30. Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965) from Bringing It All Back Home
Is this the first hip-hop song? Lyrics cascade in a relentless motormouth gush over jittery blues, with Dylan tearing up social norms in a surreal deadpan blizzard of internal rhymes. Don Pennebaker’s single camera black and white promo film established a perennial image of mid-Sixties Dylan's skinny amphetamine cool.
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