Still my favorite since it came out: From Wikki: Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) is a rock song by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), it bookends Youngs successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by synthpunk group Devo, the rise of punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song today crosses generations, inspiring admirers from punk to grunge and significantly revitalizing Youngs then waning career. The song is about the alternatives of continuing to produce similar music (to rust or – in My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) – to fade away) or to burn out. A line from the song, its better to burn out than to fade away, became infamous after being quoted in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobains suicide note. Young later said that he was so shaken that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain. Because of Cobains suicide, in live concerts he now emphasizes the line once youre gone you cant come back
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:54:32 +0000
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