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The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #18

1:53 PM GMT 30/06/2009

The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #18

...SEE NUMBER 17

18. Subterranean Homesick Blues
(Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)

Songwriting as an amphetamine-fuelled, existentialist car chase.

James Blunt: "I must have heard this first when I was about 14 or 15. The sense of movement in the song is so infectious. The guitarist in my band has Subterranean Homesick Blues as the polyphonic ringtone for his phone; someone rang him during a rehearsal and I just thought, 'Shit... how does one even start writing a song like that?'"

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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 1:53 PM GMT 30/06/2009


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