Neil Young "MIRROR BALL" EU Original DBL Vinyl LP CSNY Pearl Jam Vedder

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Up for auction is NEIL YOUNG’S LP “MIRROR BALL” on the REPRISE RECORD label. Catalog #45934 with the unique lyric inner included. The cover, inner and both vinyls are in NEAR MINT condition. This is a beautiful copy of the 1995 release and the vinyl edition of this title is RARE and OOP!! PEARL JAM performs with Young as his back-up band. A must addition for the PEARL JAM/VEDDER fan as well as NEIL YOUNG! Be sure to email me with any questions and look at my pic’s. I DO NOT ship to ITALY. Bidders from outside the USA please wait for invoice with exact shipping costs.  Good luck!

NEIL YOUNG’S “MIRROR BALL” LP w/PEARL JAM. RARE & OOP!!

Music Review from AllMusic.com by William Ruhlmann

Neil Young uses Pearl Jam on Mirror Ball much as he has used his perennial backup band Crazy Horse, looking for feel and spontaneity. At the start of the record, he can be heard instructing them: "No tuning, nothing," and the take of "I'm the Ocean" is an obvious run-through that became a master take. But Pearl Jam is not Crazy Horse; in place of the latter's primitive, nonswinging sound, the former boasts spirited rhythms and dense guitar interplay that Young makes excellent use of in a series of songs built out of simple, melodic rifts. Those songs come mostly in pairs: "Song X" and "Act of Love," the first two tracks, both seem to be about abortion, especially in its religious aspect, each containing a reference to "the holy war"; "What Happened to Yesterday" and "Fallen Angel" are song fragments on which Young plays the pump organ; and "Downtown" and "Peace and Love" find Young addressing the musical and philosophical concerns of hippies and contain name checks of Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and Led Zeppelin. The songs also share highly imagistic lyrics that are allusive and frequently just obscure. At their best, notably on "I'm the Ocean" and "Scenery," they provide intriguing portraits of the artist -- "People my age/They don't do the things I do," Young sings in "Ocean" -- while "Scenery" is one of his bitter denunciations of celebrity. Such subject matter is not new for Young, and Mirror Ball is typically uneven. But it is always interesting musically, suggesting that he has found another catch-up that works. Probably due to the commercial power of Pearl Jam, the album became Young's highest charting record since Harvest 23 years earlier, though it had a relatively short chart life.