Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Official HD Video) 

" 20 years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift" Bob Dylan is a Prophet

He invented the "Official lyrics" videos

No matter how drunk I was in college, I could sing every word of this and not miss a beat.

This video continues to blow my mind. Such a powerful and strong lyric set put against a REALLY awkward looking young Bob looking around for affirmation occasionally that it's going well. One of my favorite music videos of all time.

I have one of those actual cards he holds up. My dad and his friend were there at the recording of this when my dad worked as a black cab driver in London. He picked up one, his friend picked up a few, apparently. My dad said I could have his about 20 yrs ago. Still got it, now in a frame! Nice to see Nobel Prizes being awarded to people who wouldn't have stood a chance years ago!

Love him or hate him, he's speaking straight facts here.

Bars!!

Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine are the greatest first lyrics of a song ever. Dylan is perfection.

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!" One of my favorite quotes.

gotta love at 1:20 when he realizes he's ridiculously behind and starts flying through the cards.

My dad was born in 1950, he passed away when I was 16, back in 2018. He was a HUGE bob Dylan fan. He and I used to listen to his albums in the car. There was this one song that I loved as a kid, made my dad play on repeat, but I never knew the name! This is the song! I've been searching for years and I finally found it! Thank you RU-vid, I am eternally grateful ❤

People seriously underestimate this song. Nothing absolutely NOTHING else sounded like this back in 1965. Not only is he using Electric guitar to sing folk music, not only is he protesting in his lyrics, not only is he inventing the music video but he's also singing talking blues (aka Rhythm and Poetry) (aka Rap) he's inventing rapping as we know it. In 1965!

That, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." has always been my favourite line. Clever, lyrically.

Bob Dylan is the epitome of cool.

Still a banger, holy sht.

Follow no leaders watch your parking meters. Bob Dylan, cultural Icon, Nobel prize winner.

This largely credited for being the world’s first music video and what a great music video too.

This is one of the coolest music videos ever.

i love seeing alan ginsberg in the background, all of it a wonderful reminder to have fun with words. It's what we humans got.

The time when Bob Dylan was the coolest person on the planet

I love that the sign says "sucksess"

I LOVE THIS MAN

80 years old still the coolest one in the room.

Oh, how innocent he looks. And, the media insisted upon branding him with any negatives they could think of. A true musical icon who will live forever in the hearts of people who love and appreciate originality in music.

That is so fucking cool you need a new adjective to describe cool

Dylan spittin fire back in '65

I'm noticing new details, like the fact that he keeps a blank expression the whole time is so funny, and the way the cards don't exactly match up is amusing. Iconic music video

April 14 2024 - I hadn't seen this in, literally, decades - was it the first music video I ever saw? I think so

One of the coolest rock n roll songs of all time.

"you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Such an underrated line. I love it.

"Lookout kid! It's something you did. God knows when but you're doin' it again" is a timeless observation.

After watching this video approximately 5,789 times I am for the first time realizing the magnitude of Dylan's role in modern music. Look at that face. He is little more than a teenager and he didn't just write and perform this song and this video (with Allen Ginsberg as a backdrop, no less) which alone could make a person famous . Plus or minus a year from Subterranian Homesick Blues he wrote some of the most innovative and paradigm changing music in the modern era and continued writing and performing great music for decades. It is dumbfounding.

I had the absolute biggest, stupidest smile on my face when I heard this classic in Pixar’s SOUL. So cool to hear Dylan’s music in a Disney film!

I did a poetry project on this song so i memorized it completely and preformed it for my class and i didnt trip up on any of the words either im so proud of myself for it.

“MUSICAL POETRY” NO ONE EVEN COMES CLOSE TO THIS LEGEND

I was a Bob Dylan fan since i was 14. You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Need i say more? Dylan influenced everyone who came after him. Beatles.. Rolling Stones… Clapton…. The list goes on and on. I hope you live long Bob.

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is." - Bob Dylan

"The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles" is still one of my favourite, all-time rock 'n' roll lines.

Dylan was spitting hot fire before anyone even knew what that meant...

I was 13 in 1965 when this record was realeased,my sister bought the 45 rpm record of this song, I heard her play it on the record player, then I started playing the record real loud, and was told, take that record player down to the basement if you are going to play that music so loud,so I would play it all the time in the basement real loud,I realized Dylan was where it was at! I've been a Dylan fan ever since.

After all these years I just realized that's Allen Ginsberg in the background.

He's so adorable in this video! Especially when he slightly messes up when he goes too fast so he holds the card up to the camera.

"Don't wear sandals, try to avoid scandals." A principle I'm following in my entire life. 😂

When you think about it, the man invented RAP a decade before anyone else. (Listen to it).

This is actually a crazy song when you interpret each lyric thoroughly. What makes this song more amazing was that before 1965, Dylan protested using Folk music. At this time he was protesting using Rock music. A complete change in sound without losing the “protest” attitude. Incredible.

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!"

im 11 and i love this song, this proves anyone can like bob dylans song :))

Pure Genius. Reminds me so much of Buster Keaton the way he has the deadpan look and the video seems like it could be from the silent era...

This video is better than anything ever produced on MTV.

he looks like he's having a little bit of trouble keeping up with the cards I love him😂💗

Happy Birthday to the greatest poet in the history of American music.

"You don’t need a weatherman to know the way the wind blows!"

"Look out kid - They keep it all hid" I think that is the central message. Easily as true today as it was 50+ years ago.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking about the government The man in the trench coat Badge out, laid off Says he's got a bad cough Wants to get it paid off Look out kid It's somethin' you did God knows when But you're doing it again You better duck down the alley way Lookin' for a new friend A man in the coonskin cap, in the pig pen Wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten Maggie comes fleet foot Face full of black soot Talkin' that the heat put Plants in the bed but The phone's tapped anyway Maggie says that many say They must bust in early May Orders from the D.A. Look out kid Don't matter what you did Walk on your tip toes Don't tie no bows Better stay away from those That carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose Watch the plain clothes You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows Oh, get sick, get well Hang around a ink well Hang bail, hard to tell If anything is goin' to sell Try hard, get barred Get back, write braille Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you fail Look out kid You're gonna get hit But losers, cheaters Six-time users Hang around the theaters Girl by the whirlpool Lookin' for a new fool Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters Oh, get born, keep warm Short pants, romance Learn to dance, get dressed, get blessed Try to be a success Please her, please him, buy gifts Don't steal, don't lift Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift Look out kid They keep it all hid Better jump down a manhole Light yourself a candle Don't wear sandals Try to avoid the scandals Don't want to be a bum You better chew gum The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handles

This clip is simply genius and brilliant Bob just keeps picking up pieces of paper with words from the lyrics, And at the end it says "What??" It's just a high level of humor, even at those times

My two favorite poets in one video

An important message to all amateur musicians who post on RU-vid: You've just seen an early video by one of the geniuses of the 20th and 21st century. 1,100 people dislike this! Never get frustrated or disappointed as you build your careers - someone will always be there to put you down.

Still the best video of all time. This was part of Pennebaker’s Dylan movie, Don’t Look Back, Bob’s timing is perfect, the 1st rap video 🎵🎶

This is a certified hood classic

The deadpan look on Dylan's face is so funny. Goes really good with the lyrics of the song.

Absolute genius. Funny, sassy, incredible music, Chaplin-esque persona, message. What's not to worship??

"Try to be a SUCKCESS" is one of the most relevant lyrics to modern society I've ever heard /read.

The Maggie comes fleet-foot verse is just top notch Dylan wordplay.

"The pump don't work 'cuz the vandals took the handle"...greatest lyrics ever written!

I love the Bugs Bunny kind of energy Dylan had in the 60's. So badass, yet so freewheeling at the same time.

Gotta give credit where it is due. *this guy could write some MUSIC!!*

No one measures up to Bob Dylan, he set the bar way high

It's hard to over-praise Dylan. He invented so much of what became taken as the stock in trade of popular culture. Here, with D A Pennebaker, he invents the music video. Of course, the song itself is a marvel of beat poetry, dense with allusion to mid-60s political dissent, and with more "hook" than Peter Pan's pirate. Despite its historical setting, Subterranean Homesick Blues is utterly timeless. And brilliant. 2 Minutes 20 seconds of breathless magic that demands to be played over and over again.

What a song! The man really is a Poet! Tried singing along to this, damn near collapsed gasping for oxygen!!

One of the Best clips of all time

Bro dropped bars before people knew what “dropping bars” meant

Brilliant piece of art. You have Dylan's music with him standing there silently in front of an alley flipping cards -- one static shot, mind you -- with Allen Ginsberg in the left side of the frame. Simple yet artistic. Blows any corporate, high production music video out of the water.

I love Pixar for putting this song in SOUL. Hope it brings more recognition to this kind of music!!

Bob Dylan should be the King Of Rap, he can rhyme and sing fast. Rolling Stone even ranked his song “Like A Rolling Stone” (no pun intended) number 1 song of all-time.

OVER 30 YEARS in radio has blessed me with meeting Stones, a couple Beatles, U2, Pearl Jam, Prince, Petty, and pretty much ALL THE LEGENDS but really want to meet the King of Lyrics...Bob Dylan.

To any up and coming artists out there .This is your blueprint.Watch,Listen and Learn.Enough said......

Happy Birthday Bob, may you stay forever young!!!

The man won the Nobel Prize for a reason. It was genius then, still genius now

"Maggie comes fleet foot, face full of black soot, talkin' that the heat put plants in the bed, but" his flow on that line always sounds soooo smooth to me

The Nobel Prize was 50 years overdue!

One of the coolest videos in the history of music!!!!!!!!!!!!

This song is perfect proof of how talking blues was a great precedent for rap.

I can't believe this is from 1965. Dylan was so ahead of his time its crazy. Sounds like 20-25 years ahead. I could see this being a new released song/video in 85-88 on MTV like a REM song.

Come on, the absolute coolest card is “sucksess”. I always thought this took place on McDougall Street in NYC. It seems I was wrong.

The first and best music video Ever.

"Watch the parking meters", is equivalent of "one who gets hurt, is he who has stalled" from the times they are a changin', in one or other song, he somehow always conveys this message. One more reference came to my mind - It's alright ma - "he not busy being born is busy dying". Hands down, an absolute poetic and lyrical genius.

Absolutely, positively America's original & first, rap song......PERIOD!

Thats Allen Ginsburg the Beat poet in the background

This is the oldest "queue card" video I have ever seen. Dylan is a truly revolutionary and original mind in so many ways.

The best music video ever and it was done before music videos as we know them existed.

I think this was the first music video ever made.

It cracks me up when he mis-times the cards. LOL

Happy birthday to the man, from downtown St. Paul, Minnesota!

My big brother from another mother , Paul Pastore wrote "20 years of Schooling and they put you on the day shift" in my graduation book in 6/1969 when I was 12 years old. June of 1973 he drowned, 50 years ago. Paul I love you and you were a great big brother, better than my own. RIP Paul until we meet again, and I hope your proud of me by telling Bob Dylan about your life.

The first rap song in world history 🙌

So fucking excited that one of my favorite Bob videos is finally up on RU-vid.

So timely now. He grew up in rural Minnesota so I can see how this song and video came to be with a visit to NYC. The vandals' took the handle. Love the spelling and art on some of the cards.

Great Robert !

Congratulations Mr. Dylan on your Nobel Prize!

This is the most swag, lit, cool, fly, rad, amazing, song ever...