Song · Neil Young
“My My Hey Hey” by Neil Young
“My My Hey Hey” by Neil Young appears on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1991 and 2025. Its best result is #285 on the WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,211 classic rock song of all time.
Neil Young caught "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" live in early 1978 at San Francisco's Boarding House, and paired the acoustic song with its hard rock twin, "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", to bookend Rust Never Sleeps in 1979. It's Young squaring up to a changing world: Devo, the rise of punk and his own nagging sense that he was becoming irrelevant all fed into it, and the song ended up giving his career a serious second wind. Its line weighing burning out against fading away came from a song by Jeff Blackburn, Young's bandmate in the short-lived supergroup the Ducks.
That line became infamous after Kurt Cobain quoted it in his suicide note, and Young was shaken badly enough to dedicate his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to him.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 285 | WNEW-FM | WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) | 500 |
| 1997 | 415 | 104.5 KZEP | KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) | 500 |
| 2021 | 1001 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 985 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2025 | 379 | 102.5 WDVE | DVE Memorial Day 500 (2025) | 500 |
Also listed as: My My, Hey Hey.
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