Music Quiz: Bob Dylan in the 1960s

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1. Pretty horrible, 10/20. The sad thing is I’m a big Dylan fan, know all those songs. I just haven’t listened to any of them in context of their albums in a long time so I struggled to remember what album they were on. Although that said, I did get the non-album singles as a sort of mini-consolation prize.

   • You’re the highest score so far!

     • Are you kidding me? That’s insane. Funny thing is when you were asking about top albums I was going to review the listing of songs on each album but I didn’t. Had I done so I would have inadvertently “studied” and scored higher.

2. I am not eligible for this one either. I really know nothing about Dylan. I mean I know some songs, but I don’t know any albums.

   • I don’t think I’d do very well at a similar Ratt or Kiss quiz either.

3. From the 1001, I think I’ve heard 5 of Dylans from the 60s – but there were another several on this quiz that I still haven’t explored! Amazing to think that 5 albums in 1 decade would be considered very prolific these days, but Dylan was just getting warmed up at that point.
   An almost pass for me!

   • Good effort! He also had the Basement Tapes and a lot of outtakes – must have recorded hundreds of songs in the decade, He had songs he never released in the 1960s that were hits for other artists too.

4. I think I got 6 and gave up, I knew all the songs but have no knowledge seemingly of the records. I am filled with shame.

   • Seems like a pretty common score for this week – might be harder for Dylan because he’s so prolific all the records just blend together.

5. Although I’m a big fan (big enough to own the Complete Albums box set, which replaced the original CD pressings I had previously owned, along with all of the Bootleg Series releases), I didn’t grow up with Dylan’s albums and I don’t have very good song/album recall for most of his catalog (especially his ’60s releases). That’s a long-winded way of saying I got a measly 6/20 this week. Once I missed the first six I just mentally gave up. I love all of the songs mentioned in this quiz but that wasn’t good enough for me this week.

   • My first Dylan album was a three CD set named Masterpieces that was only ever released in Japan, NZ, and Australia. It originally came out in 1977, which was a great time to release a Dylan compilation since it’s arguably the end of his most essential stuff, and it had some b-sides and singles along with album tracks.

6. 20/20 but only because I’ve been on a hard 60’s Dylan binge since yesterday. John Wesley Harding is going up in my books with each listen

   • Looks like you have a big lead at the moment!

     • That’s the way I like it 😀

7. 6/20 – My parents had Greatest Hits Volume 1 when I was a kid. When my stepfather in law passed he left me an external hard drive full of Dylan and the Beatles that I still haven’t fully dug through. In other words, this wasn’t in my wheelhouse, but I gave it a shot.

   • Good effort! Usually I like to feature multi-artist quizzes, but I was on a Dylan kick.

8. 5. And one of those was pure luck.

9. Man I am posting this comment before I even do the quiz. I’m betting on a poor score for me. Let’s see!

10. Haha I knew it, I got 2! I was just guessing. I tend to think of Bob as all on big happy pile of songs, not by album (usually). Shows how little I know!

    • Looks like I made it a bit tough this week!

11. 4/20 – don’t know his albums well enough to match songs to albums . Look forward to the next one!