Editing Rust Never Sleeps (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name         = Rust Never Sleeps
| type         = studio 
| longtype     = with [[live album|live recordings]]<ref>Young directly states that he considers this to be a studio album in the "Letter to the Editor" section on his website.</ref>
| artist       = [[Neil Young]] with [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]]
| cover        = Neil_Young_Rust_Never_Sleeps.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = {{start date|1979|6|22}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neil Young Archives |url=https://neilyoungarchives.com/#/album?id=A_023&_k=6uz9lg |access-date=August 8, 2018 |website=Neilyoungarchives.com}}</ref>
| recorded     = September 4, 1977 – October 22, 1978
| venue        = [[The Boarding House (nightclub)|The Boarding House]], San Francisco<br>[[McNichols Arena]], Denver<br>[[St. Paul Civic Center]]<br>[[Cow Palace]], San Francisco
| studio       = *Indigo Ranch, Malibu
*Triiad Studios, Ft. Lauderdale
*[[Woodland Sound Studios|Woodland]], Nashville
| genre        = {{flatlist|
* [[Folk rock]]
* [[hard rock]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=chj91X0dWzUC&q=%22mixed+acoustic+material+with%22&pg=PA460 |title=Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-313-33845-8 |editor-last=Schinder |editor-first=Scott |page=460 |quote=...Rust Never Sleeps mixed acoustic material with squalling, feedback-laden hard rock. |access-date=November 27, 2013 |editor-last2=Schwartz |editor-first2=Andy}}</ref> 
* [[Grunge#History|proto-grunge]]<ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-grunge-albums-798851/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-ragged-glory-1990-798864/ "50 Greatest Grunge Albums"]. ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. Retrieved June 14, 2019.</ref>
|}}
| length       = {{duration|m=38|s=16}}
| label        = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]
| producer     = 
* Neil Young
* [[David Briggs (record producer)|David Briggs]]
* Tim Mulligan
| chronology   = [[Neil Young]]
| prev_title   = [[Comes a Time]]
| prev_year    = 1978
| next_title   = [[Live Rust]]
| next_year    = 1979
| misc         = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]]
 | type       = studio
 | prev_title = [[Crazy Moon (album)|Crazy Moon]]
 | prev_year  = 1978
 | title      = Rust Never Sleeps
 | year       = 1979
 | next_title = [[Live Rust]]
 | next_year  = 1979
}}
{{Singles
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)]]" / "[[My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)]]
| single1date = August 27, 1979
}}
}}
'''''Rust Never Sleeps''''' is the tenth album by [[Canadian Americans|Canadian American]] singer-songwriter [[Neil Young]] and his third with American band [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]]. It was released on June 22, 1979, by [[Reprise Records]] and features both studio and live tracks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mendelsohn |first=Jason |date=June 14, 2013 |title=Counterbalance No. 133: Neil Young's 'Rust Never Sleeps' |url=http://www.popmatters.com/post/172495-neil-young/ |access-date=November 27, 2013 |publisher=[[PopMatters]]}}</ref> Most of the album was recorded live, then [[overdubbing|overdubbed]] in the studio, while other songs originated in the studio. Young used the phrase "rust never sleeps" as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid artistic complacency and try more progressive, theatrical approaches to performing live.<ref name="112and113">{{Cite book |last=Daniel Durchholz, Gary Graff |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqmeyhtE1FYC&pg=PA112 |title=Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History, Updated Edition |publisher=[[Voyageur Press]] |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-7603-4411-8 |pages=112–13 |access-date=November 27, 2013}}</ref>

The album peaked at No. 8 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart and spawned the hit single "[[Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)]]" that peaked at No. 79 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Billboard 200 December 21, 1979 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1979-12-21/ |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=March 26, 2023}}</ref> It also included one of Young's most popular and critically acclaimed songs, the enigmatic "[[Powderfinger (song)|Powderfinger]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rolling Stone Readers Poll; The Best Neil Young Songs |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-best-neil-young-songs-10643/10-helpless-23664/ |access-date=March 26, 2023 |publisher=rollingstone.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Neil Young Releases a Never-Before-Heard Version of His 1979 Classic, "Powderfinger" |url=https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/neil-young-releases-a-never-before-heard-version-of-1979-classic-powderfinger.html |access-date=March 26, 2023 |publisher=openculture.com}}</ref> The album, along with Young's 1990 release ''[[Ragged Glory]]'', has widely been considered a precursor of [[grunge]] music with the bands [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] and [[Pearl Jam]] having cited Young's heavily [[Distortion (music)|distorted]] and abrasive guitar style on the B side to this album as an inspiration.<ref>{{Cite web |title=This is why Neil Young is called the 'Godfather of Grunge' |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/neil-young-godfather-grunge-kurt-cobain-eddie-vedder/ |access-date=March 26, 2023 |website=Faroutmagazine.co.uk}}</ref>