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Singles Bar![]() ![]() ![]() Pearl Jam: Merkin Ball CD single (Epic) When Pearl Jam agreed to serve as the backing band for Neil Young's last album , it
was always planned for him to return the favor. The Merkin Ball single is the
companion to Young's Mirror Ball (both were recorded at the same sessions),
only this time Eddie Vedder handles lead vocals and Young joins the band on guitar and
organ. The two songs are Pearl Jam's first new music since 1994's Vitalogy, and
should satiate fans until a new album, expected later this year. "I Got Id" is a building,
brooding song that's better than anything on Mirror Ball. Young takes a spirited
The Beatles: Free As a Bird CD single (Capitol) "One-two-three-four!" That's the kickoff to "I Saw Her Standing There," the
first cut on the Beatles' first album, Please, Please Me. But did you know that
Paul McCartney's countdown was actually culled from take nine, and spliced onto the
front of take one? You do now. Take nine, in its entirety, is just one of the pleasant bits of
ephemera that Capitol has tacked onto the CD single of "Free As a Bird," the languidly
banal, Jeff Lynne-produced, "new" Beatles cut (built around an unreleased John Lennon
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