Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 38, No. 18. July 23rd 1975
Tonights the Night — Neil Young Reprise MS 2221
Tonights the Night
Neil Young Reprise MS 2221
My condolences to Mr. Young, but if he feels as depressed and as tired as he sounds on this album, why did they let him inside the recording studio in the first instance -even with a motive as praiseworthy as a tribute to Danny Whitten - rock's first Mandrax casualty. As for the rest of the album, Neil Young has become the prisoner of his own image. In trying so hard to act the role of the hippest dude on the planet, he has only succeeded in carricaturing himself through an overbearing pledge of allegiance to the freak flag of hippiedom.