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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They did give at least a solid twelve years of music. The best unplugged episodes were in the early nineties.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The early 90's is also when they started showing less and less music and more shit like The Real World, Road Trip and Beavis & Butt-Head. Even when I was a kid and saw Nirvana's Unplugged set (arguably the best episode of Unplugged), the saying that "MTV doesn't have music videos" was already a popular joke.

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Music Television doesn't necessarily have to be showing videos, but showing something at least tangentially related to music would be nice. MTV is now what every channel is: put whatever is required in front of the viewer to sell ads. All channels are the same shit now.

[–] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beavis and Butthead were riffing on music videos for almost half the show though at least. Sometimes was the best part

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True. The modern ones feel weird to me with them instead riffing on The Jersey Shore or TikTok videos.

I think my favorite one was for Black Hole Sun.

"Hey, Butt-Head, what's a black hole?"

"Uhh... It's like a big bunghole in space that grinds everything up into diarrhea."

[–] Moops@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I still break out a few of those unplugged jams from time to time.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I loved the Unplugged series! Still my favorite version of a few Nirvana tracks.

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I love the series. I still regularly watch/listen to a couple of gigs.

KISS Unplugged is simply awesome. And Pearl Jam. And Alice in Chains. And... sigh good times, man.