Tonight's The Night/Speakin' Out/World On A String/Borrowed Tune/Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown/Mellow My Mind/Roll Another Number (For The Road)/Albuquerque/New Mama/Lookout Joe/Tired Eyes/Tonight's The Night Part II
Tonight’s The Night is the bleakest and darkest Neil Young album, yet it is nevertheless a compelling listen. It was motivated by the death of close friends caused by drug addiction. (US:25 UK:48)
“Tonight's The Night may lack the truly great songs of other Young albums, but it is one of the few that feels like a single entity as opposed to a series of carefully partitioned edifices. It bucks and rolls like a night on the tiles, a failed attempt to escape the spectre of mortality in a haze of dope and whiskey.”
“Tonight's The Night is a deeply mournful, grief stricken record. It's a raw album, not just in how ramshackle the production sounds but also in content and spirit is bleak; essentially Neil Young taking his country and folk informed rock to its darkest and most concentrated form, an unremitting display of grief, for both his friends and for the death of 60s idealism too. Even the most optimistic songs on here, such as New Mama, have that darkness this album inhabits lurking just underneath.”
“This album is about taking life to the edge, going beyond the limit, paying the price and then doing it again. The ragged rock music herein is the perfect way to express the pain of loss, the loneliness of success, the excitement of excess and the weariness of it all.”
“Neil Young's absolute finest and most criminally underrated album. It practically oozes authenticity, emotion and tortured conviction. It showcases a normal, everyday man caught between fame and stardom, the times and political turbulence of his age, the death of close friends due to drug addiction. Also, the underlying heartbreak and longing for deep, intimate belonging that all the while plagues and delights many of Young's recordings.”
“I still regard Tonight's The Night as the best album Young has ever played on in any form. Lyrically, musically, sonically, emotionally, honestly, and all around enjoyably, this is his finest collection of music in one place. This is why the art of album making was created in the first place.”
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