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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 |
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