Artist: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Title: Rust Never Sleeps
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Hard Rock, Acoustic, Classic Rock
Label: Reprise Records
Release Date: 1979/2014
Quality: High-Fidelity FLAC Stereo 192kHz/24bit
Source: PonoMusic
Duration: 38:24
Recorded: 1975 – 1978
#350 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
Rust Never Sleeps is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on July 2, 1979, by Reprise Records. Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio. Young used the title “rust never sleeps” as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid artistic complacency and try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live.
The bulk of the album was recorded live at San Francisco’s Boarding House and during the Neil Young/Crazy Horse tour in late 1978, with overdubs added later. Audience noise is removed as much as possible, although it is clearly audible at certain points, most noticeably on the opening and closing songs. The album is half acoustic and half electric, opening and closing with different versions of the same song: “Hey Hey, My My”.
“My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”, “Thrasher” and “Ride My Llama” were recorded live at the Boarding House in early 1978 and all of side two was recorded during the late 1978 tour. Two songs from the album were not recorded live: “Sail Away” was recorded without Crazy Horse during or after the Comes a Time recording sessions, and “Pocahontas” had been recorded solo around 1975.
Young also released a film version of the album under the same title. Later on in 1979, Young and Crazy Horse released the album Live Rust, a compilation of older classics interweaving within the Rust Never Sleeps track list. The title is borrowed from the slogan for Rust-Oleum paint, and was suggested by Mark Mothersbaugh of the new wave band Devo. It is also an aphorism describing Young’s musical self-renewal to avert the threat of irrelevance.
Rust Never Sleeps, its aphoristic title drawn from an intended advertising slogan, was an album of new songs, some of them recorded on Neil Young’s 1978 concert tour. His strongest collection since Tonight’s the Night, its obvious antecedent was Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home, and, as Dylan did, Young divided his record into acoustic and electric sides while filling his songs with wildly imaginative imagery. The leadoff track, “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)” (repeated in an electric version at album’s end as “Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black]” with slightly altered lyrics), is the most concise and knowing description of the entertainment industry ever written; it was followed by “Thrasher,” which describes Young’s parallel artistic quest in an extended metaphor that also reflected the album’s overall theme — the inevitability of deterioration and the challenge of overcoming it. Young then spent the rest of the album demonstrating that his chief weapons against rusting were his imagination and his daring, creating an archetypal album that encapsulated his many styles on a single disc with great songs — in particular the remarkable “Powderfinger” — unlike any he had written before. –William Ruhlmann
Tracklist:
1 My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) 3:45
2 Thrasher 5:38
3 Ride My Llama 2:29
4 Pocahontas 3:22
5 Sail Away 3:46
6 Powderfinger 5:30
7 Welfare Mothers 3:48
8 Sedan Delivery 4:40
9 Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) 5:18
Personnel:
Neil Young — guitar, harmonica, organ, vocals
Frank “Pancho” Sampedro — guitar, vocals on side two
Billy Talbot — bass, vocals on side two
Ralph Molina — drums, vocals on side two
Nicolette Larson — vocals on “Sail Away”
Karl T. Himmel — drums on “Sail Away”
Joe Osborn — bass on “Sail Away”
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