Not Today

Not Today Artist: Maren Ord
Label: Maximum Canada
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 726534001121
EAN: 0726534001121
ASIN: B00061F86Y


Release Date: 2004-10-07

Not Today


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Tracks:

  1. Life Is a Train
  2. Thanks for the Memories
  3. Say Goodbye
  4. Hiding Place
  5. Not Today
  6. Where Are You Now

Similar Items:

  1. Waiting
  2. Traveling Light

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars It's not "Waiting", but worth a listen........2006-06-07

Ok, I love Maren. Love love love. She's in my top ten artists, and has some songs that are just sheer brilliance.

Waiting has got to be one of my favourite albums. It's just amazing from track to track. Not Today, I wish I could say the same.

It seems that she's drifting more to the pop/rock spectrum, rather than the same pop/folk thing she had going on.

Maren can do much better, but this album is still better than more than half the stuff that is on the charts at the moment. Worth a listen, people who haven't heard Waiting will especially like it..

3 out of 5 stars Disappointed.......2005-04-25

I absolutely loved Maren's first album, Waiting - almost every song of it. The combination of gentle acoustics and the occasional energetic semi-rocker (e.g. "Perfect"), with meaningful and creative lyrics all through, made it one of my favorites, and it still is. So for the longest time I was waiting for her second release really expectantly, and was really excited when it was here.

Unfortunately, it doesn't at all match her first album. For one thing, there are only 6 tracks! I know she's been busy getting married and all since her first CD, but you'd think this one would at least be a full LP. However, the music itself doesn't match the first by a long shot, either. It's not so much the style or the tunes or instrumentals, they're great. It does have a more rock-like sound, and it's one that I like. I do miss the softer songs from the first one - like Waiting, All I Want is You, Beautiful, and others.

And that gets into my main point - the lyrics and the content. Especially songs like "Not Today" and "Say Goodbye" - they're the kind of "Miss Independent" stuff that there wasn't any of on the first album, and that I don't particularly enjoy. Her first album was full of youthful hope and excitement and romance and personal trials, and the lyrics were so easy to relate to. But the ones on here sound more like a lot of the other artists and songs out there in the mainstream - a lot more like regular pop music.

The best song is probably "Where Are You Now" - it definitely comes the closest to the material on her first CD, in terms of the raw emotion and the struggle at making sense of people, relationships and the world, and trying to find meaning. Very non-superficial, and something I wish there was a lot more of here.

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  4. Flowers In The Dirt
  5. Focus ~ Birdmen of Alcatraz
  6. Popular Crimes ~ Craig Marshall
  7. Live: All Tore Down ~ Mich Abrahams' Blodwyn Pig
  8. Orgonon ~ Laila France
  9. Summer Holiday ~ Cliff Richard & The Shadows
  10. Full On! ~ Toshi Iseda

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