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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Rust Never Sleeps
Reprise Records (093624917571)
Reprise Records (552058-1)
Release date: Jul 31, 2017, Europe
As far as pure song-craft goes, it hard to beat this 1979 offering from Neil Young & Crazy Horse. By the end of the '90s, Young, Talbot, Molina and Sampredo had refined their crushing sonic assault to the extent that they could bludgeon the listener with wagnerian riffs and rhythms (the entropy hymn "Hey Hey, My My") or provide just enough grit to keep young's far-out lyrics from ascending into the stratosphere ("Ride my Llama").
Song-wise, Rust is a schizophrenic album. Young moves from the brilliant surrealist imagery of "Pocahontas", with it's evocation of "Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me", to the sharp narrative perspective of the equally transcendent "Powderfinger" and the good-humoured social commentary of "Welfare Mothers"
A1
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
A2
Thrasher
A3
Ride My Llama
A4
Pocahontas
A5
Sail Away
B1
Powderfinger
B2
Welfare Mothers
B3
Sedan Delivery
B4
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)