Not Today [Import]

Maren Ord | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Maximum Canada
• ASIN: B00061F86Y
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #739,001 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Life Is a Train

2. Thanks for the Memories

3. Say Goodbye

4. Hiding Place

5. Not Today

6. Where Are You Now

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This girl has it all - definitely can take the mike, June 11, 2005

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Dave (Golden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Not Today (Audio CD)

Isn't anybody listening? Maren's voice is one that any band would die for. She has moved on from the soft, gentle teen driven lyrics on songs like "Beautiful" & "Tonight" (two of my favorites from her debut "Waiting"), to multi-layered guitar riffs, bass, & drum rhythms, that she weaves her vocals in and out of with ease, leaving it all out there. To put it simply, Maren makes the music in two albums many artists can't attain in one lifetime. She's done the work. Oh, and Randy Bachman is anything but mainstraim, like when he played slide with the drummers stick, the summer of '74 in the Miami Orange Bowl. Just buy both CD's as this new fan of hers plans to, and you will have everything! ... except tickets to her show!!! "Thank You for the Memories" Maren!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, April 24, 2005

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Pete (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Not Today (Audio CD)

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.

I still gave this 3 stars, because it certainly still is better than most CDs out there, it's very well-produced, and Maren is one talented singer and songwriter. But I hope we don't have to wait very long for the next full album from her, and I think it'll be fine if she keeps the production but tries to get the feel of it back in some ways to "Waiting."

3.0 out of 5 stars It's not "Waiting", but worth a listen., June 6, 2006

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crazycanucker "Rach" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Not Today (Audio CD)

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..