/Coz this is soap disco/some stupid chorus lyrics". It was rubbish.

Video Hits played the video every week... their album can regularly be sighted in cut-out bins.

edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

I thought they were supposed to be a bad Busted.

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

I think the new Phantom Planet's pretty good, actually. Though the band may eventually share the same dustbin with Maroon 5, Hoobastank, et al., they're definitely a lot more interesting.

Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 21 February 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

The interesting thing about Maroon 5 is that they're on an independent label (Octone), unlike Schwartzman bands Phantom Planet (Epic) and Rooney (Geffen). I'm in radio and I think I got the first Maroon 5 single worked to me for about 9 months before the first single took off, what was it, six months ago? (no, I've never played them, and Jason Mraz didn't take nearly that long because he had an indie release and relatively huge tour-based fan support to speak on his behalf.)

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

Says the Octone website:

"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

I wanna be upstreamed. But I don't want to sell out, man! Er.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

Early copies of Maroon 5's album came w/ wee stickers with praise from John Mayer. Both their singles are OK. I'm just as liable to flinch & cringe when a "rock band" starts making waves in certain ways, but seperated from that bias, they're OK. The video for "This Love" is a whole different tin of sardines, tho.

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

thanks for the information Josh, but I think most people here know that nearly every small label has at least a distro deal if not a development deal with a major also. Even well-placed small labels like Octone don't get the budget that an act on a major gets, that's part of the point that I was trying to make. Just from my own experience as a small-time radio person, I had one person calling me promoting the Maroon 5 record, and half a dozen each calling me on the PP and Rooney records. I'm just trying to answer the question in the thread title by saying that Maroon 5 has found more success with less resources than PP and Rooney, so maybe they will be around for a while!

teeny (teeny), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

"Harder to Breathe" gets a whole lot better if you sing the "whoa-oh oh-oh" part after every line.

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

One of my friends likes that song.

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

> nearly every small label has at least a distro deal if not a development deal with a major also.

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

i like the OC theme song which is by phantom planet! (speaking of rooney)

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

That should be Rusted Root, of course.

Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

Oh god, more crap for drunk girls to play to get me "in the mood"

Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

Rooney sucks!

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

sounds like the beginning of a short story

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

How old are you Aja?

Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

13

Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

We should all post our ages as part of our posts from now on. It will clear up a number of things.

Andy K, 65 (Andy K), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

Why'd you want to know my age Jon?

I thought you already knew?

Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

Rusted Root, up to their last album at least, was still on Island/Def Jam, who does throw around a bit of money (no one throws a party like they do), so there you go. And Clive Davis/J/BMG is notorious for fucking up the promotion strategy of rock bands and/or A&Ring them poorly in the first place, so that's actually another strike against Maroon 5. Most of these development deals work like this: the baby label works the band until they sell x number of records (usually 25K-50K) and then the major steps in with their marketing muscle.

teeny (teeny), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

This explains a lot!

Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

My age?

Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

Yes!

Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 21 February 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

What does it explain?

Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

well if we're gonna compare "Semi-Charmed Life" to "Harder To Breathe," I sure fuckin' hope that Maroon 5 don't last as long as 3EB. And frankly, judging by that damn american dreams thing and his Vanessa Carlton jazz, I don't think Stephan Jenkins is going away anytime soon. I actually found what I heard off Out Of The Vein pleasantly mellow compared to the overproduced Blue.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

The label specializes in developing lifestyle-oriented alternative and rock artists.

What on earth does this mean?

jazz odysseus, Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

Pot. Lots of it.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

I think it has something to do with Friends.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

Regarding their slow and steady rise to stardom, "Harder To Breathe" was being played on WLIR in Long Island around Spring of 2002, and I don't think it got picked up by pop radio until Fall 2003.

billstevejim, Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

To put them into context with 3EB, I'm pretty sure "Semi-Charmed Life" became a hit immediately upon its release.

billstevejim, Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

I like "Graduate" more though.

Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Come on. They're touring with John Mayer. You've got to take them seriously. Heh.

Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

They are?

OMG!!

That's awful!! I dislike them even more!

Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago) link

first post in this thread is pretty funny now

alpine static, Monday, 11 February 2019 07:10 (five years ago) link

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who brings tofu dogs to a barbecue.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link

he looks like my hero?

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link

At arm’s length: are tattoos finally becoming uncool?

The mostly negative response to Levine’s artwork may be partly because so much of it looks new. The lines are too crisp, the ink too dark. It’s also a bit too on-point. It’s all tigers and roses: a look that prompted one Twitter user to muse that Levine “is tattooed like he’s the main character in Memento but the mystery is where he left his Juul [e-cigarette]”.

just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link

There were two significant moments in the tattooing world last week.

How could they overlook Ariana Grande getting the Japanese characters for "little barbecue grill" tattooed on her hand?!

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link

Oh, wait, they mentioned it. That's a bigger boo-boo than whatever Bieber apparently did and I did not hear about.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link

where does this rate on the Ben Affleck scale

frogbs, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who gets the words "Little Barbeque Grill" tattooed in Japanese above his butt.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link

otm

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who gets A-D-A-M L-E-V-I-N-E tattooed across his knuckles.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link

A D A M L E V N

unless he does some between the knuck work.

nickn, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link

ouch hell no

calumy (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who doesn't take his Men's Health magazines into the bathroom because he wants to keep them in good condition.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, February 4, 2019 12:45 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this one was my fav

budo jeru, Thursday, 14 February 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link

i'm just sticking with "Fuck the NRA" indefinitely but i'm sorely tempted by "the mystery is where he left his Juul [e-cigarette]"

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 February 2019 06:22 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Rereading the beginning of this thread is funny.

GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link

is Levine's face packed with dry ice or

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link

are levine's shorts packed with dry ice or

a photographer, satanist and ukip voter (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 14:32 (five 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

one year passes...

Adam, sweetie...you’re in a band. 😳 https://t.co/FVlZoQBsTX

— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) March 4, 2021



Hey remember Bands?

Most fun on Twitter since that indie landfill noise

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

new song with megan is terrible

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

one year passes...

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



especially this part

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

one year passes...

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