Rust Never Sleeps
by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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Rust Never Sleeps is ranked 5th best out of 98 albums by Neil Young on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Neil Young is After The Gold Rush which is ranked number 83 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,102.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Rust Never Sleeps track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rust Never Sleeps rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 21 Music Albums of 1979 | 17/21 | 1 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 22 Music Albums of 1979 | 20/22 | 1 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #0701-0800* | 8/79 | - |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 90 Music Albums of 1979 | 1/90 | 5 |
| 2026 |  hoyquarlow | Top 50 Music Albums of the 1970s | 27/50 | 10 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 75/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | Top 89 Music Albums of the 1970s | 6/89 | 19 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 44 Music Albums of 1979 | 12/44 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 27 Music Albums of 1979 | 19/27 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 688 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,923 | |||
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Rust Never Sleeps ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/09/2026 12:47 |  Ilolahti | 174 | 82/100 |
| ! | 09/16/2026 19:29 | adbrack1988 | 1,129 | 83/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2026 23:40 |  LedZep | 5,165 | 79/100 |
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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 83.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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Rust Never Sleeps forum mentions
pedro1976 10/07/2026 12:19 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
BestEverAlbums 09/26/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5447): By adbrack1988View latest topic →
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Rust Never Sleeps comments
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Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/07/2013 18:44 | #96696 | TOP COMMENT
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Amazing amazing amazing !
I mean "Thrasher", "Powderfinger", "Pocahontas", "Sail Away", and both the opening and closing "Hey Hey, My my" are all immaculate and just absolutely powerful and emotional. This is a classic.
If we were allowed to do a best songs of all time chart, "Powderfinger" would be in my Top 10.
paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/09/2011 15:51 | #32440 | TOP COMMENT
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On rust never sleeps, new material presented live here, neil shows off both acoustic and electric sides, both equally engaging. Neil's a simple poet, which he shows off on "thrasher" and "hey hey my my". "ride my llama" displays some quirky humor from neil. My biggest criticism is that the album's too short.
Thrasher is absolutely incredible.
With 'Rust Never Sleeps' Neil combines his innovative and distinctive guitar style and vocals with highly evocative lyricism and memorable melodies, best illustrated on the cryptic acoustic masterpiece 'Thrasher'. Shot through with rich imagery and metaphor, this bitter satire is one of rocks greatest compositions, with every line as precious as the previous one. But it's not only his acoustic side where Neil excels in this album. He also makes a creative leap with the semi-hardcore 'Sedan Delivery', Hey Hey...' and the softer and harmony-infused 'Powderfinger'. The other classics are the acoustic 'My My...' the mystical epic 'Pocahontas' and the elegiac 'Sail Away'. The only weak link is the mundane 'Welfare Mothers'. However, that doesn't detract from the albums overall power. This is one of Neil's greatest albums from his golden '70's period.
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