Bossy - Hey Hey My My (Indie Rock/Post-Punk, Neil Young Cover)

From '' The Best Of Bossy '' Label: Wild World – WW-003 Format: Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album Country: US Released: 2009 Tracklist A1 Who Loves You More A2 California Big Deal A3 Walk Around A4 Hey Hey My My B1 The Monster B2 No Life B3 Staring Contest B4 Dirty Fingers B5 Who Loves You Most Guitar, Vocals – Cassie Ramone Bass, Vocals, Harmonica, Illustration – Jamie Ewing Drums – Justin Sullivan Recorded By – Mark Ospovat Notes Recorded... summer 2006 Bossy was a band Feb 2006 - June 2007 Members: Cassie Grzymkowski, Jamie Ewing, Justin Sullivan This record is dedicated to the memory of Jamie Ewing. 🎵 [SONG INFO] "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a rock song by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart "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 of the Sex Pistols might be considered to have done by abandoning his Johnny Rotten persona. A part of 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. "Out of the blue and into the black" was a Vietnam War-era phrase that originally referred to jumping out of the daylight into the darkness of a Vietcong tunnel, and was later generalized to refer to various situations, including death. Legacy Upon its release, Rust Never Sleeps was hailed as a commercial and critical revitalization for Young, and the successful, bizarre tour (featuring oversized amps, road crews dressed as Jawas from the then-new Star Wars film (called Road-eyes), sound technicians in lab coats, audio recordings from Woodstock played from disintegrating tapes, etc.) earned him a new generation of fans and good will, buoyed mainly by "Hey Hey, My My". As Young's commercial popularity waned in the 1980s, an underground rock movement began to embrace the artist. "Hey Hey, My My"'s most memorable impact on modern rock comes from the line "It's better to burn out than to fade away". Kurt Cobain's suicide note ended with the same line, shaking Young and inadvertently cementing his place (ironically, given his firm groundings in folk and classic rock, to say nothing of his status as an FM radio staple) as the so-called "Godfather of Grunge". The song also had an impact on Britpop artists. Most notably Oasis covered the song on their 2000 world tour, including it on their live album and DVD Familiar to Millions. Not coincidentally, the band acknowledged Cobain's attachment to the song by dedicating it to him when they played it in Seattle on the six th anniversary of his death. Scottish band Big Country recorded a version, which can be heard on their Under Covers album. It is also used as live-intro to System of a Down's "Kill Rock 'n Roll" in some live performances. The song still frequently appears on FM radio today, most often on stations formatted for "classic rock". Young's penchant for bookending an album with the same song in different renditions, which had already been utilised once on Tonight's the Night, returned on his second "comeback" album, Freedom, in 1989, with "Rockin' in the Free World". Young performs the song at nearly every concert in one form or another. It is included on his Greatest Hits. Def Leppard begins their song "Rock of Ages" with the lines "I got something to say / It's better to burn out than fade away"; the same lines were used in the movie Highlander by The Kurgan. In the video game Unreal Championship 2 one of Sobeks taunts is "It's better to burn out, than to fade away". This song was covered by System Of A Down before "Kill Rock´n´Roll" in the Festival of Hurricane in 2005. El Tri covered the song in spanish on the album El Niño Sin Amor in 1986. The Argentine rock band La Renga covered this song on the album La Esquina del Infinito in 1999. Only the title was sung in English, the remainder of the song was translated into Spanish. The Finnish glam rock band Negative recorded a cover of the song on their 2004 album Sweet & Deceitful entiltled "My My/Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", which was also released as a single. Dave Matthews Band included the song on their album Live Trax Vol. 13. The song is also the title theme of Dennis Hopper's movie Out of the Blue. The song was included at no.93 in Bob Mersereau's book The Top 100 Canadian Singles (2010). A cover of the song by Battleme appeared as the closing track of the Sons of Anarchy Season 3 finale. Nomeansno covered the song for the FUBAR soundtrack. #bossy #heyheymymy #indierock #postpunk #neilyoungcover