I was inspired by this thread and listen to the album right now, for the first time in decades, probably. It is a good album, stands the test of time really good for me - I'm side-eying you, TITN.
Gypsy, played to death and terribly cut here, is still amazing.
Hold Me! Hands down the best track of the album, the harmonies are everything to this day.
I remember when Mirage came out, I quite young and had just started working as a nurse in palliative care, I was surrounded by pain and death, unprepared and devastated. It was comfort to listen to this set of songs - while I was so struggling, somewhere else people created perfection, the world was somehow balanced out by what this beautiful music meant to me back then.
/Sentimental musings.