Maroon 5 CD - Songs about Jane

[Flasch186]

I highly recommend. Its different yet each song is worth listening to. I think it is one of the top CD's Ill buy this year.

[Cuckoo]

Agreed. I love it as well, and although I'm no music guru like some around here, I like it better than Green Day's, but that's just personal preference in music type probably.

[ice4277]

I think it is very good as well.

[Joe]

i havent heard them yet, maybe ill check it out

[cthomer5000]

I used to listen to this group back in college about 7 years ago when they were called Kara's Flowers. They were a foursome. They added one guy and became Maroon 5.

I thought 'Soap Disco' was a great song back in the day.

There's my music trivia for today.

[Yossarian]

Good trivia.

The album's been a massive seller.

I don't "get" it though. Seems very... 'meh' to me.

[Arles]

I agree that Maroon 5 is a great group, they're just so overplayed right now. Is there enough "non-DJed to death" songs on the album to make it worthwhile now?

[Ksyrup]

I used to listen to this group back in college about 7 years ago when they were called Kara's Flowers. They were a foursome. They added one guy and became Maroon 5.

I thought 'Soap Disco' was a great song back in the day.

There's my music trivia for today.
Kara's Flowers is so much better, but that might be just because I enjoy power pop to the R&B/funk-type stuff that they do now. Overall, the album's vibe is way too slow for me - if they had a couple more songs along the lines of Harder to Breathe and Shiver, I'd probably like it more.

This album has been out forever, but it didn't start getting any notice until about a year or more after its release. I'm still not sure who decided to start pushing them, but all of a sudden one week, this CD showed up in Best Buy's weekly ad at $10 (as if it was new), and suddenly, they took off on a few hit singles. Their rise to fame was really odd.

[INDalltheway]

I saw them in Indianapolis along with John Mayer. It was pretty sweet. I enjoyed Maroon 5 more than Mayer.

[Flasch186]

I think every song on the album including the live song near the end is especially outstanding. I like the album front end to back. Its got a different kind of Jive funk to it that you dont hear very often. True, its not a hard rock flow like Green Day's but this is good in its own way.

[MikeVic]

I like it as well. There are only a couple of songs I don't like, so if all you've heard was the radio stuff, I'd recommend at least trying out the rest of the CD.

[Neuqua]

I am also a big fan. I purchased the CD pretty early on close to its release date and thought at the time it was a very underrated band/CD. Then out of no where they blew up and every one of their songs became hit singles.

Rarely are there CDs that I can listen from beginning to end in one sitting without forwarding through any tracks but Songs about Jane just happens to be one of those.

[Ksyrup]

One good thing about Maroon 5's popularity - Kara's Flowers' Fourth World has been re-released. I've had a burn copy for years, so now I've got the real thing.

[Suicane75]

One of the few "mainstream" bands that I can listen to, I really like their funky sound.

[Ksyrup]

The other thing about them that is a plus is the fact that they are A BAND. That seems to get lost in the shuffle when people think of a pop group that has sold lots of albums. These guys weren't manufactured in some Orlando studio.

[cthomer5000]

I finally heard this album (in it's entirety) for the first time today and i must say....

it sucks.

[Cuckoo]

To each his own, I suppose. This one is still getting play time for me, and I'd put it up there with some of my favorite albums that I own.