Album: Welcome to the Club
Year: 1979
Very few songs better captured Ian Hunter’s goal to fuse Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones than the live version of You’re Never Alone With a Schizophrenic’s “Just Another Night.”
Opening with Hunter’s rollicking piano augmented by Mick Ronson’s powerhouse guitar, “Just Another Night” — like nearly all of Hunter’s greatest songs — tells a slightly seedy and totally rock ‘n’ roll story from the perspective of someone who is secretly enjoying all of the chaos he’s describing.
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