These Days (Jackson Browne Song) - Musical Allusions To The Song

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.