"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob

[2oneWHOknows]

Han Solo's clothes

[Victoram12]

palindromes, palindromes everywhere

[crazygeek777]

dylan did a really good cover of this, but you just can't beat the original.

[Draco10k]

"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog" killed me

[Digitalsp33r]

I do believe (Harmonica Solo) is not a palindrome :P

[GoBills4Evr]

The song makes more sense than half of Dylan's songs.

[Maddidaisy7]

All I have to say is ....... LOL

[angelavandenberg]

lol



[frickinghogtied]

your a faggot

[MrChipfunk1]

@frickinghogtied  awwwwwwww...... were you looking in a mirror?

[DamnedGamers]

@frickinghogtied You're*

[caviechick]

now that was clever and perfectly weird... AL that is..

[lilmizzallyfull]

Kinda reminds me of Bob Dylan.

[joncurtis199]

I always set off laughing at "A toyota's a toyota"

[skylerarns95]

Its an anagram song!

[KingOfTheKill10001]

@skylerarns95 Palindromes.

[ValentinoVitez]

I got it at " Warsaw was raw " :)

[vegival]

I don't get it!?!

[Prakriti2041]

@vegival  palindromes

[vegival]

@Prakriti2041 Weird. I'm sure I didn't post that previous post because I totally got it and was totally blown away! Anyhoo, thanks for posting!!!

[vegival]

@Prakriti2041 ZOINKS!!!! I just realized who posted "my" post. This is what I get for using my computer to show someone else what an awesome concept this video is!!!

[bowiewondergirl]

it still makes sense as a song!

[punisherman1000]

He's keeping up with his love for star wars: he's dressed up like Han Solo

[Ateamgrl]

except the (harmonica solo) part

[Savaril]

@Ateamgrl Harmonica solos are good enough to justify it

[abridgedfan107]

i honestly didn't know this song was in palindromes before this video

[BAtrevor]

@BAtrevor your a whore!

[Brinah]

creative lyrics palindromed and rhymed!

[MrChickinDinner]

i used to love wierd al, but it seems like as the years go by he seems more and more stupid...

[monopolyman0101]

@MrChickinDinner come on, he is always  going to be cool, no matter what.

[GasCityGuy]

The genius of Weird Al... love it! I never 'got' Bob Dylan and this is exactly what every one of his songs sounded like to me.

[FrancisMX3]

He who hates Weird Al, hates life.

[GreenSlates]

@FrancisMX3 i hate life -_-

[fuaghsgsdgst]

I hate Weird AL.

[Slash11208]

@fuaghsgsdgst Why did you click on this video then

[ImitableChaor]

@fuaghsgsdgst trust me, we and he hate you too

[thugpug95]

??????



[Mrhalaweeenman]

My girlfriend said she hated wierd al.... we no longer date.... ahahah JKS!

shes dead

[15CBOSCH]

The Second statement is the first backwards genius

[drgmdp]

so he took a bunch of unrelated palindromes and sang them along a song that he didn't wrote... where's the genius?

[The121Hammer]

I was prepared to be outraged, as a longtime Dylan fan, but wasn't. Funny and clever.

[aneri97]

"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog"

Possibly the greatest sentence in the world ever.

[fawn559922]

but... bob dylan did this too...

[squaltch]

Ahem... Racecar.

[Sesquihypercerebrel]

WOW

[blueberryginger98]

how did he think of this??!!!!! I should've written my comment in a palindrome.

[SuperGreenAliens]

Bo Burnham used 2 palindromes from this song!

[timmit104]

@cytslipknot No. Fuck you, I brought my own self here. Go think of an original comment instead of leeching off of a shitty website to get the top rated comment.....

[bewlzebub]

How in gods name do you think of a palindrome using salami and lasagna?

[wellguesswhatIthink]

oh, they're all anagrams...

for almost all of the song I thought it was gibberish

[lee52844]

what was the original song ? I can't remember : (

[adamgrocco]

@lee52844 Bob Dillon - Subterranean Homesick Blues

/watch?v=PqIPCx1BpMQ

[lee52844]

@adamgrocco THNX :)

[ooohshitson]

How?

[catfish4catfish]

better than bob dylan

[cytslipknot]

9gag brought u here? thumbs up

[NKeepoo]

bob dylan - subterranean homesick blues

[itsstillgr8]

This song is not all that good.

[MirZZi]

@itsstillgr8 I guess you didn't realize it was completely made from palindromes..

[OnlyrepublikafaninNL]

Making so many palindromes in a song so famous is brilliant. I am sure Bob loves this!

[pisquilah]

"Harmonica Solo" Fail lol

[guitardedboy]

This is an amazingly creative song.  To come up with all of those palindromes, and fit them just right to the music is astoundingly impressive. I wonder if Dylan has heard this; I'm sure he'd be impressed.

[JosephCee]

xD this makes me crack up and is very impressive.

[Tydusis1]

No "X" in Nixion; Race fast safe car

Why I love this song

[TheDjpwn3]

Is that Brian Posehn in the background?

[ImMadeOfWaxHannahh]

To simple minds, this is what Bob Dylan might sound like. Not going to lie, this is pretty funny but Bob Dylan will always be my hero for the same reason Weird Al is making fun.

[JebiSe1993]

This video has over 7 million views, while the original only has 300,000?

[PkingIsGod]

Honestly I'm a huge Dylan fan, and this should, slightly, offend me, but it doesn't; I think it's a compliment to Dylan, because he probably put some work into getting all of those lyric backwards, Dylan would be proud.

[mellsko]

@PkingIsGod the reason why it's ok that weird al makes parodies of popular and/or brilliant music, is, that he is respecting this music/the artists who made this music and i think he want to show his respect in this way.

[PkingIsGod]

@mellsko Note: I'm saying this after 5 shots of vodka.

I do agree with you sir, he is, by far, respecting Dylan. Anyone would know this because he only mocks those he interviews in his parody videos. I would only saying that I think Dylan would take kindly to this and respect him, though I can't know that for sure, it is only a hypotheses.

[DerekBarns]

I love how Toyota's almost a palindrome in itself.

[malahammer]

Weird Al really is a bit of genius! He should be a global superstar - mind you all these palindromes make the lyrics sound typical Dylan :)

[morningstar241]

I just have to wonder if moody babies doom yams.

[Snurpyify]

Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!

[Ac1DGoD]

Genius...pure genius. I wonder if he busted his mellon thinking of this or if it just came naturally and he busted out quick. To actually think of that many palindromes would probably have taken me a life time. Plus make a song out of em that kinda has a theme of questioning? WOW that's a curve ball I don't know if I could get around. Im not surprised I have never seen anyone else do this and probably wont ever see it again. My respect for the guy goes up, way up.

[MrAlbo420]

@Ac1DGoD BUT they are just palindrome PHRASES ! A "WHOLE" song, done in a palindrome would ALL be the same ..Forward AND Backward! I am working on such a song , and YES, I am busting my Mellon on it!!

[ZylHW]

@Ac1DGoD I'm guessing he had quite a lot of help from 'the internets'.

[GaijinNH]

@Ac1DGoD Yeah it's awesome, but I always thought he should have had it say "He solos, eh?" instead of "harmonica solo"

[Ac1DGoD]

@GaijinNH haha! wow that would have been better! that would straiten out the one part of the song that's not part of the song that isn't a "palinnilap" (which is how I thought that word should be spelled) & have made every part of the song pure in the seance. I bet he'd like that idea, lol he might re write the song if you told him that (what you said)

[tigerslick1111]

@Ac1DGoD mc paul barman has rapped in palindrome, Fibonacci sequence, and rapped a double acrostic

[Ac1DGoD]

@tigerslick1111 OH yeah!? what's it called? Fibonacci sequence? I wanna C this

[tigerslick1111]

@Ac1DGoD MC Fibonacci Sequence vs. Interrupting Rapper

its hard to find online but its on his postgrad work album

[Ac1DGoD]

@tigerslick1111 O OK, thanks! ill look, hard too. If I find it you want me to send you the link?

[tigerslick1111]

@Ac1DGoD yes please

[Ac1DGoD]

@tigerslick1111 Fuck, you weren't kiddin. You were exactly right, I even looked all over sound cloud. I found this but this ain't it is it...

The fibonicca sequence (It wouldn't let me post the link.

[tinksno1]

@Ac1DGoD he probably googled the word palindrome then read the list out to a harmonica, it's good but he didn't write it himself come on...really?

[ILeikNormalTypes]

Race car

[higgme1ster]

Bob Neuwirth

[higgme1ster]

Who is the guy supposed to be with the Ginsberg character?

[ypbro786]

mayan a yam

[SuperLivi9]

i love this video

[moker1215]

He's just showing how great Bob Dylan was/is.

[djevil129]

wow this shit is all the same front the bacwards wow

[zdarklink]

@djevil129 its called a palindrome, read the description

[jzcrandall]

Wait a minute...there is too an X in Nixon!

[BeezoHow]

11/22/11 - Song for the day!

[sr42041]

no sir, away! a papaya war is on.

check it!

[TheMrshutchdano]

hahaha bob Dylan parody

[arejayseeottawa]

Another great song parody from the mad genius of Weird Al!

[mrswhite320]

Did anyone else notice the UFO near his head when he sings that line?

[ssmit422]

Sorry, before the haters start hating, i listened again and found that the letters dont have to be in the same word

[ssmit422]

These arent palindromes theyre just jumbled. Brilliant song though.

[porkyfry]

@ssmit422 Please explain how these are not palindromes.

[tr230023]

@porkyfry some are palindromes some are jumbled to make other words/phrases...

[porkyfry]

@tr230023 Right, well a palindrome is a word, sequence, phrase, or number that is the same forwards as backwards. As all of these fit that criteria, all are palindromes, "jumbled" or not.

[SCROGY]

@tr230023 They all appear to be palindromes. Name one specifically.

[TobiasAKL]

was it a car or a cat i saw <----- Epic!

[southparkfirefly]

i've just realised he sounds like Little Kuriboh's Tristan!

[Szarlotka666]

it's just wrong



[maggiebassoon]

UFO TOFU!! i want some!

[MutatedHam]

Wtf it's like a drug deal in the background

[JustAFocus]

@MutatedHam In the original Subterranean Homesick Blues promotional clip for Dylan's film "Don't Look Back," the guys in the background were none other than beat poet Allen Ginsburg and folkie Bob Neuwirth. Weird Al has a couple of lookalikes here. While Al's music video is based on the SHB promo clip, the actual song sounds like it was based off of Bob Dylan's 115th Dream.

[AmericanTexanguy]

This guy's a genius.

He's funny and smart,perfect!

[mphello]

Yankovic's genius is in choosing the right palindromes and putting them into the right order so they rhyme and the rhythm scans correctly.

[Alphakennybody37]

Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm

[SneakyMushrooms]

Happy 11-11-11!

[MattCarlDesign]

Happy 11-11-11

[elvis4all]

It's 11-11-11 -- a numerical palindrome! Thanks Weird Al!

[PlasmaManAG]

I wonder if anybody has the bloopers for this video because he had to screw up at least once.

[maplehaxor1337]

litterer... thats the best thing I could say. Which is pretty lame...

[thatfunnykid539]

mr owl ate my metal worm spelled backwards

[christian1o812]

LMAO

[RichardOpio]

What did I just watch??? =) rofl

[charroelton]

GREAT !!!

[WesMantooth73]

Al is dressed like Han Solo.

[oggy303]

@WesMantooth73 with an afro

[jepeo1]

@WesMantooth73 omg I thought the same :D

[dking987returns]

i've watched this many times for the past few years, and only today did i realise it's genious...

warsaw was raw

war saw wasraw

race fast safe car

rac efas tsaf ecar

oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

ooz yratinas a ni tar yzoo

[serazaer]

@dking987returns Lol really dude... It took you YEARS to figure out they're palindromes? It says it's done in palindromes in the info!

[parysrry]

oozy rat in sanitary zoo

[n0t5ur3]

Fucking genius

[dkamouflage]

Thumbs up if you now can't help but wonder now:

"DO Geese See God?"

[MrEliasification]

This would have been one of the real Dylan's more comprehensible lyrics, I'd say.

[greymattersblog]

Perfect viewing for 11/02/2011!

[XmdogmX]

@greymattersblog or even 11/11/11 ? hehe

[dannygalaga]

@greymattersblog Wish I'd known about this tune on 11/11/11...

[Highskoolrecess]

very funny

[Mofocadlak]

Holy crap, the number of hits is almost a palindrome

[7imothy1]

I like his take on the James Bond theme.. What's it called?

[DaphneSelena]

Wait, harmonica solo is not a palindrome!

[hek7]

Nurse I spy gypsies, run!

[Pellefantman]

I love how this song makes perfect sence all the time :)

[MrDanlegoman]

thumbs up if u thought harmonica solo was a palindrome at first

[sexyliciousmexican]

I love how they still kept the Jewish guy in the background

[SuperLillian89]

@sexyliciousmexican Hey jackass, that "jewish guy" is Allens Ginsberg. If you don't know who that is, you should open up a damn history book.

[henryporter101]

@SuperLillian89 His name is 'Allen Ginsburg',not fucking 'Allens'.What kind of fool thinks of Allen Ginsburg as "Allens' Ginsburg?His name is Irwin Allen Ginsburg and he's a Jewish guy.

[Kryptnyt]

@henryporter101

Maybe it was Aliens Ginsberg. And it all makes sense now... if you're Giorgio Tsoukalos, that is.

[ThreeStrongMenGaming]

@SuperLillian89 Dude chill out. I'm sure that dude was just joking. No need to overreact.

[scubabird06]

@SuperLillian89 Um before you make yourself sound all intelligent by calling people names you might double check. The "Jewish guy" was indeed supposed to be Allen Ginsburg who apparently was in a Dylan video. However, in this parody it was an actor "Bermuda" playing the role. Also, most people don't know when the civil war was so knowing a Jewish beat poet is unlikely.

[fran160890]

Thats Weird Al = La Driew Staht

[apollion888]

God damn this man for being so talented. 

[PompousPreacher]

May a moody baby doom a yam? I've always wondered that!!!

[DouchebagsOfficial63]

this is shite!

[blooboy4747]

@DouchebagsOfficial63 it sounds the same backwards

[MZophiel]

Wait a minute! "(Harmonica Solo)" isn't a palindrome!

[Pyre001]

@MZophiel And that's why it's in brackets! :D

[MZophiel]

@Pyre001 I know it was a joke!

[dajagryt]

@MZophiel You're absolutely right. It should have been "Solos". :)

[MZophiel]

@dajagryt Ha very good didn't think of that. Or "wawawawawawawaw"?

[KieranAGorman]

@MZophiel or is it

[ninjaski99]

@MZophiel thats why its in parenthesis haha

[ieatthepusscake]

my ears bled after this

[warrior77061]

Wheres the play backwards button ?

[seanchristopherfranc]

oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

[dhhs91]

"Do geese see god?"

That's deep, man..

[Keedan44]

Guys stop going all crazy web sum1 asks wat a palindrome is just give them an answer u don't hav to hav a smart-alec response I'm mean, seriously

[WiggleyWitch]

Howw bloody clever is this guy?... love it.

[DJH1170]

This is awful, has anyone who's heard this EVER heard Dylan's original? It aint just cooler (a given), musically superior ( a given), more poignant ( a given), more relevant ( a given), cleverer and smarter (a given) but it is better at the one thing Wierd Al is suppose to be good at- It's funnier.

[RS1Comedy1Vids]

@DJH1170

Look up 'palindrome'. Maybe then can you appreciate what Al did here.

[CyberToyger]

@DJH1170 There is no original... it's done in the STYLE of Bob Dylan. The closest it resembles is a mix between "Tombstone Blues" (music-wise) and "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (video-wise). Either way, this does sound better than Tombstone Blues, as does pretty much all of Weird Al's parodies. And it's also funny as you mentioned.

[92BRAVEWOLF]

this...is...awesome



[92BRAVEWOLF]

hi