... 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. Albuquerque
9. New Mama
10. Look Out Joe
11. Tired Eyes
12. ... Read review
Advantages: music at its best Disadvantages: too short
Tracklisting:
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. Albuquerque
9. New Mama
10. Look Out Joe
11. Tired Eyes
12. Tonights The Night ... ...must-have album for any Neil Young fans as it is part of the infamous Doom Trilogy that also includes Time Fades Away and On The Beach. These albums were recorded when Neil was at his lowest ebb due to the recent drug death of Neils good friend and joint creative force behind the band Crazy Horse - Danny Whitten.
Neil Young was never a hard drug user - never touched Heroin or Cocaine - his only love was music and didn't want anything ... more
Tracklisting:
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. Albuquerque
9. New Mama
10. Look Out Joe
11. Tired Eyes
12. Tonights The Night Pt 2
This is a must-have album for any Neil Young fans as it is part of the infamous Doom Trilogy that also includes Time Fades Away and On The Beach. These albums were recorded when Neil was at his lowest ebb due to the recent drug death of Neils good friend and joint creative force behind the band Crazy Horse - Danny Whitten.
Neil Young was never a hard drug user - never touched Heroin or Cocaine - his only love was music and didn't want anything to impair his ability to get his music out. When he discovered Crazy Horse they were known as The Rockets - Neil asked their leader if he get borrow Danny and 2 other members of the band for a short tour promising to bring them back. This never happened and Neil renamed them Crazy Horse and came up with is most consistent band to date.
This was the late 60's and Neil accepted an offer from his old Buffalo Springfield bandmare, Stephen Stills, to join his new supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash for a tour. Neil agreed mainly to up his profile and make working with Crazy Horse possible.
By the early 70's Neil was as happy as he had ever been playing with the Horse but things were going downhill for Danny who was now falling asleep at his keyboards on stage due to his Heroin habit. After their current tour ended he sacked Crazy Horse and went off to record After The Gold Rush.
Neil had already written the classic anti-drug anthem The Needle and the Damage Done about his experiences with the addicts amongst his friends and when Danny eventually OD'ed during his time away from Neil he recorded this album.
Track 5 on this album is Come on baby let's go downtown, a Danny Whitten composition about scoring drugs - it was subtle in its lyrics but Neil added the line "sure enough they'll be selling stuff when the moon begins to rise/pretty bad when you're dealing with the man and the light shines in your eyes" to make sure people knew what the song was about.
The song that closes the album Tonights the Night parts one & two can be seen as a tribute to Danny with lyrics about someone with talent that blew Neil away but its the other songs on the album that show Neils depressed state of mind. He felt a lot of guilt over Dannys death and added to this was the break up of his relationship with actress Carrie Snodgrass that would influence songs on the On The Beach album.
Songs such as Mellow My Mind - a very bluesy number - and World On A String show where he is at just from the titles. But the highlight for me is the downbeat Borrowed Tune - Neil is a big fan of the Rollin Stones and had "borrowed" one of their songs before (Satisfaction for Mr Soul with Buffalo Springfield) and on this song he actually acknowledges that he is using the music from the Stones Lady Jane - "i'm playing this borrowed tune i took from the rolling stones" - the song and melody are world weary and his voice sounds like he has been beaten into submission by events behind his control.
I would recommend this album to anyone with a passing interest in Neil Young - he has covered many musical styles and genres over the years but this album and the others in the trilogy are the closest I feel he has to a quintessential sound.
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Product details
Title
Tonight's The Night
Performer
Neil Young/Crazy Horse
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Singer/Songwriter
Release Date
28/06/1993
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1975
Label / Distributor
Reprise / Cinram Logistics
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Mixed
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
75992722124
Catalogue Number
7599272212
SPAR code
AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, vibraphone); Danny Whitten (vocals, guitar); Ralph Molina (vocals, drums); Billy Talbot (bass).
Additional personnel: Nils Lofgren (vocals, guitar, piano); Ben Keith (vocals, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar); Jack Nitzsche (piano); Tim Drummond (bass); Kenny Buttrey (drums).
Producers: Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan, Eliot Mazer. Let's get a popular misconception out of the way. The rap about this being one of Young's darkest, most harrowing albums is utter nonsense, perpetuated by critics who spend more time reading each other than listening to the music. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT is dedicated to Young's guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry, who died shortly before this recording was made, and the title cut details that very subject, but the darker moments here are leavened by a generous share of self-parodic humor and general Neil Young loopiness. Sad, tender ballads like "Borrowed Tune," (itself not without humor) rub shoulders with hearty rockers like "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown." Several tunes find Young and Crazy Horse exploring hard-edged country-rock with their collective tongue stuck firmly in the cheek, as on "Roll Another Number." Young's voice reels sadistically and purposefully out of tune, cutting through the arrangements like strategically placed barbed-wire (and providing a template for the work of Will Oldham/Palace two decades later). Sardonic, taunting, mercilessly self-deprecating, often downright funny, TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT is no gloomfest, but a multi-faceted, full-bodied classic.
Album Reviews
NME (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #94 in NME's list of the "Greatest Albums Of All Time." NME (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #43 in NME's list of the "Greatest Albums Of The '70s." NME (8/12/00, p.28) - Ranked #14 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums" - "...[His] world was devastated in late-'72 by the overdose of Crazy horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry....his desperate attempt to come to terms with those deaths..." Q (4/02, p.141) - "...This is as gripping and original an album as Young has ever made." Mojo (11/01, p.151) - "...One of the most bleakly beautiful rock albums ever made..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Tonight's The Night (part 1)
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.
Albuquerque
9.
New Mama
10.
Look Out Joe
11.
Tired Eyes
12.
Tonight's The Night (part 2)
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