M- 1975 ORIG + INSERT NEIL YOUNG TONIGHTS THE NIGHT DARK BROODING FOLK ROCK

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                 SCARCE 1975 ORIGINAL PRINTING!

                             "THE DARK ALBUM"

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                     Neil Young
           "Tonight's The Night"
            ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..                               USA - (black & silver) Reprise Records - MS 2221

A BEAUTY!

top copy of rare ADVANCED RELEASED PROMOTIONAL COPY

Gotten hard to find original 1975 first pressing in roughly textured gatefold cover ... this is Neil Young's dark period and his music reflects his ominous views with stinging terse results... Clearly, this album was not made for fun. It was made out of necessity. Such is the essence of true art = (look at his photo on the cover!)

Includes the rare double sided PHOTO inner sleeve

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 electrified folk melodies take on a guttural hum that would eventually speak to generations of grunge musicians.   Tonite's The Night is Neil Young's soundtrack to the loss of two close friends to drug overdoses. This is a very raw album and it's easy to understand the record company's reluctance to release this album. It doesn't make this any less of the minor masterpiece that it is. Both versions of the song "Tonight's The Night" are great. The other standout tracks are "Borrowed Tune", "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown", and "Roll Another Number (For The Road)". This may not be the best starting point to listen to Neil Young but if you already enjoy his particular brand of rural/folk/rock music then you should like this album.   Hearing Neil positively moan out the straight-narrative vocals of the opening title track - as if each word sung is causing him physical pain - gives one a glimpse of what it must feel like to hear a man sing from the other side of the grave. The history of this album is well-documented: it was written and recorded in 1973 after the heroin-related deaths of two of Neil's associates, guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry. Neil tackles his subject matter head on here, in a surprising, shocking, almost nearly disturbing way. One hears of turning grief into art - art as therapy - well, there are few finer examples of it in all of music than here. Neil directly unloads his grief and sorrow and mixed up and confused feelings into his music. The title track is a direct narrative about Berry "Bruce Berry was a working man/He used to load that Econoline van" and sets the course for the rest of the album's songs - dark, introspective, direct, brooding, and ragged. The lyrics and music supporting them have a generally dark vibe throughout; absolutely hopeless tunes such as Borrowed Tune ("I'm clmbin' this ladder/My head in the clouds/I hope that it matters/I'm havin' my doubts") abound. The lone upbeat, more harmonius song here - a live Come On, Baby, Let's Go Downtown with vocals from Whitten - sticks out like a sore thumb amongst this musical graveyard of heartbreak and pain. Other songs seems to tackle the subject almost directly - such as Tired Eyes ("He tried to do his best/But he could not"), even reflecting Neil's own situation, of which he admits, in Borrowed Tune "I'm singin' this borrowed tune/I took from the Rolling Stones/Alone in this empty room/Too wasted to write my own." The performances are extremely raw and obviously not intended to be polished or kept up. They are all undoubtedly first takes - you can hear instruments that are out of tune, notes that are out of place, even the musicians speaking back and forth to one another (not to mention a static hum.)   Clearly, this album was not made for fun. It was made out of necessity. Such is the essence of true art.

A:

Tonight's the Night

 

4:39

 

Speakin' Out

 

4:56

 

World on a String

 

2:27

 

Borrowed Tune

 

3:26

 

Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown

 

3:35

 

Mellow My Mind

 

3:07

B:    

Roll Another Number (For the Road)

 

3:02

 

Albuquerque

 

4:02

 

New Mama

 

2:11

 

Lookout Joe

 

3:57

 

Tired Eyes

 

4:38

 

Tonight's the Night - Part II

 

4:52

 

CONDITION: The cover: the thick textured gatefold cover is M- one that we would keep for our own collection...has a day-glo promotional sticker on front cover... Has NO split seams, NO bends, NO writing....no delete marks... final collection copy, NOW!

The vinyl: all clean over both sides, M- and plays with mint audio...with clean black and silver(!) Reprise labels 

              A cool addition to anyone's music library!






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