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}} "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded on January 14, 1965, and released as a single on Columbia Records, catalogue 43242, on March 8.〔''The Original Mono Recordings''. Legacy Records, 2010, liner notes, p. 51.〕 It appeared some two weeks later as the lead track to the album ''Bringing It All Back Home''.〔 It was Dylan's first Top 40 hit in the U.S., peaking at #39 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It also entered the Top 10 on the singles chart in the United Kingdom. The song has subsequently been reissued on numerous compilations, the first being his 1967 singles compilation ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits''. One of Dylan's first 'electric' pieces, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was also notable for its innovative film clip, which first appeared in D. A. Pennebaker's documentary, ''Dont Look Back''. An acoustic version of the song, recorded the day before the single, was released on ''The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991''. ==References and allusions== "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a three-way amalgam of Jack Kerouac, the Guthrie/Pete Seeger song "Taking It Easy" ('mom was in the kitchen preparing to eat/sis was in the pantry looking for some yeast') and the riffed-up rock'n'roll poetry of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business". In 2004, Dylan said, "It's from Chuck Berry, a bit of 'Too Much Monkey Business' and some of the scat songs of the '40s." Dylan has also stated that when he reached the University of Minnesota in 1959, he fell under the influence of the Beat scene: "It was Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso and Ferlinghetti."〔''Biograph'', 1985, Liner notes & text by Cameron Crowe.〕 Kerouac's ''The Subterraneans'', a novel published in 1958 about the Beats, has been suggested as a possible inspiration for the song's title.〔〔(city-journal.org )〕 The song's first line is a reference to codeine distillation and politics of the time: "Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine / I'm on the pavement thinkin' about the Government".〔Andy Gill (1998). ''Classic Bob Dylan 1962-69: My Back Pages'': pp.68-69,96〕 The song also depicts some of the growing conflicts between "straight" or "square" (40-hour workers) and the emerging 1960s counterculture. The widespread use of recreational drugs, and turmoil surrounding the Vietnam War were both starting to take hold of the nation, and Dylan's hyperkinetic lyrics were dense with up-to-the-minute allusions to important emerging elements in the 1960s youth culture. According to rock journalist Andy Gill, "an entire generation recognized the zeitgeist in the verbal whirlwind of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'."〔 The song also references the struggles surrounding the American civil rights movement ("Better stay away from those / That carry 'round a fire hose"). (During the civil rights movement, peaceful protestors were beaten and sprayed with high pressure fire hoses.) Despite the political nature of the lyrics, the song went on to become the first Top 40 hit for Dylan in the United States.〔(sundazed.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Subterranean Homesick Blues」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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