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1975 studio album by Neil Young

Tonight's the Night
Studio album by Neil Immature
Released	June twenty, 1975
Recorded	August–September 1973 (mostly on August 26, 1973)
Studio	Studio Instrument Rentals, Hollywood, CA except: "Come On Babe": live at the Fillmore East, NYC, March vii, 1970 "Lookout Joe": Broken Arrow Ranch, December 1972 "Borrowed Tune": Broken Arrow Ranch, Dec 1973)
Genre	Blues stone, country rock
Length	44:52
Characterization	Reprise
Producer	David Briggs and Neil Young with Tim Mulligan Elliot Mazer (on "Scout Joe")
Neil Young chronology
On the Embankment (1974) This evening's the Night (1975) Zuma (1975)

Tonight's the Night is the sixth studio album by Canadian / American songwriter Neil Young. It was recorded in August–September 1973, mostly on August 26,^[1] merely its release was delayed until June 1975. It peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard 200.^[2] In 2003, the album was ranked number 331^[3] on Rolling Stone mag'south list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, moving upwards to number 330 in the listing'south 2012 edition and climbing further to number 302 in the 2022 update.^{[4] [five]}

Content [edit]

This evening'southward the Night is a straight expression of grief. Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and Immature's friend and roadie Bruce Berry had both died of drug overdoses in the months before the songs were written. The title runway mentions Drupe by name, while Whitten's guitar and song work highlight "Come on Babe Permit's Go Downtown"; the latter was recorded live in 1970. The song would afterwards announced, unedited, on a live album from the aforementioned concerts, Live at the Fillmore E, with Whitten credited as the sole writer.

Fans have long speculated that an alternate version of Tonight's the Night exists. Neil Immature's father, Scott Young, wrote of information technology in his memoir, Neil and Me:

10 years later the original recording, David Briggs and I talked most Tonight'south the Dark, on which he had shared the producer credit with Neil. At dwelling house a couple of weeks before he had come up across the original tape, the one that wasn't put out. "I want to tell you, it is a handful. It is unrelenting. There is no relief in it at all. It does not release y'all for one 2nd. Information technology's like some guy having you by the throat from the start note, and all the style to the end." After all the real shine stuff Neil had been doing, David felt virtually critics and others simply failed to read what they should have into Tonight's the Nighttime – 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, "Yous've got that original? I idea it was lost. I've never been able to find information technology. Nosotros'll bring information technology out someday, that original."

The band assembled for the album was known equally The Santa Monica Flyers. It consisted of Young, Ben Keith, Nils Lofgren, and the Crazy Horse rhythm section of Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina. One track as stated above was taken from recordings of an earlier tour with Crazy Equus caballus, and some other from an earlier session with his band for Harvest, The Stray Gators.

Liner notes [edit]

Included with the early original vinyl releases of Tonight'southward the Night is a ambiguous message written by Young: "I'1000 distressing. You don't know these people. This ways nothing to y'all."

On the forepart of the insert is a alphabetic character to a graphic symbol chosen "Waterface"; scratched into the run-out grooves on side i is the message "Hello Waterface" while the run-out grooves on side two read "Goodbye Waterface". No explanation is given to this person's identity. In Jimmy McDonough's Shakey, Young says that "Waterface is the person writing the alphabetic character. When I read the letter, I'g Waterface. Information technology's merely a stupid thing—a suicide note without the suicide."^[vi] The picture of Roy Orbison in the insert is taken from a homemade tape Immature came across and, feeling bad that Orbison most probable did not know the homemade existed, printed it in the insert for him to encounter.

The back of the insert has some text superimposed over the credits to Young'due south 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 accompaniment of either Young or [Ben] Keith drawing a wet finger around the rim of a glass."^[6]

When unfolded, a whole side of the insert features a lengthy article printed entirely in Dutch. It is a review of a Tonight's the Dark live show by Dutch journalist Constant Meijers for the Dutch stone music magazine Muziekkrant OOR. In 1976 Young said he chose to print information technology "Because I didn't understand whatever of information technology myself, and when someone is and so sickened and fucked up as I was then, everything's in Dutch anyway." Meijers afterwards spent a calendar week at Young's ranch in California: during this visit, Immature explained that he chose the article after some Dutch girls who were visiting him translated the story and made him enlightened of the fact "that someone on the other finish of the world exactly understood what he was trying to say."

The Reprise Records characterization on the vinyl copy was printed in black and white rather than the standard orange color, a procedure Immature undertook again on the CD label art for 1994's Sleeps with Angels. Early editions of the sleeve were made on blotter paper.

In Shakey, Young maintains that along with the inserts there was a small parcel of glitter inside the sleeve that was meant to fall out ("our Bowie argument"), spilling when the listener took the record out. Nonetheless, neither McDonough nor Young archivist Joel Bernstein have even so found a copy of Tonight's the Night featuring the glitter packet.^[6]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings

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

Dave Marsh wrote in the original Rolling Rock review:

The music has a feeling of offhand, offset-take crudity matched recently only by Blood on the Tracks, almost equally though Young wanted us to miss its ultimate majesty in club to emphasize its ragged edge of desolation. [...] More than any of Young'south earlier songs and albums—even the despondent On the Beach and the mordant, rancorous Fourth dimension Fades Abroad—This night'southward the Night is preoccupied with death and disaster. [...] At that place is no sense of retreat, no amends, no excuses offered and no quarter given. If anything, these are the quondam ideas with a new sense of aggressiveness. The jitteriness of the music, its sloppy, unarranged (but decidedly structured) feeling is clearly calculated.^[12]

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

The record chronicles the postal service-hippie, mail-Vietnam demise of counterculture idealism, and a generation's long, slow trickle down the bleed through drugs, violence, and twisted sexuality. This is Young's only conceptually cohesive record, and information technology'southward a dandy one.

Chris Fallon of PopMatters said, "This evening's the Night is that 1 rare record I volition never tire of."^[xiii]

Runway listing [edit]

All songs written by Neil Young, except where noted.

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Bankroll ring	Length
ane.	"Tonight's the Night"		The Santa Monica Flyers	iv:39
2.	"Speakin' Out"		The Santa Monica Flyers	four:56
three.	"Globe on a String"		The Santa Monica Flyers	ii:27
iv.	"Borrowed Tune"			3:26
5.	"Come on Infant Let'due south Become Downtown" (live at the Fillmore East, New York City, Mar. vii, 1970)	Neil Young, Danny Whitten	Crazy Horse	3:35
vi.	"Mellow My Listen"		The Santa Monica Flyers	3:07

Side two

No.	Title	Backing band	Length
1.	"Ringlet Another Number (For the Road)"	The Santa Monica Flyers	3:02
2.	"Albuquerque"	The Santa Monica Flyers	4:02
3.	"New Mama"	The Santa Monica Flyers	2:11
4.	"Lookout man Joe"	The Devious Gators	3:57
5.	"Tired Eyes"	The Santa Monica Flyers	iv:38
half-dozen.	"Tonight's the Night" (Function II)	The Santa Monica Flyers	4:52

Personnel [edit]

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

Charts [edit]

Nautical chart functioning for Tonight's The Night

Nautical chart (1975)	Pinnacle position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[14]	42
US Billboard Top LPs & Tape [15]	25
UK Anthology Charts[xvi]	48
Canadian RPM 100 Albums[17]	12
French Album Charts[eighteen]	11
Japanese Album Charts[xix]	61
Dutch MegaCharts Albums[xx]	10
Us Greenbacks Box Elevation 100 Albums[21]	19
U.s. Record Globe Album Chart[22]	39

Twelvemonth Finish Album Charts

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

Certifications [edit]

Covers [edit]

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

Vermont ring Phish has covered Albuquerque sixteen times.

References [edit]

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3. ^ Levy, Joe; Steven Van Zandt (2006) [2005]. "331 | Tonight's the Night – Neil Young". Rolling Stone'due south 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (tertiary ed.). London: Turnaround. ISBNane-932958-61-4. OCLC 70672814. Retrieved 26 February 2006.
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11. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). "Neil Young". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. London: Fireside. ISBN0-7432-0169-8. Portions posted at "Neil Immature > Anthology Guide". rollingstone.com . Retrieved 24 September 2011.
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13. ^ Fallon, Chris (23 October 2003). "Neil Young (with Crazy Horse): Tonight's the Nighttime > Review". PopMatters . Retrieved 11 December 2007.
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18. ^ "InfoDisc : Les Albums (Interprètes, Classements, Ventes, Certifications, Les Tops, Les N° 1...)". world wide web.infodisc.fr . Retrieved 2020-12-22 .
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24. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
25. ^ "British album certifications – Neil Young – Tonight's The Night". British Phonographic Manufacture. Retrieved 17 Nov 2019. Select albums in the Format field.Select Argent in the Certification field.Blazon Tonight'southward The Night in the "Search BPI Awards" field and and so 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 also at HyperRust.org
• This night'south the Nighttime at Myspace (streamed re-create where licensed)

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