MAROON 5 SINGLES POLL

makes me wonder, but harder to breathe, this love, and the rihanna joint are all top quality

tough b/w this love and makes me wonder

also she will be loved

voting this love. pretty sure i still know most of the words to it.

yeah the top two are pretty clear; i had a second wind of this love love last year but i'll hear everything again before i vote

I couldn't stand anything these guys put out until 'won't go home without you', mostly because of the chorus melody, but also because dude is totally believable as a really determined sociopath stalker.

"This Love" is a top karaoke joint.

"Makes Me Wonder" for the win -- that bridge!

"Makes Me Wonder", but I like all of these incl. "She Will Be Loved".

agree that This Love is a jam

ranked:

makes me wonder
harder to breathe
if i never see your face again
sunday morning
she will be loved
this love
wake up call
won't go home without you

makes me wonder
harder to breathe
if i never see your face again
this love
wake up call
sunday morning
won't go home without you
she will be loved

Wake Up Call is so underrated.

I mean, the lyrics!

I think people don't like the lyrics - I think they're great!

Would that all bands with modest (artistic) aspirations were this tasty (and sexy!). "This Love" is undeniable. Even Simon Reynolds likes it. But I gotta go with "Makes Me Wonder" for the way it speeds past Adam's lies. He ain't wonderin' shit.

don't really care about "Wake Up Call"'s lyrics either way, cool intro attached to a really monotonous song. good as an album cut but lousy single choice.

if "Kiwi" had been a single, it would've been their very best: salacious and slithery.

yeah, the problem with "wake up call" is that it's kind of boring musically

1. makes me wonder
2. this love
999. that tripe with rihanna

wtf is with rihanna? she totally sucks now ever since she's been fucking chris brown

and he sucks too what is up with that "forever" song.

i do not approve of this couple

chris brown strikes me as a total tool

wait, you're forgetting "no air," strong contender for single-of-the-year

I really like "With You" - though I can see why people hate on it.

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I voted for Sunday Morning.

the rihanna song. i like duets, and it's maybe their best mimicry of that '80s electro-soul thing. should have been produced by phil collins or dave stewart.

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nice

yeah surprisingly good showing for "Harder To Breathe"

LOL. I guess this band has even fewer fans on here than DMB.

I didn't see it in time to vote, but "This Love" has it because of a great intro.

Yes, Geir. A song that begins with a few instrumental bars of the same section that plays under all the verses constitutes a "great intro." WTF kind of songwriting snob are you?

i'm way more excited about this than i probably should be

01 If I Never See Your Face Again [ft. Cross] (Swizz Beatz Remix)
02 Wake Up Call [ft. Mary J. Blige] (Mark Ronson Remix)
03 Sunday Morning (?uestlove Remix)
04 Makes Me Wonder (Just Blaze Remix)
05 This Love (Tricky Stewart Remix)
06 She Will Be Loved (Pharrell Williams Remix)
07 Shiver (DJ Quik Remix)
08 Wake Up Call [ft. David Banner] (David Banner Remix)
09 Harder to Breathe [ft. the Cool Kids] (The Cool Kids Remix)
10 Little of Your Time (Bloodshy and Avant Remix)
11 Little of Your Time (Of Montreal Remix)
12 Goodnight Goodnight (Deerhoof Remix)
12 Not Falling Apart (Tiësto Remix)
13 Better That We Break (Ali Shaheed Muhammad Remix)
14 Secret (DJ Premier Remix)
15 Woman (Sam Farrar of Phantom Planet Remix)
16 This Love (Cut Copy Remix)
17 If I Never See Your Face Again [ft. Rihanna] (Paul Oakenfold remix)

niiice, I got kind of excited too when I saw they were releasing a remix album but had no idea what would be on it, and that's pretty close to what I was hoping for.

looks like a fitting companion piece to this, which is pretty dope, I think ethan has repped for it on here before too:

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee127/amora1012/Limp_Bizkit_New_Old_Songs-Back-wwwF.jpg

08 Wake Up Call [ft. David Banner] (David Banner Remix)

this is one instance where I actually hope all Banner does is throw a "Rubber Band Man"-knockoff beat on there.

i kind of hope all the people on this tracklist that are mainly producers just throw their normal stuff under these songs

im going to even pretend like pharrell's rmx of "she will be loved" is gonna end up like "frontin" and not "number ones" (is that what that song is called?) or something

would download

yeah, like "Little Of Your Time" with a "Toxic" backing would be just fine with me, no need to get creative. (xpost)

new album has a distressing number of industry hands as co-writers

not that i was expecting anything from it... they haven't had a great single in years, but just kinda depressing to look at

i liked that one single from their last album that didn't go anywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1PsqBmbvM

last album had some dope shit imo

i loved "misery" too

http://i47.tinypic.com/21l8xfn.jpg

"Payphone" is so goddamn annoying.

wtf is with rihanna? she totally sucks now ever since she's been fucking chris brown

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and he sucks too what is up with that "forever" song.

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i do not approve of this couple

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:06 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chris brown strikes me as a total tool

― The Reverend, Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:12 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

new album has a distressing number of industry hands as co-writers

if you can spend months with mutt lange recording in europe and get zero big hits from it, you may require life support

industry hands all over the new album seemed like an inevitability after the steep diminishing returns of what-they-usually-do on the 3rd album and the face-saving success of a Benny Blanco/Shellback production

based on writing credits one of the bonus tracks on this album appears to be a J.R. Rotem production that samples Amadou & Mariam's joint with Damon Albarn

Maroon 5's latest album industry Hands All Over

based on writing credits one of the bonus tracks on this album appears to be a J.R. Rotem production that samples Amadou & Mariam's joint with Damon Albarn

― bronytheus (some dude), Monday, June 18, 2012 9:57 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh lord

On March 8, 2012, it was announced that Jesse Carmichael would take a break from the band for an undetermined amount of time to focus more on his studies of music and "spiritual healing".

i bet the non-Levine members of the band did less on this album than the non-Stefani members of No Doubt did on Rock Steady

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