Rust Never Sleeps

Rust Never Sleeps
Live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Released	July 1979
Genre	Folk-rock, rock, Grunge
Length	38:16
Label	Reprise
Producer	Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A+) link Rolling Stone (not rated) link
Neil Young chronology
Comes a Time (1978) Rust Never Sleeps (1979) Live Rust (1979)

Rust Never Sleeps is a 1979 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. The album was recorded live, with overdubs later added. It is half acoustic and half electric, and the audience track was removed, although the audience is still clearly audible at certain points, most noticeably at the end. Though a live album, it consists entirely of new material. Young also released a film version of the album under the same title. Later on in 1979, Young and Crazy Horse released the album Live Rust, a compilation of older classics interweaving within the Rust Never Sleeps track list. The title is borrowed from the slogan for Rustoleum paint, and was suggested by Mark Mothersbaugh of the New Wave band Devo. In 2003, the album was ranked number 350 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Track listing

All songs by Neil Young, except when noted.

Side one

1. "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (Blackburn, Young) – 3:45
2. "Thrasher" – 5:38
3. "Ride My Llama" – 2:29
4. "Pocahontas" – 3:22
5. "Sail Away" – 3:46

Side two

1. "Powderfinger" – 5:30
2. "Welfare Mothers" – 3:48
3. "Sedan Delivery" – 4:40
4. "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" – 5:18

Personnel

• Neil Young – guitar, harmonica, vocals
• Frank "Pancho" Sampedro – guitar, vocal
• Billy Talbot – bass, vocal
• Ralph Molina – drums, vocal
• Nicolette Larson – vocals on "Sail Away"
• Karl T. Himmel – drums on "Sail Away"
• Joe Osborne – bass on "Sail Away"

External links

• Lyrics at HyperRust.org