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The Night
Studio album by
Morphine
ReleasedFebruary 1, 2000
RecordedEarly 1999
GenreAlternative rock
LabelDreamWorks Records
ProducerMark Sandman, Morphine
Morphine chronology
Like Swimming
(1997) 		The Night
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert Christgau(choice cut)[2]
Des Moines Register[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Los Angeles Times[5]
Orlando Sentinel[6]
Pitchfork Media5.7/10[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Spin8/10[9]

The Night is the fifth and final studio album by the alternative rock band Morphine, released in 2000 via DreamWorks.[4][10]

The album peaked at No. 137 on the Billboard 200.[11]

Production

Jerome Deupree, the band's original drummer who had previously quit due to health problems, rejoined alongside Billy Conway, thus making The Night Morphine's only album as a quartet rather than a trio according to credits listed in the CD booklet. Recording sessions for the album were completed shortly before the sudden July 1999 death of bass player and lead singer Mark Sandman; Conway and Dana Colley oversaw the final mixing process.[12] The band spent three years working on the album in Sandman's Cambridge home studio.[13][14]

Critical reception

The Pitch wrote that "it’s not a romantic exaggeration to say that this album is the trio’s most sensuous, satisfying recording, finally delivering on the diverting-but-two-dimensional original notion of what Sandman termed 'low rock' ... The Night is the first time in ages a posthumous release has made noise from beyond the grave that doesn’t sound like a cash register."[15] Trouser Press wrote that "the tone may be dour due to the singer’s sudden death, but the music is the most fully realized and finely textured Morphine ever mustered."[12] Exclaim! called the album "a slow, grinding burlesque that hovers tentatively between testifying to above and wallowing down below."[16]

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Sandman.

  1. "The Night" – 4:50
  2. "So Many Ways" – 4:01
  3. "Souvenir" – 4:40
  4. "Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer" – 5:44
  5. "Like a Mirror" – 5:26
  6. "A Good Woman is Hard to Find" – 4:14
  7. "Rope on Fire" – 5:36
  8. "I'm Yours, You're Mine" – 3:46
  9. "The Way We Met" – 2:59
  10. "Slow Numbers" – 3:58
  11. "Take Me with You" – 4:54

Personnel

Morphine

Guests

  • Jane Scarpantoni – cello on "The Night", "Rope on Fire" and "Take Me with You"
  • Mike Rivard – double bass on "Rope on Fire" and "Take Me with You"
  • John Medeski – organ on "Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer" and "I'm Yours, You're Mine"
  • Billy Beard – hand drum on "Rope on Fire"
  • Brahim Fribgane – oud, frame drum on "Rope on Fire"
  • Joseph Kessler – viola on "Rope on Fire" and "Take Me with You"
  • Carolyn Kaylor, Linda Viens, Ramona Clifton, Margaret Garrett, Tara McManus – backing vocals

Charts

Chart (2000) Peak
position
US Billboard 200 137

References

  1. ^ Prato, Greg. The Night at AllMusic. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000-03-28). "Consumer Guide". Village Voice.
  3. ^ Munson, Kyle (10 Feb 2000). "Morphine's Sandman brings listeners a dream". Des Moines Register: D11.
  4. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 903.
  5. ^ Hochman, Steve (6 Feb 2000). "Record Rack". Los Angeles Times: 1.
  6. ^ Gettelman, Parry (11 Feb 2000). "A NICE SEND-OFF FOR MORPHINE'S SANDMAN". Orlando Sentinel: 9.
  7. ^ Sage Rockermann, Kristin. "Morphine: The Night: Pitchfork review". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on November 23, 2001. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  8. ^ Kot, Greg (March 2, 2000). "Morphine: The Night: Music review". Rolling Stone (RS 835). Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  9. ^ "Reviews". Spin. 16 (3): 147–148. Mar 2000.
  10. ^ "Morphine | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  11. ^ "Morphine". Billboard.
  12. ^ a b "Morphine". Trouser Press. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Sharps & Flats". Salon. February 3, 2000.
  14. ^ "Morphine Widen Sound On Final Album With Guitar, Organ, Strings". MTV News.
  15. ^ "MORPHINE". February 24, 2000.
  16. ^ "Morphine The Night". exclaim.ca.
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