nirvana
alice
neil young
radiohead
eric clapton

Need this for late nights in the office. Thanks…!

The original unplugged;

Paul Weller – Days of Speed

Justin Sullivan & Friends – Tales of the Road
Counting Crows – Storytellers

+1 days of speed
van morrison its too late to stop now, not strictly unplugged but an incredible live album

Ginger at the 12 bar

Recorded as is, with Ginger and willy getting pisster as the night draws on. Great

Ocean Colour Scene – B sides, seasides and free rides
Any Nick Drake album
Bob Dylan – Blood on the tracks

10000 maniacs

CLASSIC!

roy harper-‘flat, broke, and berserk’

and the sign said the long haired freaky people need not apply 🙂

wanders of to find tesla album.

You want an album recommendation for music made as part of the ‘unplugged’ series, or an acoustic album?

Most of the unplugged stuff was pretty gash IMO, but 10,000 Maniacs attempt was pretty good. If you want some nice acoustic music the choice is endless and there’s a good deal of electro-acoustic that’s superb too. Lots of modern stuff too – Bill Callahan’s 2009 album ‘Sometime I wish we were an eagle’ is very good, lots of Sufjan Stevens’ back catalogue is quite something, Damien Jurado, Smog (Bill Callahan again), Bon Iver, Micah P Hinson, Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy, Elliot Smith, Johnny Cash’s American recordings etc. etc.

I think you’ll find that Bon Jovi originated the unplugged scenario

However I always like Poison totally not unplugged ‘unplugged’ approach

Plum

Arrested Development

Thanks there are some great tips here – I will be investing!

Good call on it’s too late to stop now!! Though if we’re talking acoustic surely it has to be Astral Weeks! Saw him perform it last year actually. Wouldn’t normally see VM at this point but worth it to see that album.

My current CD pile in my desk is a little sad…Blood on the Tracks (good call above), Blonde on Blonde, Bringing it all Back Home, Astral Weeks, and Nirvana unplugged…I will see about expanding this…

Brian Adams – Unplugged, some good ones on there 😀

pearl jam

cowboy junkies – trinity sessions.

Are you after an album that is billed as “unplugged” or do you just like the sound stripped back without extra stuff?

Not really unplugged but nice laid back songs with no distorted guitars (apart from some lead bits), Opeth – Damnation. It’s awesome.

MTV Unplugged compilation albums from their tv show?

Page and Plant(Led-Zep), also worth looking up some of Joe Bonnamasa’s acoustic stuff,don’t think it’s available as a complete album, but worth looking through others for it.

Mike Peters of The Alarm Live Accoustics, Quality.

Wow, 5 Man Acoustical Jam, that takes me back! a definitive choice, played it to death in my teens, absolute winner. Frankie Hannon is an awesome guitarist, the DVD is a great watch too.
Oh and also the Mike Peters stuff, his voice is incredible,and some very lovely songs. I chose “walk forever by my side” as our first dance for our wedding. They (The Alarm)should have gone alot further, Always felt a bit gutted for them when someone called them “the poor mans U2” but you kind of saw where they were coming from.

The Foo Fighters Skin & Bones album is awesome. Not technically unplugged, more like live acoustic versions of their best songs.

Pearl Jam Live at Benaroya Hall

Its not an MTV Unplugged album but is two discs of acoustic loveliness 8)

Anything stripped back I think – but with unplugged live albums in first priority

That Pearl Jam one has to be done

Bruce Springsteen Nebraska also

While I think of it Eddie Vedder did a soundtrack for a film called Into the Wild which is really nice if only 35 minutes long.

guaranteed is an amazing track from into the wild!

Again not an Unplugged set in particular, but the Pearl Jam Lost Dogs album is worth a listen.

City and Colour – Sometimes, not unplugged, just one very good singer with an acoustic guitar and some great songs.

All of what Naranjada said.

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Silver Jews (American Water is a great place to start).

Also, look out the old bluesmen, and some of the more “recent” Model T Ford, etc….

temple of the dog (vedder/cornell) is rad too 🙂

If it hasn’t already been mentioned …..

Metallica S&M – Truely awesome.

Blimey cahrlie Jedi not heard TOTD for years, will dig that out later on 🙂

Check out a band called Calexico The Black Light and John Frusciante Shadows collide with People

Eric Clapton unplugged

Dashboard Confessional (MTV unplugged)

I’ll second Lost Dogs.

Eddie Vedder did a soundtrack for a film called Into the Wild which is really nice if only 35 minutes long

Good call. Perfect riding album. Opposite of what you need to listen to in a dingy office however. Makes one want to be somewhere big sky. The title “into the wild” is the giveaway!

Something about Eddie Vedder’s voice and mountain biking just go together perfectly for me. Wonder if it’s partly because he’s a massive surfer

Ben harper

Kraftwerk?