“Songs About Jane” 10th Anniversary Edition Out Today!

Can you believe it’s been a decade since Songs About Jane, the debut album from Maroon 5, was released? I couldn’t even hazard a guess as to how many times I’ve played this record. It is one of my all-time favorite pieces of music, ever. Since 2003, I’ve been faithfully covering my home in Maroon 5 merchandise, eagerly anticipating every album release, traveling out of state to see them in concert, and more recently, enjoying their increased Top 40 popularity thanks to ventures like “The Voice”. Suffice to say, it’s a good month to be a fan, with both Overexposed AND the 10th Anniversary reissue of Songs About Jane being released! The re-release is out TODAY, and I will be reviewing it here on Contest Corner later in the month, so keep your eyes peeled for that.

I am really excited for the re-release, because it’s a 2-CD set which includes demos and previously unreleased material. I’ll be fascinated to hear the demos and get a peek into the creative process of my favorite band. The demos for “This Love” and “She Will Be Loved” are available to stream now – click here to visit Maroon5.com for more info. It’s a nice taste of what’s to come on the re-release, so I can’t wait!

I’m even more excited for the rarities and unreleased material. This includes “Take What You Want”, a demo that was floating around pre-Won’t Be Soon Before Long – I want to say this was one of a few demos that they played at shows for a while before the second album, so I’ve been waiting to hear a higher quality version of this for a long time! Also included is “Rag Doll” (A B-side which I got on the “Deluxe” version of SAJ in 2004) and “Woman” (From the Spider-Man soundtrack, although it says “Demo” so it could be one of several versions which I’ve heard), and excitingly, “Chilly Winter”, a song which this hardcore fan has never heard before. The 2nd CD also includes access to video footage from the making of Songs About Jane which I can’t wait to see in its entirety.

Check out the official release and track listing below:

It’s been a decade since Maroon 5 burst onto the music scene with Songs About Jane, their debut album which came out in June 2002. It has gone on to sell close to five million copies in the U.S. alone, producing three hit singles in “Harder to Breathe,” “This Love” and “She Will be Loved,” earning the group a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

To mark the occasion, a deluxe Songs About Jane 10th Anniversary Edition will debut today as a two-CD set that includes the demos of the 12 original songs, including previously unreleased songs like “Take What You Want,” “Woman” and “Chilly Winter,” as well as “Rag Doll” (a non-album B-side available only internationally) and an alternative mix of “The Sun.” The second disc provides access to a pair of videos on maroon5.com through PUSH technology when the CD is inserted into a computer, including unreleased in-studio footage of the making of Songs About Jane and the official electronic press kit for the album.

Songs about Jane hit No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and topped the charts in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and France. The first single, “Harder to Breathe,” released a month after the album, started to pick up airplay, spurring sales of the album which hit the top 20 in Billboard by March 2004 and reached the top 10 by the end of the year. It was the seventh best-selling album of the year in the U.S., moving 2.7 million copies.

The band’s fourth album Overexposed, with current hit single “Payphone” featuring Wiz Khalifa, arrives June 26th. For more on the band, including ordering info for both releases, visit their official website at www.Maroon5.com.

Songs About Jane 10th Anniversary Tracklisting:

Disc 1:
1) Harder To Breathe 2:54
2) This Love 3:27
3) Shiver 3:00
4) She Will Be Loved (Radio Mix) 4:20
5) Tangled 3:18
6) The Sun 4:12
7) Must Get Out 3:59
8 ) Sunday Morning 4:06
9) Secret 4:55
10) Through With You 3:02
11) Not Coming Home 4:21
12) Sweetest Goodbye 4:31

Disc 2:
1) Harder To Breathe (Demo) 2:18
2) This Love (Demo) 3:22
3) Shiver (Demo) 3:10
4) She Will Be Loved (Demo) 3:09
5) Tangled (Demo) 2:44
6) The Sun (Demo) 3:23
7) Must Get Out (Demo) 3:17
8 ) Sunday Morning (Demo) 4:12
9) Secret (Demo) 4:10
10) Through With You (Demo) 3:23
11) Not Coming Home (Demo) 3:52
12) Sweetest Goodbye (Demo) 3:30
13) Take What You Want (Demo) 2:26
14) Rag Doll (Original Demo/Non-LP International B-Side) 5:29
15) Woman (Demo) 4:05
16) Chilly Winter (Demo) 2:56
17) The Sun (Alternate Mix) 4:16

PUSH video content:
1) The Making of “Songs About Jane” In Studio Footage
2) The Official “Songs About Jane” EPK