Subterranean Homesick Blues: Information from Answers.com
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  • The song has proven to be popular with other musicians. It has been covered by artists as diverse as and the .
  • The title of 's " " is taken in part from the title of Dylan's song, and 's 1997 "Blues in Bob Minor" uses it as a structural template.

  • after the lyrics from the last verse ("Ah get born, keep warm / short pants, romance, learn to dance").
  • The American stand-up comedian, satirist, and social critic sometimes used the In addition to the song's influence on music, the song was used in what became one of the first "modern" . Although Rolling Stone lists it as the 7th on their list of "100 Top Music Videos" "video" was actually a segment from film, (a documentary on Bob Dylan's first tour of in ).

    In the film, Dylan holds up for the audience, with words from the song. While staring at the camera, he flips the cards as the song plays. There are intentional errors throughout the video, for instance when the In addition to the Savoy Hotel video, two alternate videos were shot: one in a park where Dylan and Ginsberg are joined by a third man, and another shot on the roof of an unknown building (possibly the Savoy Hotel).

    A montage of the videos can be seen in The "Subterranean Homesick Blues" music video and its concepts have been popularly imitated by a number of artists. Influenced tune, and its video duplicated the format of the Dylan video, even in its use of apparently deliberate errors.

  • video depicts Yankovic dressed as Dylan dropping cue cards with each palindrome.

    One card shown during the song is not a palindrome, as it reads "Harmonica Solo", similar to INXS' "Sax Solo". Earlier on, he parodied a segment from INXS' "Mediate" tells Juliet ( ) that he is in love with her, by holding up cards with messages on them. features standing motionless in an alleyway, showing and dropping cue cards that are blank, while the band's singer energetically dances to the left of him.

    Warhol directed the video in New York's , although the director credit is given to a pseudonym.

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