Maroon 5 - Hands All Over (2010)

Soul-pop group Maroon 5 has always known its way around a huge pop hook, and rock super-producer Mutt Lange (Def Leppard, AC/DC) is no slouch himself. So the teaming of the two on Maroon 5's third album, "Hands All Over," yields predictably catchy results, sleekly packaged for maximum radio impact. Every one of the album's 12 tracks lands between the three- and four-minute mark, and any one of them could be a single. This kind of efficiency is not to be discounted: Maroon 5 knows its function, and that's to create hits. And several songs on "Hands All Over" sound like monsters: "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" is carefully restrained before it explodes into a gigantic sing-along chorus, and "How" mines the same mid-tempo ballad territory that Train hits on so well. "Hands All Over" may be pop music globalization, but it's hard to argue with the results.

1. Misery
2. Give a Little More
3. Stutter
4. Don’t Know Nothing
5. Never Gonna Leave This Bed
6. I Can’t Lie
7. Hands All Over
8. How
9. Get Back in My Life
10. Just a Feeling
11. Runaway
12. Out of Goodbyes feat. Lady Antebellum
13. Last Chance
14. No Curtain Call
15. Never Gonna Leave This Bed (Acoustic)
16. Misery (Acoustic)
17. If I Ain’t Got You (Live)

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