Rust Never Sleeps | 
 enlarge | Artist: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 3007
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 2295
UPC: 075992724920
EAN: 0075992724920
ASIN: B000002KDG
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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Condition: New Still In Wrapper
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| Tracks:
| • | My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) | | • | Thrasher | | • | Ride My Llama | | • | Pocahontas | | • | Sail Away | | • | Powderfinger | | • | Welfare Mothers | | • | Sedan Delivery | | • | Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Young has recorded many live albums, but none capture his two dominant musical personalities with as much power as 1979's Rust Never Sleeps. The acoustic side opens with "My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)," a devastating anthem about the state of rock & roll. Comparing the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten to the late Elvis Presley, Young delivers perhaps his most famous line: "It's better to burn out than to fade away." Side 2 demonstrates the emotional power of Young's hard-rocking quartet, Crazy Horse, with the scathing political songs "Powderfinger," "Welfare Mothers," and the loud reprise of "My, My, Hey, Hey." --Steve Knopper
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 Forever Young October 19, 2008
Coming off of the harrowing power of their lamenting "Tonight's The Night", Neil Young and Crazy Horse later proved their tenacity with this clever concept album. It's interesting how the spirit of rock and roll can be captured by merely turning up the distortion for each consecutive track, until the first song is practically remade with a scratchy, loud, and almost total revision. The tracks in the middle, unfortunately, seem like filler for this concept and not much else. But the message of "Rock and Roll Will Never Die" is made clearer with each turn of the effects dial, and the result is almost scary.
A Masterpiece from already stunning career September 10, 2008
This is the sound of someone adapting to modern times. In the tradition of Dylan, Neil Young persues the half acoustic, half rock album. The songs foremost deal with change and transition into a new era of music. "Sedan Delivery" and "Welfare Mother" and nearly the rest of the second half have a raw sound that mimics the rough sound of punk. However, I feel the acoustic tracks are the treat. "My, My, Hey, Hey" is the reaction to the new puck scene and other songs such as "Thrasher" are very surrealist that recall a sense of nostalgia as they do for fans who liken more to his folk period. But the ablum closes with a bang. In my humble opinion this is his greatest album, but by no means is it his last great one.
One of the best albums EVER!! July 25, 2008
If you like Neil, this is one of his best, hands down. Star Wars roadies, huge speaker setups, classic songs both acoustic and electric. Probably the pinnacle of Rock & Roll. Buy this immediately if your a Neil fan. 5 STARS!!
JAPAN REMASTERED VERSION AVAILABLE June 18, 2008
A while back, Warner Brothers Japan re-released 12 Neil Young titles. The surprise was that remastered content appeared for the first time on most of them.
The titles & WB-Japan catalog numbers are:
Neil Young WPCR-75086
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere WPCR-75087
After The Gold Rush WPCR-75088
Harvest WPCR-75089
On The Beach WPCR-75090
Tonight's The Night WPCR-75091
Zuma WPCR-75092
Long May You Run WPCR-75093
American Stars n' Bars WPCR-75094
Comes A Time WPCR-75095
Rust Never Sleeps WPCR-75096
Live Rust WPCR-75097
I picked up most of these, A/B'd them, and found them to be superior to the domestics. However, having purchased the domestic 2002 remasters of "Beach" and "Stars n Bars", I declined the Japan versions of those two titles.
Unfortunately, while the Japan version is remastered, Live Rust is not restored to the original LP's running form, and remains still the bastardized version.
If you own the U.S. versions, and you're a NY fan, I would seriously consider replacing them with these.
Half Acoustic Young June 17, 2008
Probably my favorite Neil Young album,yet I only listen to the first six song's.Rust Never Sleeps really showcases Young as a truly talented all around musician,songwriting,crisp,clean acoustic guitar,Neil's unique singing and harmonica(Neil Young plays harmonica like nobody's business.)Listening to the original vinyl,I purchased when it was first released,I never realized this was a live album with the audience dubbed out,until recently.As I recall this was some sort of a comeback tour for Young and it was a good one,and I also remember the acoustic version of Hey Hey My My alway's constantly playing on the radio at the time,never did like the hard rock version. Nothing special about this Warner cd,just a good Neil Young and Crazy Horse recording,Rust Never Sleeps.
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