Packet 9: Tossup 3

In 2012, Mason Williams and Ed Ruscha (“roo-SHAY”) referenced this song in a music video whose lyrics were taken from conceptual art by Lawrence Weiner. Natas Kaupas skateboarding videos popularized a band named after a lyric from this song, fIREHOSE. The title singer creates a “Wall Street Rap” referencing this song in Tim Robbins’s film Bob Roberts. Lines like “Lisa Bonet ate no basil” and “oozy (15[1])rat in a sanitary zoo” appear in a (*) palindromic Weird Al (10[1])parody of this song, which inspired the title of track 3 on OK Computer and the name of the Weather Underground. (10[3])Bob (10[1]-5[1])Neuwirth (10[1])talks to Allen Ginsberg (10[1])by the Savoy (-5[1])Hotel at frame (10[1])left (-5[1])of this song’s music video, which opens D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary Dont Look Back. For 10 points, name this 1965 song whose music video depicts lyrical cue cards (10[1])being dropped by Bob Dylan. ■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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