Its better to burn out than fade away movie#

The song later appeared on Young's Greatest Hits in 2004 and was included at #93 in Bob Mersereau's book The Top 100 Canadian Singles in 2010.

Its better to burn out than fade away movie#

In 1980, the song was used as the title theme of Dennis Hopper's movie Out of the Blue. Texas author and journalist Brad Tyer wrote in the Houston Press that 'Hey Hey, My My' was stylistically ' proto-grunge grunt rock'.

Reception Д¬ash Box called it a 'grinding three-chord rocker' that makes 'a challenging musical and lyrical statement' with 'thrashing drums and brash fuzz guitar.'

ДЄccording to Young, the version of the song on Rust Never Sleeps is the same as that on Live Rust, except that for the Rust Never Sleeps version they removed the crowd noise and added sound effects such as hand claps and slamming doors in the studio. The death of Elvis Presley that same year compounded this, with the British punk band The Clash even stating, 'No Elvis, Beatles or The Rolling Stones in 1977!' in their song ' 1977'. With the explosion of punk rock in 1977, some punks had felt that Young and his contemporaries were becoming obsolete, with Young worrying that they were right. Some critics viewed Young's career as declining after the release of 1977's American Stars 'N Bars and 1978's Comes a Time. The line 'It's better to burn out than it is to rust' is often credited to Young's friend Jeff Blackburn of The Ducks. The lyrics, 'It's better to burn out than to fade away.' were widely quoted by his peers and by critics. Young adopted the line and used it in the Crazy Horse version of the song, as well as for the title of his album.

During the Different Fur studio sessions, Mothersbaugh added the lyrics 'rust never sleeps', a slogan he remembered from his graphic arts career that promoted the automobile rust proofing product Rust-Oleum. On May 28, 1978, Young collaborated with Devo on a version of 'Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)' at the Different Fur studio in San Francisco and would later introduce the song to Crazy Horse. In 1977, Devo had been asked by Young to participate in the creation of his film, Human Highway, and a scene in the film shows Young playing the song in its entirety with Devo (with Mothersbaugh changing a lyric about ' Johnny Rotten' to 'Johnny Spud'). The song 'Hey Hey, My My.', as well as the titular phrase of the album on which it was featured, 'rust never sleeps,' sprang from Young's collaborations with Devo and, in particular, the band's frontman, Mark Mothersbaugh.