Musical Allusions To The Song
- Tim Buckley, who had been involved in recording Chelsea Girls, played a song in the late 1960s called "I've Been Out Walking" that took its first two lines from "These Days" but was otherwise different.
- The title song from Belle & Sebastian's 1996 album If You're Feeling Sinister borrows the melody, though not the words, of "These Days" for its own chorus.
- Beth Orton's 2002 song "Concrete Sky" quoted from "These Days".
- The Dirty Projectors quoted from "These Days" on the track "Two Doves" from their 2009 album Bitte Orca.
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