Top Ten Albums of 2010 - #03
Maroon 5's Hands All Over
Editor's Note: This is the 8th in a weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2010. New reviews go up every weekend through the end of the year.
I'm pretty sure this album could make the ugliest duckling feel sexy. And if sex could take one of those damned Facebook surveys, it would probably find out that, if it was an album, it would be Hands All Over by Maroon 5.
There are only two songs here that I ever think about skipping. The synth strings on "Don't Know Nothing" are too synth. "Just A Feeling" has an overly-repetitive chorus that just doesn't do anything for me. I bought the deluxe edition with "Last Chance" and "No Curtain Call" - these songs more than make up for those other weak tracks. The acoustic tracks are an interesting, early-M5 take on the first two singles. On the whole, this album is more closely related to Songs About Jane than It Won't Be Soon Before Long: more funky and less rocky, but all good.
Album hightlight: "'Love is a game,' you say/'Play me and put me away'"
Editor's Note: This is the 8th in a weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2010. New reviews go up every weekend through the end of the year.I'm pretty sure this album could make the ugliest duckling feel sexy. And if sex could take one of those damned Facebook surveys, it would probably find out that, if it was an album, it would be Hands All Over by Maroon 5.
There are only two songs here that I ever think about skipping. The synth strings on "Don't Know Nothing" are too synth. "Just A Feeling" has an overly-repetitive chorus that just doesn't do anything for me. I bought the deluxe edition with "Last Chance" and "No Curtain Call" - these songs more than make up for those other weak tracks. The acoustic tracks are an interesting, early-M5 take on the first two singles. On the whole, this album is more closely related to Songs About Jane than It Won't Be Soon Before Long: more funky and less rocky, but all good.
Album hightlight: "'Love is a game,' you say/'Play me and put me away'"
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