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All rights reserved.Mirror Ball - Young, Neil (CD 1995)
Neil's Second Best AlbumReview created: 08/08/00
by: tprbob -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Neil's best lyrics and best band!
Neil's best lyrics and best band!
Cons:
Wish it was a double CD.
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 gets better as it goes along.
The next song, "Act of Love" seems to just go on and on, and you don't want it to stop.
"In the Ocean" has another lyric that I love, and one that perhaps describes Neil Young as no other -- "People my age, they don't do the things I do". Neil's fascination with the Ford Aerostar comes to play in this song, and I do not understand why it appears in so many of his songs. Perhaps someone could enlighten me about this.
"Big Green Country" is a western song with a story. I take the phrase "that's the place where the cancer cowboy rides" to refer to the Marlboro cigarette ads.
"Peace and Love" has an interesting reference to Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin in the same line.
"Fallen Angel", I think, has a reference to someone in the first line, but I don't know whom. "Fallen Angel, who's your savior tonight".
This is a great album, and should turn a lot of Pearl Jam fans on to Neil Young! I hope it turns a lot of Young fans on to Pearl Jam too!
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 gets better as it goes along.
The next song, "Act of Love" seems to just go on and on, and you don't want it to stop.
"In the Ocean" has another lyric that I love, and one that perhaps describes Neil Young as no other -- "People my age, they don't do the things I do". Neil's fascination with the Ford Aerostar comes to play in this song, and I do not understand why it appears in so many of his songs. Perhaps someone could enlighten me about this.
"Big Green Country" is a western song with a story. I take the phrase "that's the place where the cancer cowboy rides" to refer to the Marlboro cigarette ads.
"Peace and Love" has an interesting reference to Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin in the same line.
"Fallen Angel", I think, has a reference to someone in the first line, but I don't know whom. "Fallen Angel, who's your savior tonight".
This is a great album, and should turn a lot of Pearl Jam fans on to Neil Young! I hope it turns a lot of Young fans on to Pearl Jam too!
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