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Lene Marlin - Playing My Game Audio CD

A fair review of the Lene Marlin "Playing My Game" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Lene Marlin reviews here, or go back to the Lene Marlin tabs.

Lene Marlin Band: Lene Marlin
Title: Playing My Game
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Release Date: 2003-02-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Sitting Down Here 2: Playing My Game 3: Unforgivable 4: Flown Away 5: Way We Are 6: So I See 7: Maybe I'll Go 8: Where I'm Headed 9: One Year Ago 10: Place Nearby 11: Sitting Down Here [Tin Tin Out Mix] 12: Playing My Game [Acoustic Verison] 13: Way We Are [Live at Sound Republic]

Great pop-soft rock music
The CD is a series of ballads that are sung with heart and cheer, good rythm, and you just want to sing or hum along. I discovered this CD in England where Lena Marlin is very successful.
If you like K's choice, the Cranberries etc, then you will like that one too.


Fun and uplifting
We like to listen to this CD while we do housework. Interesting mix of music.


Why isn't this girl flaunting her talent?
To my disappointment on first listening they all sounded very similar with little room for variation. I loved 'Sitting Down Here' so much I bought the album without thinking what could her other tracks could be like. However, on further listening I was drawn in by the sonority and ease of her voice and the peacefulness of her guitar playing. I fell in love with the album. It has now been over two years and I haven't come across a second, and by the way things look I shouldn't be expecting one. Lene, stop wasting your talent and flaunt it!.


Good but a little too same-y
She followed it up with the even better 'Unforgiveably Sinner', but unfortunately despite extensive radio play it didn't do too well for her. Lene Marlin crashed onto the music scene with radio-friendly guitar pop record 'Sitting Down Here', a tune that was one of the best songs of the year. This may well have had something to do with the early release of her album, which although it wasn't panned, certainly wasn't hailed as 'the next big thing'. The problem is that from her first two singles Lene Marlin promised too much and gave too little.

Containing three excellent tracks - the two singles and the gorgeously haunting 'A Place Nearby' - the rest is mostly filler. Many of the songs just sound like variations on 'Sitting Down Here', in particular 'Where I'm Headed' which surely at least uses the same loop. At the end of the day it's a nice enough album and completely inoffensive, but guitar-driven teenage pop has had to make way for the likes of Britney and Christina. It's a shame really that the album is such a let-down, and even this is only because her singles are so good, but this album has little up its sleeve but the singles. And unfortunately this style of adult-orientated pop probably won't go down well with the teen market that Lene Marlin seems to be aiming for. Still, the potential for a great artist is definitely there, and it's impressive that at such a young age she's able to write an entire album all by herself, but it might be wiser in the future to bring in other elements.


Very Different from Britney, Christina etc.
I downloaded it on Napster and listened to it over and over again. I heard Sitting Down Here countless times on the radio in 1999 or thereabouts and fell absoutely in love with the song. But I didn't hear anything more about Lene Marlin so I figured she must have been a one-hit wonder. But then I downloaded Unforgivable Sinner and fell even more in love with her songs. So when I happened to see a copy of her CD in a CD shop I immediantly bought it. And I'm very happy to say it was money well spent. Even though not all of the tracks are ones you'll listen to over and over again and sing along to, they're ones that are excellent 'chilling out' music or the like. The ones you can sing along to which in my case include, Sitting Down Here, Unforgivable Sinner, The Way We Were, So I See and Where I'm Headed. But this really is a good CD and if you have a chance, buy it!.


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