Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
| Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) | |
|---|---|
| Neil Young | |
| publication | 1979 |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| Author (s) | Neil Young |
| album | Rust Never Sleeps |
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) is a rock song by Neil Young . As the final track of the 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps , it formed the framework of the album with the acoustic opening track My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) . The two songs share melody and large parts of the lyrics. The album changes with every song from folk to hard rock and Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) marks the end point with an extremely distorted guitar.
The song was inspired by the group Devo , the rise of punk and questions about its musical future. The song juxtaposes the alternatives of continuing with similar music ("rusting up") or burning out. The text line of the acoustic version, "It's better to burn out than to fade away", attracted renewed attention when Kurt Cobain quoted it in 1994 in his suicide note. Young later said he was so shaken by it that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain.
Emergence
The song Hey, Hey, My, My and the album title Rust Never Sleeps emerged from Young's encounters with the band Devo and especially Mark Mothersbaugh . In 1977, Young asked Devo to star in his film Human Highway . A movie scene shows Young playing the song with Devo. With the success of punk in 1977, some fans felt that Young's generation was outdated, and Young wondered if they were right. The death of Elvis Presley in the same year came and The Clash sang in their song 1977 : "No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977!".
The single came in at number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
After Kurt Cobain wrote the sentence "It's better to burn out, than to fade away" in his suicide note, there were false reports that Young had declared that he would never play "My My, Hey Hey" again. In fact, he played it again several times.
use
Dennis Hopper's film Out of the Blue is borrowed from the acoustic counterpart My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) .
The song was used in the series Sons of Anarchy in the third season - as the cover of the band Battleme.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shakey: Neil Young's Biography , Jimmy McDonough, Anchor 2002
- ↑ vermontreview.tripod.com: Oh Yes, It's Devo: An Interview with Jerry Casale
- ↑ imdb.com: Human Highway (1982)
- ↑ Chart successes at allmusic.com
- ^ Neil Young Info - Kurt Cobain. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .