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Track Listings
| 1. Tonight's The Night |
| 2. Speakin' Out |
| 3. World On A String |
| 4. Borrowed Tune |
| 5. Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown |
| 6. Mellow My Mind |
| 7. Roll Another Number (For The Road) |
| 8. Albuqueque |
| 9. New Mama |
| 10. Lookout Joe |
| 11. Tired Eyes |
| 12. Tonight's The Night - Part II |
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By 1975 Young had written some of the most enduring anthems in rock history. But from the slow, tension-building piano opening of "Tonight's the Night", he downshifts into darkness and Crazy Horse's folk-country melodies take on a guttural hum that would eventually speak to generations of punk and grunge musicians. Inspired by the overdose deaths of two of Young's friends, roadie Bruce Berry and guitarist Danny Whitten, the title track (and its closing reprise) is a hypnotic cry of "why?" Even the relative party songs, "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown" and "Roll Another Number", fit the album's bus-to-nowhere resignation. --Steve Knopper
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This album acted as a musical expression of grief for Young, who wrote and recorded it in 1973 after the deaths of two close friends who overdosed on heroin. His emotional tone and hoarse voice soar on Tonight's the Night; World on a String; Tired Eyes; Roll Another Number (for the Road); Speakin' Out; Borrowed Tune , and six more.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Train
Format:Audio CD
Neil Young put his heart and soul on this album. You can feel the pain and sorrow he felt at the time of recording this. The death of two of his friends are the theme of this emotional album. Even if you are a casual Neil Young fan, you should have this album. Not a bad song is on the disc. I had heard that when Neil turned this album into his label, they rejected it for being to dark and disturbing. If that is true those people should not have been in the music industry. It is those reasons that make this the classic that it is. This is not for people who like a little happy face on all the music they listen to. This is raw and real. Simply put, a classic.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I have all of Neil Young's records on vinyl up to Live Rust, so my review is limited to this time frame. Given this qualification, I do not see how Tonight's the Night could be a Neil Young Essential ahead of Everybody Know's This Is Nowhere. Out of all these records, Tonight is the one I listen to the least. Don't get me wrong, it is still Neil Young and good music, but it's really only of interest as a snapshot of him and his band in a particular time period, the mid 70s, which they are barely crawling out of. However, Neil and his band seem to realize the narrow breadth of their escape from this destructive era. Tonight should be replaced as an Essential by Decade, and Decade should be replaced as a Best of the Rest by Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, a very underrated album with longlasting influences. This album is where Pearl Jam has been coming from in the last few years (with NY on Mirrorball,etc..). Not that this is necessarily a good thing.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Jeff Rogers
Format:Audio CD
Nineteen seventy five...the Vietnam epoch in its final spasms; Watergate and the resignation of a President...lies, lies lies...and the year I graduated from high school...cynicism reigned supreme..and the in breath of disco...
Gasp!!!
I feel this album captures the contraction of the time..."Roll Another Number" and "Tired Eyes"...in retrospect, carry more weight than we may have realized at the time...not to mention the title cut-"Tonights the night, yes it is"...a drunken stumble through the graveyard...and, eventually with Neil, we emerge...a little worse for wear and tear...yet...still here...clear eyed (relatively) and quite wide awake, thank you very much...
Gasp!!!
I feel this album captures the contraction of the time..."Roll Another Number" and "Tired Eyes"...in retrospect, carry more weight than we may have realized at the time...not to mention the title cut-"Tonights the night, yes it is"...a drunken stumble through the graveyard...and, eventually with Neil, we emerge...a little worse for wear and tear...yet...still here...clear eyed (relatively) and quite wide awake, thank you very much...
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2.0 out of 5 stars
When you get right down to it...the music and lyrics are quite poor.
There are two ways to review this album, yielding two completely different results: one is to consider it in the context of Young's life and musical output, as such it provides an... Read more
Published on Mar 23 2008 by E. Haensel
5.0 out of 5 stars
An obituary for the hippie dream.
Released in 1975 (but recorded in 1973), Tonight's The Night represents the darkest period of Neil Young's career. Read more
Published on April 3 2004 by Shotgun Method
5.0 out of 5 stars
Convulsive, raw, and underrated
The long history of rock and roll is filled with many incongruities. One of the more SEEMING incongruities has already been identified by several reviewers (I didn't read them all,... Read more
Published on Feb 6 2004 by Rocco Dormarunno
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bad, Beautiful Noise
Rarely can music that is this bad be so good. This is what happens when five or six guys decide to throw a wake for a couple of fallen comrades, lock themselves in a studio with a... Read more
Published on Nov 19 2003 by John Russell
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Songs!
The words "dark," "drunken," and "brooding" appear in so many reviews for Neil Young's "Tonight's The Night" (though it is all of these, and... Read more
Published on Nov 15 2003 by Arthur D. O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars
shattering
This album is so perfect! How can you go wrong with an album as beautiful as this? Truly one of his masterpieces and a record I am glad I purchased. Read more
Published on Oct 7 2003 by doug
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark, Frightening and Sad....but Essential.
This LP has been called an Irish Wake and in many ways it is. Recorded by Young and the remainder of Crazy Horse after the death of guitarist Danny Whitten (heard here on... Read more
Published on Oct 2 2003 by WILLIE A YOUNG II
5.0 out of 5 stars
These tunes and I go way back....
I originally owned this...on the good ol' 33 1/3 rpm version..and of course never had a sound system worth a pinch of...well you know... Read more
Published on Aug 27 2003 by Ross Frisken
5.0 out of 5 stars
too good
This album is perhaps Neil Young's darkest, and most enduring album. Every track seems to sear itself into your head, plucking at your emotions with ferocity missing on many of... Read more
Published on Aug 20 2003 by C. Beiter
5.0 out of 5 stars
Neil's finest hour (literally)
This is the best hour of music you will find anywhere, from anyone, anytime. This album is drenched in desperation, drugs, booze, and the sounds of a man at the end of his tether. Read more
Published on July 17 2003 by Chris Makas
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