NEIL YOUNG/PEARL JAM Mirror Ball 1995 REPRISE ORIGINAL 2 LP MINT

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Feb 20, 2012 Sold Date

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NEIL YOUNG/PEARL JAM Mirror Ball 1995 REPRISE ORIGINAL 2 LP MINT

TEXTURED SLEEVE w/INSERT - ONE/TWO PLAYS - SUPERB COPY

NEIL YOUNG w/ PEARL JAM
Mirror Ball

UK/GERMAN REPRISE (9362-45934-1) ORIGINAL PRESSING (July 1995) OF "Mirror Ball"
WITH PEAL JAM BASICALLY REPLACING CRAZY HORSE AS YOUNG'S BACKING BAND
BEAUTIFUL COPY, POSSIBLY PLAYED ONCE OR TWICE (at most) AND DELIVERING PRISTINE MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT

PRESSED IN GERMANY FOR UK RELEASE (Reprise had no UK pressing facility at the time)
MATRICES:
1-45934-A-INTL S-2 (etched), WMMW Alsdorf 936 245934 - 1 - A2 (machine stamped)
1-45934-B- SR-1 (etched), WMMW Alsdorf 936 245934 - 1 - B5 (machine stamped)
1-45934-C-INTL S-1 (etched), WMMW Alsdorf 936 245934 - 1 - C (machine stamped)
1-45934-D-INTL S-3 (etched), WMMW Alsdorf 936 245934 - 1 - D3 (machine stamped)
THE TWO RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE TEXTURED MATT SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC/PHOTO INSERT PRINTED ON THIN GLOSSY PAPER
AND THE TWO ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVES - BOTH SQUARE CUT

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 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.
Probably due to the commercial power of Pearl Jam, the album became Young's highest charting record since Harvest 23 years earlier

Side 1:
Song X (4:39)
Act Of Love (4:53)
Side 2:
I'm The Ocean (7:03)
Big Green Country (5:07)
Truth Be Known (4:35)
Side 3:
Downtown (5:08)
What Happened Yesterday (0:45)
Peace And Love (7:02)
Side 4:
Throw Your Hatred Down (5:43)
Scenery (8:48)
Fallen Angel (1:16)

LABELS: MINT-
Clean, factory-fresh labels with no spindle traces on Record One and possibly just one or two on Record Two
VINYL Visual: MINT
Pristine playing surfaces - unmarked and like-new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Immaculate sound performance throughout with no audible distractions of any kind (apart from the brief touch of crackle at the very end of Side Two which is inherent with this pressing - my own personal copy sounds exactly the same at this point). Sounds great with a very heavy and punchy loud cut
SLEEVE: MINT
The single, textured, matt cover is as crisp and fresh as the day it was made
INSERT: NEAR MINT
Clean and unmarked with just a little light surface creasing

ALL RECORDS ARE PACKAGED WITH THE VINYL OUTSIDE OF THE SLEEVE TO PREVENT ANY 'KNIFING' DURING TRANSIT
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVES WITH ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY

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