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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 115 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10312
Category: Music
Artist: Neil Young
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Studio: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Label: Reprise / Wea
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 12.1 x 0.3
UPC: 075992722117
EAN: 0075992722117
ASIN: B000002KCB
Release Date: June 6, 1975
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| Tracks:
| • | Tonight's the Night | | • | Speakin' Out | | • | World on a String | | • | Borrowed Tune | | • | Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown - Neil Young, Whitten, Danny | | • | Mellow My Mind | | • | Roll Another Number (For the Road) | | • | Albuquerque | | • | New Mama | | • | Lookout Joe | | • | Tired Eyes | | • | Tonight's the Night, Pt. 2 |
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Amazon.com essential recording
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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 Tonight's The Night 2008 Reprise vinyl reissue November 17, 2008
I just cried. So beautiful getting a 2008 new reissue vinyl/lp/record of T'STN.
I haven't listened to a fresh piece of vinyl out of the plastic wrapper holding the 12' album cover the 12' new record in soooo long. And putting it on the techinics turntable with the Grado blue p mount just made me emotional. Since 1988 when they stopped making records I thought the cd would be a perfect replacement. But a brand new spanking lp especially this one is just a soothing warm analog non digital experience.
I did however burn the lp on cd in the first play. Its unfortunate so many of my old records are scratched pops skips as well as bad vinyl...like those elektra and rca even those old reprise records werent so hot.
now with the most perfected technology in the history of man kind ...they should by know by now to learn how to make records the right way....instead of the wrong way....picking out bad vinyl materials and using crappy transfer equiptment....
 JAPAN REMASTERED VERSION AVAILABLE June 18, 2008
A while back, Warner Brothers Japan re-released 12 Neil Young titles. The surprise was that remastered content appeared for the first time on most of them.
The titles & WB-Japan catalog numbers are:
Neil Young WPCR-75086
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere WPCR-75087
After The Gold Rush WPCR-75088
Harvest WPCR-75089
On The Beach WPCR-75090
Tonight's The Night WPCR-75091
Zuma WPCR-75092
Long May You Run WPCR-75093
American Stars n' Bars WPCR-75094
Comes A Time WPCR-75095
Rust Never Sleeps WPCR-75096
Live Rust WPCR-75097
I picked up most of these, A/B'd them, and found them to be superior to the domestics. However, having purchased the domestic 2002 remasters of "Beach" and "Stars n Bars", I declined the Japan versions of those two titles.
Unfortunately, while the Japan version is remastered, Live Rust is not restored to the original LP's running form, and remains still the bastardized version.
If you own the U.S. versions, and you're a NY fan, I would seriously consider replacing them with these.
The Real Deal June 12, 2008
Raw Neil Young from the height of the 70's. If you listened to it on vinyl you'll remember how real it felt at the time. Neil sort of fades in and out vocally as if he's distracted, preoccupied, wasted. Heavy druggie music that simply is what it is. A classic well worth having but it isn't for everyone. It's damn good though!
Neil Young At His Most Depressing Best June 9, 2008
All of the criticisms of this album/CD are accurate and I still think that it is a worthwhile addition to any collection. The vinyl album record cover had a spooky pic of Crazy Horse with each band mamber identified by name with no image of anyone standing in the spot labeled "Danny Whitten", and so the journey into addiction, death, reclusion, introversion, and depression begins. It appears that Young himself was experiencing his own personal trauma of the events of those days and it shows. You may not like the questions. You may not like the answers. But, you may grow to like the music, "late at night when the people were gone..." which is probably both the best time and the worst time to listen to Tonight's the Night.
Beauty in the Ugly Side of Life November 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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