Rust Never Sleeps

Infobox Album
Name = Rust Never Sleeps
Type = studio
Artist = Neil Young and Crazy Horse


Released = start date|1979|6|22 [cite web |url=http://hyperrust.org/http://hyperrust.org/Music/?a23 |title=HyperRust on Rust Never Sleeps |accessdate=2008-05-07 ]
Recorded = 1978-1979, Cow Palace, San Francisco
Genre = Folk-rock, rock, hard rock
Length = 38:16
Label = Reprise
Producer = Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1eaqoatabijv link]
*Robert Christgau (A+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=neil+young link]
* "Rolling Stone" (very positive) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/neilyoung/albums/album/301332/review/5946536/rust_never_sleeps link]
Chronology = Neil Young
Last album = "Comes a Time"
(1978)
This album = "Rust Never Sleeps"
(1979)
Next album = "Live Rust"
(1979)

"Rust Never Sleeps" is a 1979 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse (see 1979 in music). The bulk of the album was recorded live at San Francisco's Cow Palace, with overdubs added. Audience noise is removed as much as possible, although they are clearly audible at certain points, most noticeably on the opening and closing songs. The album is half acoustic and half electric, opening and closing with different versions of the same song.

Two songs from the album were not recorded live: "Sail Away" was recorded without Crazy Horse during or after the "Comes a Time" recording sessions, cite web |url=http://hyperrust.org/Chronology/The70s.html |title=HyperRust chronology |accessdate=2008-05-07 ] and "Pocahontas" had been recorded solo around 1975.

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 Rust-Oleum paint, and was suggested by Mark Mothersbaugh of the New Wave band Devo. RS500|350

Track listing

All tracks written by Neil Young except as noted. Neil Young and Crazy Horse. "Rust Never Sleeps" (Reprise Records, 1979).]

ide one (acoustic)

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

ide two (electric)

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

Personnel

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

External links

* [http://hyperrust.org/cgi-bin/ma.pl?23 Lyrics] at [http://hyperrust.org/ HyperRust.org]

References