Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps

Rust Never Sleeps
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Artist: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. My My, Hay Hay (Out Of The Blue)
  2. Thrasher
  3. Ride My Llama
  4. Pocahontas
  5. Sail Away
  6. Powderfinger
  7. Welfare Mothers
  8. Sedan Delivery
  9. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)

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Free Music Review: Park bench mutations
Hit: 5 Stars

It may be an exaggeration to say that Rust Never Sleeps saved my life, but it certainly lifted me out of a pit of despair in 1979. I was 23, living 200 miles from friends and family (i.e., lonelier than I thought I would ever be), and working for a moron.

The real irony of getting hooked on Rust Never Sleeps is that in college I hated Neil Young because I had been a HUGE fan of Crosby, Stills, & Nash (never mentioning "Young" in the group's name), and had thought of Neil Young as the guy that destroyed that super-group and also Buffalo Springfield. Sort of like Yoko did for the Beatles, except that Neil did it twice.

But one Sunday evening in the summer of 1979, a syndicated radio program played an interview with Neil Young, and the topic was his concert film, Rust Never Sleeps. Much to my surprise, Neil did not sound like the devil, but like a legitimate artist that was more concerned with being true to his art than he was in being commercially successful.

I checked the movie listings in the local newspaper and saw that Rust Never Sleeps was playing at a theater across town, so the next night I went to see the movie. It made me ridiculously happy, so the next morning I bought the Rust Never Sleeps vinyl LP, and listening to it day after day (and later, Live Rust and Comes A Time), I was able to survive my crappy job and The Summer From Hell.

For Christmas this year I bought Roxio Toast, with CD Spin Doctor, and started recording my old vinyl albums onto my Mac, and one of the first to be recorded was Rust Never Sleeps. Just for grins I went to Amazon to read reviews, and it was interesting to see where I agreed and disagreed with the other reviewers.

Powderfinger is one place where I diverge from the prevailing opinion. Although I like the song, it never seemed to me to be the greatest song Neil ever wrote or performed. From the electric side of the LP, Sedan Delivery and Welfare Mothers have much stronger places in my memory. I guess the humor that I needed in 1979 made those two songs more appealing. As a side note, whoever thinks that Powderfinger is about Native Americans should listen to the song again. The characters sound to me like they are from the backwoods of the South.

For the acoustic side, most reviewers love Pocahontas and Thrasher, and I'm with everybody on those. Of course, both Hey Hey, My My and My My, Hey Hey are great.

And as mentioned by some other reviewers, Live Rust is wonderful, too. The versions of Cinnamon Girl and Tonight's The Night make the entire record worthwhile.

Finally, if you have never seen the Rust Never Sleeps movie, buy it NOW. It is tremendous.

Rust Never Sleeps Poster

Young has recorded many live albums, but none capture his two dominant musical personalities with as much power as 1979's Rust Never Sleeps. The acoustic side opens with "My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)," a devastating anthem about the state of rock & roll. Comparing the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten to the late Elvis Presley, Young delivers perhaps his most famous line: "It's better to burn out than to fade away." Side 2 demonstrates the emotional power of Young's hard-rocking quartet, Crazy Horse, with the scathing political songs "Powderfinger," "Welfare Mothers," and the loud reprise of "My, My, Hey, Hey." --Steve Knopper

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