It was this album, Bringing It All Back Home, which gave me Dylan back in 1965.
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May 26, 2010 at 10:43 am
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May 26, 2010 at 9:22 pm
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” was, in fact, an extraordinary three-way amalgam of Jack Kerouac, the Guthrie/Pete Seeger song “Taking It Easy” (‘mom was in the kitchen preparing to eat/sis was in the pantry looking for some yeast’) and the riffed-up rock’n’roll poetry of Chuck Berry’s “Too Much Monkey Business”.
While Dylan was not a member of the original Beat circles of the 1950s, Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, a novel published in 1958 about the Beats, has been cited as a possible inspiration for the song’s title. Stretching further back, the title alludes to Notes from Underground, a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose works were popular with Beat writers such as Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
Listed by Rolling Stone magazine as the 332nd “Greatest Song of All Time”,”Subterranean Homesick Blues” has had a wide influence, resulting in iconic references by artists and non-artists alike. Most famously, its lyric “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” was the inspiration for the name of the American radical left group the Weathermen, a breakaway from the Students for a Democratic Society.John Lennon was reported to find the song so “captivating” that he didn’t know how he’d be able to write a song that could “compete” with it.The group Firehose (former Minutemen members) took its name from another of the song’s enigmatic warnings: “Better stay away from those that carry around a fire hose…” In addition, the opening of the last verse,”Ah get born, keep warm”, provided the Australian garage rock band Jet with the title of their debut album Get Born.
In the same way that Dylan paid homage to Jack Kerouac’s novel, The Subterraneans, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” has been referenced in the titles of various songs, for example, Radiohead’s “Subterranean Homesick Alien” from 1997’s OK Computer, the ska punk band Mustard Plug’s “Suburban Homesick Blues” from 1997’s Evildoers Beware,”300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues” by The White Stripes and the Memphis indie band The Grifters’ “Subterranean Death Ride Blues”, the B-side of a 1996 single. It was also the basis for the title of the second episode of Law & Order’s premiere season, “Subterranean Homeboy Blues”
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2798x_bob-dylan-subterranean-homesick-blu_creation
The clip was shot in an alley behind the Savoy Hotel in London where Ginsberg and Neuwirth make a cameo in the background. For use as a trailer, the following text was superimposed at the end of the clip while Dylan and Ginsberg are exiting the frame: “Surfacing Here Soon | Bob Dylan in | Don’t Look Back by D. A. Pennebaker.” Thanks to the back of the Savoy Hotel retaining much of the same exterior as in 1965 the alley used in the video sequence has been identified as the Savoy Steps.
May 29, 2010 at 9:11 am
sblake,
It is amazing the ripples from this one song. I remember trying to find the lyrics when it first came out as I wanted to know all the words, and I wanted to figure out what all of it meant. We seemed to be doing that a lot back then-listening to Dylan and hearing his message.