The Night is the fifth and final studio album by the alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Morphine

Morphine (band)

Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989. They disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack....

. Completed just before the sudden July 1999 death of bass player and lead singer Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...

, the album was released in February 2000. The title song is used for the ending credits for the webshow Hate By Numbers.

The album was released on the DreamWorks

DreamWorks Records

DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...

 label.

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

"Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer" features John Medeski

John Medeski

Anthony John Medeski is an American jazz keyboards player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood...

on organ.