Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)
Nick Kent, NME, 30 June 1979
GOD KNOWS, you're at liberty to draw your own conclusions as to why Rust Never Sleeps is the masterpiece it so obviously is, but the whys and wherefores are strictly secondary to the fact itself: very simply, Rust is the finest album Neil Young has ever released.
Total word count of piece: 1969
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