Songs about, set during, mentioning alot, or evoking "night" - how many can we name?

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I need about 2 hours worth for an opening reception...thanks in advance!

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)

Beach Boys "Here Comes the Night" (Disco version)!

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:33 (fourteen years ago)

Patti Smith "Because the Night"
duh

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:34 (fourteen years ago)

elo - sweet is the night
lionel ritchie - all night long
elton john - asturday night's all right for fighting
beatles - good night
abba - summer night city

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:34 (fourteen years ago)

Bob Seger NIGHT MOVES

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

destroyer - this night (entire album)

on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

Louvin Brothers, CCR - Midnight Special
Bryan Ferry, Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

Neil Young "Tonight's the Night" both versions

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

the constantines - "nighttime/anytime (it's alright)"

on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

cold chisel - saturday night <-- probably a taste issue here

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

The Palisades - Make the Night a Little Longer

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

WINGS - when the night

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

'round midnight

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

Laura Branigan, "Self Control"

All you have to do is combine 1 to 7 with (a) to (d) and you should ha (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

Rainy Night In Portland - Watty Burnett

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

xtc - knights in shining karma <-- see, cause oh look never mind

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

the dismemberment plan - "tonight we mean it"
el-p - "up all night"

sam cooke (??? not sure, might be a cover) - "another saturday night"

on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

Giorgio Moroder - Night Drive
The Units - I Night
The Soft Boys - Tonight
Big Boi - Night Night
CCR - Hey Tonight
Jonathan Richman - I Love Hot Nights, Dancin Late at Night, At Night

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

xxpost from the same album: "Frivolous Tonight" works!

on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

Les Baxter - Saturday Night on Saturn

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

there are 1720 items in my library come up in a search for 'night'

mookieproof, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

spoon - "chicago at night"
squeeze - "loving you tonight"

on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

Modern Folk Quarter - This Could Be the Night (ohmigod this song SO AWESOME)

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

stylofone - nighttime

miss pansy twist (electricsound), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

xxxxxp oh yes so it does

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night
Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets Are Ours (goooooorgeous)

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:40 (fourteen years ago)

pretty sure the best is australian rockers air supply's 'even the nights are better'

mookieproof, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:40 (fourteen years ago)

Steely Dan - Night by Night

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

Dennis Wilson - Friday Night

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

Royal Trux - A Night to Remember

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

Iggy Pop - Tonight

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:42 (fourteen years ago)

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:42 (fourteen years ago)

Willie Nelson - Stay All Night

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

rolling stones - let's spend the etc etc

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

Sam Cooke - Twistin the Night Away

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

The Raspberries - Tonight

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

kinks - all day and all of the night

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

Black Sabbath - Turn Up the Night

never meant to heart anyone (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:43 (fourteen years ago)

corey hart - i wear my sunglasses at night because i am a spanner

na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:46 (fourteen years ago)

neil young - touch the night

bad fog, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:52 (fourteen years ago)

Random sample from my iTunes:

dEUS - Opening Night
Morphine - The Night
Kelley Polar - Here in the Night
Prince - It's Gonna be a Beautiful Night
Movietone - Let Night In
Willie Wright - In the Beauty of the Night

Pisle of dogs (seandalai), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:54 (fourteen years ago)

Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets Are Ours (goooooorgeous)

so glad you mentioned this. 100% otm. i was listening to this -- and the new disc (truelove's gutter)-- tonight.

another "night" song: big star's nighttime

Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:56 (fourteen years ago)

Jamie Woon "Night Air"(thanks ILM year-end poll!)

Morley Timmons, Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:57 (fourteen years ago)

Outkast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:15 (fourteen years ago)

Thanks, everyone! Now get back to work on that "420 songs mentioning pot" thread o'mine!

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:25 (fourteen years ago)

Patti Smith "Because the Night"

By the same author, Bruce Springsteen- "Night","Prove It All Night", "Something In The Night", "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)", etc

Poll Man River: The Jerome Kern Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

"dancing in the dark" arguably

on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:21 (fourteen years ago)

and by 'arguably' I mean 'unquestionably'

on some outer space shit (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:22 (fourteen years ago)

Spinal Tap - "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight"

Two mentions in one title - do I win?

Keep on the good work! (R Baez), Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:25 (fourteen years ago)

Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Eno - Everything Merges With the Night
The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
Elvis Costello - Night Rally
Luke the Drifter (aka Hank Williams) - I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
Hendrix - The Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Merle Haggard - Honky Tonk Night Time Man
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight
The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Todd Rundgren - The Night The Carousel Burned Down
Scott Walker - Through a Long and Sleepless Night

old man yells at poop first thing in the morning (pixel farmer), Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:36 (fourteen years ago)

Up All Night, Night After Night, Tonight - Green
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - the Jam
We Close Tonight - the Who
The Night Of The Purple Moon - Sun Ra
This Night This Song - Tony Williams Lifetime
Tonight - MC5

Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)

Way too many "Night-in-the-title" songs, hardly any "evoking" songs. Therefore,...

Entire Morphine discography to thread.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:57 (fourteen years ago)

Yo La Tengo - Night Falls on Hoboken

old man yells at poop first thing in the morning (pixel farmer), Thursday, 17 February 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)

EVOCATIVE:

CONFUSION IS SEX/KILL YR. IDOLS (Entire album) - Sonic Youth
"A Forest" - The Cure
"MKultra" b/w "Totality" 7-inch - Unwound

Keep on the good work! (R Baez), Thursday, 17 February 2011 04:13 (fourteen years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult - I Love the Night

Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.), Thursday, 17 February 2011 04:22 (fourteen years ago)

Tyree - I Fear the Night

EDB, Thursday, 17 February 2011 04:31 (fourteen years ago)

captain beefheart - moonlight on vermont

it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Thursday, 17 February 2011 04:57 (fourteen years ago)

nite glide - kooky scientist
starlight - model 500

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 February 2011 08:15 (fourteen years ago)

One Summer Night - The Danleers
Such a Night - Dr. John
(December 1963) Oh What a Night - The Four Seasons
Oh What a Nite - The Dells
Oh What a Night - The Dells
It's Not the Night - The Cars
Wait For the Blackout - The Damned

I'm the drunk dude from Houston (Zachary Taylor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 08:29 (fourteen years ago)

Depeche Mode - Waiting for the Night

ledge, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:33 (fourteen years ago)

Stars - "One More Night"
I Am Kloot - "It's Just The Night"
Talk Talk - "It's Getting Late In The Evening"

Bill A, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:35 (fourteen years ago)

Billy Squier - Lonely Is The Night

NYCNative, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:36 (fourteen years ago)

Cinderella - Night Songs

NYCNative, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:36 (fourteen years ago)

George Thorogood - Night Time

NYCNative, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:37 (fourteen years ago)

Frankie Valli - Oh, What A Night

NYCNative, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:38 (fourteen years ago)

Disturbed - The Night

NYCNative, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:38 (fourteen years ago)

Whitesnake - Still Of The Night

NYCNative, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:40 (fourteen years ago)

The Blue Nile's "Hats" is classic, but I guess it could be argued they go a bit OTT on that whole "let's evoke a rainy night in Glasgow*" thing. Of seven tracks on the album, three titles (Let's Go Out Tonight, From a Late Night Train, Saturday Night) include the word itself, and two (Headlights on the Parade, The Downtown Lights) imply it. Just for a bit of variation, one ('7a.m.') is set around dawn.

(*note for prospective pedants: I know they're from Edinburgh! ;) )

Bloody Snail, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:54 (fourteen years ago)

Anyway, a few more...

Ships Don't Just Disappear in the Night - 10cc
Saturday Night - Eagles
Saturn Nights - America
Last Night I Had A Dream - Randy Newman
Each Coming Night - Iron and Wine
All Night Long - Mary Jane Girls
Tomorrow Night - Atomic Rooster
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - In Deep

Bloody Snail, Thursday, 17 February 2011 10:01 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

Thanks, everyone--this is what I came up with...trying to keep it (mostly) uptempo and poppy for a general audience

1. Round Midnight (Monk)
2. Strangers in the Night (Sinatra)
3. Hard Day’s Night (Beatles)
4. In the Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett)
5. Here Comes the Night (Them)
6. Let’s Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones)
7. Hey Tonight (CCR)
8. Night Train (James Brown)
9. Oh What a Night (Four Seasons)
10. Twisting the Night Away (Rod Stewart)
11. Dancing in the Moonlight (King Harvest)
12. Night by Night (Steely Dan)
13. Night Fever (BeeGees)
14. Because the Night (Patti Smith)
15. Midnight at the Oasis (Maria Muldaur)
16. I Love the Nightlife (Alicia Rhodes)
17. Do It All Night (Prince)
18. Savage Night at the Opera (Destroyer)

Iago Galdston, Thursday, 21 April 2011 23:43 (fourteen years ago)

Alicia Bridges. (sorry)

Iago Galdston, Friday, 22 April 2011 01:02 (fourteen years ago)

Make-Up: They Live By Night

Ramen Noodles & Ketchup (R Baez), Friday, 22 April 2011 01:04 (fourteen years ago)


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