True. Except, of course, for all the other great opening lines of his ... I love these: Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon? No kidding.
When I bought my Harley Davidson in 2018 they ask you to pick a song and they play it as you walk across the showroom floor and go ring a bell, (they do this to all first time buyers and since I was 14: 1. I’ve been a huge Dylan fan and 2. I dreamed of owning a Harley) This song was the perfect choice for that occasion. Also, I know he’s getting old and I would kick myself if I never got to see him live. I live in California and this past March me, my wife and my 2 year old daughter flew to Charlotte NC so I could see him live lol. Then a few months after buying the ticket I found out he had shows scheduled for SoCal later in the year.lol. But it was totally worth it and an awesome show, he’s still great even at his age. Ok, those are my two stories idk if anyone cares lol.
That song lyric inspired a group of violent 60's anarchists to call themselves the "Weather Underground" that carried out a series of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots in the 60's and 70's.
I was a Bob Dylan fan since i was 14. You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Need i say more? Dylan influenced everyone who came after him. Beatles.. Rolling Stones… Clapton…. The list goes on and on. I hope you live long Bob.
Bob is a real one, still, to this day. I remember a few years ago, I saw an interview with him on a major network, can't remember which one. Maybe CNN or something. Anyway the interviewer quoted one of his greats and asked him how he wrote those lyrics and Bob kept his perspective, as always, and basically said "I don't know. I couldn't do it now. It just happened" I'm paraphrasing, but it was a great reply. Anyone who's ever written a decent song knows what he's talking about.
It's clever on a couple of points. Remember, the time frame this song was written was late 1960's. A militant, left wing radical organization known as the Weather Underground , also know as Weathermen formed on the U Michigan Ann Arbor campus, as a faction of Students for Democratic Society or SDS. So Dylan is saying that you don't need a radical, like a Weatherman to tell you what is going on (which way the wind blows). He is also saying that you don't need a tv weather person to tell you which way the wind is blowing. Revolution was in the air, (the way the wind blows), Viet Nam protests, the Weather underground actually declared war against the United states government, with a bombing campaign against government buildings. Heady Times. Breaking Timothy Leary out of prison. "For the times they are a changing".
I was 13 in 1965 when this record was realeased,my sister bought the 45 rpm record of this song, I heard her play it on the record player, then I started playing the record real loud, and was told, take that record player down to the basement if you are going to play that music so loud,so I would play it all the time in the basement real loud,I realized Dylan was where it was at! I've been a Dylan fan ever since.
I have one of those actual cards he holds up. My dad and his friend were there at the recording of this when my dad worked as a black cab driver in London. He picked up one, his friend picked up a few, apparently. My dad said I could have his about 20 yrs ago. Still got it, now in a frame! Nice to see Nobel Prizes being awarded to people who wouldn't have stood a chance years ago!
This video continues to blow my mind. Such a powerful and strong lyric set put against a REALLY awkward looking young Bob looking around for affirmation occasionally that it's going well. One of my favorite music videos of all time.
My celebrity crush is Bob Dylan right around this age. So handsome yet he seems so quirky and awkward while still being very serious. I'd kill for a man like that.
@@dylanthompson8511 With regard to your Bob Dylan comments - the 'video' was actually the opening sequence to the 'biopic' filmed on Dylan's tour to Great Britain in 1965 by DA Pennabaker. The captions I think were created by Dylan's friend Bobby Neuerwith (?) who can be seen throughout the whole film - also on the cover (half of him !) of Highway 61 Revisited. The bearded gentleman in the background who walks away at the end is Allen Ginsberg the 'Beat' poet.
@@LockBits-ts6eo "My brother got me into Ween a long time ago, and we've been stealing the CDs from each other since. That was about 10 years ago or so. I had the biggest crush on Dean. Still kind of do."
My dad was born in 1950, he passed away when I was 16, back in 2018. He was a HUGE bob Dylan fan. He and I used to listen to his albums in the car. There was this one song that I loved as a kid, made my dad play on repeat, but I never knew the name! This is the song! I've been searching for years and I finally found it! Thank you RUclips, I am eternally grateful ❤
I had a good family friend born in '49 who turned me onto Dylan when I was a 16 year old in '88. He was playing his greatest hits tape with this song and others really captivating me. I took most of the money I made doing drywall with him to buy Bob's entire catalog. As I get older and have to say goodbye to people I loved, I find an everlasting connection by continuing to enjoy the things we once shared together. Sorry about your pops.
You could also watch the whole thing because this 'video' is the opening sequence to the DA Pennabaker 'biopic' film Don't Look Back filmed when Dylan toured Britain in 1965. Another lesser-known Dylan track which is spine-tingling is Let Me Die In My Footsteps from 1963 which was omitted from the Freewheelin' album although personally I think it's superior to some of the other tracks on that album.
Oh, how innocent he looks. And, the media insisted upon branding him with any negatives they could think of. A true musical icon who will live forever in the hearts of people who love and appreciate originality in music.
Plato ,Socrates ,none of these people were called Philoshophers in their lifetime , was only after the effect their work was so important , Dylan will & has been recognised in his lifetime as one .
Hahah, it's not so bad. If you're in STEM they put you on flex-time and telecommute! You smoke dope and scream slogans in your youth, but after middle age you realize you're part of the 1% after all. Or, maybe not the 1%, but the additional 2% they favour and pamper, hahaha. Sweet!
After watching this video approximately 5,789 times I am for the first time realizing the magnitude of Dylan's role in modern music. Look at that face. He is little more than a teenager and he didn't just write and perform this song and this video (with Allen Ginsberg as a backdrop, no less) which alone could make a person famous . Plus or minus a year from Subterranian Homesick Blues he wrote some of the most innovative and paradigm changing music in the modern era and continued writing and performing great music for decades. It is dumbfounding.
I thought I was seeing things, all these years since the 60s and I only just noticed Allen Ginsberg behind him, I think it's because I always focus on the cards and if Bob is keeping up lol!
No question he is a poet! As is Paul Simon and of course Lennon McCartney Bruce Springsteen There are others who have moments of promise like Don McLean and some country and western singers as there is always a story in country and western
@@tomfrank2919 I love all music, the only genre that still gives me difficultly and I also don't really listen to it is, pornogrind because of well, honestly, it doesn't sound the greatest and you can achieve the same effect with your tried and true grindcore.
@smilebackifyourugly No, it definitely is The pumps don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles. The entire song is about heroin, and the people who are involved in that world.
I'm noticing new details, like the fact that he keeps a blank expression the whole time is so funny, and the way the cards don't exactly match up is amusing. Iconic music video
It's hard to over-praise Dylan. He invented so much of what became taken as the stock in trade of popular culture. Here, with D A Pennebaker, he invents the music video. Of course, the song itself is a marvel of beat poetry, dense with allusion to mid-60s political dissent, and with more "hook" than Peter Pan's pirate. Despite its historical setting, Subterranean Homesick Blues is utterly timeless. And brilliant. 2 Minutes 20 seconds of breathless magic that demands to be played over and over again.
I did a poetry project on this song so i memorized it completely and preformed it for my class and i didnt trip up on any of the words either im so proud of myself for it.
This is actually a crazy song when you interpret each lyric thoroughly. What makes this song more amazing was that before 1965, Dylan protested using Folk music. At this time he was protesting using Rock music. A complete change in sound without losing the “protest” attitude. Incredible.
Emily, He didn't mess up, he does that stuff on purpose. It's the mark of an artistic genius to allow discordancy's. Even without the music and the poetry, the message is 100% accurate, timely and vital as it was back then, at the height of the hippy revolution. 'Must bust in early May, orders from the DA.' (Our prisons still bursting.) 'They go out and round up anyone that knows more than they do!' (Idiot cops would bust their grandma as long as they get their paycheck, to this day.)
OVER 30 YEARS in radio has blessed me with meeting Stones, a couple Beatles, U2, Pearl Jam, Prince, Petty, and pretty much ALL THE LEGENDS but really want to meet the King of Lyrics...Bob Dylan.
Brilliant piece of art. You have Dylan's music with him standing there silently in front of an alley flipping cards -- one static shot, mind you -- with Allen Ginsberg in the left side of the frame. Simple yet artistic. Blows any corporate, high production music video out of the water.
Yessir! Good eye! I noticed Allen Ginsburg too and just appreciated the impact of the great poets, wordsmiths, performance artist maestro two being synchronized so early in Dylan's career is testimony to his peerless powerful lyrics which Subterranean Homesick Blues is of the best example. Only our finest poets wrote such beautiful poetry, much less with so much universal appeal, relevant poignancy, and still coupled with Woody Guthrie's, mastery of voice/harmonica/guitar too! Few, if any like Dylan, Woody, of course, but the finest - before or since.
@@The15MinuteBabylonTheatreHour That's actually Bob Neuwirth! Alan Price does have a substantial cameo in "Dont Look Back", though! He actually wasn't fired from the Animals; he left by his own choice, though, very unexpectedly and right before the group left to Sweden (he hated flying on airplanes, among other things).
@@YacheBerries Thanks for the correction(s) It sure looks like Price to me, but I just looked it up and it seems you are right. My memory of him in the film seems like he was being kind of glum, messing around on a piano, and got into a brief conversation with someone which I took him to indicate he had left the Animals unwillingly. I will watch for it next time I view Don't Look Back. (I have the big special edition with the little flip through book.) I salute you.
Eammon Wright: This discussion I've had before. And I took your side. The woman I spoke with didn't hear it that way, and I tried several tracks. Even gave Blondie's 'Rapture' a shot but to no avail. She was young -- and as can be the case -- enamored with her generation's contribution and unwilling to concede innovation to anyone else, not even a helping hand, not even Bible could do it -- There's no 'new thing' under the sun. Wouldn't hear it. Carrot Top to her invented standup comedy.
It's not rap. It is folk. Hear the guitar and harmonica. You don't get guitar and harmonica with rap. This tune seems to have more of a bubblegum sound rather than rap. Do you hear the easy flow of the words. While conveying a message, this song doesn't seem as confrontational or intimidating as rap would be. The nice guy in the video is throwing his cards easily, and not beating someone over the head with them. Another thing, rap, along with hip hop, are predominantly a part of African American culture. Mr. Dylan, I believe was a white dude.
This clip is simply genius and brilliant Bob just keeps picking up pieces of paper with words from the lyrics, And at the end it says "What??" It's just a high level of humor, even at those times
Bob Dillon... birth name Robert Zimmerman... changed it because he was ashamed of being Hebrew... no, I don't think he is cool in any way. I have never been a fan of his at all. And before someone starts throwing stones at me for being anti-Semitic, I am not. I just do not believe in changing your name for the reason he did. I recognize the huge influence he had, but I do not have to be a fan of his to do so.
The guy in the background is beat generation writer Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg and Kerouac used to refer to their gang of underground ho-bo hipsters as "subterraneans", hence the name of the song.
Just introduced my 14 year old to this as he said to me recently that he liked the clever lyrics of rap artists. Clever lyrics you say...?? He loved it. Hopefully widen his musical taste now.
Absolute genius this man. How a single person can incorporate all that came before him, and innovate all that he did in his times, and influence all that came after him, is quite simply mind-blowing! Absolute genius! If anyone says they are a musician and they don't know Dylan; they ain't a musician! He is a GIANT, on whose shoulders all that follow stand.
One of my favorites of his songs. So funny. Cool video. INXS used cue cards in their "Mediate" song in their video, and that was so cool to use a Dylan style. I am an INXS fan.
People seriously underestimate this song. Nothing absolutely NOTHING else sounded like this back in 1965. Not only is he using Electric guitar to sing folk music, not only is he protesting in his lyrics, not only is he inventing the music video but he's also singing talking blues (aka Rhythm and Poetry) (aka Rap) he's inventing rapping as we know it. In 1965!
it's just recording north american foklore in real time, which is very rare to be done this good, which is sad. there is this kind of lament about the horrible life lived by people while working out the similitudes and the metaphores that reach into *your* soul in every culture around the world, and they all change over time but the really good ones, the great ones that make themselves known and reknown, read, reread and retold, over time, those always find a way to keep telling their story over time. i'm sure you all know the great ones of your countires - mine are Violeta, Patricio, Víctor and so many, many more - especially in comedy! So many find a way to make their ideas resonate with others through the dark process of making you laugh at any price! edit: more redudancies
Thank you. At last, someone agrees this is the first rap song ever. It would be another twenty five years or so before rap / hip-hop would begin to overshadow rock and roll. Which is not a trend I particularly love. Which music is least likely to be in heaven? Bach, Rock, Bacharach, Brubeck, Dylan or Eminem?
@odeerg It is definitely not the first recording of someone playing music. But this isn’t a recording of someone playing music. It is an artistic film piece that goes with the music. That is why some people claim it is the first real music video.
@@briansammond7801 It's definitely not the first, and I wouldn't even say it's the first 'modern' (aka MTV style) video. I'd say the birth of the modern type music video goes to the Monkees. They, their TV show, and Mike's solo career are what started the MTV style video. Although there were earlier, this was a new type entirely, a new breed. In fact, Mike made a show, sold it to Warner, who made it a TV channel. That show-turned-channel was MTV itself.
I got the opportunity to see Bob Dylan some years ago and what an experience it was the man just plays he doesn’t talk to crowd waste time he lets his music send the message
How can anyone thumbs down this, Dylan deserves RESPECT, NOT AS A SINGER , BUT AN ARTIST!!!!!!!!!!! betchya don"t even know the Hits Hes Written. Thousands!!! amazing talent Right Here.
I can't believe this is from 1965. Dylan was so ahead of his time its crazy. Sounds like 20-25 years ahead. I could see this being a new released song/video in 85-88 on MTV like a REM song.
It is magic, that album especially, the last three songs on that album are just magical, I've heard plenty of "magic" music growing up in Ireland, but none of it is like "The Gates of Eden" or "it's alright ma {I'm Only Bleeding]" . Its magic and those songs are just him an acoustic and mouth organ. It's unreal
"Watch the parking meters", is equivalent of "one who gets hurt, is he who has stalled" from the times they are a changin', in one or other song, he somehow always conveys this message. One more reference came to my mind - It's alright ma - "he not busy being born is busy dying". Hands down, an absolute poetic and lyrical genius.
It's an old trope from when folk singers used to sing exclusively with crisp, clear tenor voices and lots of treble. Remember, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary were at the vanguard of this early 1960s folk movement. Dylan was not a trained vocalist, which was the fashion of the time.
Bob Dylan should be the King Of Rap, he can rhyme and sing fast. Rolling Stone even ranked his song “Like A Rolling Stone” (no pun intended) number 1 song of all-time.
![Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman [LIVE FOOTAGE / HQ AUDIO] (Dublin, 1966)](/img/1.gif)
April 14 2024 - I hadn't seen this in, literally, decades - was it the first music video I ever saw? I think so
Omg lol
Probabaly was, since it was the first music video ever made.
Isn't that awesome though? RUclips is, almost literally, a time machine! These old classic videos would be forgotten without RUclips!!
what did you first see it on?
Its an almost 50 yr old clarification of election 2024.
"Lookout kid! It's something you did. God knows when but you're doin' it again" is a timeless observation.
Yeah...phones tapped anyway
George Harrison quoted this line in an interview.
My parents moto in the 70's
Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine are the greatest first lyrics of a song ever. Dylan is perfection.
Birth of Punk.
When Dylan sings, it’s like he is singing to each of us individually. Sometimes his lyrics were made just for me.
I'm on the pavement thinking about the government.
Dylan is so great that these arent even the best first lyrics on this album
True. Except, of course, for all the other great opening lines of his ...
I love these:
Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
No kidding.
When I bought my Harley Davidson in 2018 they ask you to pick a song and they play it as you walk across the showroom floor and go ring a bell, (they do this to all first time buyers and since I was 14: 1. I’ve been a huge Dylan fan and 2. I dreamed of owning a Harley) This song was the perfect choice for that occasion.
Also, I know he’s getting old and I would kick myself if I never got to see him live. I live in California and this past March me, my wife and my 2 year old daughter flew to Charlotte NC so I could see him live lol. Then a few months after buying the ticket I found out he had shows scheduled for SoCal later in the year.lol. But it was totally worth it and an awesome show, he’s still great even at his age. Ok, those are my two stories idk if anyone cares lol.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!"
One of my favorite quotes.
Don't follow leaders, watch your parking meters
That song lyric inspired a group of violent 60's anarchists to call themselves the "Weather Underground" that carried out a series of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots in the 60's and 70's.
@@landontesar3070 good advice, really
@@troidva and then the weather news channel
I'm not an English speaker what does that line mean?
I was a Bob Dylan fan since i was 14. You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Need i say more? Dylan influenced everyone who came after him. Beatles.. Rolling Stones… Clapton…. The list goes on and on. I hope you live long Bob.
Bob is a real one, still, to this day. I remember a few years ago, I saw an interview with him on a major network, can't remember which one. Maybe CNN or something. Anyway the interviewer quoted one of his greats and asked him how he wrote those lyrics and Bob kept his perspective, as always, and basically said "I don't know. I couldn't do it now. It just happened"
I'm paraphrasing, but it was a great reply. Anyone who's ever written a decent song knows what he's talking about.
@@zefft.f4010 Un cronista de su lugar y su tiempo
No sé si hay otro que lo haga tan bien
INXS
That, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." has always been my favourite line. Clever, lyrically.
Mine as well.....Great line.
I'm a fan of "watch the plainclothes". Solid advice.
Vintage Dylan!! I am a product of the '60s and a huge Dylan fan.
i dont get why thats clever
It's clever on a couple of points. Remember, the time frame this song was written was late 1960's. A militant, left wing radical organization known as the Weather Underground , also know as Weathermen formed on the U Michigan Ann Arbor campus, as a faction of Students for Democratic Society or SDS. So Dylan is saying that you don't need a radical, like a Weatherman to tell you what is going on (which way the wind blows). He is also saying that you don't need a tv weather person to tell you which way the wind is blowing. Revolution was in the air, (the way the wind blows), Viet Nam protests, the Weather underground actually declared war against the United states government, with a bombing campaign against government buildings. Heady Times. Breaking Timothy Leary out of prison. "For the times they are a changing".
I was 13 in 1965 when this record was realeased,my sister bought the 45 rpm record of this song, I heard her play it on the record player, then I started playing the record real loud, and was told, take that record player down to the basement if you are going to play that music so loud,so I would play it all the time in the basement real loud,I realized Dylan was where it was at! I've been a Dylan fan ever since.
Tldr
I have one of those actual cards he holds up. My dad and his friend were there at the recording of this when my dad worked as a black cab driver in London. He picked up one, his friend picked up a few, apparently. My dad said I could have his about 20 yrs ago. Still got it, now in a frame! Nice to see Nobel Prizes being awarded to people who wouldn't have stood a chance years ago!
Oh snap! Which word is it?
"Wind Blows". What's yours?
WOW!! That's amazing! I'm so happy for you. Freakin' awesome. :D
You're being sarcastic, aren't you lol?
John Harwood Man, I don't have one, but I really wish I did. That's a relic you got there, my friend.
This video continues to blow my mind. Such a powerful and strong lyric set put against a REALLY awkward looking young Bob looking around for affirmation occasionally that it's going well. One of my favorite music videos of all time.
He never came across awkward here to me, just totally deadpan. He was with friends, and this video was his idea, not sure why he'd be uncomfortable.
That is a look of a REBEL.
My celebrity crush is Bob Dylan right around this age. So handsome yet he seems so quirky and awkward while still being very serious. I'd kill for a man like that.
@@dylanthompson8511
With regard to your Bob Dylan comments - the 'video' was actually the opening sequence to the 'biopic' filmed on Dylan's tour to Great Britain in 1965 by DA Pennabaker. The captions I think were created by Dylan's friend Bobby Neuerwith (?) who can be seen throughout the whole film - also on the cover (half of him !) of Highway 61 Revisited. The bearded gentleman in the background who walks away at the end is Allen Ginsberg the 'Beat' poet.
His Intelligence!!!@@yelljal2764
im 11 and i love this song, this proves anyone can like bob dylans song :))
I think that I was 11 when it was released here, I bought it with the money earned from my paper round, so, yes, 11 year olds can certainly like it.
@@LockBits-ts6eo "My brother got me into Ween a long time ago, and we've been stealing the CDs from each other since. That was about 10 years ago or so. I had the biggest crush on Dean. Still kind of do."
My dad was born in 1950, he passed away when I was 16, back in 2018.
He was a HUGE bob Dylan fan. He and I used to listen to his albums in the car. There was this one song that I loved as a kid, made my dad play on repeat, but I never knew the name!
This is the song!
I've been searching for years and I finally found it! Thank you RUclips, I am eternally grateful ❤
I had a good family friend born in '49 who turned me onto Dylan when I was a 16 year old in '88. He was playing his greatest hits tape with this song and others really captivating me. I took most of the money I made doing drywall with him to buy Bob's entire catalog. As I get older and have to say goodbye to people I loved, I find an everlasting connection by continuing to enjoy the things we once shared together. Sorry about your pops.
Glad you found it ❤
You could also watch the whole thing because this 'video' is the opening sequence to the DA Pennabaker 'biopic' film Don't Look Back filmed when Dylan toured Britain in 1965. Another lesser-known Dylan track which is spine-tingling is Let Me Die In My Footsteps from 1963 which was omitted from the Freewheelin' album although personally I think it's superior to some of the other tracks on that album.
The opening track to "Bringing It All Back Home," although as far as songs on that album go, my two favorites are Outlaw Blues and It's All Right, Ma.
Did you have the lyrics memorized, too? That's not easy to do.
One of the coolest rock n roll songs of all time.
By probably the coolest rocker that ever lived
Rap.Rock
This is rap tho
I always thouht that having Allen Ginsberg in the background was poetic justice.
No it's not, its garage rock
This is one of the coolest music videos ever.
Arguably the first ever music video too.
Did you see Allen Ginsberg in the back too?
Guess you’ve never seen Mike Posner I took a pill in Ibiza Acoustic
@@JH14FAN no it's not
@@thatswhatsgood24 that goes to the big bopper 1959 right before he died.
Oh, how innocent he looks. And, the media insisted upon branding him with any negatives they could think of.
A true musical icon who will live forever in the hearts of people who love and appreciate originality in music.
@@englishorchard-haze4708 Wow, you are right on that one.
He's so adorable 🥰
Plato ,Socrates ,none of these people were called Philoshophers in their lifetime , was only after the effect their work was so important , Dylan will & has been recognised in his lifetime as one .
born in 87, what the media brand him as?
@@developer2023 Every negative thing they could think of. It is all documented. Check out some of them with Google search, e.g.
Pure Genius. Reminds me so much of Buster Keaton the way he has the deadpan look and the video seems like it could be from the silent era...
@Bobdylan34776 No, I haven't but I'd love to hear from the real you Bob :)
Dylan spittin fire back in '65
" 20 years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift"
Bob Dylan is a Prophet
Ask for the night shift. They'll change you tout de suite. Trust me.
+Julie TRAVERS we allow them!
Yes I see you got your leopard-skin pillbox hat
Hahah, it's not so bad. If you're in STEM they put you on flex-time and telecommute! You smoke dope and scream slogans in your youth, but after middle age you realize you're part of the 1% after all. Or, maybe not the 1%, but the additional 2% they favour and pamper, hahaha. Sweet!
look out kid, they keep it all hid!
I LOVE THIS MAN
Ok
Thanks love you too
Me too
Here after not knowing how to process election shit.
Love
After watching this video approximately 5,789 times I am for the first time realizing the magnitude of Dylan's role in modern music. Look at that face. He is little more than a teenager and he didn't just write and perform this song and this video (with Allen Ginsberg as a backdrop, no less) which alone could make a person famous . Plus or minus a year from Subterranian Homesick Blues he wrote some of the most innovative and paradigm changing music in the modern era and continued writing and performing great music for decades. It is dumbfounding.
Yeah ginsberg, what am amazing child rapist he was. Pfft
I thought I was seeing things, all these years since the 60s and I only just noticed Allen Ginsberg behind him, I think it's because I always focus on the cards and if Bob is keeping up lol!
@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws Not just Ginsberg, Donovan too.
No matter how drunk I was in college, I could sing every word of this and not miss a beat.
hihi....cool 🎶
same
Same I bet we could duet today.
@@yamapenny5960 Uh uh...don' t believe it.
Can you still do it?
Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriter/musician ever.
Amen
No question he is a poet!
As is Paul Simon and of course Lennon McCartney Bruce Springsteen
There are others who have moments of promise like Don McLean and some country and western singers as there is always a story in country and western
@@tomfrank2919 I love all music, the only genre that still gives me difficultly and I also don't really listen to it is, pornogrind because of well, honestly, it doesn't sound the greatest and you can achieve the same effect with your tried and true grindcore.
Right on, Brother!
"The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles" is still one of my favourite, all-time rock 'n' roll lines.
Sprongo what does it mean
It's inspired... hopefully it wasn't the drugs that inspired it, though...
@@ethanhammond7615 Why does it have to mean anything else than what it says? Can't it just be a playful use of words and images?
@@ethanhammond7615
Someone took the plungers off the syringes. A vandal :-)
@smilebackifyourugly
No, it definitely is
The pumps don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles.
The entire song is about heroin, and the people who are involved in that world.
I'm noticing new details, like the fact that he keeps a blank expression the whole time is so funny, and the way the cards don't exactly match up is amusing. Iconic music video
Indeed, and, Allan Ginsberg and that other bloke on the background like some streetcorner dealers with their baseball bats.
Reminds me of Buster Keaton.
@@jarnokorhonen3840 bob neuwirth's the other
Joan Baez drew many of the signs, being quite a talented artist. She needed something to do, obviously.
It's hard to over-praise Dylan. He invented so much of what became taken as the stock in trade of popular culture. Here, with D A Pennebaker, he invents the music video. Of course, the song itself is a marvel of beat poetry, dense with allusion to mid-60s political dissent, and with more "hook" than Peter Pan's pirate. Despite its historical setting, Subterranean Homesick Blues is utterly timeless. And brilliant. 2 Minutes 20 seconds of breathless magic that demands to be played over and over again.
I heard that when John Lennon fist heard this song he remarked "That's it then. I'll never write a better song than THAT."
And he never did. Not even close.
Wrong - Why Don't We Do It On the Road and Revolution 9. Ez
Sorry--but no.
Daniel Gunter Obviously you haven't listening to Revolution 9 then.
Love him or hate him, he's speaking straight facts here.
Yellow Dog With Cone lmao
Shut up
No shit man!!!
Why would anybody hate him because of his politics
@@georgeguja6155maybe for his voice, or maybe because he is overrated...
To any up and coming artists out there .This is your blueprint.Watch,Listen and Learn.Enough said......
Follow no leaders watch your parking meters. Bob Dylan, cultural Icon, Nobel prize winner.
Also selling his soul to the devil as he admitted and promoting all things murderous and wicked!
I did a poetry project on this song so i memorized it completely and preformed it for my class
and i didnt trip up on any of the words either im so proud of myself for it.
gamey grumpy dayum son
Now try "It's the End of the World as we Know it".
This is a real favorite of mine...It has so much going on throughout...
Put your skills to the test. Learn Desolation Row.
It's an easy song to memorize.
This is actually a crazy song when you interpret each lyric thoroughly. What makes this song more amazing was that before 1965, Dylan protested using Folk music. At this time he was protesting using Rock music. A complete change in sound without losing the “protest” attitude. Incredible.
That's simply because it's the same chords just with newer tech
Amazing boss
bro literally goes off on this song
@@marcoevans2155 It’s not that simple.
An icon in the counter culture movement. A true punk at heart
The card dropping timing is amazing on this. I wonder if they knew how iconic this was making it at the time!
He's so adorable in this video! Especially when he slightly messes up when he goes too fast so he holds the card up to the camera.
Users and cheaters were also mixed up
Emily, He didn't mess up, he does that stuff on purpose. It's the mark of an
artistic genius to allow discordancy's. Even without the music and the poetry, the
message is 100% accurate, timely and vital as it was back then, at the height of
the hippy revolution. 'Must bust in early May, orders from the DA.' (Our prisons
still bursting.) 'They go out and round up anyone that knows more than they do!'
(Idiot cops would bust their grandma as long as they get their paycheck, to this
day.)
Or he designed that. Good videos are art too. Even more when they match the music.
Emily at 1.21 after messing up the card says fail at just the right time. Wonder if that was part of it
That amount of paper sheets is very heavy to hold at that angle for three minutes
OVER 30 YEARS in radio has blessed me with meeting Stones, a couple Beatles, U2, Pearl Jam, Prince, Petty, and pretty much ALL THE LEGENDS but really want to meet the King of Lyrics...Bob Dylan.
Your user name suggests that you own and run them all, facilitating ‘the deal’ like Dylan says he made!
The man won the Nobel Prize for a reason. It was genius then, still genius now
80 years old still the coolest one in the room.
Still the best video of all time. This was part of Pennebaker’s Dylan movie, Don’t Look Back, Bob’s timing is perfect, the 1st rap video 🎵🎶
"Look out kid - They keep it all hid"
I think that is the central message. Easily as true today as it was 50+ years ago.
Will someone please tell me what they gotta keep it all hid. From me im guessing. Memories are striking out like lightning.
@@beverlydixon8922 If you have to ask in 2021, I won't bother.
@@Rex-gu1bu whatever it takes Rex! Bloody Hell!
@@beverlydixon8922 "They keep it all hid" = government lies, corruption and cover-ups.
Brilliant piece of art. You have Dylan's music with him standing there silently in front of an alley flipping cards -- one static shot, mind you -- with Allen Ginsberg in the left side of the frame. Simple yet artistic. Blows any corporate, high production music video out of the water.
Yessir! Good eye! I noticed Allen Ginsburg too and just appreciated the impact of the great poets, wordsmiths, performance artist maestro two being synchronized so early in Dylan's career is testimony to his peerless powerful lyrics which Subterranean Homesick Blues is of the best example. Only our finest poets wrote such beautiful poetry, much less with so much universal appeal, relevant poignancy, and still coupled with Woody Guthrie's, mastery of voice/harmonica/guitar too! Few, if any like Dylan, Woody, of course, but the finest - before or since.
And I believe Ginsberg is talking to Alan Price the keyboardist who went to England with Dylan after he was fired by the Animals.
@@The15MinuteBabylonTheatreHour That's actually Bob Neuwirth! Alan Price does have a substantial cameo in "Dont Look Back", though! He actually wasn't fired from the Animals; he left by his own choice, though, very unexpectedly and right before the group left to Sweden (he hated flying on airplanes, among other things).
@@YacheBerries Thanks for the correction(s) It sure looks like Price to me, but I just looked it up and it seems you are right. My memory of him in the film seems like he was being kind of glum, messing around on a piano, and got into a brief conversation with someone which I took him to indicate he had left the Animals unwillingly. I will watch for it next time I view Don't Look Back. (I have the big special edition with the little flip through book.) I salute you.
@@jeffwalther3935 I thought it was Ginsberg or Francis Ford Coppola...
Gotta give credit where it is due. *this guy could write some MUSIC!!*
Happy birthday to the man, from downtown St. Paul, Minnesota!
He invented the "Official lyrics" videos
But he was a pioneer in the "pop-up videos"!!
No sir. Disney beat him to it by decades.
Well, this is actually the first music video, as we know them :)
Eammon Wright: This discussion I've had before. And I took your side. The woman I spoke with didn't hear it that way, and I tried several tracks. Even gave Blondie's 'Rapture' a shot but to no avail. She was young -- and as can be the case -- enamored with her generation's contribution and unwilling to concede innovation to anyone else, not even a helping hand, not even Bible could do it -- There's no 'new thing' under the sun. Wouldn't hear it. Carrot Top to her invented standup comedy.
It's not rap. It is folk. Hear the guitar and harmonica. You don't get guitar and harmonica with rap. This tune seems to have more of a bubblegum sound rather than rap. Do you hear the easy flow of the words. While conveying a message, this song doesn't seem as confrontational or intimidating as rap would be. The nice guy in the video is throwing his cards easily, and not beating someone over the head with them. Another thing, rap, along with hip hop, are predominantly a part of African American culture. Mr. Dylan, I believe was a white dude.
This clip is simply genius and brilliant
Bob just keeps picking up pieces of paper with words from the lyrics, And at the end it says "What??"
It's just a high level of humor, even at those times
The opening track from my favourite Dylan album, Bringing It All Back Home.
Truly 1 of the greatest albums ever.
Happy Birthday Bob, may you stay forever young!!!
gotta love at 1:20 when he realizes he's ridiculously behind and starts flying through the cards.
A dude in the band INXS had the exact same trouble with his cards in a video called "Mediate" which basically paid homage to this video
I do
@@skingerskanger Mike Posner did it too
He looks so desperate!
I’m willing to bet this isn’t take #1 and he had a few paper cuts on his palms from trying to keep up.
Would explain the “fuck this” expression 😆
Bob Dylan is the epitome of cool.
R Vega Cool Pair Clerks?!!
R Vega well 60s cool for sure
Bob Dillon... birth name Robert Zimmerman... changed it because he was ashamed of being Hebrew... no, I don't think he is cool in any way. I have never been a fan of his at all. And before someone starts throwing stones at me for being anti-Semitic, I am not. I just do not believe in changing your name for the reason he did. I recognize the huge influence he had, but I do not have to be a fan of his to do so.
@@ericlarson6390 you don't like him cause he changed his name? who cares.
@@ericlarson6390 tons of famous musicians have changed their names.
So many messages ! . Everything relevant today. Best lesson, never learned, “Don’t Follow Leaders”. Absolutely priceless ! ! x x .
The guy in the background is beat generation writer Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg and Kerouac used to refer to their gang of underground ho-bo hipsters as "subterraneans", hence the name of the song.
Idiots
"The Subterraneans" by Jack Kerouac (Grove press, 1958)
The first and best music video Ever.
The Maggie comes fleet-foot verse is just top notch Dylan wordplay.
Just introduced my 14 year old to this as he said to me recently that he liked the clever lyrics of rap artists. Clever lyrics you say...??
He loved it. Hopefully widen his musical taste now.
This is the most swag, lit, cool, fly, rad, amazing, song ever...
"Don't wear sandals, try to avoid scandals." A principle I'm following in my entire life. 😂
I wear sandals a lot. Might need to reconsider staying scandal-free now...
Absolutely, positively America's original & first, rap song......PERIOD!
So white people created rap and black people stole it
Most rap is crap but this isn’t. He just kicks the bollocks out of conformity.
Absolute genius this man. How a single person can incorporate all that came before him, and innovate all that he did in his times, and influence all that came after him, is quite simply mind-blowing! Absolute genius!
If anyone says they are a musician and they don't know Dylan; they ain't a musician! He is a GIANT, on whose shoulders all that follow stand.
The deadpan look on Dylan's face is so funny. Goes really good with the lyrics of the song.
This is an amazing work of art that will be studied earnestly on other worlds.
he actually looks nervous.
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agreed, countesslorinz.
"All I can do is be me, whoever that is." - Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying! Great line
Except when painting..
I didn`t mean, to hurt you so bad . You shouldn`t take it so personal.
This must be Rachel Dolan
Without doubt one of the coolest music promo films ever made… for one of the coolest songs ever recorded!
One of my favorites of his songs. So funny. Cool video. INXS used cue cards in their "Mediate" song in their video, and that was so cool to use a Dylan style. I am an INXS fan.
Now I know where INXS got the inspiration for Mediate!
This and "blowing in the wind" are one of the greatest lyrics ever written for real!!
And in 2020, he wrote about "the healing virtues of the wind".
I believe you meant to say two of the greatest lyrics ever written !
People seriously underestimate this song. Nothing absolutely NOTHING else sounded like this back in 1965. Not only is he using Electric guitar to sing folk music, not only is he protesting in his lyrics, not only is he inventing the music video but he's also singing talking blues (aka Rhythm and Poetry) (aka Rap) he's inventing rapping as we know it. In 1965!
What he did in 1965 was an absolute shattering of the mold and done so with unabashed confidence: like, here it is, listen up.
it's just recording north american foklore in real time, which is very rare to be done this good, which is sad. there is this kind of lament about the horrible life lived by people while working out the similitudes and the metaphores that reach into *your* soul in every culture around the world, and they all change over time but the really good ones, the great ones that make themselves known and reknown, read, reread and retold, over time, those always find a way to keep telling their story over time. i'm sure you all know the great ones of your countires - mine are Violeta, Patricio, Víctor and so many, many more - especially in comedy! So many find a way to make their ideas resonate with others through the dark process of making you laugh at any price!
edit: more redudancies
Nothing still sounds like this
Thank you. At last, someone agrees this is the first rap song ever. It would be another twenty five years or so before rap / hip-hop would begin to overshadow rock and roll. Which is not a trend I particularly love.
Which music is least likely to be in heaven? Bach, Rock, Bacharach, Brubeck, Dylan or Eminem?
@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 That’s how the elites like it
This largely credited for being the world’s first music video and what a great music video too.
..and maybe the first rap song?????
@@joeydupre6153 not the first one but the word play is a masterpiece
@odeerg It is definitely not the first recording of someone playing music. But this isn’t a recording of someone playing music. It is an artistic film piece that goes with the music. That is why some people claim it is the first real music video.
I think you mean oldest lyric video?
@@briansammond7801 It's definitely not the first, and I wouldn't even say it's the first 'modern' (aka MTV style) video. I'd say the birth of the modern type music video goes to the Monkees. They, their TV show, and Mike's solo career are what started the MTV style video. Although there were earlier, this was a new type entirely, a new breed. In fact, Mike made a show, sold it to Warner, who made it a TV channel. That show-turned-channel was MTV itself.
I got the opportunity to see Bob Dylan some years ago and what an experience it was the man just plays he doesn’t talk to crowd waste time he lets his music send the message
I LOVE BOB DYLAN AND HIS SONG'S FOR EVER!
Greetings from Vienna
Thankfully won the Noble Prize in his lifetime! A poet, musician, magician!
@Williams Cooper Meaning no disrespect Mr. Cooper, I have to ask why do you want to know?
"you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
Such an underrated line. I love it.
I don't know if the line is underrated -- it stood out to a rather famous group of radicals in the 60's who called themselves "The Weathermen."
@@sandraleehurst9610 A lot of people nowadays use words when they don't know their meaning. It's sad :(
i dont get it
Bing Sinatra wtf why are you on my lawn please leave
@@sandraleehurst9610 - That's why Lennon kind of slurred or stretched the word in his song "Rain' - "....the weather's Fiiiiiiiine."
Bob Dylan...
Subterranean Homesick Blues...
The original Rap artist...
That's it...
Deal...
Facts...
💯
After all these years I just realized that's Allen Ginsberg in the background.
Yes, but who's the man in shades talking to him?
@@shanehnorman Bob Neuwirth, a friend of Dylan's.
@@grecomic Thank you. I remember he also featured in 'Renaldo and Clara'.
WHAT
It’s also filmed in the back kitchen alleyway at the Savoy hotel. Nice pointless fact for you there 😂
How can anyone thumbs down this, Dylan deserves RESPECT,
NOT AS A SINGER , BUT AN ARTIST!!!!!!!!!!!
betchya don"t even know the Hits Hes Written. Thousands!!! amazing talent Right Here.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
Horace Dodge of the Fodgr car builders. Died with a note in his wallet. I bet if you read it you would notice something.
One of the coolest videos in the history of music!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
he looks like he's having a little bit of trouble keeping up with the cards I love him😂💗
maybe there's blow in the wind, Gillian, just consider that
In case I become a meme it might idiot wind
I think it was deliberate, a bit of Chaplinesque physical comedy as in Modern Times, where Chaplin was sucked into the gears of a machine.
Congratulations Mr. Dylan on your Nobel Prize!
Who can’t appreciate this level of artistry?
The time when Bob Dylan was the coolest person on the planet
If you think cool is temporary you have no inkling what cool means.
@@tsb7911Exactly! ✌️❤️🌼
I put him.behind Lou Reed but he is up there.
WAS??
@@ferociousgumby If someone is cool they are always cool. Being cool isn't a trend. 🤣.
Way a head of his time, way a head of everyone, Bob Dylan was the turning point of songwriting
I saw him at Wembley Arena in 1988. He came on with a three piece and opened up with this. It sounded like garage rock. He was mesmerising.
@Aria Gold Payne for around 35 years now.
@Aria Gold Payne Simple Twist of Fate from Blood On The Tracks-probably my favourite of his albums, was always a favourite. How about you?
You are sure lucky to have that experience
Happy Birthday to the greatest poet in the history of American music.
its easy to forget just how innovative he is
No rapper ever born could hold a candle to this guy and every rapper worthwhile would admit it.
Next to eminem Bob is the best lyric artist ever.
Weird Al is up there.
I love that the sign says "sucksess"
That plus the 'I-don't-give-a-s---' look on his face, that's proper rock'n roll.
I like "Man Whole".
Actually, his sign says "SucKcess". If you are gonna quote it, do it right. Just sayin!
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!"
Well ain't that the truth.
I can't believe this is from 1965. Dylan was so ahead of his time its crazy. Sounds like 20-25 years ahead. I could see this being a new released song/video in 85-88 on MTV like a REM song.
September 22nd 2024 and still relevant. Love this man and his music. A true wordsmith ❤❤❤
Rest in Peace, D.A Pennebaker. If you only had shot this three minute video, your legacy would be secure. The Father of the Modern Music Video!!
Apparently, you have never heard about soundies. You don't know what you don't know.
My two favorite poets in one video
Genius with words.
agreed - and isn't this a preview of rap?
This is the song that converted me to a Dylan fan I was just 11 back in 71 I believe!
You were 5 in ‘65?
Bob has blown my mind for fifty-seven years. God bless him!
I remember sitting in the theatre and this started rolling. My brain was never the same. Magic music. Thank you for sharing.
It is magic, that album especially, the last three songs on that album are just magical, I've heard plenty of "magic" music growing up in Ireland, but none of it is like "The Gates of Eden" or "it's alright ma {I'm Only Bleeding]" . Its magic and those songs are just him an acoustic and mouth organ. It's unreal
No one measures up to Bob Dylan, he set the bar way high
What a jam. Never gets old
Can't believe this is one of the first music videos ever made. Incredible
Happy Birthday Mister Bob Dylan. 👏👌🎶✌
"Watch the parking meters", is equivalent of "one who gets hurt, is he who has stalled" from the times they are a changin', in one or other song, he somehow always conveys this message. One more reference came to my mind - It's alright ma - "he not busy being born is busy dying".
Hands down, an absolute poetic and lyrical genius.
Fuckin' ace song. Way ahead of his time, honestly, what a great poet.
One of the coolest songs and videos ever. Thank you for sharing and God bless everybody
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
I don't know why people hate on his voice, it's really listenable
It's an old trope from when folk singers used to sing exclusively with crisp, clear tenor voices and lots of treble. Remember, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary were at the vanguard of this early 1960s folk movement. Dylan was not a trained vocalist, which was the fashion of the time.
Bob Dylan should be the King Of Rap, he can rhyme and sing fast. Rolling Stone even ranked his song “Like A Rolling Stone” (no pun intended) number 1 song of all-time.
Rolling Stones is a joke
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.... Groovy...
two minutes and thirteen seconds of sheer joy - and those pawkin' metaws!