The Best MTV Unplugged
67 Unplugged sets from 346 people, and the old argument settles nothing: Nirvana 112, Alice in Chains 78, and third place has 30.
How this was counted. Counted by distinct redditor: every Unplugged set someone puts forward counts once, top-level or in a reply, and naming a song from the set (“unplugged Black destroys me”) counts as naming it. Nameless agreement — “Agreed”, “Mine too”, “Only answer” — adds nothing, and neither does a set named only to knock it. The asker’s own pick, Alice in Chains, counts: it was an answer. Dropped because they aren’t MTV Unplugged: Tesla’s Five Man Acoustical Jam, the Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over, a Don Henley Storytellers, and wishes for artists who never did one (Soundgarden, Johnny Cash, Prince). Uptown MTV Unplugged is filed under Jodeci, which is who everyone naming it meant. This is most of the thread, not all of it: the capture holds 494 of 694 comments, and about 200 sat behind “load more”. The shape is the story. Half the thread is one argument — Nirvana or Alice in Chains — conducted in replies, with people changing sides depending on their mood that day and one commenter noting that for every Nirvana comment there is an AIC fan ready to strike. The other half is people quietly remembering the one they taped off the TV: 10,000 Maniacs in the six-CD changer, The Cure with kazoos, Stevie Ray Vaughan snapping the neck of a twelve-string, LL Cool J doing Mama Said Knock You Out to a room that didn’t expect it. Years are the year the set was taped; a dash means it couldn’t be pinned down.