2007: #10 - "Makes Me Wonder"

If their previous hit "This Love" was Maroon 5 attempting to, and failing miserably at, conjure up funky soul icons like James Brown and Stevie Wonder (seriously, that's what the band, and some critics, claimed) then "Makes Me Wonder", which fondly recalls Hall & Oates and Justin Timberlake, is the band successfully finding their true calling as white men imitating white men imitating black soul singers.

Regardless of what you think about this band, if you don't remember how good the hooks in this song are, go back and listen to it again. The main riff and the verse are a little sketchy, so it does take a little long to truly get going, but we count about 4 or 5 really catchy chorus and pre-chorus hooks that all rank near the top of the list for 2007.

It's not original in any way, and, yes, even the melodies we're raving about have a familiar feel to them, as if they stole them all from other places and just mashed them together. But that doesn't mean it isn't a good song.