10 Live Albums That Are Better Than Studio Albums

10. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Throughout his entire career, Neil Young has always been about moving onto the next thing. While some of his '80s work may have been journeys into great big ditches along the way, Crazy Uncle Neil is always about serving his muse, whether it means bringing in Crazy Horse or not. After the massive success of songs like Heart of Gold though, he wanted to strip things back to where he started onstage.

Coming off of his first run of success with Crosby Stills and Nash, Rust Never Sleeps is a bit of a hybrid record by Neil's standards, comprised of mostly live cuts of entirely new songs like Thrasher and Welfare Mothers. Being broken up by the tone of the songs, each side of the record feels like you're getting a different experience of what Neil has to offer, like the look behind the curtain of the acoustic side before bringing the house down with electric guitars at the end of songs like Hey Hey My My.

Neil has also never been too subtle about his words, and you can hear him ready to break free from all of the commercialism that was bringing him down, from the phoniness of rock and roll on the opening track to implying that Crosby Stills and Nash were just a bunch of dead weight for him on Thrasher. Neil may have been on top of the world at this point, but this almost serves as a reminder to fans about what success can bring. As much as it might sound fun, it's not always easy at the top.