Rust Never Sleeps is Neil Young's eleventh studio album, and his third with Crazy Horse. Although it reached only 28 on the Canadian RPM album chart (and 40 on the CRIA chart), it went top 10 (#8) in the U.S. and several other countries, and #13 in the U.K., and met with universal critical acclaim:
Rust Never Sleeps came out the summer I was bricklaying with my brother Rick, between grades 12 and 13, just before Tracy and I started dating. The first side of the album is acoustic folk. The second side, with Crazy Horse, is hard rock. The song from which the title derives, which both opens side A and closes side B, is at least partially an ode to punk rock and was released as a single (though it always confused me that Young credited a co-writer on the acoustic version, but not on the Crazy Horse version, even though they are the same song). "Pocohontas" and "Powderfinger" have, at different times, been my favourite Neil Young song.
Rust Never Sleeps ranked 22nd in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book, The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
| Hometown: | Toronto, Winnipeg, Los Angeles |
| Label: | Reprise |
| Release Date: | 2 July 1979 |
| Producer: | Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan |
| Style: | rock |
| Mar*Star 125: | 15 |
| Mar*Star 150: | 76 |
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