20 greatest MTV 'Unplugged' albums

"MTV Unplugged" premiered rather quietly in the fall of 1989 as an acoustic showcase for serious musicians (like 10,000 Maniacs and Michael Penn) who didn't go in for the glitz and glam most closely associated with the network. Within a year, those glitz-and-glam artists were eager to prove themselves as serious musicians, too, at which point "Unplugged" became a prestige platform for the music industry. The show's popularity quickly skyrocketed when Paul McCartney appeared in 1990, prom...

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