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170. Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)
from the album Bringing It All Back Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0

Key lyrics:
You dont need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

Many of my favorite Bob Dylan songs are sprawling epics. Subterranean Homesick Blues is very much the opposite, a short piece where Dylan seemingly shoots off a hundred syllables per second. That rapid fire delivery, of course, means he says just as much in this song as any of his longer works. This borders on feeling like a prototypical rap piece. The 1960s were a chaotic time, and few songs captured those overwhelming elements with a matching cadence. Drugs, civil rights, police brutality; this is a song trying to cover every inch in as little time as possible. Having listened to this at least a hundred times, I still struggle to keep up with Dylans delivery even before picking up an electric guitar, Dylan was already pushing the boundaries of folk music by causing sensory overload.

But even if you find yourself struggling to process one line as he hits you with two more, Dylans delivery is on point. His sing-song rhythm emphasizes his insane rhyme scheme. On first listen, you will likely pick up these stray words as slogans of unknown meaning. Yet its not like Bob Dylan is suggesting futility Subterranean Homesick Blues feels like hes having a lot of fun.

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