Neil Young Mirror Ball

Ranked #6 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.
8 - Very Good - "...Young, like today's grunge kids, has always seen anomie as sufficient unto itself....MIRROR BALL...suggests another parallel: Sometimes it's easier to string together some...power chords and a few forlorn references to religion, fame and suicide than to actually write songs. And sometimes that's just fine..."
"...mostly three-chord stompers, and Pearl Jam seems content to kick out the jams behind him....aims for that anthemic mode of the Neil Young of old, and despite a few muddled chords and even more muddled lyrics, the collaborative magic works..." - Rating: A-
3 Stars - Good - "...a rough and ready collection of Young songs, alive with studio ambience and, well, grungy..."
Recommended - "...VS. meets ON THE BEACH at ARC/WELD volume....What gets you first is the throb--the mantra-like whack of the hooks and the circular propulsion of the chord progressions....these aren't conventional songs, they're thunderclap soliloquies, raw grooves set to telegraphic narratives..."
"...Part of what makes MIRROR BALL so moving is [a] sense of being unstuck in time, not so much musically--though the combination of Pearl Jam's uncompromised attack with Young's folk melodicism...suggests the spanning of generations--but by Young's vision..."
Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #5 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Ranked #41 in NME's 'Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995.
9 (out of 10) - "...as shabby, as unrehearsed, as rugged and raw as anything he's released. But it is another fine Neil Young album....the record's sound is...big, woolly, live and booming..."