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All rights reserved.Mirror Ball - Young, Neil (CD 1995)
| Track Listing 1. Song X 2. Act of Love - (live) 3. I'm the Ocean - (live) 4. Big Green Country - (live) 5. Truth Be Known - (live) 6. Downtown - (live) 7. What Happened Yesterday 8. Peace and Love - (live) 9. Throw Your Hatred Down - (live) 10. Scenery 11. Fallen Angel
Album Notes Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, pump organ); Brendan O'Brien (background vocals, electric guitar, piano). Pearl Jam: Stone Gossard, Mike McCready (electric guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Jack Irons (drums); Eddie Vedder (background vocals). Recorded at Bad Animals, Seattle, Washington on January 26-27 and February 7 & 10, 1995. All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. MIRROR BALL was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Peace And Love" was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, and "Downtown" was nominated for Best Rock Song. No, THIS is the album on which Neil Young sounds like Neil Young again. Not RAGGED GLORY with its pulverizing guitar catharses--that was the sound of rust waking up--and not SLEEPS WITH ANGELS, which was Neil Young using old tricks to eulogize a new dog. They're both important records, but MIRROR BALL is, plainly, a great one, an album of cosmic brooding and monstrously simple guitar riffs that ranks with his classic '70s discs. Young's band for this unlikely masterpiece is Pearl Jam, who end up sounding less like their accomplished selves than like Young's longtime garage band, Crazy Horse, only denser, because there are more guitars here. Mostly, they bash out supradistorted, plodding power chords, opening up a loud space for Young to bang out his own riffs and solos and croon like a cosmic cowboy. The songs are typical Young epics, with verses so sadly pretty that there's no overriding need to change anything once they get going--quite often, he doesn't. "Act Of Love" is a continuous exchange of two two-chord sections--ABABAB etc.--either of which could make for a classic-rock standard on its own. And the 7-minute long "I'm The Ocean," a manifesto for a wandering poet that pulls in imagery of American Indians, cars and the O.J. trial, goes one simpler, being the same four chords repeated 62 times--no chorus, no bridge, and no call for either. Young and Pearl Jam rock with the excited, can't-stop energy of a first rehearsal take, which some of these tracks may well be--listen to Young call out "let me just play the groove for a minute" at the start of "Downtown." Halfway through the album, Young goes to a pump organ for a haunting, 45-second song about "What Happened Yesterday." Much of what follows sounds like more notes on the death of Kurt Cobain, a journal Young started on SLEEPS WITH ANGELS. "Scenery" is a bitter look at stardom in America, but "Peace And Love," which invokes John Lennon, is a plea to live through this: "Stay for the children/You don't really want to go." It defies the rock aging process that Young, at 49, can still speak in a voice that resonates with Cobain's generation, who could well be his children ("People my age/They don't do the things I do," he notes in "I'm The Ocean"). But he inspired them, and they him, and MIRROR BALL finds him back at his game without having to fit into a new flannel shirt. He was already wearing one. Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone Magazine (01/25/1996) Village Voice (02/20/1996) Musician (09/01/1995) Q Magazine (08/01/1995) Melody Maker (06/17/1995) NME (06/24/1995) Spin (09/01/1995) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||||
Reviews  bummedReview created: 04/09/08(updated 04/09/08) by: cheriez1431 ( 5 )  it was all scratchy sounding and had spaces of no sound intersperced throughout! I love Neil Young and hoped it might be a great find. Boo! it wasn't and I'm very disappointed. cherie Review ID: 10000000006604843 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Keeps on rockin'Review created: 01/07/08 by: Neil Young has always been in tune with the times and this album is testimony to that.On Mirrorball Neil grunges it up while maintaining his trademark sound proving that old timers like himself can Keep On Rockin' In The Grunge World or pretty much any world. Review ID: 10000000005034691 Was this review helpful? Report this review Pearl Jam?With members of Pearl Jam as the backing band, Mirror Ball is one hard rocking album. Unfortunately, the downside here is that all the songs blend together and at times it even becomes a little boring. Still, Neil puts forth some fantastic lyrics and vocals and I think it's safe to say that this is a must own album for all Pearl Jam and Young fans. 4 Stars. Review ID: 10000000004664965 Was this review helpful? Report this review Mirror Ball - Neil Young - 1995I am in the process of revisiting Neil Young's work and I am amazed at his improvisations on the same songs. Young is an artist with tremendous range and vision and should be studied by the next generation of Rock n Roll practioners. Review ID: 10000000002620552 Was this review helpful? Report this review   Neil Young Shows Pearl Jam An Act of LoveReview created: 04/25/04 by: MattA75 -- a member of Epinions Pros: fiery playing, both by Young and his "band" Cons: lack of Vedder participation, songs tend to blend together As 1995 began, arguably the biggest rock band in the world was splintering apart. Fame had taken its toll on the reclusive frontman, the lead guitarist was drinking and drugging, the two founding friends and longtime bandmates felt helpless and unhappy, and the band's most popular member amongst die hard fans, the drummer, had been fired and replaced by the original drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was not looking good for Pearl Jam. And then Neil Young came along, and along with Jack Irons (the former RHCP skinsman), the two of them "saved the life of (the) band," if Ed Vedder is to. Review ID: 10000000000243136  EXCLUSIVE: Grunge God + New Rockers On The Block = Titanic CollaborationReview created: 04/17/01 by: Stairway2Drew-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Music Pros: Well, Neil writes all the songs... never a bad thing. Cons: Pearl Jam seems a mite intimidated, but then, who wouldn't be? Neil Young s claim to the title Godfather of Grunge always seemed to waver. Sure, the type of music that would later come to be known as grunge rock invaded Neil s music from time to time, but usually they were within records that were released sandwiched between a couple of folk-rock, acoustic excursions. The obvious change came within the later years of Neil s career. 1989 s Freedom saw a mix of heavy and mellow tunes, the most notable example of the former being the ultra-heavy rock anthem Rockin In The Free World. Ragged Glory, the next year, was a total turnaround, delving into the... Review ID: 10000000000243141 Neil Young and Pearl Jam double the funReview created: 12/11/00 by: powderfinger -- a member of Epinions Pros: Two great performers Cons: Not much input from Eddie Vedder "Mirror Ball" finds Pearl Jam filling the role usually occupied by Crazy Horse as Neil Young's backing band. The two came together to record the album over the course of four days in 1995. The result was a great album showcasing the talents of artists whose careers had begun years apart. This was an excellent tribute to the longevity of Neil Young. Many of his contemporaries from the 60's and 70's are either out of music or doing a reunion tour based on their one or two hits from 20 years ago. This album finds Neil still making relevant music with the very musicians who have credited him as.. Review ID: 10000000000243142 Neil's Second Best AlbumReview created: 08/08/00 by: tprbob -- a member of Epinions Pros: Neil's best lyrics and best band! Cons: Wish it was a double CD. I bought this album the instant it came out - without knowing that Pearl Jam comprised the band. It ranks with Freedom as Neil's greatest album. Not to degrade Crazy Horse in any way, but the music on this one is the best of any Young album. Gossard, Ament and company perfectly complement Neil's style of singing. Some of these songs are loonnnnggg, and that is great, because when good licks and good lyrics come together, the songs are often too short. The album opens with "Hey ho away we go on the road to never, where life' a joy for girls and boys and only will get better." The album only... Review ID: 10000000000243137 Hey ho, away we go...Review created: 04/26/00 by: Guildenstern -- a member of Epinions Pros: The legendary grunge guru updates his sound amazingly Cons: Well.... I suppose you'd have to like grunge to enjoy this On "Mirror Ball" Neil young returned to the grunge rock of "Rust never sleeps" and "Ragged Glory" that made him a guru to the whole grunge rock scene in Seattle. On "Mirror Ball" he teams up with Pearl Jam, one of the Seattle grunge rock bands who most obviously followed in his footsteps, and the presence of Vedder, Gossard, Ament and company re-invigorate this old dinosaur rocker. This is not to say that Pearl Jam's powerful sound in any way is out of Neil Young's control, since he is 100% in charge of what is going on. Pearl Jam add the crunch and the force to Young's songs. 'Song X' sets... Review ID: 10000000000243140 Epinions.com ratings are not included in the item's average rating. Links in this review may have been removed. |
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