Weekly Music Quiz: MTV Unplugged Albums By Three Songs

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1. A paltry 20/24. Was moving along nicely and then stumbled badly. As for the progressive rock Venn diagram, it took a couple of false starts before I realized you can click in between and around the band names. Then it was an easy 8/8 with 2:00 left on the clock.

   • You’re in the lead so far. It’s a pretty diverse group of artists so it’ll be interesting to see if anyone can get 24.

     • 15/24. All my guesses were bad. And then there were two where the titles were in Spanish and of course I guessed Shakira each time. And somehow got it wrong both times.

       • Weird – I think she was one of the Spanish ones, along with Ricky Martin (whom I was unaware made an Unplugged album).

2. 15/24. Slowed down by having to use my phone. I might have gotten a few more but 100% was not in the cards.

   • Good work. I imagine that wasn’t a good quiz to do on phone.

3. 15/24

   • 15 is a popular score so far.

4. I got 22/24. The albums were so small, it was hard to make out some of the titles and artists.

   • You did well anyway!

5. 24 / 24 with 2:47 left on the clock – Owning a good chunk of them helps and I had to 50/50 with 10,000 Maniacs and Thirty Seconds at the end got lucky. I had that Dashboard Confessional one some years back and it’s got to be one of the worst of the bunch as they made the decision to have the crowd’s incessant singing of every word higher in the mix than the actual band.

   • Perfect score! I’m surprised you don’t know 10,000 Maniacs’ cover of Springsteen/Smith’s ‘Because the Night’ – it might be one of the most popular songs to emerge from the Unplugged trend.

     • That was what made it an easier 50/50 – couldn’t (nor would I want to) see Leto covering that one

       • It’s the biggest hit song for both Smith and 10,000 Maniacs, I think. I like Smith’s better, but 10,000 Maniacs’ charted slightly higher.

6. 20/24 so not great, but not too bad.

   • I’d bet good money you nailed the KISS one.

7. I got 13/24 with 1:29 left. That was my second try, though, lol.

   • Good work – that’s a passing grade!

     • Yay! Thanks so much for the quiz!