In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in his own words,

Now that James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, is out, it’s appropriate to look back at the singer’s best albums. Of course, most know Dylan for his early folk work. As the biopic shows,

In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the hysterically funny and tragically underseen 2007 parody of basically every rockstar biopic ever made.