Sad, tender ballads like "Borrowed Tune," (itself not without humor) rub shoulders with hearty rockers like "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown." Several tunes find Young and Crazy Horse exploring hard-edged country-rock with their collective tongue stuck firmly in the cheek, as on "Roll Another Number." Young's voice reels sadistically and purposefully out of tune, cutting through the arrangements like strategically placed barbed-wire (and providing a template for the work of Will Oldham/Palace two decades later). Sardonic, taunting, mercilessly self-deprecating, often downright funny, TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT is no gloomfest, but a multi-faceted, full-bodied classic.
01 Tonight's the night 02 Speakin' out 03 World on a string 04 Borrowed time 05 Come on baby let's go downtime 06 Mellow on my mind 07 Roll another number (For the road) 08 Albuquerque 09 New Mama 10 Lookout Joe 11 Tired eyes 12 Tonight's the night - Part 2