Rust Never Sleeps

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Acoustic first half of the album before the electric raw protogrunge second half.

sooo goood!

Neil doesn’t miss

I want to be 17 and hearing this for the first time again.

Amazing album

A relisten for me, though I come back to this one quite frequently. It was the first Neil Young album I heard in its entirety and it’s a classic through and through. “Thrasher” is a true heartbreaker to me.

A great album. One of my favourites.

Sincere and soulful.

Starts great, ends great, and Powderfinger pulls the middle up to 5 stars or A-.

Damn, this was a surprise. Listened to it twice!

Fantastic from beginning to end and an album that shows off many sides of Neil Young

Excellent record!

Dreamy

5/9

Forty minutes of great music - loved it! Favourite track: Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Rating: 4.7/5 Short Review: Half acoustic reflection, half electric chaos, this album feels like a bridge between introspection and raw noise. It’s restless, imperfect, and completely alive. Favorite Track: Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black). The distorted guitars hit like a warning shot, and the “rock and roll will never die” line feels both defiant and uneasy.

Sublime.

Kurt Cobain quotes this album in his suicide note

This is my favourite Neil Young album.

Welfare mothers was really bad. The rest of the album was really good

Loved it. Right up there with Harvest and after the gold rush

Otra obra maestra de Neilg

Great record. Maybe Neil Young’s best? Powderfinger crushes. Young is an exceptional lyricist. My favorite of his songs. Great juxtaposition of distorted powerful guitars and driving rhythms on some tracks next to other mournful quieter tracks like Sail Away and Pocahontas. Also love the authenticity of the live recordings. Really great album.

Perfect symmetry on this album. There is an obvious balance between the open and closing tracks with an ever increasing intensity as the album goes on. Awesome songwriting , and thick loud distorted guitars. Feels entirely raw bit somehow rehearsed at the same time.

I honestly don't really know what to say about this album. It's got a bit of everything you expect from Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Ragged electric rockers through acoustic folk poetry. It might not be my favourite Neil Young album, but it's pretty close.

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - 5/5 Thrasher - 4.5/5 Ride My Llama - 4/5 Pocahontas - 4/5 Sail Away - 4/5 Powderfinger - 4.5/5 Welfare Mothers - 4/5 Sedan Delivery - 4/5 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - 5/5 Neil Young decided that he wanted his own version of the Electric Dylan and decided that he would influence grunge in the process. What that results in is a gradual build-up from the acoustic remembrance to the dingy want for all of that to burn away. After all, it is better to burn out than fade away. Overall: 5/5 Favorites: My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Every song on this record is a gem. Neil Young is such a great songwriter, as well as experimenter with sound. The shift from acoustic to fuzzy electric captures his full range as a songwriter and performer. This does what a live record should do: reimagine the songs instead of flawlessly re-create the album versions.

It was really nice, I liked the I guess simplicity of it? I'm not sure that's the right word

Made me want to go on a long drive out west with the windows down

Love it

Enjoyed almost everything about this album

One of his best]

Sweet guitar riffs. Harvest may be Neil Young’s best but this is a close second.

I deeply admire the flexibility that comes from Neil Young's talent.

Unskippable songs Magical stuff P.S best while high

Dope.

Classic Gold

The world needs more Neil Young.

A true classic from the godfather of grunge!

it's been easy to listen! bright not specific sound. I like it! also something cozy(?) idk how to explain it but I feel very comfortable and lovely (??) bruh

neil crashes into his mid-career neurosis and fading relevance with his own Bringing It All Back Home. the common talking points (the beautiful symmetry, side b's proto-grunge) are all true and noteworthy but ultimately i find the record more vivid for where it came from than where it points. the acoustic side is just about as beautiful as bringing it all back home's acoustic side, and is just rly emotionally provocative in such a vulnerable way...rly intimate but rly cosmic, introspection via reaching far outside his own experiences to an effect thats kind of wrenchingly beautiful. by comparison u could say side b is more masked, but its less Vulnerable Feelings and more Weaponized Feelings...a little Crasser and Rougher but also maybe a bit more recognizable as the way people express themselves in actual life. or something like that. neil albums tend to just feel clawed right out of his Actual Soul at the moment he made them, an appeal he shares with dylan but generally warmer and less cryptic. with all the *gestures vaguely* happening in and around art its just rly rewarding to experience stuff that isnt directly autobiographical but still feels like a product of being alive. what can u say but best album ever!

Literally no notes

Bon, on ne va pas se mentir, dans ce projet interminable des "1001 Albums", il y a des jours où je me traîne, où j'ai l'impression de faire mes devoirs en écoutant des trucs qui ont mal vieilli ou de la soupe tiède. Et puis, il y a des jours comme aujourd'hui. Des jours où je tombe sur une évidence, un truc qui justifie à lui seul que je perde mon temps à écrire sur de la musique au lieu de juste l'écouter en boucle dans le noir. Aujourd'hui, c'est Neil Young, mais attention, pas le Neil Young en mode "Harvest" pour faire pleurer dans les chaumières (même si je respecte). Non, là, c'est le Neil Young avec le Crazy Horse, c'est "Rust Never Sleeps" et nous sommes en 1979. Pour un mec né en 1970 comme moi, 1979, c'est une année charnière, même si à 9 ans, je n'avais pas encore la conscience politique du punk. Mais avec le recul, et toutes ces années passées derrière le comptoir du magasin de disques ou derrière le micro de la radio, je sais ce que cette année représente. C'est le moment où le rock "dinosaure" se prenait un grand coup de pied au cul par les punks. Les Sex Pistols avaient déjà tout cassé, le post-punk commençait à émerger (Joy Division, mes amours !), et les vieux de la vieille, les mecs des années 60, avaient l'air de fossiles. Sauf un, sauf ce putain de Canadien mal peigné avec ses chemises à carreaux et sa Gibson Les Paul noire défoncée. Neil Young, au lieu de faire l'autruche ou de se couper les cheveux pour faire jeune, il a sorti "Rust Never Sleeps". Et bordel, quel titre, "La rouille ne dort jamais" c'est d'un cynisme et d'une lucidité effrayante. C'est l'album de la survie, c'est l'album qui dit aux punks : "Je vous ai compris, je vous respecte, mais je peux faire plus de bruit que vous." L'album est foutu bizarrement, et c'est ce qui fait son génie. C'est un faux live, un concept bâtard enregistré sur scène mais retouché en studio, divisé en deux parties bien distinctes. C'est le Yin et le Yang du larsen. On commence doucement avec la face "folk", celle qui rassure les fans de la première heure. Mais attention, ce n'est pas du folk de feu de camp pour scout niais. C'est sombre avec "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" qui ouvre le bal. Rien que pour ces paroles, l'album mérite sa place au panthéon. "It's better to burn out than to fade away". Mieux vaut brûler franchement que de s'éteindre à petit feu. Cette phrase... putain, elle me hante. Quand je bossais chez le disquaire dans les années 90, c'était impossible d'écouter ça sans penser à Kurt Cobain qui l'a citée dans sa lettre d'adieu. Ça donne une gravité, une lourdeur au morceau qui te prend aux tripes. C'est prophétique. Neil Young y parle de Johnny Rotten, il adoube le punk tout en actant la fin de son propre règne de hippie. Il y a "Pocahontas" aussi sur cette face, une merveille de narration un peu barrée comme seul Young sait les pondre. C'est beau, c'est dépouillé. Si l'album n'était que ça, ce serait déjà un excellent disque, un solide 4/5. C'est la facette du Loner que j'apprécie, celle qui sait raconter des histoires tristes avec une voix haut perchée qui te brise le cœur. Mais bon, moi, mes goûts, tu les connais. Je suis un enfant du bruit, de la fureur, du larsen et des drones. J'ai besoin que ça gratte, que ça saigne, que ça fasse mal. C'est là qu'on retourne le vinyle... Et on change de monde. On branche les amplis géants, le Crazy Horse débarque, et là, mes aïeux, c'est la guerre. C'est simple : cette face B, c'est l'acte de naissance du Grunge, dix ans avant tout le monde. C'est la matrice, c'est le son que chercheront à reproduire J Mascis, Thurston Moore, Black Francis et Kurt Cobain toute leur vie. C'est sale, c'est lourd, c'est maladroit, et c'est absolument parfait. Le Crazy Horse, parlons-en deux secondes. Ce n'est pas le groupe le plus technique du monde. Ralph Molina à la batterie, il joue souvent un peu derrière le temps, Billy Talbot à la basse, c'est monolithique. Mais ensemble ? C'est une machine à broyer du silence. C'est lourd comme une chape de plomb, c'est le son du garage poussé à son paroxysme. "Powderfinger", c'est l'hymne. Une histoire de gars qui doit défendre sa famille avec un fusil, ça sent la poudre, la peur et la mort, le tout porté par des solos de guitare qui sont à la fois mélodiques et complètement crades. Neil Young ne joue pas de la guitare, il la torture, il lui arrache des sons qui n'existent pas. Sa "Old Black", cette Gibson modifiée, crache un son fuzzé, compressé, qui semble constamment au bord de la rupture. C'est jouissif. Et puis on arrive à la fin, le miroir de l'ouverture : "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)". La version électrique, la version méchante et la distorsion est tellement forte qu'on a l'impression que les enceintes vont exploser. C'est de la boue sonore, c'est épais, c'est gluant, c'est ce son-là que j'ai cherché toute ma vie d'adulte. C'est ce son-là qui fait le lien entre le classic rock et le noise rock que je vénère. Quand j'entends ça, je comprends pourquoi Sonic Youth a fait une reprise de "Computer Age" plus tard, ou pourquoi ils ont tourné avec lui. Neil Young sur cette face B, il est plus jeune, plus violent et plus pertinent que 99% des groupes de 1979. Il invente le mur du son émotionnel. Je pourrais ergoter sur "Sedan Delivery" qui est un morceau punk avant l'heure, speed et bordélique, ou sur "Welfare Mothers" et ses chœurs de bourrés. Mais l'essentiel n'est pas là. L'essentiel, c'est la cohérence du chaos. C'est un album sur le temps qui passe, sur l'obsolescence, joué par un mec qui refuse de devenir obsolète. C'est un album bipolaire, qui passe de la caresse à la gifle, et qui réussit les deux avec une maestria insolente. Quand je réécoute ça aujourd'hui, je ne trouve pas ça ringard une seule seconde. Au contraire, j'y entends les prémices de tout ce que j'aime, jy entends la liberté totale. Neil Young se fout des modes, il se fout de la technique, il se fout de chanter juste. Il veut juste que ça soit VRAI et bordel, que c'est vrai. C'est un disque charnière pour moi, c'est le moment où j'ai compris qu'on pouvait aimer le folk introspectif ET le déluge électrique sans être schizophrène. C'est le moment où le rock a compris qu'il pouvait vieillir sans devenir pathétique, à condition d'accepter de se mettre en danger. Alors oui, je valide cet album à 100%. La face acoustique est sublime, un 4/5 solide pour la beauté du geste. Mais la face électrique... La face électrique, c'est l'ADN de ma discothèque, c'est ce qui annonce les déflagrations futures. C'est un 5/5 indiscutable. Au final, c'est un putain de bon album. Probablement l'un des trois meilleurs de Neil Young, si ce n'est le meilleur pour ceux qui, comme moi, aiment quand ça sent la sueur et l'électricité statique. La rouille ne dort jamais, et visiblement, le talent de Neil Young non plus. Allez, je retourne écouter "Sedan Delivery" à fond les ballons en faisant chier les voisins.

Neil young no decepciona

This is a really great two-hander, with Young's haunting, perhaps overly-sentimental acoustic folk on one side, and some fantastic driving rock with a full band on the other. His vocals are an acquired taste, but the lyrics and arrangements are superb, impactful and influential.

Great throughout, really appreciate the transition from front to back.

Maybe my favorite In Neil Young album , maybe tied with Harvest

Neil Young, I have so many of his albums, and for good reason. He is amongst the very best from my era, and this is one of his best albums.

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Peak folk 9/10 2025/1/7

Loved this one! I had heard some of these songs before, but not the album- this one is going to be added to my rotation

Have this album on vinyl- not new to me, but this will always remind me of my dad

wait i loved this one! fabulous album to start off with

Ett av mina favoritalbum överlag. Kan inte bli annat än en 5a

this one was amazing

19/12/2025 1. my my, hey hey (out of the blue) - heard this one before in the dennis hopper film named after it, but the first time i've properly listened to it by itself. liking the guitar. listened to a few neil young songs before and really love his voice :) also like the live aspect of this album. not sure how i feel about the harmonica though, probably depends what mood i'm in when listening lol. the lyrics are great as well. 2. thrasher - again, guitar, lyrics and vocals are great :) i like the more poetic lyrics and how gentle this song is; after listening to iron maiden and abba the past two days this is an absolute godsend. harmonica at the end reminds me a bit of everybody's talkin. ☆3. ride my llama - loving how picky the start of this song is. not much to say about this one, but loving this so far. i'm liking the more acousting folksy vibe, although i know it switches about halfway through? already love powderfinger so am very excited for that ☆4. pocahontus - before starting, i am slightly concerned what a white canadian man in the 70s has to say about pocahontus. now started, loving the guitar in this. was expecting this album to be a bit sad, but not as melancholic as this, verrrry beautiful. guitar sounds around the middle-ish are great!! loving the more surreal, dreamy lyrics, mixing the past and present. ☆5. sail away - the harmonica is back.... not as grating as certain dylan songs though and i'm in a good mood to deal with it. loving the female backing singer on this one. very tender song, really touching album so far :( quickly becoming a favourite of all time. the live aspect of this really helps the vibe for me. ☆6. powderfinger - already have this song constantly on repeat, been meaning to listen to this album for a while becuase of this song and this is the perfect reason :) listening to it as a part of the album instead of by itself has somehow pushed it up even further in my head. the guitar in this is crazy. love the lyrics, very atmospheric. the backing vocals are really great, especially in the instrumental section with that phenomenal guitar. i know the vocals aren't for everyone, but i love the whiny bits. 7. welfare mothers - immediately a lot more aggressive than i was expecting, especially after the first half of this album, but not complaining at all. the opening reminds me a bit of john i'm only dancing but a looot more punkier. this album is actually crazy why have i been putting off listening to it????? the lyrics aren't as poetic/complex as the rest, but it's such a high bar and the music is so good i actually do not care in the slightest. the guitar throughout, but especially at the end is going to drive me actually insane, this is one of the best albums i have ever listened to. ☆8. sedan delivery - neil young i am so sorry i doubted you when i had to listen to a cover of ohio in gcse history, this is the best thing i have ever heard!!!!!!! oh my god the guitar is so good i am going to explode the solos in this are actually transcendent. loooove the tempo changes. i am very quickly becoming obsessed with neil young. 9. hey hey, my my (into the black) - before listening i do not want this album to end. guitar has been phenomental thoughout and this is no different, loving the distortion and almost-screeching. been reading a few of the reviews on here when adverts came up and i can understand not liking his voice, but i don't understand how this is boring??? already knew i would like this album from knowing powderfinger and my my, hey hey, but this is one of the best things i have ever heard and will be on constant repeat for at least a week lol. i loved all of the songs and it absolutely did not feel like 40 minutes. will be listening to more of his albums/songs as well after i am done with repeating this one. i understand neil young's voice isn't for everyone (as someone who cannot get into tom waits no matter how much i try, sorry lol), but it absolutely works for me, vibes are off the charts, every song is transcendent and i do not want to pick a favourite. bring back non-americans doing americana (i now need to rewatch the last waltz). the favourites on this is basically useless because they are all that good. neil young you will live forever.

No dount

Excellent listen. Neil Young’s influence and impact cannot be overstated. No skips, pure quality

Second time he surprises me with a great album. Makes me keen to pick up my guitar…

Spurred grunge, fuzzed guitars my my Hey hey Thrasher Powderfinger

Ratings: 5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background A classic.

Fantastic Powderfinger is a top five Young song.

VERY VERY GOOD!

One of my favorite live albums!!!

Wow so glad I finally have listened to this one. I feel like people who saw him back in this day would have said ''Oh he's much better live'' so I feel like that's what he was trying to capture with this, and it definitely feels a bit less polished, but absolutely for the better in this case. There's such a mix of all amazing stuff on here, it starts more 'folky', which is I think what he does best on his own, but with the rest of the band doing extended jam type songs, is also amazing, and I'm pretty sure the Sedan Delivery song is Neil Young's take on Punk music, which is totally brilliant. also I think the 2 different styles is best summed up by the first and last songs being the same, but totally different instrumentation. His lyrics and songwriting are amazing, had no idea the burn out or fade away came from him, who knows what it's better to do. I love his voice a lot, and its hard to explain how much I just like his music, I feel like if anyone else sang these it wouldn't be nearly as good, there's just something amazing about him that's hard to place. No downsides except... Favourite songs: all but Welfare Mothers (obviously I have no problem with the concept, I don't like the instrumentation). Overall around 9/10

Live tracks and studio musical craftworks at their best!

One of Neil Young’s best albums and that says a lot. The intro/ outro on this album really work to set the tone while still standing on their own as great proto grunge songs. In between the rest of the album charges ahead with a mix of thought out lyrics and often aggressive melody. Top notch

Neil at his peak.

Another all-time Neil classic, packed full of great songs, delivered as live for a real raw punch.

The best!

This is the pinnacle of Crazy Horse in the studio, followed by Live Rust, their true apex, though they did still kick ads live to the bitter end. I love every song, but Pocahontas and Powderfinger and both of the Hey Hey My Mys and ffs everything here is peak Neil in every way

One of my all-time favorites

I loved the progression from more folk sound on A-side to hard rock sound onto the B-side. Def a good exploration of sounds for the time and I can see how this falls into the prototype grunge type genre.

Neil Young is always authentic, original and a great songwriter. Love this album.

Jeg mener å ha lest at Neil Young er den artisten i denne lista med aller flest album. 7/8 eller noe slikt. Dette er det andre albumet vi får og jeg er redd for at når vi er ferdig om noen år så er det Neil Young som fyller våre best likte album i oppsummeringen. For det blir en lett femmer her og. Gleder meg til mer!

A perfect album for me, both sides I have time for. A few cheesy lyrics you always get but this is one of my favourites. Heaps of repeatability. SPUN

Fantastic, busy right now or would write more but I get why Kurt was so inspired. Top tier

Neil's records are all the hell over the place, with total garbage and apex pinnacles. This one is decidedly the latter. Rust Never Sleeps and neither does Neil, raging, imagining, howling against the grisly transience of all good things. 'Thrasher' kept me afloat for a month of my least favourite job ever when I was 19 or 20. Used to debate the meaning of 'Powderfinger' for hours. Love how he borrowed Dylan's structure acoustic/electric but reversed. Brilliant record.

9.3

Great album for today. My first Neil Young album was Harvest when I was 13 years old ( because I had a crush on a boy who sang Heart of Gold)…. Yesterday we went to my nephew’s home. He and his wife have 2 young sons. The ambient low soundtrack they played was Neil Young songs.

Love this album, precursor for other hard rock. My my hey hey

This is such a classic Neil Young and Crazy Horse album. It features two trademark NY ballads in “Pocahontas” and “Powderfinger” that benefit from strong lyrics that leave themselves open to interpretation about their meaning. It has an inscrutably weird song in “Welfare Mothers.” It features excellent guitar crunch and ramshackle Crazy Horse stomp throughout. Then there are the leadoff and closing versions of “Hey Hey, My My,” one accoustic and wistful, sounding like something off of Harvest, the other noisy and fierce, with a beat like a stamping press. Young was simultaneously taking stock of a decade he loomed large over but felt confined by, and pointing toward the future, with tossed-off lyrical references to Johnny Rotten, ominous white boats coming up the river, and the famous line “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” Reflective, restless, tender and angry, it’s an incredible capstone to a decade of personal and political upheaval, even if it marked the end of a run in which he could scarcely put a foot wrong.

I like how it switches from sad to sadder

This one’s easy! 5:5. I always mistake this for an early career ‘greatest hits’ album, it’s got so many standards on it. And his live versions are perfect! I learned to play guitar with these songs and (to paraphrase) ‘once they’re your songs, you’ll never give them back’. Neil young just provided me with a thanksgiving parenting affirmation when one of my kids told me that he and his roommate were dressing up in Halloween with the roommate being Neil Young and my son as “a crazy horse”!

This is one of my all timers Neil and crazy Horse were on fire and at their peak. After reading your review Mike I might have to rethink my Halloween costume (French mad if you were wondering).

# Album Name: Rust Never Sleeps # Artist: Neil Young # Rating: 5/5 # Comments: Absolute banger. Every single track. Loved this record. # Top Tunes: All of it # Would I listen to it again? Yes

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Good

Excellent examples of NY from acoustic to hard rock. An important listen.

When I first heard My My Hey Hey in 8th grade, I knew I had heard it before even though it just came out. It was floating in the ether with the rest of this perfect record. A must hear and I think if you only hear on Neil Young record, you are missing out, but this is the one.

From the acoustic opening track "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", to the closing Punk Rock track "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", this is great album. Also includes "Thrasher", "Pocahontas", "Powderfinger", and "Welfare Mothers".

Somehow avoided this because of it being a live album. Honestly could t even tell, and what great album it is! Great tracks from beginning to end

I love Neil Young's music but I steered clear of this album until now because I don't usually like live albums and I thought this would be filled with screaming fans. What a mistake! This is fantastic!

Enjoyed listening to this. Really like the contrasting first side acoustic with more heavier flip side. My my, heh heh, perfectedly encapsulates the chasing of the guard after punk. For me, this album does not come near the quality of other classic NY albums. But there is a time and place for everything, and this captures the moment nicely

neil.

как же драйвово!!!

Young is a genius at his art and this is a phenomenal record that fuses country and rock seamlessly. Even the songs that don't really resonate with me surely impress me. A great record top-to-bottom.

Fantastic album front to back. I love when Neil gets a little heavier than normal, I’m so this is one of my favorite albums of his. Not to say that the folk songs on here aren't also fantastically written and played. Favorites- Powderfinger, Sedan Delivery and Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) 10/10

A live album that actually rules. Neil is a legend and this is fantastic. A true classic.

One of the best albums by one of the best to ever do it. Both the acoustic and the hard rock parts are fantastic — every time I hear the start of Powderfinger I'm instantly transported, one of the most vivid songs ever written.

This album perfectly showcases the two sides of Neil Young. On the acoustic side, the title track and Pocahontas stand out. The electric side is the heart of the album. The standouts are the electric version of the title track, Powderfinger and Welfare Mothers. I can hear where grunge came from because the guitars throughout the electric side are muddy and dirty, just how I like them.

Might just be in my top 10. NY really is one of if not the best. Maybe I’m a soft touch on the ratings. Dishing out 5s for fun. 5/5 Best Song: Powderfinger/Hey Hey

Its an easy 5, its so good. Maybe one of his best albums, you can sill here the influence of this album today. Fair to say no grunge without this album?

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Powderfinger

I didn't know who Neil Young was until I started hearing the music. I liked this album a lot. Rock and blues, the guitars, the harmonica. It made me feel so good and somehow also melancholic. My favorite one has to be Thrasher. For me it is 4.5/5 mini0n, 04/09/2025

This was the first Neil Young album I bought, as I was getting into his music and this was his latest release. I listened to this and “Live Rust” almost non-stop for a while, and then went backward and got more of his records. Some of the songs on here haven’t aged as gracefully as others, but this mix of acoustic and electric perfectly encapsulated both sides of his output. “Powderfinger” is my favorite NY song, so that alone lifts this to top tier for me. And I love enough of the others (especially MMHH and HHMM) to make this an absolute must listen.

Another one of my favorites

This is a pleasant and delightful listen.

not a perfect record (sail away is forgettable and welfare mothers regrettable) but it's one of my favourite neil albums

Powerful live performances. I actually wish it was a longer set.

Thoughts before listening: Neil live album. I both love it and also think it's a little rough around the edges. Of course that's pretty much par for the course with a Neil Young show so it's appropriate. Review: You know what, I think I'm thinking of one of the later Neil live albums. This one is great. First half is acoustic and then he cranks it up for the second half with full on electric Crazy Horse. I was actually prefer the acoustic songs here although it's hard to argue with full on hard rock Neil. This is 5-stars.

I have absolutely no idea what about this works so well for me, but anything other than a 5 star rating feels wrong.

5*

Probably my favorite Neil Young album and that's really saying something. From front to back, this is a stellar example of every style of his and I love how it goes from stark acoustic songs to full-on raucous live guitar onslaught. Lyrically, these songs explore the danger of celebrity ("Hey Hey, My My") and the perils of colonialism ("Pocahontas") and violence ("Powderfinger"). And I love how he goes fully punk on "Sedan Delivery." Just a great album

Probably my favorite live album, i spin this pretty much every month at least once. Showcases the two sides of Neil with some excellent acoustic songwriting on the first side; I love the poetry of Thrasher and the wistfulness of Pocahontas especially. Then flip it over and you've got some incredible proto-grunge, Powderfinger is my favorite Neil Young song from a lyrical and musical standpoint, that chorus riff is just awesome, and it tells such a vivid, great story in so few words. And concluding the show with Hey Hey, My My, raucously inverting the intro in a way that matches the song's message perfectly. Old Neil decided to rust instead of burn out and I'm glad he did, saw his show last month and he's still got it

This is my third Neil Young album, and I just didn't connect at all with the other two. I don't know if it's the live-sounding production, the more rock vibe on side 2, or just the brilliant opening, and closing track, but I really enjoyed this one - it's exactly what I wanted the others to be.

One of my top 10 favourite artists. So prolific, so political, so non conformist, sometimes raw and gutsy, sometimes sweet and romantic. Love it.

I did not want to like this but I saved 3 songs haha! That is the album rating system, and I'm sticking to it.

🗯 Starts on the porch, ends in the garage — both sides glorious. I’ve seen this around heaps, but was never excited by Young so didn’t bother. Joke’s on me! Side A is acoustic and intimate, Neil in storyteller mode with the kind of songs that feel timeless. Side B? He straps in with Crazy Horse and basically sketches the blueprint for grunge a decade early. ‘Powderfinger’ is a scorcher and one of his finest ever — and the namesake for the Aussie band — while ‘My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)’ drops that immortal line: “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” Here’s the kicker — most of it was recorded live on tour, but with the crowd noise stripped out, making it feel like a studio album with an untamed edge. I enjoyed this way more than I expected — raw, fearless, and bloody excellent from start to finish. Proof that Neil could be delicate and devastating in the same breath. This album fucking slaps!!

A fair chunk of what would become the defining music of the 20th century’s last quarter exists between My My, Hey Hey and its antipodal point, Hey Hey, My My. And, as it happens, so too does what will in all likelihood be my favourite album of this year, the last of the 21st century’s first quarter. First things first, that line. “It’s better to burn out than fade away” was so excruciatingly prescient a lament that it took someone as gifted in running a feeling to its absolute limits as Kurt Cobain to really claim it. Tragically, but that’s Kurt Cobain for you. In its original context, you feel Neil feeling suddenly, perhaps for the first time, less than young. And there’s ample evidence of that perspective shift happening across the record – the biographical ramblings of “Thresher” (symbolism fans: a machine for harvesting); the humble aspirations of “Ride My Llama”; the tragedy of a life cut short for nought in “Powderfinger”; even the resourceful horniness of “Welfare Mothers” and Bukowski-baiting “Sedan Delivery” feel like they’re coming from a place of some sort of hard-fought streetwise wisdom. This album has entirely captivated me. And while it’s because it’s 1) full of absolutely sublime songs and 2) so pivotal a piece in the big old jigsaw of music I love … it’s also because I also feel less than young today. And while the feeling that something’s behind you might be a jarring one, it’s also an invitation to reflect on the privilege that is having something to look back on. As momento mori moments go, this is surely one of the most stirring and inspiring ever articulated. (I mean, it literally invented grunge!) In short, it’s proof if you needed it that burning out or fading away was only ever a false choice. It’s always been neither, and it’s always been both. My my, hey hey.

Awesome

עצם העובדה שהוא הופך צאלבום פולק לאלבום גראנג' באמצע גורמת לאלבום הזה להיות,בלתי נשכח אלבום מדהים, אין בו דילוגים, מצוין. שיר מועדף - Hey hey, my my (into the black)

“My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)” is one of the great treatises on the rock star life. This is sort of a Frankenalbum, half live, half in the studio, but it’s up there with Neil’s best. Also, Fuck Joe Rogan.

Cool

Hey hey my my I love this album.

Great album. Love how it builds from acoustic to electric. Was a little shorter than I hoped.

Really good. As expected, yet even a little better

God blanding af hans country, folk rock agtig side og så den der proto grunge hard rock side. Første del af albummet er stille og roligt og så går det ellers amok. "It's better to burn out than fade away" skrev Kurt Cobain i sit suicide letter som er direkte citeret af Neil Young. Den rå lyd og distorted elektriske jam lyd var det som inspirerede grungen og Neil Young blev også kaldt forefather of grunge. Svært ikke at anerkende lyden af dette album og rejsen rent lydmæssigt igennem er også super fed. Han var sgu god til at reinvent ham selv også i en senere alder. improvisation er også en stor spiller i lyden og det kan man sagtens høre. Det er næsten ligesom at høre noget "live". Føler lidt at konteksten af albummet og dets indflydelse på historien og neil young som mand løfter niveauet lidt på samme måde som Johnny cash der synger hurt. Det ændrer lidt konteksten et eller andet sted.

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) - 5/5 Thrasher - 4/5 Ride My Llama - 3/5 Pocahontas - 5/5 Sail Away - 5/5 Powderfinger - 5/5 Welfare Mothers - 5/5 Sedan Delivery - 5/5 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - 4/5 Average score: 4.5/5 (rounding up) hey hey my my

One of my top 5 all-time. Since 1979 I probably haven't gone 3 months without putting this on.

11/10

This is the brand of like folksy singer songwriter that does it for me. Hey hey my my x2 best ever, but everything between goes so hard as well. Thank you Neil. It’s not his strongest album but I think two more listens and this becomes a 5, so I’m just gonna give it to him.

Great album all the way through. Don't have any complaints. Great songs with cool messages. Interesting song dynamics across the album. Weak 5 just because due to his voice (not as harsh as Dylan's though)

How did I never hear powderfinger and the rest of the album other than the 2 versions of the same song (which somehow is okay)? Neil Young rules and I will listen to this alone again. 5/5

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me.

Awesome

100/100

Man I love this guys voice. Surprise masterpiece 10/10

Love Neil, just saw him live last night! Serendipity

classic

My personal favorite Neil Young album

Forgot what was even in this album. Classic Neil and Crazy Horse. Got to see him last year playing some of these.

Me ha parecido un discazo, que va de menos a más. Es un disco muy potente con una guitarras increíbels. Neil ha creado un disco increíble.

Neil Young at the peak of his popularity. The solo songs are excellent and beautifully performed. On the solo side he sings quite superbly (I like his voice!). The Electric side is the weaker of the two, but still has some quite brilliant songs. 5*. Would I listen again? Yes, I do regularly. Would I buy this album? I did. 1 "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" 03:45 The acoustic version. Wonderful song, beautifully sung. - 5* 2 "Thrasher" 05:38 Again, a beautifully sung tale. Excellent lyrics. Neil Young's acoustic guitar playing is wonderful to listen to. - 5* 3 "Ride My Llama" 02:29 The narrative on the songs are interesting, including this one. - 5* 4 "Pocahontas" 03:22 A fantastic song. Brilliantly sung. I love the rhythm that you can hear Young slapping/keeping on the guitar. - 5* 5 "Sail Away" 03:46 Excellent. Lovely melody. - 5* 6 "Powderfinger" 05:30 The electric side. This is a great song. Brilliant guitar from Young. The solo is very melodic. - 5* 7 "Welfare Mothers" 03:48 The Horse does Garage Rock. This starts off and I think "Why is this here? Spoiling what has come before." That's partly the point I think. The strange juxtaposition of "D-i-v-o-r-c-eeee" with the music makes me smile. Great guitar. - 4* 8 "Sedan Delivery" 04:40 More Garage Rock. Has much the same effect on me as Welfare Mothers. Riff driven. - 4* 9 "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" 05:18 The electric version. Stunning. Heavy. Brilliant. - 5* Total - 43/45 Average - 4.78

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One of the two best Neil Young albums imo. Powderfinger is one of his strongest tracks, in storytelling and musical. My My, Hey Hey are both good tracks. Rock 'n' roll can never die!

Begrijpelijk dat dit werd gespeeld op Kurt Cobain's begrafenis. Fantastisch album met een iconisch, tijdloos openingsnummer. Rock and roll will never die. Zijt maar zeker. 4.5

The older I get the more Neil Young becomes one of my favorite artists. Country Rock, Hard Folk Rock, Proto-Grunge. The riffs, the distortion, the lyrics. Another banger. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Banging

Itselle tämä albumi kolahti oikein kunnolla. Heart of goldiakin parempi.

Crazy good album, so many good songs. The guitar tone on hey hey my my is ahead of its time

One of my favourites. Powderfinger and My My, Hey Hey are probably my best songs

The movement from acoustic to electric happens so perfectly I didn't even realize what was happening on the first listen. To be honest I didn't care much for side A apart from My, My but side B more than makes up for it. Powderfinger and Sadan Delivery were phenomenal.

Loved this. Great songs, great vibe with a huge array of sounds across the album. Super nostalgic feeling with strong production, and I’ll definitely come back to this.

Very familiar with these songs and love them all.

Peak Neil Yound & Crazy Horse!!

Very good

Stunning. The guitar work on this is some of Young’s best, and the decision to overdub live tracks gives these songs a fantastic depth in sound. Some of Youngs best songs on display here, and it’s always a good time when he’s recording with Crazy Horse.

5 star classic

No notes.

one of the greatest albums of all time

I'm biased given I've listened to this forever but actually listened again and heard new things like how some of the other tracks (not HHMM/MMHH) were also recorded live, and a lot of backing vocals and sound effects I'd never heard on Ride Your LLama. It's a mad album. Half the tracks are very trippy lyrically. Then you have Welfare Mothers which I'm never entirely sure about, and the opener and closer ehich are classics. Then a Civil war song. It's great.

Perfect for a Sad Girl Walk. My mood has almost definitely impacted the rating

This has been a favorite of mine since 1999. Love just about every track!

Favorite Track: My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)

Classic

Great album. Love Neils/Crazy Horses guitar style and lyrics. The early grunge is evident on this album. #11

One of his best, great songwriting from start to finish and shows both his acoustic and folk side, as well as his electric guitar-driven Crazy Horse stuff off very well

I will admit I own no Neil Young albums. I will also admit that I love singer songwriters. As far as Young music, I knew his popular songs from Buffalo Springfield to CSNY, to his solo work. I also knew he was a great songwriter but damn I was not prepared for what I got with this album. It is a masterpiece. I love the slow build from acoustic to electric. The musical switch from ballad to verging on punk and let’s not forget the stellar songwriting. Crazy Horse is an excellent backing band with fuzz toned guitars and epic solos. I never really understood Neil Young’s connection to grunge, but this album gives it perspective. I love every song on this album and will be adding it to my collection. If I have to narrow it down, my favorite songs include “Sedan Delivery”, “Sail Away”, “Powderfinger”, and that epic closer “Hey, Hey, My, My (Into The Blcak”

This is, for the most part, the harder rocking version of Neil that I love unreservedly. Powderfinger rules. Shame about the Kurt Cobain suicide lyrics; that guy did Neil dirty.

Unbelievable record. The contrast between Neil solo and Neil with Crazy Horse is so much fun!

This album’s got some of my favorite Neil songs... 'Sail Away,' 'Pocahontas', 'Powderfinger'. The vibe’s so good. Yeah, it’s kind of downbeat, but it totally works.

Love this record. Neil is brilliant in this phase. Welfare Mothers is the weak link for me, but that’s a nitpick.

I think I might be a Neil Young fan?? This was really excellent. And an interesting recording concept, where it's mostly live but done in a way to limit the "live-ness" of it. Really enjoyable, I'll put this one on again for sure.

I've really liked everything we've heard by Neil Young. He is a cool guy.

Excellent lyricism and unique sound

Jedan od pet najboljih neilova a to puno govori

Fav: My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue); Ride My Llama; Sail Away; Welfare Mothers; Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black).

Loved it. Huge emotional range. So impressed with how Neil can slip seamlessly between emotional soft rock and crunchy garage punk. Truly great rock n roll.

Loved this as soon as it came out. Neil referencing Johnny Rotten told me he was one of the good ones. The live album (Weld?) is also amazing, as is the film.

It's Neil Young. It's good. Great production. Perfect for listening anywhere

Fantastic! Perfect sound. Perfect order. Great songs. If you like Neil Young, you can't really ask for much more.

Much more acoustic than I remember. A masterpiece in so many ways

Great record when it came out, still great today. Dirty guitar to the fore !

Good listen. "Welfare Mothers" and "Sedan Delivery" are my favorite tunes from the album.

Prefer the acoustic side, but both are excellent. "Thrasher" is immense. 5 stars

This might be my favorite Neil Young album. I really love the contrast between his pretty acoustic numbers and abrasive fuzzed out tunes. "Thrasher" might do the best job of explaining this album. Neil's old friends in Crosby, Stills, and Nash went as far as they could with their sound, but Neil was just getting warmed up. Highlights for me are "Hey Hey, My My", "Powderfinger", and the aforementioned "Thrasher". 5 stars.

Perfect!

There is an argument that this is the only album by Neil Young anyone needs. He basically has 2 songs - acoustic and grunge. Half this record is acoustic and the other half great examples of huis grunge. And it doesn't outstay its welcome.

Side A is Young mourning everything - the death of Elvis, his separation from CSN, his feeling that punk rock was overtaking rock n roll - and it's all set to that familiar acoustic and harmonica set. For Side B, he invites Crazy Horse to join him, and it's almost as if he's trying to burn away the rust. There's a symmetry to this thing, almost a chiastic structure. The first and last tracks are the most obvious pieces of evidence for this, but there are other parallels (Pocahontas and Welfare Mothers, for example). The tight structure and evocative imagery is impressive enough, but hey, it also sounds great. What an album.

THINKIN: The life and death of the Laural Canyon, and maybe Rock 'n' Roll itself, captured in a single disc. PERSONALLY: My all-time Neil album, the best of his quieter-folky-loner and cluster-fuck-rock sides, Powderfinger is one of the best songs in his catalogue. ALT TITLE: The King is Dead

For some reason I get along with Neil Young more than CS&N, maybe because he doesn’t try to play every instrument on this so it sounds like a band. (Been listening to this more since rating it, definitely a 5 instead of 4)

I am beginning to think this Neil Young fella is quite good at the music thing. 'My My, Hey Mey' (both tracks) are astounding.

It’s hard not to get a 5-star rating when you decide to both open and close an album with “My Hey, Hey My”.

Great rock classic!

This was a great listen. I really enjoyed the progression from acoustic into the electric and distorted. While there were many individual songs that were hits, this album had a progression and flow that made the whole greater than the sum of the individual tracks.

It's a classic

I don't want to like Neil Young, what is wrong with me?

5/5 for sure the black parade is mcrs best album 🗣️🗣️🗣️ (i actually wrote a review and stuff but i don’t think anyone other than me did a substitution so my bad gang❤️❤️❤️)

There are two types of Neil Young fans: 1: I want to live on a farm, raise cattle, and grow corn. 2: I want to live in Seattle, be depressed, and never shower.

Neil Young is one of my favourite artists. Not everything he’s made over the years is gold, but Neil in the 70s is truly special. After the Goldrush, Harvest and the ‘Ditch Triology’ are some of my favourite albums ever. Rust Never Sleeps takes Neil out of the 70’s on an incredibly high note. What I love most about Neil and what I think makes him a truly remarkable artist is that when he’s firing on all cylinders, he gives you everything - he lays it all out for you to see - the emotions, the truths, and the contradictions of life. Rust Never Sleeps is firing on all cylinders. The album sees Neil staring down the end of the decade - reflecting on the past, cautious of the future - and writing and playing some of his most raw and honest material. One side acoustic, one side electric. This duality would come to define and redefine him as Neil would repeat this patten over the rest of his career, alternating albums of pastoral beauties with grungy, noisy bastards. As of late (and debatable), the misses happen more than the hits but Rust Never Sleeps hits and it hits hard - giving us the clearest pictures of who Neil was / is. The album deliberately pulls from different styles and brilliantly captures his distinct sides - his wounded, sentimental heart yearning and pleading AND his raging, ragged self living, fighting through words and noise. As with all his masterworks, there is a bleak, relatable sadness and world weariness but also an overwhelming desire to keep going on, searching for the things that matter the most. Rust Never Sleeps is an elegiac epitaph to the 70’s and for me remains one of the best records of any decade. My Favourite Songs?: My My Hey Hey (out of the blue) Thrasher Pocahontas Powderfinger Hey Hey My My (into the black)

Nice

A great album. Folk country soul and with an outsider point of view

Incredible album

Wow, WHAT an album. I mean I’ve heard it 100 times before but there’s a reason for that

Immaculate. The template for grunge and heavy folk.

All the hallmarks of a Neil Young album. Long live Neil

Listen. I love Neil Young. He's been making viable and important albums for 60 years. He is a treasure, as a songwriter and as a performer. This album absolutely captures him as a countercultural folk artist (side 1) and then the proto-grunge avatar (side 2) with the incredible Crazy Horse. I've seen him with Booker T and the M.G.'s (...which, bucket list memories there...), and he did the split set... predominantly acoustic and then all the goddam way plugged in. This is a seminal and perfect album. Five of Five.

Starts off with a total classic, and ends with a grunged up better version of it. I love a ton of Neil Young songs, but have always found his discography daunting. This is supposedly the birthplace, or precursor at least, to grunge, the second half of the album. It's a good album, though I may prefer After the Gold Rush myself. Also impressively raw for the era in mainstream rock, which had gone in another direction. I'll definitely go back to this one.

35/1001 Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps consist of two vastly different halves. The A-side consists of live acoustic folk and country tunes, while the B-side is electric and heavily distorted rock songs recorded in the studio. The album opens and closes with the stellar two parter of My My, Hey Hey(Out of the Blue)/Hey Hey, My My(Into the Black). Hey hey, My My is probably the albums most defining moment featuring one of Young’s greatest and most memorable riffs. In general the B-side is very guitar-centric. Even the more mellow Powderfinger is driven by a fantastic riff. The A-sides quality is not as high, as the B-sides, though, the opener, Thrasher and Sail Away are all wonderful songs with different qualities. 5/5

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Had great time listening to this album

Pretty good, old, melodical rock

Rly nice and chill

cualquier disco de Neil Young contiene alguna canción que cualquier grupo, banda o solista desearía tener en su repertorio. Este es bueno de principio a fin, uno de los grandes. Tanto en su parte acústica como en la eléctrica. Maestro entre los mejores, y en plena explosión punk. Grande, enorme.

Good job, Neil. 5

An album I already knew I was giving 5* to but listened to it anyway It's not my favourite Neil Young album (After the Goldrush is) but probably the one which best encapsulates the versatility that makes him great with an acoustic side and an electric side. Hey Hey My My is one of his most poignant songs, with incredibly evocative lyrics and an ultimately simple guitar melody. Fair to say Young's 80s output to come afterwards wasn't quite as good as his peak, but this album sits aside his best work for sure

Incredible

This album freakin rocks. I feel like it shows the best of all the many versions of Neil Young. Its folk, its rock, its soul, its psych, it's even a bit of punk rock there at the end. I really love how it live. You can feel that energy with him and the band and the audience. I remember talking with a roommate about this album when I was a freshmen in college and how this really felt like grunge in a lot of ways, and you can definitely pick up on that as you listen throughout. Especially with the distortion effects. I love how it ends with Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) such a cool way to end a set and an album. I also really like how it builds throughout, its start kind of soft and then really ramps up by the end. Neil Young is one of my favorite songwriters and performers. He's so true to his style and sound. I love that he's always just kept it interesting. He's someone I can always count on to enjoy.

Ah, he is good, is Neil Young. I think is songwriting is second to none, and I enjoy the atmosphere he creates with the guitar. I like the concept of the album too - partially recorded live and then overdubbed, meaning the songs feel a lot more grounded and theatrical. Pocahontas is great, as are the beginning and ending songs, versions of the same song that are noticeably different. Been a big Neil Young fan since Harvest popped on the list - what an album - and I like this one a lot too.

Wonderful - certainly one of Young's best five albums. For many it's his best.

bueniiiiiii

One of if not the best Neil albums. Add this to list of possible favorite albums on the list.

One of Neil’s many masterpieces. Infusing the punk spirit into his music and inventing a new genre in the process. Love the post-modern yet personal lyrics and psychotic electric guitar tones.

Gotta be 5. It’s Neil.

This review might be a bit biased because I have fond memories of listening to this in my favourite bar back when I was in college. The only bad thing was when some magician guy tried to hit on me, not realising I was a dude with long hair. This used to amuse the bartender who otherwise seemed to be having a very frustrating shift each time.

Isn't it amazing that a Canadian has, since the beginning, understood America so clearly? And this album shows every single side of Neil Young. A masterpiece.

A classic with a song so good it had to be included twice.

A gift to us- Neil Young around the holidays- just perfect.

One of his best records from a very prolific decade, love the change up from the softer more acoustic first half of the record to the loud thrashy second half. Lyrically brilliant especially on Powderfinger

I truly do not know if I prefer the acoustic or electric side. And that's magical.

an incredibly raw and often emotional listen. Neil Young embraces the dark and reflects on his waning relevance (and his own mortality!) with stunning poetry set first against beds of tranquil acoustic guitar, then sheets of barrelling bluesy noise. this music really set the tone for a lot of the subsequent rock movements that sprung up in its wake in the eighties. the "college rock" groups and the punks of that decade all owe a lot to the sound of songs like "Powderfinger" and the political focus of songs like "Pocahontas". there's even a through line from here to the grunge movement, one which I think is most evident in the opener and closer, the songs here which most openly confront death and the legacy of artists head-on. rock and roll will never die. light 9/10.

i love me some folk and neil young has a very nice calming voice to bring the album together

One of my favorites from Neil, one of my favorite artists. Perhaps an awkward format with live acoustic followed by an electric half, bookended by different versions of the same (classic/brilliant) song. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) and its acoustic sister is possibly my favorite Neil song and objectively one of his best. It of course has a sinister connotation, as its lyrics were blasted by John Lennon as dangerous and supposedly ended up on Kurt Cobain’s suicide note. Both versions are great, but to me the electric version best represents the dark side of rock and roll that it depicts. Pocahontas, Powderfinger, and Ride My Llama are also major highlights.

1979 Pre listen:Obvious classic, always wanted to know more Neil Young Up to Powderfinger- sounds and melodies so familiar it’s hard to imagine it being new Got more and more heavy Album felt short

Once again, it's one of those "classic" albums from my teens that I just never got round to trying. Yes, I'd enjoyed Harvest and After The Goldrush, but RNS passed me by. And it's flipping awesome. Obviously Hey Hey, My My (both versions) are the stand out tracks, but the whole album reeks of awesomeness. Nice to hear a man continuing to explore and experiment.

Ничего особенного

So good. Loved it.

Ride my llama is really good, and Neil Young is the same guy from Heart of Gold, I like that kind of country/folk/rock

Oh boy, David's gonna hate this, but as far as I'm concerned they could just stream this straight into my veins. Just a fantastic album.

Thank you neil

the rockier versions of the Hitchhiker tracks are interesting to hear now that we have finally heard that album after 50 years on the shelf... it's really an unreal album - and the second disc is some of the hardest rock he's ever recorded (the live versions on the Weld disc are basically the most fucked up songs I've ever heard) and its no doubt that this is his most influential album (in tandem with ragged glory i suppose) Pocahontas is sorta complicated cuz it reminds me that he has recorded some really important music about Indigenous struggles, and preformed at standing rock and stuff .. but i think ultimately does so in the most white guy way that ends up being a bit distasteful in the long run... that being said i was trying to convince my friends sage and kelsi (who are both Indigenous) that it was actually cool that he wrote these songs like two weeks ago, so look at me now ...

One of the top 10 albums, IMHO

Love this album, since a kid, it’s raw and heartfelt!

Okay, I give up, I'm a Neil Young fan. This is an amazing album and of course it inspired grunge. I can't find anything wrong with it and would go 4.5, but I'm going 5 as it will climb there for me over time.

Out of the blue and into the black... such a fitting description of Neil Young's career trajectory in the 1970s, stumbling upon a gold rush that harvested a plethora of unexpected and unwanted attention that led him to the ditch and, along the way, introducing him to strange twists and turns which would come to define Neil's restless nature. Hence Rust Never Sleeps. Perhaps the most perfect blend of live and studio material, Neil and his Crazy band of horses ruminate on life spent on the road with a spate of weary tales alternating between lost friendships, Native history and the changing of circumstances both controlled and uncontrolled. For most, it would be a long while before Neil reached these heights again yet scaling them serves as an example of his needing new terrains to roam through. While the thrill was not gone, the rust that was left behind would engrain itself into the dirt pretty deep. My my, hey hey, hey hey, my my.

Que lindo disco

Great album, shows two great sides of Neil young his folksy side and is rockin side!

One of the greatest.

This is a transitionary album for Young and you can hear it. The way the album bookends My My, Hey Hey with Hey Hey, My My and adjusting the clean acoustic with the electric that's full of reverb and sounding like it's almost falling apart. This album isn't a hit on every track but seeing him grow as an artist and expressing new themes in his writing helps give this album weight. His ability to take two guitars and make it sound so strong is something missing from a ton of overproduced music. If someone rates it lower I understand and don't hold it against them.

Before this experiment I had never listened to much Neil Young. I often remember him trying to sell a digital audio player with superior audio quality, and me rolling my eyes. Although after hearing the audio quality of his albums time and time again blowing me away; maybe he was not so crazy. I'm not sure yet if this is my favorite of his albums yet(time will tell), but it's pretty darn good. The way he plays guitar and his song writing is on another level. In this current world of cookie cutter singing competition vocalists, He has a unique voice and I welcome it. The album structure is pretty cool and keeps things interesting.

Absolutely fantastic

Proto-grunge hell yeah. Fuck Joe Rogan.

I was familiar with "hey hey, my my" from a Chromatics cover. I knew that it wasn't an original song by them, but never listened to the original. I am really happy that I have heard them now and the concept of there being two versions for the beginning and end of this album is just genius and so so beautiful. Overall I really enjoyed this album. 💙🖤

A great one!

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) is the hit. It's better to burn out than to fade away is an all time lyric. It's interesting that later in the song he says it's better to burn out than to rust, I wonder if old rock stars feel that same way now. This is how folk rock should sound. Few songwriters can make you value both the story they are telling and what they are really trying to say at the same time. Pocahontas would be called cultural appropriation today. Neil Young's voice outside the context of his music would be terrible, it's crazy to think it worked with Buffalo Springfield and CSNY. You can hear the punk influence on Sedan Delivery...better to meet the times where they are than fade away. Black Francis heard Sedan Delivery and thus the Pixies were born. Hard rocking Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) to end the album. Having different versions bookend the album is an interesting touch and leaves me wondering which version I like better (I think it's Into the Black).

Meisterwerk! Neil ist einer meiner absoluten Favoriten.

"Rust Never Sleeps" is the 10th studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young and his third with American band Crazy Horse. The album features both studio and live tracks with most songs recorded live and overdubbed in the studio while other songs originated in the studio. The concept "rust never sleeps" came from his tour to avoid artistic complacency and to try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live. The album received universal high praise and, commercially, it reached #8 in the US and #13 in the UK. The first side is the acoustic side and opens with "Hey Hey. My My (Out of the Blue)." That acoustic guitar intro. A great harmonica interlude and outro. Young said he was inspired to write this while playing with Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh who said "Yeah, rust never sleeps." "It's better to burn out than fade away." Don't get complacent in music. Young wrote "Thrasher" while traveling the roads of New Mexico. And, being on the road seems to be an allegory for life and especially the end of the hippie era. He also gives a good dis for his former CSNY bandmates. Self backing vocals are added to "Pochontas." Very poetic and tells of the destruction of the country by commercialism and of the Native Americans. The song was written just after Marlon Brando had a Native American woman accept his Oscar. Well, Young, Brando and Pochontas are sitting around the campfire at the end. The second electric side opens with "Powderfinger." Melodic, great backing vocals and a great guitar chorus and solo. It tells the story of a young man who attempts to protect his family against the gunboats and pays the ultimate price. "Sedan Delivery" goes from fast to slow to even faster and is another song influenced by Devo. Reverbing guitar, layered guitars. Surreal lyrics but I'm thinking it's about dealing drugs...probably other meanings too. The album comes to a close with the distorted, blasting guitars in "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)." There's a great "dirty" feeling to this. A searing solo. We started soft and end kicking and screamming. This album is loaded with great songs. The lyrics are mystical, allegorical and personal. Both sides are melodic. The second side is scorching with some of his best guitar work. The first, acoustic side is no less powerful with some of his best lyrics. This album ranks very high in my Neil Young discography and is a must listen.

Always good music from Neil Young

Awesome. A pioneer of American punk that I didn’t know went that hard at all!

Top 20

part live and part in studio, this is a milestone in contemporary music

Шикарный

Great songs, great writing, great music. Folky Neil and rocky Neil in one package with a great band.

Quality

Not as good as Dume, which features intense noisy versions of a lot of these songs, but still a career high for him, his best songwriting and best playing. A+

I love Young Neil ❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful guitar and Thrasher paints a vivid picture. Opening track kills. I can't 100% tell if the track Pocahontas is legitimately insensitive in 2024 or a clever commentary on white saviorism; Young seems like such a clever songwriter, I'd go with the latter. Welfare Mother's and Sedan Delivery are pure working class anthems. Overall, this album feels like it was made for the average worker, rusting in the sun.

Side 1 is nearly perfect. Beautiful folk rock songs with a punk attitude that only Neil Young can do with such flare and gravitas. Side 2 is harder rocking with lots of Neil Youngs trademark distortion and beautiful lyrical turns. This is a 5 star album for me without question. (On a personal level I can never listen to Neil Young the same way after his "stance" on Covid, Spotify and Joe Rogan. Neil Young went from principled iconoclast to corporate sellout in one misguided statement. I don't know if it was motivated by his record company, money, fear or some misguided sense of community but seeing Neil Young come out on the side of censorship and the government line made me extremely sad)

Do I like Neil Young? I think so!!

Ok so I’m going to review this album by mainly talking about another album I started typing that this is probably the best live album not recorded by Johnny Cash in a prison, but had a strange sense of deja vu. I then realised this was because I made the same claim in my review of Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged record, which was a sadly ironic connection considering Cobain quoted the opening track from Rust Never Sleeps in his suicide note Morbidity aside, Rust Never Sleeps is a stunning live album (ok, a quick caveat - it’s about 80% a live album. There were some studio overdubs to the live recordings, and two of the songs seem to have been entirely studio based but just bear with me ok). I’m often very critical of live albums that just sound like weaker or messier versions of their studio-recorded counterparts, and the best live albums are the ones that bring a unique element to the songs that couldn’t previously be captured - whether this is raucous energy improved by interacting with a live crowd, virtuosic solos and jamming aided by the interplay with other band members and honing in on the atmosphere from the audience, or a complete change in style to the studio recordings (in Nirvana’s case, a more cut-back and acoustic approach inspired by the ‘Unplugged’ gimmick). In the case of Rust Never Sleeps, there is no purely studio alternative to compare to - this barrage of scuzz is as clean as these songs get. Pocahontas and Sail Away still sound serene, but the B-side with Powderfinger and the closer Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) boasts dark, menacing ballads with distorted riffs, and the album as a whole commonly focuses on dying young and leaving a legacy. With this heavier punk-inspired sound, which was much slower and doomier than a lot of punk at the time, the acoustic singer-songwriter legend Young effectively invented grunge on one of the greatest live albums in history. The genre was then popularised by Nirvana, who redefined what the genre could be by taking more of an acoustic singer-songwriter’s approach on one of the greatest live albums in history. Hey hey, my my. Rock and roll can never die

I can't hear this album with fresh ears--I associated it very strongly with a particular time and place and love it though I wonder how well songs like "Pocahontas" have aged. Still, it was great to hear it again this morning!

Excellent, rock at its best, great guitar sound!

Could this be Neil Young's finest work? I may be a 'Harvest' head like the lot of you, and I have wallowed in the Ditch Period like my brothers and sisters before me, and I even have expressed affection for his later period works, such as 'Prairie Wind' and 'Le Noise.' But honestly, if you are looking to understand what makes Neil Young special - this deeply frustrating, mercurial man who bends to the will of no one else but his own - then 'Rust Never Sleeps' could be it. 'Live Rust' may be a proper entry point due to its Greatest Hits-like setlist, but 'Rust Never Sleeps' so beautifully captures all of his glaring contradictions, for better or for worse (but mostly better). It's this exploration of his interiority with his truly masterful guitar playing (that might be his greatest asset) in conjunction with his ability to operate as the de facto leader in any musical unit he inhabits, harnessing the power of a full-blown musical band under the singularity of a musical vision - his own. I mean, this is the same dude who began his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech with "it's been a solo trip." Jesus Christ. We've all heard it: "it's better to burn out/than to fade away." Many have tried to grapple at what this means and many have failed. And many of course have placed larger aims on this one statement to summarize an entire generation's futility and collapse of their own ideals. And one person took this statement tragically to heart. I'm not even sure if I know what it means, but I know that Neil is a shrewd observer of the world around him and the world inside him (no literary sensibility with Neil, unlike his peers Joni Mitchell (at first), Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan. I'm CONVINCED that Neil Young hasn't read a book since the Johnson administration) and the world inside him seems to operate on a different level than the rest of us. And so with this statement, Neil projects a persona (that was already rumbling beneath the surface) that is more humble, less self-indulgent than his peers (no 'Woodstock' performance for him), seemingly more accepting of a future of rock and roll that would not have any room for him. And it nearly didn't, if it wasn't for this exact frame-of-mind that would endear him to a new generation of punk and post-punk musicians and thereby ushering a new era for Neil in which he was praised, touted, and given the red carpet treatment for his late 80s/90s comeback. But unlike Lou Reed's and Bob Dylan's resurgence in this era, Neil's was also entrenched within a larger musical shift. Neil wasn't just an influence on Sonic Youth, he was their peer, and had no pretentions on the importance of this designation to project this new, flattened structure. "Powderfinger" may be one of very best live recordings. Has there been any other artist that has reflected on the (renewed, repeated) profundity of being and FEELING a certain age? "Old Man" would be the most famous example of this ("twenty-four and there's so much more"). But to paraphrase another singer-songwriter who he's often compared to, in "Powderfinger," he was so much older then, he's younger than that now. ("So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin'/and I just turned twenty-two/I was wonderin' what to do/The closer they got/the more those feelings grew"). Thank you DEVO for your efforts. A+

One of my favourites, and possibly his best album. I was so glad to see it back on Spotify, and listened on repeat until I ran out of time. A precursor to grunge, and not just because Kurt quoted lyrics from it. The combination of live recording with studio tidying up works really well, allowing to get the raw energy of a live set with the distinct and mistake-free fidelity of a studio take. Why do more people not use this as a technique?

Neil Young levert altijd sfeervolle muziek af. Live deze keer. Kant A is akoestisch, op kant B mag er elektrisch geragd worden. Lekker hoor. Kennelijk is er iets waardoor ik Neil nog geen 5 had gegeven. Dus nu maar een keer, want dit is toch een mooie doorsnee van 's mans kunnen.

hier past maar 1 woord : perfect!

Great album. Love Neil & the horse

This is a bona fide classic, with rocking numbers, and more sensitive songs too, like Sail Away. Of course, there are the (in)famous My My Hey Hey Blue…Black songs—one acoustic, the other electric—and my favourite: Powderfinger. The album is filled with great performances, lyrics and music. I can’t recommend it enough.

My My, Hey Hey (both versions) plus Powderfinger makes this a 5.

This was my first Neil Young album. Even after all these years it's one of my favorite.

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Just a fucking great album, top to bottom

I've never been a huge Neil Young fan, but this one slaps from front to back. A must listen.

One of my friends said of this, when I told them which album I'd been given, "it's one of the good ones." He's right, it's one of the best.

Between a 4 and a 5. Not my favourite Neil Young album, but some belters on here.

Really great. Holy cow. Did he invent grunge ?!!

One of the best albums ever made and a soundtrack of my life. I listened to this album in high school as I was learning to play guitar and finding my own style for songwriting. I listened In college while sitting on dorm room floors with people I had just met. I played the songs too loud live on stage and in beer soaked basements. I sang the songs quietly with friends around the campfire after our kids were put to bed. I contemplated the different meaning of the words as I sent my kid off to college and went through middle age. I will continue to listen as I head toward the autumn of my life.

The perfect live album and a great encapsulation of the breadth of Neil Young’s styles.

Out of the blue & into the black

Mein liebstes Album von ihm❤️

1001 Albums Day 2 I have heard Neil Young being called Canada's Bob Dylan, and I see why, he has the same touch, same magic, same style. There's something ancient about these road songs, like they've always existed. The album is deep, intriguing, personal, beautiful, jangly, raw, imperfect. And then, out of the blue comes Welfare Mothers, like a cross between 70s Bowie and Meddle/Obscured-era Pink Floyd, speaking truth and rocking out. In fact the entire ending stretch sounds like Bowie songs, played by Pink Floyd with help from The Velvet Underground. Every song on the album is well thought out, inspiring, inspired and has something to say about life. Initially, I love this, but I feel like this is music you need to return to over and over, and good thing is; every song is worth returning to. This is that good shit. 92/100

Neil young is a certified GANGSTER. Love this guy

Awesome sauce. Love the acoustic into some live rock. Love it all really. Awesome album.

Can't explain why I love this so much, but the first song is just incredible

Great album. So many good songs.

This album simply cannot be rated less than 5. It is the high watermark, the crown jewel of Neil's catalogue and career. The songwriting is pure excellence; having coined a phrase that has become a core part of our cultural vernacular, "it's better to burn out than fade away". That idea has become a modern rock philosophy and ideology. It resonates on a deep soul level and is so intellectually intriguing too. The song Sail Away is my favourite, it's just so wistful and tender. I love that Neil goes there as an artist; he can create vivid moments, evoke exquisite aches, and stir souls with a few simple chords and an understated vocal delivery. Neil Young is so fucking cool.

Fantastic!!