Mirror Ball (Neil-Young-Album)

Occupation

• Vocals, guitar, harmonium Art: Neil Young
• Singing with Peace and Love, backing vocals: Eddie Vedder
• Bass, Guitar: Jeff Ament
• Guitar: Stone Gossard
• Guitar: Mike McCready
• Drums: Jack Irons

Mirror Ball is a studio album by Neil Young, in which the band Pearl Jam permitting. It was released in June 1995 with Reprise Records. In 1996 it was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album.

Formation

The album was recorded in January and February 1995 in Bad Animals Studios in Seattle. Producer Brendan O'Brien was, who was already responsible for the preceding two Pearl Jam albums. The album was recorded in four days of studio time, some songs also emerged only at this time. Among other things, Act of Love, which Young had played in January, live, and Song X Young had previously worked. Young said: "Recording Mirrorball was like audio vérité, just a snapshot of what's happening. Sometimes I did not know who playing what. I just take what was conscious of this big smoldering mass of sound. " ( " Mirror Ball as audio vérité, like a snapshot of what was happening. Sometimes I did not know who was playing. I was just this huge, glowing sound ground consciously. " ) Vedder was in the recordings not very often present because him at that time followed stalker and he could barely leave the house.

The two songs I Got Id and Long Road came as outtakes not on the album. They were released in late 1995 on the EP Merkin Ball of Pearl Jam.

Reception

The album reached number five on the Billboard 200 and number eight in Germany. Wrote William Ruhlmann of Allmusic, Neil Young Pearl Jam have "used" in a similar manner as before, to transport his band Crazy Horse feeling and spontaneity. Pearl Jam also bring " soulful rhythms and dense guitar playing " with a. The mixture was " always interesting " though lyrically sometimes nothing new would be offered. He missed three out of five stars. Robert Christgau dedicated the album only one sentence: ". Baby, he was born to lumber - and Pearl Jam was not " ( ". He was born in which to lose rumble - and not Pearl Jam" ) In the intro of the reviewer, Young wrote would have the plate made ​​even without Pearl Jam, but it would probably be " become not so good." Facing the death of Kurt Cobain was the conclusion: "Here are two generations, where they took a prophet to rock found a way into his mind together. "

Title list

All pieces were written by Neil Young except Peace and Love (Young, Vedder ).