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Rust Never Sleeps
Studio album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Released	June 22, 1979 (1979-06-22) [1]
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
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Robert Christgau (A+) link Rolling Stone (very positive) 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 (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,^[2] and "Pocahontas" had been recorded solo around 1975.^[2]

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. In 2003, the album was ranked number 350 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Neil Young except as noted.^[3]

[edit] Side one (acoustic)

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

[edit] Side two (electric)

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

[edit] 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"

[edit] External links

• Lyrics at HyperRust.org

[edit] References