Rust Never Sleeps
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| Studio album with live recordings[2] by Neil Young with Crazy Horse | ||||
| Released | June 22, 1979[1] | |||
| Recorded | September 4, 1977 – October 22, 1978 | |||
| Venue | The Boarding House, San Francisco McNichols Arena, Denver St. Paul Civic Center Cow Palace, San Francisco | |||
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| Length | 38:16 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
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Rust Never Sleeps is the tenth album by Canadian American singer-songwriter Neil Young and his third with American band Crazy Horse. It was released on June 22, 1979, by Reprise Records and features both studio and live tracks.[5] Most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio, while other songs originated in the studio. Young used the phrase "rust never sleeps" as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid artistic complacency and try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live.[6]
The album peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 album chart and spawned the hit single "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" that peaked at No. 79 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[7] It also included one of Young's most popular and critically acclaimed songs, the enigmatic "Powderfinger".[8][9] The album, along with Young's 1990 release Ragged Glory, has widely been considered a precursor of grunge music with the bands Nirvana and Pearl Jam having cited Young's heavily distorted and abrasive guitar style on the B side of the album as an inspiration.[10]
- ^ "Neil Young Archives". Neilyoungarchives.com. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
- ^ Young directly states that he considers this to be a studio album in the "Letter to the Editor" section on his website.
- ^ Schinder, Scott; Schwartz, Andy, eds. (2007). Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever. ABC-CLIO. p. 460. ISBN 978-0-313-33845-8. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
...Rust Never Sleeps mixed acoustic material with squalling, feedback-laden hard rock.
- ^ "50 Greatest Grunge Albums". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
- ^ Mendelsohn, Jason (June 14, 2013). "Counterbalance No. 133: Neil Young's 'Rust Never Sleeps'". PopMatters. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- ^ Daniel Durchholz, Gary Graff (2012). Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History, Updated Edition. Voyageur Press. pp. 112–13. ISBN 978-0-7603-4411-8. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- ^ "Billboard 200 December 21, 1979". Billboard. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "Rolling Stone Readers Poll; The Best Neil Young Songs". rollingstone.com. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "Neil Young Releases a Never-Before-Heard Version of His 1979 Classic, "Powderfinger"". openculture.com. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
- ^ "This is why Neil Young is called the 'Godfather of Grunge'". Faroutmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved March 26, 2023.