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| It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 
 enlarge | Artist: Maroon 5
Label: A&M / Octone Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  263 reviews
Sales Rank: 588
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.1 x 0.4
MPN: 602517331068
UPC: 602517331068
EAN: 0602517331068
ASIN: B000P2A256
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Complete with original disc(s), case, and manual. In stock and ships right now! Case has some minor damage.
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| Tracks:
| • | Back At Your Door | | • | Makes Me Wonder | | • | Little of Your Time | | • | Wake Up Call | | • | Won't Go Home Without You | | • | Nothing Lasts Forever | | • | Can't Stop | | • | Goodnight Goodnight | | • | Not Falling Apart | | • | Kiwi | | • | Better That We Break |
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Sometimes it's O.K.--even important--to put aside your reluctance to embrace artists who make teenage girls scream. It happened in 2006, when Justin Timberlake scraped the sludge off pop and left something shiny behind, and it's happening again in 2007 with Maroon 5. It Won't Be Soon Before Long, the L.A. band's sophomore studio disc, rode in on a crest of hype and crumpled expectations--fan reports had it that Adam Levine & Co. scrapped their signature pop-soul sound for something harder and darker. Not so. Shades of Prince, Hall & Oates, and Sting still color the Maroon sound (check out the spectacularly fizzy "Little of Your Time," as well as the first single, "Makes Me Wonder," a song catchier than fire), but they're made ever fainter here by the clamping down of five guys on what is essentially the most distinctive pop sound to emerge from a single band since the Bee Gees squealed into the mid-'70s. It Won't Be Soon squares hip-hop sensibilities ("Wake Up Call") with rock ones ("If I Never See Your Face Again") and stormy moods ("Can't Stop") with bittersweet ballads ("Better That We Break"). It's a disc destined to defy detractors and go on to greatness, elevating the credibility of teenage girls for years to come. --Tammy La Gorce
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| Customer Reviews: Read 258 more reviews...
 Am I the only person who EXPECTED a different album than SAJ II? May 30, 2007
71 out of 79 found this review helpful
Reading reviews from people who go to great lengths to say how "over it" they are when a band (god forbid) changes their musical direction a bit and produces a follow-up to a hugely successful album that dares to be different than its predecessor crack me up.
If the only Maroon 5 set you ever want to hear is SAJ, then don't ever buy any others, just keep listening to that. I loved Songs About Jane, I loved their live acoustic CD's, and I love their new CD. So what if a lot of their lyrics are about love gone wrong - we live in a country where more relationships fail than flourish, so most of us can relate to the lyrics. That they are able to capture the emotions associated with it (anger, bitterness, revenge, sadness, acceptance) in such a wide variety of musical styles speaks to the strength of their creativity, and that they channel some greats in the process (yes, Won't Go Home does have an Every Breath You Take-like guitar riff) is awesome.
I won't go song-by-song, but there are so many great tracks on this CD - catchy, lyrically clever, tightly produced - that the fact that there are a couple filler tracks is largely unimportant. You can't find hardly anyone who doesn't hum along to Makes Me Wonder, and I'd venture to say that several more tracks from this CD - If I Never See Your Face Again, Little of Your Time, Won't Go Home Without You, Can't Stop, Kiwi, Back at Your Door - are also major hit single potential.
There's no point in whining that your favorite best-kept-secret band hit the bigtime and is writing for a larger audience - all of their material they've done has been great in different ways, and this CD is going to be huge. Can't wait to see 'em live again.
The Band that Beat the Curse of the 'Best New Artist' Grammy June 19, 2007
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
Normally (although not deliberately), I tend to ignore bands like Maroon 5. A bluntly commercial band with this much corporate support does not need my backing, so I usually leave it alone and let the marketplace decide for itself. The world at large seems to understand Avril Lavigne, Nickelback and Fall Out Boy a lot better than I do anyway, so voicing my opinion about the musical value of these acts would feel like screaming at the wall. Usually, I simply look the other way, but I've been listening to "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" for a few weeks now, and it has me believing that Maroon 5 can justify the hype.
Maroon 5's last album, "Songs About Jane," may have been released in 2002, but I didn't hear a note of it until two years later, when the relentless push from the band's backers finally ignited the jet fuel that lifted the band to stardom. Apparently, I wasn't alone in this regard, since the band took home a Grammy award for best new artist three years later, in 2005. Naturally, that brought them a lot of attention, but I figured they would suffer the same fate as many previous `Best New Artist' winners and vanish into the night sky. "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" renders my prediction obsolete. The production is damn near perfect, but in a mid-`80s, Quincy Jones kind of way that often gets in the way of allowing the band to establish its own identity. There is a slick, funky sheen to the best songs, and vocalist Adam Levine dishes out melodies that are flawlessly polished to a full luster. Imagine Maxwell covering a Michael Jackson hit with an ace rock band for support, and you'll get close to the essence of this song collection.
The subject matter is also intriguing. There are lots of cheating songs on the disk, and lots of lyrics that will break the hearts of hormone-addled romantics. If his words are remotely autobiographical, then Levine could be the poster boy for the lovelorn, even when his sentiments are shopworn and clichéd; on "Won't Go Home Without You," he knows the girl was right to ditch him, but swears that he needs "one more chance to make it right." On "Nothing Lasts Forever," he sings "I love you but I'm letting go" while "Can't Stop (Thinking About You)" is self-explanatory. "Wake Up Call" is a bit more blatant - "Caught you in the morning with another one in my bed. Don't you care about me anymore?" Umm, I don't think so, dude, but don't worry about it, because there are millions of fans to help to ease your pain. This'll sell zillions, and I can understand why it will.B+Tom Ryan
Over Produced but Solid. May 22, 2007
23 out of 31 found this review helpful
This album doesn't come close to "Songs about Jane." The new disc is washed, scrubbed and polished to the point where you just want to hear some raw emotion out of Levine's voce but you never do. But instead what you do get is smartly written, smarmy pop gems that is still better than most of anything else on the radio these days.
All over the disc you get snippets of other artists that have influenced them and that mostly comes from the 80's. You get a Prince tune: "Kiwi," with its metaphorical lyrics, "Goodnight Goodnight," which sounds as if it fell out of Stevie Wonder's amazing songbook and the stunning "Better that we Break." Maroon 5's a great band, but here it seems as if they are going after a new audience while trying to sustain their old but without branching out as artists. They can handle more than what they are doing on this disc. Levine at times, treads the same waters as he did in "Songs about Jane."
 Up and down and up and down... again June 6, 2007
20 out of 31 found this review helpful
Songs About Jane was one of those albums that lasted a lifetime: I think we must have been listening to "This Love" for well over 2-3 years. And to this day, it holds on well, which makes things tougher for its follow-up.
To that extent, "It Won't Be Soon..." leaves me with mixed feelings. The band starts off with the solid "Makes Me Wonder" and throws in a couple more tracks that are reminding of their original quality: "Nothing Lasts Forever" and the guitar-heavy "Can't Stop". However, the rest of the tracks, though impeccably produced, go up and down in roller coaster fashion leaving an empty feeling behind.
The album comes across as too intentional and not genuine, aiming to fit the times in a very Justin Timberlake sort of way. Is that bad? Not necessarily, but these guys had proven they were capable of more... or not?
 Ho Hum May 22, 2007
14 out of 25 found this review helpful
Blech. I really enjoyed Songs About Jane, even though I'm way past my teen years - and I was eagerly waiting for something new. This is *similar* to the first CD, but there's absolutely nothing new, memorable, or *pounding* about it. Bubblegum Pop at it's best/worst. If you like the singles Makes Me Wonder, or Won't Go Home Without You, then you'll probably enjoy the CD. But if you're looking for something fresh or interesting, then keep looking. I won't be keeping this CD. Too bad, I had such high hopes...
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