Song · Neil Young
“Hey, Hey - My, My (Into The Black)” by Neil Young
From the album Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
“Hey, Hey - My, My (Into The Black)” by Neil Young appears on 40 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 1994 and 2026. It was first released in 1979 on the album Rust Never Sleeps. Its best result is #56 on the WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,652 alternative song of all time.
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"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is the electric half of the pair that bookends Neil Young's 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps, the snarling twin of the acoustic "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)". Young wrote it with punk ringing in his ears and a nagging sense that he was growing irrelevant, and a lot of it traces back to his time with Devo: the album's title phrase came out of that friendship with Mark Mothersbaugh, and Young cut an early version with Devo at the Different Fur studio in San Francisco in May 1978, the same crew he'd drafted for his film Human Highway.
Then he handed it to Crazy Horse, and they turned it into sludge and thunder. Young and Frank Sampedro grind out distorted guitars the size of buildings, Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina stomp along behind, and David Briggs helped produce the racket.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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Also listed as: Hey Hey, My My (into the black); Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black); Hey, Hey - My, My (into The Black); Hey Hey, My My; Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black); Hey Hey My My.
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