Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Mirror Ball & Mirror Ball Live Dublin Vinyl

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  • jhulud
    jhulud S. FloriDUH! Posts: 445
    Staney12 said:
    Also, wouldn't it be a good time to release the Merkinball EP?
    This. So much this. 

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  • Let My Spirit Pass
    Let My Spirit Pass Lakewood Colorado Posts: 333
    Staney12 said:
    Also, wouldn't it be a good time to release the Merkinball EP?
    100% this.
  • jhulud
    jhulud S. FloriDUH! Posts: 445
    Merkin Ball as a bonus 7” if you order Mirror Ball from 10C. Now that’s a helluva golden opportunity for PJ and 10C. 
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,933
    edited May 12
    Zod said:
    pledgeagrievance said:
    Same question. Just to confirm, if I have the OG record, is there anything different with this release? Thanks 

    It seems to be remixed and remastered, but in my experience 90's mixing sounds better than modern mixing.  I was going to wait to see reviews on the new pressing before buying a duplicate.
    There are a couple of small changes.

    On the reissue, the “hey ho, away we go” backing vocals don’t come in until the second verse of Song X.

    Also, Peace and Love is about 1:40 longer than the OG (just an extended feedback outro).
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  • shecky
    shecky San Francisco Posts: 2,924
    edited May 12
    Looks like Ten Club has sold out of their allotment of 'Mirror Ball' vinyl albums. I imagine they placed a wholesale order with Reprise Records, just like the other retailers did. I don't expect this to be a "special Ten Club" pressing since it's not even technically a Pearl Jam album - it's a Neil Young album with them on it. Can hardly wait to receive and hear this vinyl!
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,981
    pledgeagrievance said:
    Same question. Just to confirm, if I have the OG record, is there anything different with this release? Thanks 
    yes, a few of the songs have minor differences (Song X's "Hey Hos" come in later in the song) in the mixing, Peace and Love has an additional minute of feed back at the end. If you love and are happy with the OP, you'll be fine passing on this. 

  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,981
    Pressing wise, its very well done. Pressed by Record Industry in the Netherlands. 

  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 101,305

    Neil Young: Official Release Series - "Mirror Ball" Review

    Neil Young: Official Release Series
     Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29 
     (Click photo to enlarge)


    We're a bit late to the party on this one, but to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Neil Young's album "Tonight's The Night", an expanded reissue was released on November 28.

    Also, another Neil Young: Official Release Series -- Volume 6, this time Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29, containing four ’90s albums -- Harvest Moon, Unplugged, Sleeps with Angels, and Mirror Ball.

    Possibly of most interest is the Mirror Ball release. From Neil Young: Official Release Series Discs 26, 27, 28 & 29 [Reprise] | Vinyl Cut by Ned Lannamann: (thanks RD!)

    So what’s new about the Mirror Ball in this vinyl box set? 

    The four songs John Hanlon remixed are “I’m the Ocean,” “Big Green Country,” “Truth Be Known,” and “Throw Your Hatred Down,” and they sound very, very subtly different from the originals. Young’s vocals were famously buried on Mirror Ball, and Hanlon has extracted them for more legibility and nuance; the drums have a slightly different character, and the three-guitar morass of Young, Stone Gossard, and Mike McCready takes on a minutely different grain and luster. But surprisingly, there are noticeable differences beyond those four songs. “Song X” and “Act of Love” are presented in alternate mixes as well, with certain vocal refrains that are either absent (“Song X” is missing its first two choruses of “hey-ho, away we go”) or appear early (the titular refrain for “Act of Love” comes in one verse sooner than it used to). 

    And “Peace of Love” now bears an extended ending, with more than a minute and a half of abstract guitar feedback that’s never been heard before. I think the rest of “Peace and Love” might be a different mix, too, but I can’t be positive about that, nor can I say for sure whether anything else in the remaining tracks has changed. “Downtown” sounds the same to my ears, but “Scenery” is such a thick, dense stew that subtle mix changes would be difficult to pinpoint. The two remaining songs, “What Happened Yesterday” and “Fallen Angel,” feature just Young’s voice and pump organ, so any minor mixing shifts to those would be negligible.

    In short, this Mirror Ball is not exactly the Mirror Ball you grew up with. 

    The differences—in both the new Hanlon remixes and in the unadvertised alternate mixes, which if I had to guess were made by producer Brendan O’Brien during the 1995 sessions and left forgotten on the unused analog assembly reels—may jump out to the devoted who know this album back to front. But I think most people will either not notice them or be more than satisfied with their richness and fullness.

    Cutting from analog slightly softens the heavy electric tone of the three-guitar ensemble and marginally strips some of the power out of Jack Irons’s propulsive drums. After spending entirely too much time thinking about it, I’m currently of the mind that the original Mirror Ball’s thick, chewy sound has a bit more fire to it, but the difference is so small that I expect I could just as easily find things I like better about the 2025 version in a future listen.
     

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    demetrios Posts: 101,305
    https://www.elcorteingles.es/musica/A200844441-mirror-ball-2-lp-vinilo/
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    demetrios Posts: 101,305
    This Friday!





  • desolatejoy
    desolatejoy London Posts: 382
    Strange how virtually no record stores have this up for pre order in the UK 😬
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 101,305
    desolatejoy said:
    Strange how virtually no record stores have this up for pre order in the UK 😬

    Juno are taking orders. https://www.juno.co.uk/products/neil-young-mirror-ball-vinyl/1151154-01/ 
  • desolatejoy
    desolatejoy London Posts: 382
    demetrios said:
    desolatejoy said:
    Strange how virtually no record stores have this up for pre order in the UK 😬

    Juno are taking orders. https://www.juno.co.uk/products/neil-young-mirror-ball-vinyl/1151154-01/ 
    Yeah, thank you Demetrios, saw your earlier post with this link. But it’s very rare for shops like Resident, Piccadilly & Sister Ray etc, not to have pre sale links already 🤔
    Wembley Arena, London - 28/10/96
    Wembley Arena, London - 30/05/00 
    Wembley Arena, London - 18/06/07
    02 Arena, London - 18/08/09
    Hammersmith Apollo, London - 30/07/12 EV Solo
    Bowl, Milton Keynes - 11/07/2014
    Hammersmith Apollo, London - 06/06/17 EV Solo
    O2 Arena, London - 18/06/18
    O2 Arena, London - 17/07/18

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  • jhulud
    jhulud S. FloriDUH! Posts: 445
    Shipping label from 10C created!!! WOO HOO!!!! 
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,194
    jhulud said:
    Shipping label from 10C created!!! WOO HOO!!!! 
    Yep same! Looking forward to finally being able to spin this! 
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 101,305
    desolatejoy said:
    demetrios said:
    desolatejoy said:
    Strange how virtually no record stores have this up for pre order in the UK 😬

    Juno are taking orders. https://www.juno.co.uk/products/neil-young-mirror-ball-vinyl/1151154-01/ 
    Yeah, thank you Demetrios, saw your earlier post with this link. But it’s very rare for shops like Resident, Piccadilly & Sister Ray etc, not to have pre sale links already 🤔

    No problemo. 

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mirror-Ball-VINYL-Young-Neil/dp/B0GWVKHQ6Z Amazon UK has it up for £55.17, which seems pretty high.

    Even Banquet Records doesn't have a listing for it. Big chains have it for pre order but the local record stores in the UK don't? It's weird. 


  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 101,305

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        Just in case you missed it (which thousands of you do because “the algorithm”) we have secured our copies of the first official reissue of Neil Young’s Mirror Ball. This 1995 collaboration with Pearl Jam (they were the backing band) hasn’t been released on vinyl since its initial release way back in ‘95. Some cool facts - it comes housed in a faithfully recreated brown paper outer sleeve just like the original. It even has a replica hype sticker like the original. It has been remastered from the original analog master tapes, supervised by Neil Young himself. The only thing that would make it better would be a bonus 7” of Merkinball, but we digress.

        We would recommend against sleeping on this. It will be widely available for a short period of time and then it will disappear. It ships next Friday. Get it while you can, over at…

        #resoluterecords #neilyoung #mirrorball #pearljam






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