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October 03, 2007
Retrohump: Pimp your Dylan
New Dylan box set is out. Yet another career-spanning retrospective itching for your (parent's) money. Columbia attempts to drum viral support by including this nifty video feature allowing your own edits to replace the famous cue cards from "Subterranean Homesick Blues" which was originally intended as the trailer for Don't Look Back before entering the public consciousness as its own work. Later it would be referred to as one of the first ever music videos. Influential at that (see examples after the jump).
Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Fun fact: Cue cards were penned by Dylan, Donovan, Allen Ginsberg, and Bob Neuwirth. Can you do better?
INXS - "Mediate"
Belle & Sebastian - "Like Dylan In the Movies"
M.S. crack team stumped on where this video could be. The following Wikipedia note initiated the search:
Scottish band Belle and Sebastian pay homage to the Subterranean Homesick Blues film in the music video for the song "Like Dylan In The Movies" on the album If You're Feeling Sinister. The video was filmed and edited by band members, and was not released until the 2003 documentary/video compilation Fans Only. Part of the song lyrics are a play on the title of the Dylan documentary: "If they follow you, don't look back, like Dylan in the movies."
Posted by Merry Swankster at October 3, 2007 04:20 PM
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after this how did Weird Al not get offered a part in the biopic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_pYYff7qP0
go Phillies...
Posted by: Yonah at October 3, 2007 04:44 PM
