Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (w/ guest Dan Reed)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome WXPN music director and podcaster (soundcloud.com/ddmusicpodcast) to discuss the final chapter of Neil Young's so-called "ditch trilogy," Tonight's the Night (1975, Reprise). Still reeling from the drug related deaths of Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry, Neil Young cast off the folk and country tinged sound he was known for with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and his own chart topping album Harvest in favor of a more raw rock and roll sound. Dan talks about discovering the depth of Young's music through a friend before diving into his entire catalog (including the Geffen years!) during his time at college. Brian, Bill, and Dan then discuss how "raw" might be describing the audio quality instead of the emotions on the album, camping, Nils Lofgren's excellent guitar (and piano), which Neil Young song should never be covered by anyone, what alcohol the band was drinking for the sessions (it was tequila), which Neil albums we love the most (other than this one), and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Two nights a night
0:10.0	Tonight
0:12.0	Tonight Tonight's a night.
0:24.1	Tonight's a night.
0:29.8	Hello and welcome to the great album's podcast. My name's Bill.
0:30.6	And I'm Brian.
0:32.4	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:41.2	That was the title track off of Neil Young's June 20th, 1975 album of the same name, Tonight's the Night.
0:46.1	Because what we do here every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great. We're going to talk about, you know, our personal relationship with the
0:50.6	album and a little bit of a band bio, and then we're going to get to a track by track
0:55.0	review.
0:55.9	All right.
0:56.4	Let's do this.
0:57.0	Where do I sign?
0:58.3	Is it too late?
0:58.9	It's not too late to register in this state, is it?
1:01.3	Let me just find a piece of paper here that I can crackle into the microphone.
1:06.7	There.
1:07.2	So just right there, Brian, right there.
1:08.9	Okay.
1:09.3	Great.
1:09.6	Thanks.
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