| Nightlife | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cobra Verde |
| Cover: | Cobra Verde - Nightlife.jpg |
| Released: | August 31, 1999 |
| Recorded: | 609 Recording in Bedford, Ohio |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 53:49 |
| Label: | Motel |
| Producer: | Cobra Verde |
| Prev Title: | Egomania (Love Songs) |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Easy Listening |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
Nightlife is an album by Cobra Verde, released in 1999 through Motel Records.[1] [2]
The album was recorded by frontman John Petkovic and bass player Don Depew. Ralph Carney played saxophone on "Crashing in a Plane".[3]
The Washington Post called the album "a glam-revival romp that invokes the spirit of David Bowie, Roxy Music and (in the closing 'Pontius Pilate') Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht."[4] The Cleveland Scene wrote that "Nightlife has all the flavor of classic rock and roll without sounding too obviously retro."[5]
Exclaim! thought that "Huey Lewis-like sax-rock spews forth on 'What Makes A Man A Man', and [the band's] new grasp on glam bleeds through on cuts like 'Casino'."[6] The Washington City Paper praised the "literate, smart-aleck lyrics."[7] Salon deemed the album "a tight, heavy, guitar-and-chirping-synth version of glam rock written sideways."[8]