Artist.......: Maroon 5
Album........: Live au Casino de Paris
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Pop
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2012-03-31
Str.date.....: 2011-03-02
Quality......: 229kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.maroon5.com/
track title time
1. Live au Casino de Paris 53:10
Runtime 53:10
Size 87.41
Release Notes:
A mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul made Maroon 5 one of the most popular
bands of the 2000s, with songs like "This Love," "She Will Be Loved," and "Makes
Me Wonder" all topping the charts worldwide. Previously, bandmates Adam Levine
(vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Mickey Madden (bass), and Ryan
Dusick (drums) had spent the latter half of the '90s playing in Kara's Flowers,
even releasing a debut album for Reprise Records while still attending high
school. The record tanked, however, and Kara's Flowers found themselves dropped
from Reprise's roster. After briefly attending college, the bandmates regrouped
as Maroon 5, added former Square guitarist James Valentine to the lineup and
embracing a more R&B-influenced sound. Several years later, the quintet had
officially risen to the forefront of pop music with Songs About Jane and It
Won't Be Soon Before Long, both of which went multi-platinum.
Songs About Jane propelled the band into the mainstream, but the album was not
an immediate hit. Octone Records had signed the newly christened Maroon 5 in
2001, and the debut album Jane received a lukewarm response upon its in June
2002. "Harder to Breathe" became a radio staple 17 months later and was soon
followed by the omnipresent "This Love," whose steamy video (featuring frontman
Levine and a barely clothed girlfriend) wooed the TV-watching crowds at MTV.
Songs About Jane finally entered the Billboard Top Ten in August 2004, more than
two years after the album's release, and follow-up singles like "She Will Be
Loved" and "Sunday Morning" helped the album move over 2.7 million copies by
year's end.
Maroon 5 toured exhaustively in support of Jane's slow-burning success, issuing
two stopgap recordings -- 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live Friday the
13th -- while traveling the world alongside groups like the Rolling Stones and
John Mayer. Their schedule was especially trying on percussionist Dusick, who
sustained wrist and shoulder injuries and was often unable to play. By fall
2006, Dusick had been officially replaced by Matt Flynn (the former drummer for
Gavin DeGraw), and the revised band released its sophomore effort in May 2007.
It Won't Be Soon Before Long proved to be less popular than its predecessor
(which had sold more than four million copies in the U.S. alone), but it still
enjoyed double-platinum certification while spinning off the chart-topping
single "Makes Me Wonder."
Maroon 5 had cemented their status as pop/rock heavyweights, and they now had
the connections to prove it. Released in late 2008, Call and Response: The Remix
Album reinterpreted the band's catalog with remixes by influential producers
like Mary J. Blige, Mark Ronson, and Pharrell Williams. Meanwhile, the band
worked with a different producer -- veteran rock/country architect Robert John
"Mutt" Lange -- on a third studio album, Hands All Over, which was released in
September 2010.