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1975 studio album by Neil Young

Tonight'due south the Night
Studio album by Neil Young
Released	June 20, 1975
Recorded	August–September 1973 (mostly on Baronial 26, 1973)
Studio	Studio Instrument Rentals, Hollywood, CA except: "Come On Baby": alive at the Fillmore Due east, NYC, March vii, 1970 "Spotter Joe": Broken Arrow Ranch, Dec 1972 "Borrowed Tune": Broken Pointer Ranch, Dec 1973)
Genre	Dejection rock, country rock
Length	44:52
Characterization	Reprise
Producer	David Briggs and Neil Young with Tim Mulligan Elliot Mazer (on "Lookout Joe")
Neil Young chronology
On the Embankment (1974) Tonight's the Dark (1975) Zuma (1975)

Tonight's the Night is the sixth studio album by Canadian / American songwriter Neil Immature. Information technology was recorded in August–September 1973, generally on August 26,^[1] just its release was delayed until June 1975. It peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard 200.^[two] In 2003, the album was ranked number 331^[three] on Rolling Rock magazine'south list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, moving up to number 330 in the list's 2012 edition and climbing further to number 302 in the 2022 update.^{[iv] [5]}

Content [edit]

Tonight's the Night is a direct expression of grief. Crazy Equus caballus guitarist Danny Whitten and Young's friend and roadie Bruce Berry had both died of drug overdoses in the months before the songs were written. The championship track mentions Berry by name, while Whitten'southward guitar and vocal piece of work highlight "Come up on Babe Allow'due south Go Downtown"; the latter was recorded alive in 1970. The song would later announced, unedited, on a live album from the same concerts, Live at the Fillmore E, with Whitten credited as the sole writer.

Fans accept long speculated that an alternate version of This night'due south the Night exists. Neil Young's begetter, Scott Young, wrote of information technology in his memoir, Neil and Me:

Ten years after the original recording, David Briggs and I talked virtually Tonight's the Night, on which he had shared the producer credit with Neil. At habitation a couple of weeks before he had come across the original tape, the 1 that wasn't put out. "I want to tell you, it is a scattering. It is unrelenting. There is no relief in it at all. It does not release y'all for one 2d. It's like some guy having y'all by the throat from the first annotation, and all the way to the end." After all the real shine stuff Neil had been doing, David felt most critics and others simply failed to read what they should have into This evening'south the Dark – that it was an artist making a giant growth step. Neil came in during this chat, which was in his living room. When David stopped Neil said, "You've got that original? I idea information technology was lost. I've never been able to notice it. Nosotros'll bring it out someday, that original."

The band assembled for the album was known as The Santa Monica Flyers. It consisted of Young, Ben Keith, Nils Lofgren, and the Crazy Horse rhythm section of Baton Talbot and Ralph Molina. I runway as stated above was taken from recordings of an earlier tour with Crazy Horse, and another from an before session with his band for Harvest, The Stray Gators.

Liner notes [edit]

Included with the early original vinyl releases of This evening'due south the Night is a cryptic message written by Young: "I'm pitiful. You don't know these people. This ways nothing to you."

On the front of the insert is a letter to a character called "Waterface"; scratched into the run-out grooves on side one is the message "Hullo Waterface" while the run-out grooves on side two read "Goodbye Waterface". No explanation is given to this person'south identity. In Jimmy McDonough's Shakey, Young says that "Waterface is the person writing the letter of the alphabet. When I read the letter, I'm Waterface. Information technology'south just a stupid thing—a suicide note without the suicide."^[6] The picture of Roy Orbison in the insert is taken from a bootleg record Young came across and, feeling bad that Orbison near likely did not know the bootleg existed, printed it in the insert for him to see.

The back of the insert has some text superimposed over the credits to Young's On the Beach anthology, released a year earlier. This text is reportedly the lyrics to a Homegrown-era unreleased song titled "Florida", characterized by McDonough as "a cockamamie spoken-word dream, set to the shrieking accessory of either Young or [Ben] Keith cartoon a wet finger effectually the rim of a drinking glass."^[6]

When unfolded, a whole side of the insert features a lengthy article printed entirely in Dutch. Information technology is a review of a This evening'south the Night live testify by Dutch journalist Constant Meijers for the Dutch rock music magazine Muziekkrant OOR. In 1976 Immature said he chose to print it "Because I didn't understand any of it myself, and when someone is so sickened and fucked upward every bit I was and then, everything'due south in Dutch anyway." Meijers later spent a week at Young'due south ranch in California: during this visit, Young explained that he chose the article later some Dutch girls who were visiting him translated the story and made him enlightened of the fact "that someone on the other end of the globe exactly understood what he was trying to say."

The Reprise Records label on the vinyl re-create was printed in black and white rather than the standard orangish colour, a process Young undertook over again on the CD characterization art for 1994'south Sleeps with Angels. Early editions of the sleeve were made on blotter paper.

In Shakey, Immature maintains that forth with the inserts there was a small bundle of glitter inside the sleeve that was meant to fall out ("our Bowie statement"), spilling when the listener took the tape out. However, neither McDonough nor Young archivist Joel Bernstein have still establish a copy of Tonight's the Night featuring the glitter package.^[6]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Christgau'south Record Guide	A[viii]
Pitchfork	10/x[ix]
Rolling Stone	[x]
Rolling Stone Album Guide	[11]

Dave Marsh wrote in the original Rolling Stone review:

The music has a feeling of offhand, first-take crudity matched recently only past Blood on the Tracks, almost as though Immature wanted us to miss its ultimate majesty in order to emphasize its ragged edge of desolation. [...] More than any of Young's before songs and albums—even the despondent On the Beach and the mordant, rancorous Time Fades Abroad—Tonight's the Nighttime is preoccupied with death and disaster. [...] At that place is no sense of retreat, no apology, no excuses offered and no quarter given. If anything, these are the onetime ideas with a new sense of aggressiveness. The jitteriness of the music, its sloppy, unarranged (but decidedly structured) feeling is conspicuously calculated.^[12]

In a follow-up review published in the 1983 edition of The New Rolling Rock Record Guide, Marsh writes:

The tape chronicles the post-hippie, mail service-Vietnam demise of counterculture idealism, and a generation'due south long, wearisome trickle downwardly the drain through drugs, violence, and twisted sexuality. This is Young's only conceptually cohesive record, and it'due south a corking one.

Chris Fallon of PopMatters said, "This night'south the Night is that one rare record I will never tire of."^[13]

Track listing [edit]

All songs written past Neil Young, except where noted.

Side one

No.	Championship	Author(southward)	Backing band	Length
1.	"This night's the Nighttime"		The Santa Monica Flyers	4:39
ii.	"Speakin' Out"		The Santa Monica Flyers	4:56
3.	"World on a String"		The Santa Monica Flyers	2:27
4.	"Borrowed Tune"			3:26
5.	"Come up on Baby Let'south Go Downtown" (live at the Fillmore Eastward, New York Urban center, Mar. 7, 1970)	Neil Immature, Danny Whitten	Crazy Horse	3:35
6.	"Mellow My Mind"		The Santa Monica Flyers	3:07

Side 2

No.	Title	Backing band	Length
one.	"Roll Some other Number (For the Road)"	The Santa Monica Flyers	iii:02
2.	"Albuquerque"	The Santa Monica Flyers	four:02
3.	"New Mama"	The Santa Monica Flyers	2:11
four.	"Lookout Joe"	The Stray Gators	3:57
5.	"Tired Eyes"	The Santa Monica Flyers	four:38
6.	"Tonight'southward the Night" (Part II)	The Santa Monica Flyers	four:52

Personnel [edit]

• Neil Young – vocals; guitar on "World on a String", "Come up On Baby Allow's Go Downtown", "Mellow My Listen", "Curlicue Another Number", "Albuquerque", "New Mama", "Lookout Joe", and "Tired Eyes"; piano on "Tonight'due south the Dark", "Speakin' Out", and "Borrowed Tune"; harmonica on "World on a String", "Borrowed Tune", and "Mellow My Mind"; vibes on "New Mama"
• Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar, vocal on "Tonight's the Nighttime", "Speakin' Out", "Roll Another Number", "Albuquerque", and "Tired Eyes"; pedal steel guitar on "World on a String" and "Mellow My Mind"; vocal on "New Mama"; slide guitar, vocal on "Lookout Joe"
• Nils Lofgren – pianoforte on "World on a String", "Mellow My Mind", "Ringlet Another Number", "Albuquerque", "New Mama", and "Tired Optics"; vocal on "Roll Another Number", "Albuquerque", and "Tired Eyes"; guitar on "This evening's the Night" and "Speakin' Out"
• Danny Whitten – song, electric guitar on "Come On Infant Let'due south Become Downtown"
• Jack Nitzsche – electric pianoforte on "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown"; piano on "Lookout Joe"
• Baton Talbot – bass all tracks except "Borrowed Tune", "New Mama", and "Sentinel Joe"
• Tim Drummond – bass on "Scout Joe"
• Ralph Molina – drums, vocal all tracks except "Borrowed Melody" and "Lookout Joe"
• Kenny Buttrey – drums on "Lookout man Joe"
• George Whitsell – vocal on "New Mama"

Charts [edit]

Chart operation for Tonight's The Night

Chart (1975)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[fourteen]	42
US Billboard Height LPs & Tape [15]	25
UK Album Charts[16]	48
Canadian RPM 100 Albums[17]	12
French Album Charts[eighteen]	xi
Japanese Album Charts[19]	61
Dutch MegaCharts Albums[20]	x
The states Cash Box Acme 100 Albums[21]	19
U.s.a. Record World Album Chart[22]	39

Year Stop Album Charts

Chart (1975)	Rank
Canadian Twelvemonth End Album Charts[23]	75

Certifications [edit]

Covers [edit]

In 2018, Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift covered "Mellow My Mind" on a split 7-inch single with Pony Boy (the recording pseudonym of Los Angeles vocalist-songwriter Marchelle Bradanini), on which both musicians covered Neil Young songs.^[26]

Vermont band Phish has covered Albuquerque 16 times.

References [edit]

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3. ^ Levy, Joe; Steven Van Zandt (2006) [2005]. "331 | Tonight's the Dark – Neil Young". Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (third ed.). London: Turnaround. ISBNi-932958-61-four. OCLC 70672814. Retrieved 26 February 2006.
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11. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). "Neil Immature". The New Rolling Rock Anthology Guide. London: Fireside. ISBN0-7432-0169-eight. Portions posted at "Neil Young > Anthology Guide". rollingstone.com . Retrieved 24 September 2011.
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13. ^ Fallon, Chris (23 October 2003). "Neil Young (with Crazy Equus caballus): Tonight'southward the Night > Review". PopMatters . Retrieved 11 December 2007.
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19. ^ "クロスビー,スティルス,ナッシュ&ヤングの売上ランキング". ORICON NEWS . Retrieved 2020-ten-11 .
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24. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Manufacture Association. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
25. ^ "British album certifications – Neil Young – This evening's The Night". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 17 November 2019. Select albums in the Format field.Select Argent in the Certification field.Type Tonight'due south The Night in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
26. ^ Trageser, Stephen (2018-02-22). "Cream Premiere: Hear Emma Swift and Pony Male child Cover Neil Young on Their Split 7-Inch". Nashville Scene. Nashville, Tennessee. Retrieved 2020-10-11 .

External links [edit]

• Lyrics at HyperRust.org
• Liner Notes besides at HyperRust.org
• Tonight'due south the Night at Myspace (streamed re-create where licensed)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%27s_the_Night_(Neil_Young_album)

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