Rust Never Sleeps (live album) by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Top 10 albums of 1979 (Neil Young & Crazy Horse bestography
Rust Never Sleeps is ranked 2nd best out of 28 albums by Neil Young & Crazy Horse on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Neil Young & Crazy Horse is Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere which is ranked number 184 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,544.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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70/100  | 01/11/2025 15:08 | gmessian | | 62/100 |
85/100 | 01/07/2025 22:22 | classicjoe | | 81/100 |
90/100 | 12/31/2024 23:13 | paperwhites62 | | 81/100 |
95/100 | 12/27/2024 23:26 | Nkelleyslc | | 84/100 |
85/100 | 12/13/2024 09:03 | jwalsh97 | | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 83.7/100, a mean average of 83.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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How much is live, how much is studio? Really, who cares? It sounds great in an era when most live albums sound god awful compared to the studio recordings. The split of a soft side and a rock side with Crazy Horse works perfectly. I remember hearing it on a cheap CD player and not thinking much when I first heard it. Having only heard Harvest I wasn't all that impressed and didn't get the hype. But on vinyl with decent speakers, it comes alive.
A classic Neil Young album where he demonstrates how good both his acoustic and electric side were. His vocal and song writing is as good as ever and the backing of Crazy Horse adds a lot to this record. The two just seem to go together so well and they create some excellent stuff on here. I do think there are a few slower moments, mainly near the back end of the release, but it doesn't let the record down on the whole. I especially love the two bookends of this album as they open and close the record in style. Overall, while this may not be amongst his greatest ever there is still a lot to love on here and plenty to explore.
HIghlights are the opener and closer with good quality in between
It's definitely one of my favorite Neil Young albums, it is a great mix of his acoustic side with his rock side.
hard-driving rock + roll
"it's better to burn out than to fade away"
Another good album from Neil, he had no bad albums in the seventies. The first side is my favourite , and the songs i like the most are Thrasher, Pocahontas and Powderfinger. Not crazy about Welfare Mother and Sedan Delivery.
planetneutral 12/29/2020 12:24
Great tracklist. As a live music guy raised on Live Rust, I'm still wrapping my head around the intentional suppression of the audience noise.
VictorVale 11/27/2020 00:00
Grande álbum, tanto a sessão acústica qnt a hard rock!
teague 06/02/2020 20:35
A great live album. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) is one of the best songs I've ever heard, the louder songs are very entertaining and energetic, the acoustic songs are quite delightful. Neil Young knocks it out of the park once again.
Pretty good in parts.
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