Rust Never Sleeps

Nice smooth rock country album

Oh yeah man. Love Neil Young and his whiny little voice. Atm this is on par with After the Golf Rush for me, the rockier stuff goes hard and the ballads are as sweet as ever. A few new favourites from this already. Best Track: Powderfinger Worst Track: Welfare Mothers

I was very close to giving this 5 stars.

Classic Neil Young. What can I say that hasn't already been said? He's got a recognizable sound. He's fine.

this is a perfectly fine album. nothing spectacular.

First Album! I'm excited to try this out. This is a banger for sure, one of Young's best. I'm pretty sure this was my 3rd time listening to it. "My My, Hey Hey" is a fantastic intro. This is like the ideal Neil Young song. "Thrasher" is a nice acoustic song with some beautiful lyrics. "Powderfinger" kicks ass, definitely one of Young's best rock songs. An overall epic album. its soft and warm at times but packs a punch when it needs too. Also kinda grungey at times? Amazing album to kick off this challenge. Favorite track: My My, Hey Hey

Probably my favorite Neil Young album, and the best fusion I’ve heard between his acoustic side and electric side (though there still is some tension there). A great set of songs delivered with his distinctively emotive weariness. Best song: Powderfinger

The last few songs really carry this album. Young has a good voice but until the last half the songs blend too much together. Sedan Delivery is really good

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected! I had Harvest a couple of months ago and was a little lukewarm but I found this a lot more dynamic and fun to listen to. It has an interesting sound due to the mix of live and overdubbed parts.

This album has too excellent songs and the rest I'm not fond of. The two great songs are My My, Hey Hey and Powderfinger.

Good stuff but I’ve heard better from Old Neil

I really thought I wouldn't like this because (surprisingly) after the gold rush didn't hit for me. This actually turned out to be really great.

Meh

I don't really like Neil's voice or how he sings. Pass.

Unfortunately a bit boring to me. Maybe another album of him hits better for me.

I've always found Neil Young's voice to be annoying, but the instrumentals were good enough to avoid a 1-star

A more somber, and dark side of Neil. Strong, emotional lyrics with a slower tune. Neil was sad when he wrote this album. Pretty good. But too Depressing for me.

Really really solid 3. If were to I listen to it more, I might even bump it up to a 4.

Enjoyed this a lot actually, when I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this genre! especially My My Hey Hey

Added My My, Hey Hey (out of the blue) to a playlist. Pretty good overall.

First half was brilliant, the second contained some questionable quality rock and vocals

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.

3.5★. Sad boy winter.

Same great Neil Young voice and overall sound. This has a little more rock influence in it that comes through but it still feels like Neil. My my, hey hey was my favorite.

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

enjoyed this would recommend a listen but would probably not listen too it again anytime soon. 7/10.

Maybe I'm saying something that Neil Young fans already know, but Crazy Horse brings out the best of Neil Young. Normally, I can't stand Young's voice, I hate his particular tenor, and the way he plays his guitar, but goddamn. This was good. This is the first Neil Young album that I've legitimately enjoyed. If anyone wants an entry point to Neil Young, start here.

It's a fine Neil Young album, interesting mix of acoustic and electric tracks. The standouts are the two versions of "Hey Hey My My" and "My My Hey Hey", the electric version was clearly influential on the grunge scene that came up in the early 90s. But personally, this isn't one of my essential Neil Young albums.

Great album

Really didn't like this one. There's something uniquely insulting about how boring it is.

Some nice songs, with nice melodies, singing and guitar work.

First half: 🥱 Second half: kinda cool, why wasn’t the whole album like this ??

3.5. Weird but kinda good

Oh look. Another Neil young. Out of tune out of time self indulgent blah. He’s not untalented. But he’s not anywhere near the talent the critics say. And the good songs here are not well performed. I’ll admit hey hey my my goes as close to being genius as Neil gets. Both versions. But is it better to burn out than to fade away? Neil seems to have done neither. To listen to great Canadian songwriters, try Gordon Lightfoot, Ron Sexsmith, Tom Cochrane, Joni Mitchell, Bare Naked Ladies or a host of others.

4 out if 5. Nostalgic Kitsch and fun and silly at times - plenty of irony and playful lyrics. Trippy. but the voice and timbre can only be handled for about 5 songs. Individual sings are a 5.

I never understood the cult of Neil Young. The breathless praise of his undying genius by white boy rock snob types borders on a form of mutual masturbation, rivalled only by the fans of Steely Dan. I kind of like his tendency to turn the amps up REALLY LOUD and refuse to tune the guitars. He doesn't suffer from being overly polite, which is a good thing in rock and roll. But I don't dig his voice, and I really feel like his songwriting is vastly over-rated. I just don't understand the way Powderfinger is praised as though it was the greatest song ever written. Really? And I made the mistake of reading some appraisals of Pocahontas, which waffled on about how the ambiguity of viewpoint creates a casual morality and a surreal a journey through the 17th century to the modern day. I think it is just sloppily written, and don't get me started on how he wants to sleep with Pocahontas "to see how she felt". That's just creepy, dude. Stop it. And I just don't dig the whole "better to burn out than fade away". The sentiment has been around in rock and roll for a long time ("Hope I die before I get old"), but Hey Hey My My is a key text in codifying the idea into the rock cannon. But how much destruction and misery has been wrought in service to burning out? I find it hard to believe Neil really believed it at the time and, as he approaches 80, can he still say this with a straight face? As I get older, I am increasingly uncomfortable with the fetishization of human misery in rock and roll.

A little more raw and rsutic than the non-Crazy Horse stuff. Still very solid and easy to listen to but without some of the nostalgia for me.

I have lost my taste for Neil young.

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.

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Neil Young has a high floor that prevents him from making anything bad, but he also has a low ceiling on this that keeps him in the “good, not great” range.

I’ve never really understood why they put live recordings in a book about “albums”. But the live recordings I’ve encountered in this project are very fitting, so it does make sense. This is an amazing live album - I love Neil Youngs music, and to get to listen to how he and his bands sounds live, is great. I love how it starts out acoustically and then Crazy Horse steps in around halfway through

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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

This album was alright. That’s about it for me. I could see where someone who grew up with Neil would see this album as a triumph, but for me it sounded like a lot of other albums from the time like Mountain, late career Grand Funk RR or Guess Who. The second version of Hey Hey My My was different than I’d heard on classic rock radio (the first version), being electric and crunchy. Overall, there was nothing that grabbed me, and you know how much I like being grabbed 🤣

Love the opener and the closer. I decided the opener is slightly better than the closing track but both are awesome! The rest of this album was okay. Neil Young is another one of those artists that I've never fully delved into. He has such a deep and daunting catalog which is still expanding!

Great live album.

Creative songwriting and a great band help this album along. A bit more effort to really get the songs to the next level, along with improved vocals, would help a bit more.

almost got me this time 6/10

Heartfelt, bluesy and a whole other world from what I listen to most. I liked the energy

Almost there

Makes me nostalgic for a time I never experienced

Kind of country, reminds me of dad music a little bit. Fave song: sedan delivery

Weer een Neil Young album? Wat is dit? De Beatles? Eerste nummer is heel nice, een soort country/folk/americana nummer inclusief mondharmonica! Ik hou er altijd wel van als er bijzondere instrumenten gebruikt worden in een nummer. Bedoel heb ooit een sitar album 4 sterren gegeven omdat het een onbekend instrument is! De mondharmonica voegt ook zoveel sfeer toe aan dit album, bizar eigenlijk! Jammer dat er verder na de eerste paar nummers niet meer zoveel mee gedaan word, dan verzand het album toch weer vooral in een rock album en daar hou ik gewoon niet zo van. De versie van Hey, Hey, My my op het einde laat me dan ook volkomen koud. Waar ik de versie aan het begin mooi vind door de eenvoud is de versie aan het einde weer met de standaard scheurende gitaren... Zucht... Ik vind Neil Young het mooiste als het klein blijft, beetje zoals Johnny Cash op zijn, naar mijn mening, beste nummers. FAVO: My My, hey Hey, Welfare mothers,

Good album, bit soft

This is classic Neil Young. You either like his nasally voice or you don't. Some of these are great.

Great album but I don't think it reaches the same heights as those early records. Prefer Young to have a little more country folk and a little less roots rock. Speaks to Young as an artist though how well received he would continue to be

Interesting listening to Neil Young with stronger instrumentation. Very story songy with a heavy theme of burning out vs fading away. Not a huge fan of his voice but overall would listen again.

Still relevant

I actually loved this album from Kermit. This is his best work.

Maybe a 3 1/2

The softer songs are easy to forget about given the title and its reputation. But they work better than some of the electric stuff. But a solid album

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.

-not bad at all! I think this is my favorite instance of Neil Young’s voice I’ve heard so far (compared with After the Gold Rush and the CSNY album). The gradual transition into heavier rock was cool. I hope Neil got his dream of becoming a Native American -Favorites are My My, Hey Hey, Pocahontas, and Sail Away

The album opens strong with My My Hey Hey. And then the next few songs feel a little samey. I am mixed on folk music, and really like artists like Dylan and Cat Stevens , but most of this album feels weak with some pretty bland tunes. Welfare Mothers and Sedan Delivery have a better sound, but bizarre lyrics. 2

The Good: we learned something new today, and that is that Rust Never Sleeps… The Bad: if rust never sleeps, it means it just keeps expanding… The Ugly: the whole world covered in rust, and no sleep… nightmare! Let it be reiterated: I really don’t like Neil Young. Let is be noted: I actually enjoyed album, maybe because it is technically speaking a live album, and there is a real good groove going on, I don’t know… but I feel conflicted. The guitar work is awesome, the production work even better as you hardly notice it is live, and the harmonica work is eerily perfect. So what do I give this album? Should I deduct points for Neil being Neil? Needle is at the 3*, will give it one more listen, and see if the needle adds a point…

Very excellent… that voice working its magic, and just stellar and exciting songwriting all around… excited to listen to this a bunch more times!!

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 ...

Good songwriting, vocals better suited to electric/full band

The acoustic/ electric spilt works out well I feel. One of two songs are a bit wordy but if are someone who appreciates Neil Young's singular singing style this is a decent album by any means 4*

First listen: three pretty good songs and that’s it. Fourth listen: three amazing songs and the rest is pretty good as well. Almost on par with Harvest. Best lyrics of all the Young-albums I’ve got so far. Like a dumb-downed Dylan. The three great tracks? “My my, hey hey (out of the blue)”, “Thrasher” and “Powderfinger”.

An album of two half’s both of which failed to ignite. Is he singing out of tune on the last song?

I’m quite fond of some Neil Young, Harvest/After the Gold Rush are both on regular rotation…..but this isn’t on my the same level

My default stance is one of loathing when it comes to Neil Young, but I may yet come round.

Not a fan of this one at all. Not sure if it's because I've recently noticed that Neil Young sounds like a muppet, which may colour all future listening. More likely, none of this album touches the greatness of his best work.

This album was a chill but varied listen. It had good variety of styles will still staying true to the same “feel” of the album, with some songs feeling more rocky, folky, etc. Solid four.

Out of the Blue and Thrashers are superb songs. Pocahontas is haunting, Sail Away is poignantly beautiful

One of the top 10 albums, IMHO

first half folk second half garage, good nonetheless. favorite track: powderfinger

Really liked this album. Just a great vibe and good musicianship. Neil Young is cool - I didn’t know that before

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

Great album, iconic voice, killed the harmonica. Great guitar and lyrics.

No es realmente mi gusto, hubo buenas ideas y cosas en el disco pero no es algo que escucharia otra vez

A bit of a whiny voice. Some nice chord progressions and the vibe is ok but not really my thing.

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.

Liked this a lot more than I thought I would from what I already knew by NY. I think much of that stemmed from the unique aspects of the live recordings and the half-half acoustic/electric split bookended by parallel songs. A neat experience.

Quite a raw, emotional album. The song writing is good but apart from a couple of songs, I was wanting to skip most of them.

I'm not a huge Neil Young fan, but I kind of get what people like about him

Good good

Aurora Borealis. Big 3

I can't complain, but not a personal favorite.

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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.

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Que lindo disco

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

One of the greatest.

“rock and roll will never die”… kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy here. This album rocks and rolls.

The only thing interesting about this album is whether the lyrics of Welfare Mothers or the extraordinarily bad attempt at punk rock on Sedan Delivery is more cringe-inducing. Good Lord; enough with Neil Young! I’ve heard 4-guitar suburban dad garage bands that are more engaging than this. Enough already.

We enjoyed it. Very Neil Young (except in a good way).

Very solid, but I don't really go with the lyrics or overall vibe. 3/5

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.

Has its moments (first and last songs). Can't say much good about the rest

listened to his song Farmer John again. much better than this album

Absolutely fantastic

Folk lyrics, slow burn rock and Neil's Crazy ride towards his apex.

Great groundbreaking singer-songwriter with a very grungy B-side

This was alright, but I wasn't blown away by anything in particular. Of all the Neil Young that's come up on this list so far, this seemed the most whining-induced vocals from Young himself, but nothing that's really out of the ordinary.

Standard Neil Young. Not much else to say about that.

I don't know .. there are some good songs on here, but Neil Young just bugs me. Is it his whiney voice? Like I said, IDK what to think about this one. I do like the opening and closing songs ... and powder finger .... but I wouldn't run out to buy it.

The first song was a banger and made me think I was gonna love this. Unfortunately nothing after that stood out as something I’d want to listen to again. 6/10

I was less into this than Harvest. I like Neil Youngs voice and his sense of melody. He writes some stuff that feels quite timeless. Sometimes it feels like you've known songs of his forever, even if it's your first time hearing it. This album had less of that sense than Harvest. Also I tend to like it more when he leans into the rockier side of things, and this album was more singer songwriter, which didnt do it for me as much. Powderfoot was probably my favorite. Album cover: (B) Seems kind of a Mish mash of styles that work, but not super well.

I should really listen to more Neil Young. Every time I listen to him I really like it. This isn't his best album ever but I do love his general sound.

This is a strange album. It's live but not all the time, and seems to be overdubbed with studio recording. The live element adds essentially nothing. There are occasionally faint crowd noises that can be heard, such as when he sings "Rock and Roll will never die", but that's about it. I'm spoiled with some of the other outstanding live albums we've heard. The music itself is pretty good. I'm so-so on Neil Young. I don't love his voice, but I like the music and the lyrics a lot. "My My, Hey Hey" is a famous song. I like it! "It's better to burn out than fade away" is a very famous line, which I'd heard before in media about Kurt Cobain's suicide. It's odd to hear the crowd reacting to that section , but then never really hear them again. "Welfare Mothers" is the first song that got me going. The electric section of the album is pretty tight, the acoustic opening section is a little sleepy for me. "Sedan Delivery" is also a jam. 7/10

This is really nothing special for a late 70s rock album, and Neil Young still has an irritating voice.

Proto-grunge hell yeah. Fuck Joe Rogan.

I like this more intellectually than when I actually listen to it. Cool album that I don't like all that much. Too low on musicality for my delicate sensibilities.

I enjoyed this more than I expected I would

i like neil young so this was pretty good

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. 💙🖤

Another Neil young, solid but nothing special 6/10

This album feels raw, like a jam session on the edge of something real. The acoustic moments have a Dylan-like vibe, stripped down but heavy with meaning. The electric parts are fuzzed-out and messy, a bit like early Crazy Horse mixed with The Stooges’ energy. It has this gritty blend of folk and rock that’s both casual and chaotic, but still intentional in its roughness. The whole thing moves between tender and reckless, sometimes in the same breath.

Ive had a lot of Neil Young so far and whilst its stopped annoying me and ive begun to see the value in it, i havent become a massive fan. This seems a nice middle ground between his singer/songwriter work and the harder Crazy horse stuff. It ticked along well but im not coming back to it

A great one!

This is the first Neil Young album I have been given and I’m conflicted. The first side of this album just felt very one note. All the songs sounded the same and Neil just comes across as “old man yells at punk rock kids and obsesses over nature”. Most of it is fine, some of does sound good, but there is very little variety between the songs. And honestly, I’m not a fan of Neil’s voice. It’s that weird high-pitched folky voice that either you like or can get on your nerves and I’m the latter camp. The second side brings in Crazy Horse, but it doesn’t fare much better. Welfare Mothers and Sedan Delivery did nothing for me. They’re both ridiculous and not in a good way. There are two saving graces, however. Powderfinger is probably one of the best songs about someone getting obliterated by a gunboat ever. Niche genre really. But for real, this was a nice song. But the real highlight was Hey Hey Me Me (not to be confused with My My Hey Hey, the starting track). I think the bookend song idea is cute, but I really enjoyed the last track more. It really did bring out the Neil’s emotions toward the approaching trend of punk and the decline of tradition rock more so than the first track. Really, it’s Powderfinger and Hey Hey Me Me that save this album for me. Other than that, this doesn’t really bode well for the other Neil Young albums to come soon. I hope he gets better…please. Favorite track: Hey Hey Me Me Other Hits: Powderfinger, My My Hey Hey, Thrasher

It’s fine. I still don’t get the Neil Young fuss.

Just not my jam.

Really solid folk album with lots of great songs and clear emotions. Although I would love to have a word with who decided on the genres for this one. In what world is this psychedelic rock, but not folk? Utterly insane.

In the vast world of white men singing blues songs about some rural parts of the usa with fading voices, this is on the better side. (my my, hey hey is actually quite good but please give this dude a drummer)

Bob Dylan with a distorted guitar. Pretty intense songs sometimes

Some artists have too many entries on the list. Neil Young is definitely one of them. I don't think this album should have been included. First of all because I can't stand his voice. Second because the quality of the recording varies a lot. It sounds like a collection of scraps instead of a coherent work. Third only a couple of the songs are good. That being said, some songs are actually good. Favorite song: ride my llama.

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).

Pretty good overall. I won't add any songs to my liked songs but I enjoyed listening to it. 6/10

Meisterwerk! Neil ist einer meiner absoluten Favoriten.

it’s okay

"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.

My My, Hey Hey, (Out of the Blue) Pocahontas Powderfinger Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Given NY's body of work I had not expected to see this album here. But it is a very solid NY album with songs mainly around 4* with a clear exception of the last two songs Sedan Delivery and Hey Hey in the rock version, which are truly great.

Solid work, a nice combination of quiet tunes in the first half and steady rockers in the second.

Oh yeah it was fine whatever

It's okay. Couldn't listen to everything all the way through.

Sit down and listen a spell

I absolutely love the first track, my my hey hey (out of the blue) All three stars are for that track.

This is the second of seven Neil Young albums on this list - at least he's back on spotify which made it easier to listen to this time! My impression is he is overrated - 7 albums from one artist seems like overkill! I didn't mind the last track

Alright

Fuck Neil Young. What a douche nozzle.

Going to listen a few times throughout the day, but after first listen some of the lyrics are a little goofy. I like how it gets heavier as you go.

There is something about Neil Young's singing voice that leaves me a little unenthused, but if I set that prejudice aside, I think this is a hell of a good album. The lyrics, especially on Thrashers, intrigued me sufficiently to do some online research to understand what they represent, and I enjoyed all the tracks enough to give the album a second play, just to make sure I actually did like it. It might not make it into my Tidal collection, so I will rate it a four star album, but I certainly wouldn't mind listening to it again sometime.

Not my favorite Neil Young album so far but it still had its moments, kinda cool.

This album was definitely before my time and not my usual musical taste. That being said I did enjoy the album. It took me back to a time when the world seemed so big and full of possibilities. I imagined sitting in a remote cabin drinking coffee and enjoying a sunrise or drinking wine and starring at the stars. The political messages made me realize there was a time young political activists felt like they could truly change the world for the better. The next time I go camping I might listen to this.

Always good music from Neil Young

i thought the start was pretty okay, the acoustic guitar was nice. the end picked up (i liked welfare mothers and thought the end was stronger overall). not a huge fan, but it could be worse. quite mid for me.

The acoustic songs in the first half are nice if although they all sound pretty similar. The rock songs in the second half are good though, though young Neil young voice sounds a little extra whiney. Still a great Canadian musician

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

Over all I do like Neil Young, I like his sound and lyrics but I don't think this album will be in regular rotation

at least it was short

It's alright, but its no Harvest Moon. Neil Young itches that bit of old school folkish vibe in my brain, but I do find his voice to be a bit grating after a while.

Buen disco de Neil pero no el mejor de los 70.

Solid Neil Young. More rock heavy than some other albums of his, which is great. Awesome guitar.

eh it was okay tired of all these rock albums but it got me through my run

Not the biggest Neil Young fan, gotta admit, i feel like most of his songs just kinda sound like a story being told with some strumming in the background, idk maybe its just not really for me. I acknowledge how huge he is though and how influential he was on the country rock genre back in the 70s. Now, i dont think every one of songs are bad, i think heart of gold is a classic for sure, i just think that this album is quite lacking. Fav Song: Out of the Blue & Into the Black (good duo together, great opener and closer) 2

OK, this is album #5 by this dude. Promised I wouldn't listen to another after #4. I did and nothing changes my opinion that this guy is one the most overrated musical artist I've ever heard. Happy this was only 35 minutes. 2

3.5 After a brutal stretch of albums, I can’t even begin to tell you how annoyed I was when I saw our 157th Neil Young album pop up, but this actually turned out to be a bit of a pleasant surprise. I don’t know if Mr. Young needs Crazy Horse behind him for me to find his music enjoyable or just more instrumentation in general to help mask his whiny, high-pitched, warbling voice, but I thought this was leagues better than his earlier solo stuff. The acoustic stuff worked for me, the transition to electric had me rocking, and the bookending of the two with My, My, Hey, Hey and Hey, Hey, My, My was the icing on the cake. While I won’t claim to be the biggest fan of the aforementioned songs (Hell, I didn’t even realize the original recordings were live or that there were even two versions for that matter), they still hold somewhat of a special place in my heart. I have always loved the phrase “Out of the blue, into the black” - I don’t know if it originates here, but I most commonly associate it with Stephen King’s It, which credits the quote to Neil Young as a sort of introduction in its opening pages. As a big fan of both the novel and its movie adaptations (ironic as someone who hates clowns), the quote has always seemed to summarize the story perfectly to me. I also love the shoutout to Johnny Rotten (who most likely hates the song), especially being that the previous lyric “the king is gone but he’s not forgotten” seems to have foreshadowed his transition from punk royalty to right-wing nutjob. Finally, and probably most dearest to me, is the song’s connection to Kurt Cobain. Obviously that connection is an incredibly dark and tragic one, but it’s one that makes me feel commemorative for a once-in-a-lifetime musician that I hold near and dear to my heart, gone far too soon. One thing I actually learned in reading about this album is that Neil Young retired the song after Cobain’s death but was talked back into playing it by Krist and Dave themselves. Anyway, I’m spending way too much of this talking about one (or I guess two) song(s), but maybe they are the cake for me here and the rest is the icing on the top. I know I’ve complained about this guy’s more folk-leaning stuff before, but something about the Horse With No Name-esque Mojave desert vibes to the acoustic stuff here helped sell it for me. Meanwhile, the electric stuff in the back half has this great, gritty rock energy to it, offering a nice counterbalance to the front. Supposedly the sound would even go on to become a major influence on grunge - my first instinct is to say that I don’t really hear it, but given the earlier Kurt Cobain connection I drew, maybe there’s more there than I realize. Overall, a surprisingly solid album from Neil after quite a few stinkers. Think the dude is just better when he’s rocking out instead of trying to write piano ballads.

Top 20

Same Ol Neil Young....one great song, one that puts ya to sleep. Altho this album was more sleepy than up.

Solid rock album

Very crunchy granola using go camping for weeks tripping on ayahuasca. I love it. Very interlude music in a move like villains the wildest shit happens then they play this.

I've always been aware of Neil Young as a staple of the 70s, but never listened to any of it. I love the half acoustic / half electric album style. I'm also aware that he appears on the list nine times, only matched by Bowie, Lennon and McCartney. I'm intrigued...

Call me old or whatever but Neil Young is the iconic American songwriter and active voice of the nation. Sure as time passed on he developed some concerning views but, hey thats just old people for ya. That being said, his rock n roll oriented music pales in comparison to his folk and songwriter styles. Neil on Harvest moon absolutely butters my biscuit and makes feel at home in a comfy armchair when I'm listening. But this distorted mess is hard to appreciate. If he went riffing in this regard and had a different vocalist that'd be something else. But as a critical listeners, there is alot of substance behind these songs and its not just a gargled mess. So I'll give it 3 stars. Not at all bad just not my cup of tea.

never listen intensively to neil young, but this was nice

Honestly the first and last songs were my favorite. Everything else was okay. Good easy listening

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

The acoustic side shows NY at his best – vulnerable, sensitive and evocative, both lyrically and vocally. "Thrasher" and "Pocahontas: are terrific. The electric side is not quite as compelling, though "Powderfinger" and "Hey Hey" are quite strong. Indeed, "Hey Hey" works equally well in both contexts, which is surely down to the quality of the of the unforgettable hook.

Not for me

I really like the way this is put together. It captures the energy of the performances.

Welfare mothers just completely took my out of this album, listening with 2024 sensibilities telling people welfare queens fuck good makes the entire project unlistenable. I tried to find information, trying to find concrete evidence it was satire or something but all i got was a couple of fans saying it's obviously a joke and a few more saying neil was going through a phase during this time.

Still not a Neil Young fan. But, this was one of the better efforts from him. My My, Hey Hey and Sail Away were both particularly good songs to my ears.

Gorgeous music, though the famous bookends are the best parts.

On a base level, I was born to love Neil Young. Even though I had somehow basically avoided all but maybe two of his songs until this generator (a fact made weirder when I recall that my college roommate was a guy born in northern New Hampshire and is therefore a massive Neil Young fan by birthright), I have yet to hear a Neil Young album that I’ve hated. Mind you, Rust Never Sleeps is only my third album in this discography-dive-in-disguise, and I refuse to listen deeper until the Generator Gods are finished showing me what they have to show me, but so far, I can confidently say that I think he’s one of the greatest songwriters of all time, bar none. Is his voice not great? Sure. Is he a very idiosyncratic guitar player? Duh. Are his solos a very specific taste? Definitely. Do I fucking care? Not in the slightest. Based on everything I’ve heard, read, and gleamed from this list, I can confidently anticipate that I will at least love every album he put out between 1969 and 1979, and maybe even more after that! Now, all this said, Rust Never Sleeps is not my favorite album so far. While very tonally different from each other, I think I was spoiled by getting both After the Gold Rush and Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere, which, for very different reasons, are powerhouse examples of a no-skips album for me. Rust Never Sleeps, on the other hand, does not fit this bill for me, and I could almost tell it wouldn’t based on its structure alone. I’m not typically someone who loves the Side A/Side B tonal shift, especially when it’s acoustic v. electric, because I know before even pressing play that there’s a 99.999% chance I will much prefer the electric half to the acoustic half. And that’s especially true on Rust Never Sleeps. I do think there’s some strong material on Side A, though. Obviously, “My, My, Hey, Hey” is an excellent song, but – not to spoil the fun – its power is significantly stifled by the redux closer. Meanwhile, “Thrasher” really overstays its welcome, and “Ride My Llama” is too lyrically surrealist yet too musically bare for me to really have anything to latch onto. Side A does get stronger with “Pocahontas,” and while I don’t think “Sail Away” is the best Young song I’ve ever heard, it’s one of the better songs here. In general, though, Side A feels too bare, and the ~live~ shtick seems to work against the vision – Young’s shaky voice and strange visions feel lacking without some power behind them, and the stadium reverb plus the constant fade outs undermine almost every cut here. It’s still very good, sometimes even great, but it’s not my favorite. Of course, then there’s Side B. All my critiques of Side A are almost nonexistent here, because now there’s some real guts behind the songs, and as a result, they all feel fully fleshed out. “Powderfinger” is enhanced by its runtime because there’s now a real jam quality, and its loose narrative adds musical meat to its bones. Then, sillier/stupider/chaotic songs like “Welfare Mothers” and “Sedan Delivery” are easy to enjoy because, with Crazy Horse behind him, these cuts become goddamn barn burners. Young’s vocals are also enhanced because there’s clear interplay with the band going on, and his unique playing style is strengthened by Crazy Horse’s futuristic, gritty tone. Plus, when he has a band behind him, his songwriting talents become clearer, like the chorus on “Sedan Delivery,” which I don’t think would hit the same without a full band. I do think there’s less punch without Whitten, but Crazy Horse are still a ferocious unit without him. And then there’s “Hey, Hey, My, My.” Tonally, lyrically, structurally, from a guitar-nerd perspective, from a pure vibes perspective – this might be one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. Everything that made “My, My, Hey, Hey” great is still preserved here, but the value-add of Crazy Horse and literal amplification cannot be unstated. It has been stuck in my head for days, and really made me question where I stood on the album overall. If everything is very good, but there’s a couple perfect songs, can an album be mid? Especially if I’m predisposed to be biased to the artist, and I’m just thinking the “okay” material is merely “okay” for Young, but excellent for others? It reminds me a lot of how I feel about a mid-tier Joni album; if it were any other artist, it would be perfection. And given the obvious lore around Rust Never Sleeps, it’s certainly meant to be included in the book. It’s just a lot spottier than other albums I’ve heard from him. That’s totally fine, though, because a mixed Neil Young record is still a great record. It’s just not a no-skip. But damn, when it hits, it fucking hits.

Solid but not my favorite.

Шикарный

some nice vibes going, first track stands pretty well above the rest. though welfare mothers is kind of a banger.

Neil Young can pack more emotion and feeling into a 3 minute song than some artists life's work. This album is no different. From deep soulful songs, to up beat (almost punk) rock songs. The album doesn't overstay its welcome but says a lot in that time.

I’m generally not a fan of live albums, but this was well done. I have always enjoyed Neil Young’s storytelling, and the album sews together folky, bluesy, and rock riffs into a cohesive piece of work. “All Neil Young songs sound the same” is either a feature or a bug, depending on your perspective. I like the song and composition style, so it’s a feature for me.

Alright

Pretty boring

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

Quality

A great short and sweet live album that's also a good introduction to NY&CH

mixed feeling about this. It's great music but his voice is so unique that the songs sound pretty similar to me. I feel like Jack would love this guy, he probably does.

I'm a moderate Neil Young fan. I enjoy him in small doses. Listening to this album, I enjoyed the production, performances, and the music. However, I get tired of his whiny voice and self-righteous musings. Not his best stuff.

Started off okay, My My Hey Hey was good, gave me sad girl vibes which is always enjoyable but the rest of the album so was boring that I started dissociating and didn't really pay any attention to the rest of it. It felt quite disjointed and more like a bunch of rag tag songs that were just thrown together to fill the time. Tried to give it another listen this morning and ended up dissociating instead again. Unfortunately for me my brain decided to start paying attention again during Pocahontas which is totally my fault for having the ability to hear because what the actual hell were those lyrics?? Off-putting enough that I promptly removed the album from my search history so that I never have to be reminded of it again. Did I hate it enough to give it a 1? No, it wasn't an awful album to listen to, it just lacked any personality. If I could give it a 1.5 I would but alas

Not my favorite Young album as far as casual listening goes, but even then it’s hard not to be enamored with his expression through music.

Quite nice

I love pre grunge :) except when it’s post folk :(

This is perfectly nice, but largely unmemorable. I like Neil Young, so it's a solid 3 stars.

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+

Boo

I want to love Neil Young. I really, really do. But I never really liked his voice. That said, he has incredibly solid songs, musically, lyrically, just across the board good music. This album continues that with fantastic songs. Powderfinger alone just blew me away. If not for my aversion to Young’s voice, I’d probably give it 5 stars, but the best I can do is 4 and feel bad about it.

The iconic opening/closing duo + the album's status as "proto-grunge" had me excited for this one...but damn none of these album tracks are the tea for me.

I have tried and failed to dislike Neil Young.

Interesting concept: going from acoustic to electric, although it would have been better if it built throughout. Other than first/last song, the music wasn’t really interesting.

I liked this more than I expected to. Sedan Delivery was a nice surprise.

Again, I wish Neil would get someone else to sing his songs for him. Probably go up a full star with a decent singer.

This album was really hard to listen to for me, I found it REALLY BORING. I didn't manage to finish.

I love Young Neil ❤️❤️❤️

Pretty standard neil. Very good Pocahontas, hey hey my my All good Standard 4

Pretty good. Definitely more grungy than what is typical from Neil Young.

My first time listening to a Neil Young album! I liked it!!

loved it!

4 out of 5. This was a good album and the first Neil Young album I listened to in its entirety, Powderfinger being my favorite overall.

Algunos momentos buenos pero no especialmente chulo. 3

Starts off soft, builds up, gets weird, and ends strong. Interesting to have the same song in two different forms as the bookends. Also interesting to have some live and some not songs.

Each song felt 10 minutes long. I would listen to 20 slipknots over this.

Not really familiar with Neil Young beyond "A Horse with No Name." Usually when a singer sounds like a muppet that's a plus for me, but I couldn't really get into Rust Never Sleeps. Seems like there is some good lyric work though.

Relaxing sound

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.

Good ol fashioned country rock, didn’t think I’d like it, actually thought I’d hate that shit but it bangs.

Не понял альбома

That was not bad. Relaxed sound with a bit of eletric guitar.

Darn good set

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)

Surprisingly great! 3.8 stars

Do I like Neil Young? I think so!!

Solid easy listening from Mr Young

Ok

The best one so far

TBH I'd be happy if this album was just 20 minutes of "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" followed by 20 minutes of "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)". The rest is decent but not outstanding, but those two songs (or two variants one song?) are just fantastic.

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

This guy is a little whiny, but tolerable at times.

Ol

It was aight, didn’t finish the whole album

I love this album but would almost never recommend it to someone interested in learning more about Neil. While it has a coupl of his very best tunes (Powderfinger is a personal favorite and I cannot play this record with out listening to that tune at least twice), it also has some very odd and not great tunes as well that are mainly of interest only to academics (did I tell you that I chair the Neil Young Studies program at UC Santa Cruz?). If this list is supposed to be about unusually interesting records, then it's a great add, but I would not consider this in Neil's top 5 or possibly even 10 records so I probably wouldn't be adding it to a list of top 1001 records. My understanding is that this album was a reflection of how seriously and challenging Neil took the punk rock movement. Hey Hey My My observes a changing of the guard, with Elvis dying and Johnny Rotten rising. I love both versions of that tune but even more interesting to me are the lyrics to the overlooked (understandably, the music is not very good) Thrasher, where I feel like he is making fun of his musically stagnating hippie friends like Crosby, Stills and Nash ("they were lost in rock formations"). Overall, I think punk woke him up in a way and sent him on a strange path of making some pretty weird records for the next 10 years. RUST NEVER SLEEPS!

A fine selection of Neil Young. A few radio classics, many others new to me, but only a few that really appealed to me--"My my, hey hey" (both versions) and "Powderfinger". I do like the concept of the album's title, and how it inspired him to stay fresh and performing on the road. I also liked how many of the tracks were recorded live, as this seems like his strongest mode. Although his style has never really appealed to me, I can imagine it was fun to hear these played on tour. (And I laughed when it came to the chorus of "Ride my llama", as he pronounced "llama" (lamb-a) a lot like the way an Australian acquaintance of mine pronounced "tacos" (take-ohs). An odd song, in any case.) Pretty cool, too, to hear the second side of this album as an inspiration for grunge (or at least for Pearl Jam, and ignoring the sad connection to Kurt Cobain).

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!

A good Neil Young album, one that properly showcases his creativity and energetic guitar playing

Young and his band continue to show how powerful his writing can be when put to a good accompaniment! Lots of fun folk-driven tunes on this one.

I was at a bar one Friday night and a guy came in and played ten Neil Young songs on the jukebox and then did a magic trick for me. I love Neil Young and thought he was charming and so we got to talking. He asked me out and I agreed. We dated for close to a year, and then one evening he took me to that same bar and proposed by pulling a ring out of his sleeve with “Pocahontas” playing in the background. I said “See the losers in the best bars; Meet the winners in the dives” which he of course knew meant “yes.” We were married for thirty years and had four beautiful children. He passed away in 2022. We held his wake at the same bar where we met. Neil Young played on the jukebox all night. Our eldest son waited until the evening was winding down and went up to his father’s silk-draped coffin. Every eye in the place was on him. You could’ve heard a pin drop (he’s a natural showman just like his father). With tears in his eyes, he looked up and said, “It's better to burn out than fade away” and pulled the silk cloth from the coffin with a flourish. There was a burst of flame and the coffin was gone. There wasn’t a dry eye in the place. Except the bartender. That guy was a dick.

Mind-numbingly boring and formulaic rock. Everything is humdrum and by rote. Save yourself the time and skip this one.

love it

I used to listen to this a lot when I was younger. Don't know why

I think (and hope) it's the last album of Neil Young on the list. This is a fifth for me. And it's mediocre. I like the guitars.

Just as boring as the last time this came up.

Excellent, rock at its best, great guitar sound!

Whoever wrote this list has a throbbing boner for Neil Young. His music is nice. It’s easy to listen to. But I don’t feel like I need to listen to ever second of recorded music he ever put out before I die.

not bad. more of a bob dylan guy but this was great

OK

Good album. Neil Young has a disadvantage in this 1001 Album Project because I think his songs take a while to fully digest. Some of the songs struck me immediately, but overall I'm giving this album the benefit of the doubt to increase in value over more listens.

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+

Not a huge fan of Neil Young, but this album wasn't too bad.

Good album. And live as well which was a different twist.

Snooze then suddenly WOW for those last three songs. Favourite track: Welfare Mothers.

Good stuff

rock & roll will never die

Enjoyed the first half of the album more than the second half; this was ok.

Really great sound, Out of the Blue & Into the Black area both iconic. I enjoy both the acoustic & electric halves. Good shit

My My, Hey Hey is incredible but my god I can't stand Neil Young albums please make them stop.

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?

Pas l fou

Well crafted album. Love how side a is neil accoustic then it gets heavy with crazy hourse on side b starteted watchin the concert movie of the same name and it was decent as well.

Solid Neil Young stuff (including Hey Hey - which is my favorite of his).

Solid

Second Neil Young album and as with Harvest, I enjoyed it at first but wasn't blown away. There's something intoxicating though and rating it higher because I expect it will continue to grow on me.

4/5

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.

We hadden al eerder een album van Neil op zijn maffe viervoeter. Toen maakte voor mij niet de zang van Neil het verschil, maar het totaalplaatje cq. de uitvoering van de muziek. Kant A geeft mij een vergelijkbaar gevoel, al is het wat minder interessant door wat suffigheid als Sail away. Na de korte autorit was kant A klaar en stond de sterrenteller op een duidelijke 3. Thuis kant B aangezet. Dat bleek verrassend. Er komt ineens een bak vol gitaar op mij af, die 20 jaar later ook in de hitparades zou passen. Neil is natuurlijk een goede zanger, maar liet ons zonder zijn viervoeter ook al eens horen dat hij ook een irritant of vals stemgeluid kan gebruiken in zijn muziek. Dat doet hij nu in vooral Sedan Delivery weer. Het is niet te vaak, dus ik kom er wel overheen. Maar als hij dat nou eens niet deed... Aan het eind van de rit (te paard) is het een album, dat ik zomaar nog eens zou kunnen aanzetten. Er zijn wellicht nog sterkere albums in zijn soort, maar Neil was er (heel) vroeg bij.

Het album begint prachtig met de ingetogen versie van Hey Hey, My My. Daarna kabbelt het een beetje voort met wat typische Neil Young nummers, niets voor meer dan een vergeetbare 3. Om vervolgens op deel 2 Crazy Horse erbij te halen om nog even lekker een potje te gaan rock n rollen en te eindigen met een stevige versie van het openingsnummer. Maar uiteindelijk draait het om de twee versies van Hey Hey, My My. De rest is slechts vergeetbare opvulling. En daarom haalt het net geen 4 sterren, want er zijn gewoon betere Neil Young platen.

I like this album a lot, ut I think they should have included Live Rust rather than this one. Close but not quite a 5.

This falls short of a 5 for me. It’s a good showcase of Neil Young’s abilities as a songwriter and musician (especially w the first and last track repeats in different styles). I think he has better acoustic and electric albums though.

Live album and soft music, immediate discard for me.

hier past maar 1 woord : perfect!

kinda boring if you ask me

It's an interesting album. I had to look it up, but apparently it's a mix of live songs overdubbed in the studio and a few pure studio tracks. I could tell that there was some live recordings in there, but it felt simultaneously authentic and polished. live is tough. Right now, the only live albums I appreciate are Peter Frampton, Adele, and, of course, live jazz, assuming it is miked, mixed, and mastered well (and Frampton Comes Alive passed because it is basically the rock version of a live jazz set). This is a unique choice for a "live" album, that I think works well. Musically? The first and last tracks are classics for a reason, the middle is pretty normal album filer for young, so it's solid at worst.

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.

I want to like Neil Young more, but I just can't.

That's a no from me, dawg. My My, Hey Hey addresses the fleeting beauty of mortality, but I think Kansas did it better. I can tell that the guitar work is good, but the music feels thin and without substance. After more listening, I've determined that there aren't enough moving parts. There's no bass! The album sounds bare because there are fewer hands and instruments in the recording booth. All in all, this is not my bag. It's interesting because the album has a comfortable and predictable tempo that underscores some less-than-comfortable concepts like Pocahontas and mortality. Academically, it's cool. Practically, I don't find the music very entertainment and Young's ponderings area drop of water in an ocean of philosophy, art, and novelty.

I liked the start of the album, but then… I don’t know. My interest waned and by the end I didn’t care. Solid musicality throughout, however.

This album is mid - love the songs I know hate the songs I don’t.

I don't really like the format of this album, which is overdubbed live tunes combined with a couple outtakes from the studio. It's also half acoustic and half electric, which makes it feel even more disjointed. There's good-to-excellent material here, but the execution was flawed.

bereits das dritte album von neil young in den 1001 - da kommen noch mehr! dieses ist einigermassen hörbar, vielleicht gewöhne ich mich langsam an ihn?

Ich mag seine Stimme und die relaxte Musik. Nicht immer aber ab und zu.

yeah pretty good honestly not as good as a lot of his other stuff though

guay

I love Neil Young, his style just works. The combination of light acoustic, melancholy falsetto, strong backing vocals and thumping hard-rock is just a winner, and it has worked for him and for several other artists. This isn't my favorite NY CD, but it rocks. The standout here is probably supposed to be the two-part intro and reprise. They mirror the composition of the CD overall, with a more acoustic A-side and hard-rock B-side. On each half, I like some other songs better, particularly "Pocahontas" on A and "Welfare Mothers" on B. I don't love the production. Stripped down and raw is almost certainly what Mr. Young was going for, but I prefer polished till it gleams.

meh

Just a fucking great album, top to bottom

I never want to hear another Neil Young album in my life. It's absurd that he has >10 slots on this list of 1001 albums and only ~75 albums have been added from between 2001 and 2021. 2/5.

Listening to this shortly after Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is an interesting contrast. Young has clearly tried very hard to reinvent his sound, 10 years after that epic opus. The acoustic first half sounds minimalist, with Young’s knack for turning simple progressions into something beautiful on clear display. The second half is filled with distortion heavy burners, like the fantastic Powderfinger and the crunchy Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black). Maybe not as “classic” as some of his other albums on this list, but still excellent.

Another enjoyable NY album. After the first 3 tracks I thought it might become my favourite of his, but nah. There’s some nice stuff on here but it’s only really the opener and closer that are essential listening in my opinion. The ahead-of-its-time grunginess of Hey Hey, My My, and the enthusiastic reactions of die-hard rock ’n’ roll believers in the crowd to hearing My My, Hey Hey for the first time are both album high points. 3.5

I don't like Neil Young's voice.

excelente live folk

beautiful

I have it #5 on my all time Neil Albums - very solid

7/10 Neil! Hey hey my my is one of my favorite songs and then Neil does Neil stuff for the rest of the album. Great stuff (into the black) 7-19-2024