Neil Young-Mirror Ball (1995)


 

Artist: Neil Young

Title: Mirror Ball

Label:Reprise

Format: CD

Cat #: 9-45934-2

Year of Release: 1995

Country and Year of Edition Issue:US 1995 HDCD digipak

Listed Condition: VG+/VG hole punch in upper right digipak corner

Sell Date: 10/28/21

Sell Price: $3.49

Discogs Last Sold: 9/28/21  VG/VG+ $2.00

Low: $1.90

Median: $3.00

Average:$3.61

High: $6.00

Current low price: $2.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47

Have/Want: 1262/60

Where Sold: Graham, NC

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: Sounds NYC St. Marks

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Did the world need Pearl Jam to replace Crazy Horse?  In 1995 Neil and certainly Reprise clearly thought so and the result was better than any almost any Pearl Jam album.  Like most of the 90's Neil Young output, you can't really fault the record.  The grunge is on par with the Green River catalog since Vedder only makes one co-lead vocal cameo on "Peace and Love."

The winner of this album by several lengths is "Throw Your Hatred Down."   Neil is saying all hatred and weapons must be thrown down in a memorable top tier performance.  I've always liked this song both immediately upon release and now.  It's not easy to wage heavy peace.

The rest of the album is varying middle tier post-Ragged Glory loud Neil.  I've listened start to finish 4 times in the last couple days even though the first spin in a while had an air of familiarity in totality.  Only "Throw..." stood out to me looking at the track listings 26 years later.    You can hear some amp roar with "The Ocean."  Nice and loud.  My second favorite cut is "Big Green Country," which also hits a Neil Jam Roar. "Act Of Love" I confused the lyrics as "Afterglow" but that is a good one as well.

Sometimes Neil's featured "groove" I find to be generic Neil plodders.  This happens in Crazy Horse from time to time, namely the album opener "Song X" and "Downtown."  Maybe because "C'mon Baby Let's Go Downtown" is the darker side of the same neighborhood (and one of my favorite Neil songs overall).  This Downtown" is one that hosts Jimmy Page and hippies.  It's probably a recollection song for some guys backing that were too young to be on the scene the first time around and feels like an unfleshed jam.

The darker side of Neil often had plentiful meat.


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