Unplugged Debate

Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man Posts: 345
edited May 2013 in Other Music
Just after listening to a lot of the Unplugged series lately, so many great ones. Its hard to pick a favorite but I'd have to go with Nirvana, performance like "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" really put this album over the top for me. But I'd like to here what others opinions are on the whole best unplugged album.
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,391
    I'm not even a big Nirvana fan but there's was the best.
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 31,135
    Pearl Jam with a second close Alice In Chains
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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    10000 maniacs. Stockton gala Days
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 31,135
    LloydXmas wrote:
    10000 maniacs.

    + 1

    I would like to add Stone Temple Pilots as well as some of the KEXP unplugged in studio performances such as The Avett Brothers and The National.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,476
    LloydXmas wrote:
    10000 maniacs. Stockton gala Days

    Great number! Isn't that the one where some guy yells out, "NATALIE!" at the end. I get how he feels!

    R.E.M.'s unplugged was another one I liked.
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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    brianlux wrote:
    LloydXmas wrote:
    10000 maniacs. Stockton gala Days

    Great number! Isn't that the one where some guy yells out, "NATALIE!" at the end. I get how he feels!
    No but the crowd goes absolutely bonkers at the end of it.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,476
    LloydXmas wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    LloydXmas wrote:
    10000 maniacs. Stockton gala Days

    Great number! Isn't that the one where some guy yells out, "NATALIE!" at the end. I get how he feels!
    No but the crowd goes absolutely bonkers at the end of it.

    Must listen to that again!

    Now that I think of it, the song I'm thinking is the Unplugged "Gold Rush Brides".
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  • Jamminonthe1
    Jamminonthe1 Posts: 1,243
    I agree about the Nirvana cover of that song. That being said. I feel that the Pearl Jam and Nirvana shows were great and for the opposite reason. Pearl Jam totally rocked the shit out of it, while a couple of years later Nirvana took it down about a hundred notches.

    I loved AIC, too, but I watched the DVD relatively recently and Layne looked flat out bored. I actually wonder if that one could have been better.

    I also recall that Live did one, but I don't think it was released on CD. That was pretty damn good, too.

    Then again now that I think about it, Eric Clapton's was effing legendary...
  • I_Am_Mine_Dawn
    I_Am_Mine_Dawn West Chester, PA Posts: 44,854
    i think this was discussed in the Porch forum awhile back, but here were mine:

    1. Nirvana
    2. Alice In Chains
    3. Pearl Jam

    STP, 10,000 Maniacs, Eric Clapton were also very good IMO
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  • Loulou
    Loulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    I'm not a massive Nirvana fan in fact I think they are overrated but I loved their unplugged set. At the end where they play 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" and he looks up with those painful blue eyes, chilling! Definitely my favourite with Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam second and Stone Temple Pilots third.
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  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,155
    I think PJ's Unplugged show is the least interesting of all the acoustic sets they've done.... And I agree about Nirvana being the best Unplugged show. Clapton's set was good too. Alberta/San Francisco Bay Blues, just awesome...
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,476
    The band that did the acoustic number in the bar scene in the movie "Repo Man"-- now there's a band I'd like to have seen do an entire Unplugged set! :D
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    I think we're all forgetting about Mariah Carrey's 1992 soul stirring unplugged performance! :lol:
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  • DewieCox
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    ceska wrote:
    I think PJ's Unplugged show is the least interesting of all the acoustic sets they've done.... And I agree about Nirvana being the best Unplugged show. Clapton's set was good too. Alberta/San Francisco Bay Blues, just awesome...

    I think PJ acoustic, in general, is a pretty underwhelming experience. Most great bands really try to rework their tunes or have stuff that translates very well to the format. PJ has some stuff that works, but the way they construct setlists it works within the framework of a normal show without needing to bring out the stools and having a powwow. None of the PJ performances are particularly bad, but none are one the level of some of the great Unplugged performances.

    Nirvana's is probably the greatest, most notorious Unplugged ever, along with Clapton.
    AIC, for having such heavy layered music, really translate spectacularly to the Unplugged format. Just an epic performance.
    Page and Plant will always be a favorite of mine.
  • Citizen Zack
    Citizen Zack Posts: 1,763
    For sort of an odd answer - Lauryn Hill's Unplugged is pretty damn good. That girl can belt it out with the best of them.
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