Product Description
Brand New — Sealed Remastered Reissue Of An Absolutely Essential Neil Young LP On Quality 180 Gram Vinyl. Includes Inner Sleeve. Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay…
Neil Young Archives Official Release Series – NYA ORS 11. Remastered for vinyl from the original master tapes by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood CA.
While the base material on the record is taken from concerts, ‘Rust Never Sleeps’ is not really a live record (a proper document, ‘Live Rust,’ and its film would arrive in late 1979). Much of the crowd noise, with the exception of the opening and closing, acoustic/electric takes on the song, “Hey Hey, My My” has been edited out. There was also a high degree of overdubbing and studio polishing, as well as the addition of two songs that were first put to tape much earlier; the 1975 cut “Pocohantas” and “Sail Away” from the ‘Comes a Time’ sessions. ‘Rust Never Sleeps’ went on to become one of the most celebrated and important records in rock and roll. The sludgy, overdriven wall of crushing guitar noise that permeates the album’s iconic second side has inspired a multitude of artists who have followed in Young’s wake to crank things up past 11. In the decades to follow, it even helped earn him the title of “Godfather of Grunge.”
Side 1:
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
Thrasher
Ride My Llama
Pocahontas
Sail Away
Side 2:
Powderfinger
Welfare Mothers
Sedan Delivery
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
AMG –
A remarkable, imaginative record -- divided into acoustic and electric sides... Rust Never Sleeps, its aphoristic title drawn from an intended advertising slogan, was an album of new songs, some of them recorded on Neil Young's 1978 concert tour. His strongest collection since Tonight's the Night, its obvious antecedent was Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, and, as Dylan did, Young divided his record into acoustic and electric sides while filling his songs with wildly imaginative imagery. The leadoff track, "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (repeated in an electric version at album's end as "Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black]" with slightly altered lyrics), is the most concise and knowing description of the entertainment industry ever written; it was followed by "Thrasher," which describes Young's parallel artistic quest in an extended metaphor that also reflected the album's overall theme -- the inevitability of deterioration and the challenge of overcoming it. Young then spent the rest of the album demonstrating that his chief weapons against rusting were his imagination and his daring, creating an archetypal album that encapsulated his many styles on a single disc with great songs -- in particular the remarkable "Powderfinger" -- unlike any he had written before.