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Music CD - Neil Young: Tonight's the Night
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Music CD: Tonight's the Night
Artist: Neil Young
List Price: $5.98
Our Price: $4.68
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Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Tracks:
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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. Lookout Joe
11. Tired Eyes
12. Tonight's the Night, Pt. 2
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Binding: LP Record
EAN: 0075992722117
Label: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: 1975-06-06
Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Beauty in the Ugly Side of Life
Comment: Tonight's the Night is not an easy album to love. It comes from a dark, ugly place of human existence known only as 'the bottom', a place only a few of us have ever really been and where none of us want to linger. It's also where Neil was when he made it. Still wracked with guilt over the overdose death of Crazy Horse member Danny Whitten, a death he blamed himself for, Neil took refuge in booze, drugs, and music. The result of that witches brew is Tonight's the Night. This drunken, stoned, and grieving record is sloppy, sounds horrible, and is as raw as a tooth ache. It's also one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. It's Neil at his most heartfelt, as he tries to come to terms with his part in Danny's death, who's lead vocals on Come On baby Let's Go Downtown take on the haunting feel of a voice from beyond the grave. The song stands as a reminder that you may go downtown, but one day you may not come back. The fact that Danny didn't come back, and Neil's struggle to come to terms with it all, drives the album. We see a snapshot of an artist who's seen the top of the mountain, sold millions of records, and paid a terrible price for it all. Survivor guilt, combined with rock star fame and a misguided attempt to drink, smoke, and drug it all go away make for a truly remarkable record. One that's worthy of the lofty rating of five stars.
Tonight's the Night isn't a happy, cheery album. It's not something to cuddle with your girlfriend to, or play as background music at your holiday party. But when it's 3 AM and all the whiskey in the world can't make you feel and better about the way things are, put on Tonight's the Night. It may not make things better, but at least your misery will have company.
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Summary: The Emperor of Wyoming's New Clothes
Comment: This album's reputation is legendary, no doubt. But is it really as good as everyone says it is? Not really. The songs are, for the most part, mediocre, especially in light of Young's first four solo albums, "Deja Vu" and Buffalo Springfield. The playing is inept and lifeless and the singing is abysmal. Young's voice is strained and off-key for most of the album which does nothing to enhance material that isn't very good to start with.
You don't even get very many original songs...."Tonight's the Night" is played twice for no apparent reason and "Borrowed Tune" is the Rolling Stones "Lady Jane" with new lyrics--bad ones. The Stones, bizarrely, aren't credited as co-composers.
Some of the material was not even intended for this project. The best track, "Come on Baby Let's go Downtown" was recorded years earlier at a Crazy Horse concert....This track has taken it's rightful place now on the excellent "Live at Fillmore" record. The second best track, "New Mama" was intended for CSNY's "Human Highway" album. I'm grateful that this song found a home somehere--too bad it had to be here!
The rest of the album, 9 tracks in all, are wretched.
The reputation of this album is utterly without foundation. It seems to have gained a solid reputation BECAUSE it's so bad...as if "bad" is really good in this case. The album is rated highly because everyone, Neil Young included, SAYS it's good---you just have to "understand it". If you don't get it, you're not cool...something like that.
If you ask me, this "Emperor of Wyoming" has no clothes. It's about time someone finally pointed it out!
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Summary: ~Sending a Chill Up and Down my Spine~
Comment: 'Tonight's the Night' was one of my first Neil Young records and to this day it is the one I play the most.
It is filled with a lot of sadness, possibly Neil Young's most heartfelt work yet. Honestly the sadness shines through so purely that it makes me feel happier just listening to it.
I can really sense Neil Young's pain as he sings a song like "Tired Eyes" laid back and relaxing.
A few years ago I played this album every night after first buying it. It just struck a certain chord with me unlike any other Cd/record I own.
So honest and real, the grief felt after losing a close friend. I, like many people can really relate to 'Tonight's The Night'.
I can't count the number of times I sat down in the dark and drank 'til I could drink no more listening to the beauty that is Neil Young and this incredible record of 12 songs.
Although I grew up mostly listening to 80s and 90s Rock bands, 'Tonight's the Night' remains one of the Top best albums I will ever own.
- A Record that really does help after losing a Loved one.
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Summary: Farewell Top 40 Radio, Hello Genius
Comment: Anyone who follows up a No.1 album of country rock with a drunken rock tribute (concept) to the 2 recent deaths of Danny Whitten and Bill Berry victim to drugs is a genius. Neil does the unexpected and he is a true artist and the stellar opposite of the "Top 40 Formula/American Idol" music business. Way to go Neil.
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Summary: The hype is justified
Comment: This is the best Neil I've heard. It's hasty, it's sloppy, it's depressing, it's drunk and stoned, it's borne of tragedy and despair.
In other words, it's great rock and roll.
If you can't feel Neil and Crazy Horse kicking your a** with "Come On Baby, Let's Go Downtown", you really don't like rock and roll, do you?
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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