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List Price: $3.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 366116
Released: October 17, 1990 |
| Our Price: $14.98 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Rust Never Sleeps Track Listing:
1. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - Carl Himmel, Nicolette Larson, Joe Osborne, Neil Young
2. Thrasher - Carl Himmel, Nicolette Larson, Joe Osborne, Neil Young
3. Ride My Llama - Carl Himmel, Nicolette Larson, Joe Osborne, Neil Young
4. Pocahontas - Carl Himmel, Nicolette Larson, Joe Osborne, Neil Young
5. Sail Away - Carl Himmel, Nicolette Larson, Joe Osborne, Neil Young
6. Powderfinger - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
7. Welfare Mothers - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
8. Sedan Delivery - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
9. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Editorial Review:
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
Rust Never Sleeps Reviews:
Rust Never Sleeps 
2009-08-03 - Rust Never Sleeps being Young's 14th studio and 1979 release starts out with a bang with the amazing track "My My, Hey Hey" which contains the classic line "It's better to burn out than it is to fade away". Other great tracks are Powderfinger and the second rendition of "My My, Hey Hey". The reviews where all very positive and Allmusic, Robert Christgau and Rolling Stones all gave the album 5 or very positive reviews and I concur with them. The booklet contains all the lyrics and we also get well written liner notes. 5/5.
One the best from Neil, one of the best you can buy period. 
2009-07-16 - Most Neil heads will go on forever about him and I am guilty of it but not here. This is a great album to pick up, if you are just interested in getting something from Neil as a casual fan and without some of the oddities he can toss out there.
There is only one track not worth the download in my opinion and that is Sail Away, it is so sleepy you might want to kill yourself and it may have been a set up for Powderfinger in that regard.
If you don't go for the full album, you'll likely be pleased with Powdefinger, Thrasher, Pocahontas, Hey Hey My My and My My Hey Hey.
This album is a great introduction to Neil and you might also like the Liverust album from the same year and tour. The benefit to the latter is again more of Neil's best songs, with older tunes like Cinnamon Girl mixed in with the new tunes.
If you buy this album or tracks from Rust Never Sleeps and don't like them, it is likely you'll never find interest in Neil's music. On the other hand, this album got me hooked in, a long time ago.
Rust Never Sleeps never sleeps
2009-01-28 - We've always loved Neal Young's work, and this album in particular. This work hearkens back to the real world we grew up in, with a mix of styles and lyrical ideas that touch on all the various aspects of what we believed in, desired, hoped for, and feared when we were young people. As we grew older, so did our collections of cassette tapes, and of course, the radio grows younger. Being able to find discs to replace our old favorites is one of the gifts of the internet, and Amazon is one of the best places to find what we're looking for.
Forever Young
2008-10-19 - Coming off of the harrowing power of their lamenting "Tonight's The Night", Neil Young and Crazy Horse later proved their tenacity with this clever concept album. It's interesting how the spirit of rock and roll can be captured by merely turning up the distortion for each consecutive track, until the first song is practically remade with a scratchy, loud, and almost total revision. The tracks in the middle, unfortunately, seem like filler for this concept and not much else. But the message of "Rock and Roll Will Never Die" is made clearer with each turn of the effects dial, and the result is almost scary.
A Masterpiece from already stunning career
2008-09-10 - This is the sound of someone adapting to modern times. In the tradition of Dylan, Neil Young persues the half acoustic, half rock album. The songs foremost deal with change and transition into a new era of music. "Sedan Delivery" and "Welfare Mother" and nearly the rest of the second half have a raw sound that mimics the rough sound of punk. However, I feel the acoustic tracks are the treat. "My, My, Hey, Hey" is the reaction to the new puck scene and other songs such as "Thrasher" are very surrealist that recall a sense of nostalgia as they do for fans who liken more to his folk period. But the ablum closes with a bang. In my humble opinion this is his greatest album, but by no means is it his last great one.
