One of my favorite songs of all time.
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"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a rock song by Neil Young. Combined with an acoustic rendition entitled "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by proto-new wave 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 Young's then-faltering 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, as John Lydon did by abandoning his Johnny Rotten persona.
A lyric from the song, "it's better to burn out than to fade away," became infamous in modern rock after being quoted in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide note. Young later said that he was so shaken that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain.
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dictionThis one deserves another chance, it's Neil Young for chrissakes!
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DeanoBrilliant. Not many people can be so mesmerising with just a guitar. But I didn't see the going to bed and being carted off by the hoodies from Star Wars
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jonnyThe phrase, "it's better to burn out than to fade away," was famous outside of the context of Neil's song long before Cobain swallowed a shotgun. It was borrowed as the opening line of Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages," and perhaps most famously by the Kurgan in Highlander (as he's leaving the church). It was basically a well known catch-phrase by the time Cobain ended his life.
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