Need someone to thank this Thanksgiving? Thank Bob Dylan. The below video is from 1965, a promo for the song "Subterranean Homesick Blues", from Dylan's album Bringing It All Back Home. In some ways, this song is the Missing Link, bridging all that came before it with all that came afterwards. Before this album, with very few exceptions, rock and roll was straightforward with lyrics that everyone could understand. When the rock Gods heard this album, and especially this song, everything changed. The lyrics got more complicated, and so did the music. No one had ever written a song like this before, and no one sure as hell had played music like this. Not to mention the video, unique even by today's standards. The 1960's had truly begun.


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It's interesting that you would see this as a pivotal point in the musicology of the 60's; however, you present a valid and not-so-easily-countered point. This music "video" does seem to sit comfortably on the razor's edge, which separated the innocence of the early deacade from the turmoil of its latter years.
Posted by Scott Mann | March 13, 2008 11:15 AM
Posted on March 13, 2008 11:15