Word: rusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher proportion of applicants with low incomes, but poor people seem to believe they do not have the time or the money to build a house. Pat disagrees: "Many poor and working people buy a trailer for $18,000, and spend a fortune heating it and patching up the rust. For much less, they could have a solid house, a good investment...
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise/Warner Bros.). This kind of record vindicates all previous claims of greatness and clears the way for new ones. The melodies of these nine songs are insistent, instantly captivating. The lyrics veer between recollections of the mythic past to reveries of violence, from lines like haiku ("Aurora borealis/ The icy sky at night/ Paddles cut the water/ In a long and hurried flight") to verbal lasers of lancing irony ("Hard to believe that love is free now/ Welfare mothers make better lovers"). Young is in such thorough command throughout that...
...other electric--is the most honest of these three in confronting the horrible personality disorders of the "too old to rock and roll, too young to die" pop star. One song in particular, "My, My, Hey, Hey"--which gets both acoustic and electric treatments--sums up the sentiment of Rust Never Sleeps...
...better to burn out than it is to rust...
...course they don't, but for now at least Young can still make a good record, and the whole electric side of Rust Never Sleeps sounds better than anything since After the Gold Rush and reminds us that the man who made Comes A Time hasn't completely sold out. The acoustic side, too, has more interesting lyrics and arrangements than Comes A Time, for those who enjoy understated music...