Neil Young, Tonight's the Night (50th Anniversary)
Neil Young celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Tonight's the Night by altering its tracks and art, adding bonus tracks that mellow the darkness of his best album.
Neil Young, Tonight’s the Night [1975]
★★★★★
Neil Young, Tonight’s the Night (50th Anniversary Edition) [2025; 1975]
★★★★
You almost have to admire the garish pastels splattered across the original artwork for Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night for its new 50th Anniversary Edition. It’s a perverse choice, subverting the album’s reputation as a massive, mournful bummer.
That’s not the only alteration on the 50th Anniversary Edition of Tonight’s the Night. Young casually swaps the thick sludge of “Lookout Joe” for a previously unreleased lighter version, one where the band sounds wobbly but not as woozy as Neil.