Despite Maroon 5’s bevy of hit singles since Adam Levine took to his red chair on The Voice, I don’t believe they’ve ever topped their debut album.
2002’s Songs About Jane is alternately jazzy and muscular, a sleek and sexy song cycle that delivers from its first note to its last.
The band’s recent music is no less catchy but perhaps a bit too polished. Levine and company have become master pop craftsmen — there’s little doubt that a new Maroon 5 song will stick both in your head and on the charts — but their music lacks the sense of adventure that typified this record.
You build me up
You knock me down
Provoke a smile
And make me frown
You are the queen of runaround
You know it’s true
[Verse 2]
You chew me up
You spit me out
Enjoy the taste
I leave in your mouth
You look at me
I look at you
Neither of us know what to do
[Chorus]
There may not
Be another way to your heart
So I guess I’d better find a new way in
I shiver when I hear your name
Think about you but it’s not the same
I won’t be satisfied ’til I’m under your skin
[Verse 3]
Immobilized by the thought of you
Paralyzed by the sight of you
Hypnotized by the words you say
Not true but I believe them anyway
[Verse 4]
So come to bed It’s getting late
There’s no more time for us to waste
Remember how my body tastes
You feel your heart begin to race
[Chorus][x3]
Meet Me In Montauk 
100% agree. I wonder if they will ever go back toward the more jazzy and funky sound. I suppose with the success they have had of late, there is little incentive to do so.