Best Maroon 5 Albums
The best songs on this album are the less popular ones. While everyone loves This Love, She Will Be Loved, and Sunday Morning, Must Get Out and The Sun always make me cry. I wish more than anything that I could go back in time and see Maroon 5 on tour with this album.
I mean, it was before they became ridiculously famous, so they weren't afraid to take risks with their lyrics, and they were more on the rock side than the pop. All I know is that it really was their best album and may be one of the best of the 21st century.
Songs About Jane may be slightly better, but this album is a perfect mix of modern and older Maroon 5. It also helps that this album carries the most influence from The Police of any album, including my favorite song, "Won't Go Home Without You."
My #2 favorite album. I like the main ones like Wake Up Call, Makes Me Wonder, and Goodnight Goodnight. However, I always jam out to Can't Stop, Little of Your Time, Back at Your Door, and Won't Go Home Without You.
While Songs About Jane is the best, this album has rock songs with style injected into them. Most of the SAJ songs are garage rock songs, which isn't bad, but this album has more memorable songs, in my opinion.
I like this a bit more than Hands All Over due to the songs being a bit better, in my opinion. Payphone, Beautiful Goodbye, Ladykiller, The Man Who Never Lied, One More Night, Doin' Dirt, Daylight, Lucky Strike, and Fortune Teller are big highlights.
I thought this was by far their best album. One More Night and Lucky Strike are absolutely amazing songs.
Some of their best work yet. Highlights include "Payphone," "One More Night," and "Daylight."
Best Maroon 5 Album: Hands All Over, Hands Down!
In MY opinion, Hands All Over is Maroon 5's absolute BEST album ever, with the more bluesy Songs About Jane following right behind. With their versatile sound over the years, I feel this was the era of their perfection. This album is just pure musical genius. Each track on this album is extremely catchy and, if given the chance, would definitely top the charts. They're very memorable and enjoyable to listen to.
From the upbeat earworms "Give A Little More," "Don't Know Nothing," "Get Back in My Life," "Stutter," "Never Gonna Leave This Bed," and "I Can't Lie," to the emotional beauty of "How," "Runaway," and "Just A Feeling," Hands All Over is truly spectacular.
How anyone could dislike this album is completely beyond my comprehension. The deluxe album is definitely worth getting - it includes "Last Chance," an amazing and extremely catchy song, "No Curtain Call," another wonderful track, as well as acoustic versions of "Misery" and "Never Gonna Leave This Bed," and a beautifully done cover of "If I Ain't Got You," originally by Alicia Keys.
This is REAL talent, and I personally think that Adam Levine has an amazing voice that doesn't get enough credit. Plus, these songs were written by him as well as his bandmates, since I know some people frown upon hiring co-writers. Unlike It Won't Be Soon Before Long, these tracks aren't exclusively about sex and are a tad more subtle (except "Moves Like Jagger" and "Hands All Over"). If you're looking for truly genuine and memorable pop-rock music, I HIGHLY recommend this album. And if you're anything like me, you'll end up playing it every single day.
Overall great!
Story and The Way I Was are amazing. Figure It Out, Until You're Over Me, and Losing My Mind are great as well. Miss You Love You and Infatuation are my least favorites, but they're still good.
Good album. I think it should be a bit higher up. I love Miss You Love You and Infatuation.
This album isn't bad or that far off from what they've done in the past. However, the sloppy and sometimes profane lyrics and instrumentation on songs like "Feelings" (the worst song they've ever done), "Animals," "New Love," and "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" (which would've been a cooler song with a less try-hard chorus) are pretty big turn-offs.
However, gems like "Coming Back for You," "Maps" (which shows influence from another favorite of mine and Maroon 5, The Police), and "It Was Always You" still hold true to a unique Maroon 5 sound. These songs could've sat alongside a few tracks on their second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long (heck, so could "Sugar" or "In Your Pocket").
Overall, it's a good album, but it's their worst/most disappointing one to date. I hope the next one from my favorite modern band is better.
This album is awesome! It's all the songs from Songs About Jane, but with longer guitar solos. The songs are more complex, and there's an early version of Wasted Years!
Honestly, this is, at its core, a Maroon 5 album, just with a different and more youthful approach, but I love it for that. This is Maroon 5 in their teenage years, making childish and angsty pop-punk and power pop music, on par with the likes of Green Day, Blink-182, New Found Glory, and Weezer. Though it wasn't as popular of an album, this record could more than compete in terms of enjoyability with any number of those artists' albums and even Maroon 5's entire subsequent catalog.
It's more pop-ish than any other, but I feel like in their next album they will tone it down a bit. It kinda fits into the category of super-catchy white people music, but it introduced me to Maroon 5, so the first is my favorite.
I actually like this album a lot. I can kind of see why some people hate it, but I disagree with them.
I like Memories (one of their best songs). The rest of the album is okay. It could be better, though.