What is the name of an old rambling song?
October 28, 2011 12:47 AM

What is the name of the older (1970's?) song where a hippy-type chap sings. The words are like a rambling story with comments on the state of the world and its indulgences something like; "To do, half past 2, clock tick, time you, fast food, food fast, open for business, convineance, emmeniance, de-grease, de-gas" kind of deal?
posted by Cogentesque to Media & Arts (7 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues?
posted by illenion at 12:55 AM on October 28, 2011


Is it Frank Zappa?
posted by evil_esto at 3:15 AM on October 28, 2011




Not the right time period, but this reminds me of Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire. (And of course, REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It.)
posted by Beardman at 5:43 AM on October 28, 2011


Step Right Up (1977 performance, lyrics) by Tom Waits? Probably not, but you should know it anyway.
posted by evariste at 6:03 AM on October 28, 2011


Any chance it's Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan? That was 1965.
posted by juniperesque at 7:13 AM on October 28, 2011


Ahh brilliant! Tom Waits! That's the bastard! Thankyou so much evariste!

To the others saying subterranean by bob dylan, it wasn't that but I think in my head I probably got a little mixed up in my original "lyric" interpretation of the song!

Man I love that song so much, thank you all of you guys!:D
posted by Cogentesque at 8:36 AM on October 28, 2011


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