Track Listing

1. Harder to Breathe
2. This Love
3. Shiver
4. She Will Be Loved
5. Tangled
6. Sun
7. Must Get Out
8. Sunday Morning
9. Secret
10. Through with You
11. Not Coming Home [Live]
12. Sweetest Goodbye
13. Rag Doll [*]
14. Harder to Breathe [Acoustic][Live][*]
15. This Love [Acoustic][Live][*]
16. This Love [Kanye West Remix][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65035 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-17
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import

Album Description
The boys of Maroon 5 have certainly come a long way since their days in the indie outfit Kara's Flowers. After the band's demise in 1999, frontman Adam Levine surrounded himself with New York City's urban hip-hop culture and found a new musical calling. Maroon 5 were born and their debut album, Songs About Jane, illustrates an impressive rebirth. This import version of their 2002 album adds 4 bonus tracks, 'Rag Doll', 'Harder to Breathe' (Acoustic), 'This Love' (Acoustic) and 'This Love' (Kanye West Remix). BMG.

Customer Reviews

Pop is not dead
Okay, not everyone will agree with me when I call this 'pop', but personally I think Maroon 5 is just about the best pop music around at the moment.

As for the extra tracks on this 'Asian' version... 3 out of the 4 aren't special. The acoustic versions of "Harder to Breathe" and "She Will be Loved" appear to be lifted straight from the acoustic 1.22.03 EP (that's the recording date given for both). They're pleasant enough but not a match for the studio versions. The Kanye West remix of "This Love" strikes me as pretty average, but I'm not a fan of remixes generally and may be biased.

The REAL bonus here is "Rag Doll", a bluesy song over 5 minutes long that is every bit as good as the main album. If you're thinking of buying the album anyway, this track is the reason to give serious consideration to getting the 16-track version.

With The Bonus Tracks...
Hello, I am twelve years old and I am a big fan of Maroon 5. This is their debut release with 11 studio tracks and 1 live track. Except the one you are looking at here is a special edition with bonus tracks. It includes the previously unreleased song, Ragdoll, which I think is either an outtake or an alt. take for Sunday Morning. This special edition also includes the acoustic versions for Harder To Breathe and This Love. They are both live somewhere, and they were originally on the acoustic album they came out last year in 2004. There is also a remix by the rappers known as Kanye West for This Love which is the final bonus track. These are all pretty good, but I think it would've been better if they also included the b-side called Woman from the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack, but they couldn't because it came out before the Spider-Man 2 sountrack was released.

Now for the main album, which I believe is very nice with funk and a little softer rock mixed together. I'm not referring to anything like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. No, these guys are different than that kind of funk. It's definitely not 80's funk either. It is actually the new funk that came out somewhere in 1999 or 2000. This funk is sort of rock, and it's hard to explain. Some people might consider this kind of funk made with blues, funk rock, and acoustic punk mixed together. If you listen to those samples, you'll know what I'm getting at. All 5 members of this band agreed to make this kind of music, and I think it was an extremely good agreement and that was what was happening as they were making their to the top.

So, when you first turn on your CD player, the first track you here is Harder to Breathe. You hear drums pounding as it goes up into the serious rock and the singer sings his somewhat agitated vocals as he seems to be upset with someone, but not like Slipknot, this is far from that it's a lot softer. Then after that we go on to This Love, which is definitely one of the best or is the best track on the album. It is a radio hit like any song on this album, but it is extremely big and was I beieve the top fifth song of 2004. Then after that we go onto Shiver, which is one of my favorites. It has a nice chorus, and most members of the bands sing this together. This isn't as well-known as most of the songs on this album, but I think it is well-titled, the name of the song represents it pretty well. Then after that we move on the top song of 2004, She Will Be Loved. This is played on the radio all of the time almost, and it is extremely good. It's about this guy and he has trouble with which he wants to be with but then he makes the right choice and chooses the lonely one. Anyway, after that we move on to the song Tangled, which the music sounds like something that would be good for a video game. The vocals are very serious in this, which breaks my video game thought. This is one of those tracks on this album that isn't quite a hit but it well-recognized. After that we move on the song Sun, which I think is a little soft and not fit for me. It is not my favorite on the album, it just doesn't have enough noise. Listen to it and see for yourself.

Take a break as move on to the second half of the album...Now we're going to the track Must Get Out, and same things for this track as Sun. I just didn't really prefer, but these are about the only two songs that aren't very cool on the entire album. After that, there's the song Sunday Morning, which is my favorite. There's piano and the singer's brilliant voice, and the chorus is a little weird but it's nothing you should care about. It's just a good song and one of the popular ones on the album. Next is the song Secret, with a boring intro but the song gets really good. Everyone hates the intro to this song, and so I do. If you absolutely can't stand it, then fast forward it. After that is the song Through With You, which is intense. It's hard to figure out if the guy is through with her, or if he's been through with her for a long time. Or if he's had a great experience with her. I couldn't get it but it's an ok song. The second to the last song of the CD is not a studio track but a live one. I really wished they had record a studio version, but the quality isn't that bad live either. The name is Not Coming Home, and it's a great song. Also you learn the singer's voice naturally sounds like that and he doesn't use advanced studio machinery to do it. Finally we have Sweetest Goodbye which is a nice ending song. It's nice with a catchy tune, and it's so sincere it actually sounds like the band is saying goodbye to you. This song really got me liking it, and it's one of the main reasons to buy this.

Overall Grade: 9/10

Overall Opinion: A nice CD, but I lowered it one point because of the two songs I didn't care much for, and the other ten are superb and the bonus tracks are cool with one unreleased track two acoustic tracks and one remix. Almost perfect!

Bonus Track, Ragdoll is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!
This particular Bonus Track, "Ragdoll" is so good that it makes this CD worth every penny I paid for it. I can listen to this over and over and not get tired of it. There are not many bands that are worth actually buying the cd as opposed to downloading the few good songs on any given cd. M5 is worth buying anything that they come out with. I highly recommend lending your ear to the sweet sounds.