Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised Gibb's production work on "Night of My Life" (and on album tracks "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Hideaway") for "proudly stick[ing] to unfashionable pop styles". Tom Santopietro, author of The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand, felt that the song's lyrics were nonsensical and therefore irrelevant as they "tell us nothing about the vocalist". He asked: "What is Barbra Streisand even singing about here?"
