What are your favorite unplugged albums?

Easy Runnin
Easy Runnin Posts: 501
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I’m looking to add a few unplugged or live acoustic albums to my collection. My top 3 are The Rolling Stones Stripped, Sister Hazel Before the Amplifiers and Alice In Chains.

What are your favorites?
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,981
    AIC for me absolutely...
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  • Dabutcher
    Dabutcher Posts: 2,604
    Nirvana
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  • sgmsmg
    sgmsmg Posts: 556
    10,000 Maniacs is pretty good depending on your taste in music.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,917
    edited October 2019
    offhand...

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    all three of the above sound quite good, too.

    ... and partial credit to these two :)

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    (the two Pete Townshend acoustic solo tunes [ Pinball Wizard and an incandescent Drowned ] and his acoustic duet on Won't Get Fooled Again with Aussie classical guitarist John Williams are music for the aged ages)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,917
    oh, and if they don't have to be live...

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    Two phenomenal rekkids by folks who are sometimes electric (at least a little bit, in the Jennys' case) and sometimes not.
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,371
    Chris Cornell: Songbook
    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,097
    Bob Dylan MTV Unplugged
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,216
    edited October 2019
    Foo fighters, Pearl jam

    I've been listening to classic rock acoustics and 90 acoustics on spotify.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,931
    edited October 2019
    Pearl Jam, Queensryche and Alice in Chains.
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,595
    edited October 2019
    Dabutcher wrote: »
    Nirvana

    Same here!

    Lake on fire!


    Oh.... and I liked Nuno Bentencourt in Extreme unplugged!
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    Not sure it gets any better than this...uquvc2ola1r0.jpg
    ..and the vinyl reissue from roughly 5 years ago is solid. Can't go wrong.
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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,668
    Neil Young, AIC, Clapton
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  • tratliff
    tratliff Posts: 1,763
    edited October 2019
    Mccartney, Clapton, Nirvana, Alice in Chains.
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,097
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    oh, and if they don't have to be live...

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    Two phenomenal rekkids by folks who are sometimes electric (at least a little bit, in the Jennys' case) and sometimes not.

    Going to see Richard Thompson unplugged in two days
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,917
    dromunds wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    oh, and if they don't have to be live...

    zh3gqfet56rh.png

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    Two phenomenal rekkids by folks who are sometimes electric (at least a little bit, in the Jennys' case) and sometimes not.

    Going to see Richard Thompson unplugged in two days

    You're not likely to be disappointed. :)
    He's one of my favorite "acts" -- we see him whenever he's reasonably nearby, usually annually. He is a superb guitarist, and, as a performer, really good at what he does.

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  • kharp1
    kharp1 Posts: 3,453
    I second Dan with Neil Young. Much of Neil's stuff had suspect recording, the Unplugged was a good recording with a pretty good selection of songs. Maybe a couple I would have put. Many of the Unplugged were well recorded.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,508
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,156
    ken brydson wrote: »
    AIC for me absolutely...


    Totally agree this ones a gem. I also like Neil Youngs unplugged offering, and beleive it or not that Kiss MTV unplugged that had both versions of the band present was pretty good.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,931
    edited October 2019
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    ken brydson wrote: »
    AIC for me absolutely...


    beleive it or not that Kiss MTV unplugged that had both versions of the band present was pretty good.

    OH YEA! Totally forgot about that one.
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  • rburgess714
    rburgess714 Posts: 618
    Grateful Dead - Reckoning
    Alice In Chains
    Nirvana
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  • GospelTruth
    GospelTruth Posts: 403
    edited October 2019
    Here are some other ones I like:
    Bryan Adams - Unplugged
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    Bryan Adams - Bare Bones
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    Mike Peters (The Alarm) - Acoustic Live
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    Dave Matthews - Live at Radio City
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  • sgmsmg
    sgmsmg Posts: 556
    edited October 2019
    Picked up Alice In Chains and just started listening to it. So far I like what I hear.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Classical is the only unplugged music I listen to. Rock is meant to rock. Loud and boisterous. :)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,917
    edited October 2019
    tell this guy that...

    https://youtu.be/2t9slqL_eSw

    ...or this one.

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 26,931
    edited October 2019
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Classical is the only unplugged music I listen to. Rock is meant to rock. Loud and boisterous. :)

    How more wrong can you be. yes I like good loud rock and roll no doubt about it but it's something special to take that real loud song or really thrash and song and be able to turn it down into an acoustic version and still be balls to the wall rock and roll. That in itself is hard to do. Sure you can take a rock and roll song and play it acoustically yes but take some of those songs do what those people did on MTV and make it great is not that easy. Not all those hardcore rock and rollers can scale it down to a very good (great) show.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    LOL. Calm down. :)
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    https://youtu.be/W3BzAKHCEvo
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,097
    Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    One of my faves, Queensryche's Della Brown :smile:
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,322
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