best MTV Unplugged that was NOT released as an official album

My only memories are of R.E.M. and the Cure. I don't know how either would hold up today, but I loved that Cure chose to do The Blood, plus they made use of kazoos.

Both of those are outstanding, although R.E.M. gets points b/c their members didn't appear barefoot and showing their sunburned british knees.

the Crowded House one was good too.

i hate when r.e.m. hide their british knees

no pasty-white thighs

Krazy sequence:

03/18/90 Sinead O'Connor with The Church
04/22/90 Don Henley
05/06/90 Great White with Damn Yankees
05/13/90 Crowded House with Tim Finn
06/05/90 Hall and Oates
08/05/90 Elton John

yo! unplugged is the ll cool j, right?

and Tribe and De La and MC Lyte, yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deHM9w4vDcE&feature=player_detailpage#t=194s

I saw that Satriani one.

Pearl Jam one was really good.

The Cure one was great in places. Loved the kazoo on "The Lovecats".

Wait, shouldn't the classic LL Cool J set be up there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjRWcqxOO6s

I love the REM one from 1991---absolutely killer "Disturbance at the Heron House", definitive even. I've kept a bootleg of it on hand since that year in order to hear that version, & the take on "Pop Song 89". But the whole set is excellent, bongos & all.

a killer "Half a World Away" too.

scroll up, josh

I thought the toy piano was on "The Lovecats" and the kazoos were on "The Walk"

voted the unplugged rap over r.e.m. and elvis costello (the only thing i really remember from the elvis costello one was a this arrangement of 'other side of summer' that basically turned it into another fake van morrison song a la 'deep dark truthful mirror'), uptown unplugged did get an lp release (that jodeci version of 'lately' was a HUGE hit) as did the dylan. pearl jam one is where eddie vedder wrote 'PRO-CHOICE' on his arm right?

oh yeah i forgot Jodeci was the Uptown one -- i definitely still hear that "Lately" version almost anytime i'm driving home from a show and listen to a late night quiet storm station.

It's easier to rate these based on their best individual moments, my favorites probably as "Lately," "Porch," "A Letter To Elise," "Mama Said Knock You Out.." Out of those I'll have to go for Yo! Unplugged Rap.

I would have considered Fiona Apple or Oasis.

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I'm voting for LL's deodorant

if I wasn't such a sad Cure fan, I'd vote for LL

is this gonna be another one of those ilx polls where everyone in the thread is saying they'll vote ll or rem or the cure or whatever but when it comes time to tally the votes the cranberries win easily?

that's happened before?

Stylus's Top Ten Momentum Killing Follow-Up Singles to Breakthrough Post-Grunge Albums

wonder how many ILXors voted McCain

edwin mccain did unplugged?

christ I hope the recording equipment was unplugged if he did

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Said "Lovecats" above, but meant "The Walk" of course. Cool and eccentric version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5wR4TL8Aog

This was also a great moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVTvIMyWa0E

Voted for the Yo! MTV Raps one because it was great, but I also really liked those earliest ones where Jules Shear hosted. All the ones before Don Henley, I think that was the first hourlong, no host "special". I especially remember 10,000 Maniacs/Michael Penn being good. And Sinead Oconnor/the Church.

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Nice to see the Cure performance on top. Maybe some of those recordings will eventually be released on the Deluxe "Wish"?