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unplugged

Last updated: Mon Nov 03 2025 08:29:59 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Unplugged music refers to live performances or recordings where artists play acoustic instruments without any electronic amplification or effects. This term became popular in the early 1990s, when MTV launched a series of "MTV Unplugged" concerts featuring well-known artists playing acoustic versions of their hits. Unplugged music is often characterized by its stripped-down sound, with an emphasis on vocals and acoustic instruments such as guitars, pianos, and percussion. The unplugged style has been used by artists across many genres, including rock, pop, blues, and folk.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
5		1968	David Peel & the Lower East Side	Have a Marijuana	acoustic folk psychedelic folk unplugged
61		1979	Bob Dylan	Unplugged	unplugged
34		1984	Kiss	Unplugged	unplugged
65		1986	Herbert Grönemeyer	Unplugged	german unplugged
27		1988	Die Ärzte	Rock 'n' Roll Realschule	unplugged
16		1990-08-11	Aerosmith	Unplugged	acoustic unplugged
74		1991	Paul McCartney	Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)	unplugged
7		1992	Luis Enrique	En Vivo	latin latino spanish unplugged	latino # 7
85		1992	Django Reinhardt	Djangologie Vol6 / 1937	acoustic gypsy gypsy jazz jazz unplugged	gypsy # 92 gypsy jazz # 100
55		1992	Alice in Chains	Dirt/Unplugged	unplugged
62		1992	Mariah Carey	Unplugged	pop unplugged female vocalists soul
73		1992	Paul McCartney	Unplugged - The Official Bootleg	unplugged
50		1992-03-09	Tori Amos	Unplugged	unplugged
76		1992-04-27	Mariah Carey	MTV Unplugged	pop unplugged female vocalists soul
94		1992-08-21	Eric Clapton	Unplugged	acoustic blues	acoustic # 58 blues # 82
57		1992-09-14	Jethro Tull	A Little Light Music	acoustic unplugged
14		1992-09-21	Annie Lennox	MTV Unplugged	unplugged
25		1993	Scorpions	MTV Unplugged (The Studio Edits)		acoustic rock # 29
18		1993	Nirvana	Nirvana unplugged	unplugged
31		1993	Bon Jovi	MTV Unplugged	unplugged
51		1993	Guns N' Roses	Unplugged	unplugged
54		1993	Arrested Development	Mtv Unplugged	acid jazz alternative american funk hip-hop pop rap reggae rock unplugged
40		1993-03-23	Arrested Development	Unplugged	acid jazz alternative american funk hip-hop pop rap reggae rock unplugged
88		1993-10-22	10,000 Maniacs	MTV Unplugged
29		1994	Pearl Jam	Unplugged & Undrugged	acoustic grunge rock unplugged
41		1994	Wilki	Acousticus Rockus	unplugged
78		1994-02-14	The Cranberries	MTV Unplugged	unplugged
100		1994-10-31	Nirvana	MTV Unplugged in New York	grunge acoustic	acoustic rock # 24 acoustic # 87 grunge # 97
44		1995	Charly García	MTV Unplugged	rock rock en espanol unplugged	rock en espanol # 19
4		1995	Tex	Von hier bis aufs Dach (1.3.2)	german singer-songwriter unplugged
37		1995	The Beatles	Unplugged	unplugged
49		1995	The Rolling Stones	Unplugged	classic rock
99		1996-04-10	Alice in Chains	MTV Unplugged	acoustic unplugged	grunge # 25 acoustic # 62
93		1996-08-23	Oasis	MTV Unplugged	unplugged britpop
52		1997	Aerosmith	MTV Unplugged	hard rock unplugged
96		1997-12-10	Bryan Adams	Mtv Unplugged	unplugged
71		1998	R.E.M.	Unplugged	unplugged
30		1999	The Corrs	Corrs Unplugged	unplugged
10		1999-11-12	The Corrs	Unplugged	folk irish pop	irish # 45
95		1999-11-23	Alanis Morissette	MTV Unplugged	acoustic unplugged
21		2000	Calvin Russell	Crossroad	singer-songwriter unplugged
68		2000-02-28	Shakira	MTV Unplugged	latin pop female vocalists rock en espanol spanish	latin # 66 spanish # 67 colombia # 84 rock en espanol # 90
33		2000-04-19	Alanis Morissette	King of Pain	female vocalists unplugged
2		2001	R.E.M.	MTV Unplugged 2001	unplugged
79		2001	M-Clan	Sin Enchufe	unplugged
80		2001	Jay-Z	MTV Unplugged	hip-hop rap unplugged
56		2001	Alejandro Sanz	MTV Unplugged
67		2002	Shakira	Shakira MTV Unplugged	latin pop female vocalists rock en espanol spanish	latin # 65 spanish # 66 colombia # 83 rock en espanol # 89
8		2002	Radiohead	Unplugged Again	unplugged
13		2002	Avril Lavigne	Let Go (Unplugged)	unplugged
15		2002	Milk Inc.	Milk Inc. Dvd	acoustic unplugged
46		2002	Die Ärzte	Unplugged Rock'n'roll Realschule	acoustic german rock unplugged
66		2002	30 Seconds to Mars	Thirty Seconds to Mars Unplugged	alternative rock
77		2002	Lauryn Hill	MTV Unplugged	soul unplugged
64		2004	R.E.M.	Unplugged 1991/2001: The Complete Sessions	acoustic alternative rock rock unplugged
70		2004-03-16	Godsmack	The Other Side	acoustic	acoustic # 16
82		2004-03-16	Godsmack	The Other Side (EP)	acoustic rock unplugged
72		2004-11-02	Archive	Unplugged	trip-hop unplugged
12		2005	ASP	Von Zaubererbrüdern	unplugged
20		2005	Jesús Adrián Romero	Unplugged	unplugged
38		2005	My Chemical Romance	Live Acoustic at 98.7FM Penthouse	acoustic unplugged
42		2005-06-24	Giorgia	Mtv Unplugged	italian unplugged
11		2005-07-25	Schandmaul	Kunststück	folk rock
97		2005-10-11	Alicia Keys	Unplugged	unplugged soul rnb
75		2005-11-18	Die Toten Hosen	Nur zu Besuch: Unplugged im Wiener Burgtheater	unplugged punk rock
58		2006-09-07	Chris Cornell	Unplugged in Sweden
69		2006-11-07	Ricky Martin	MTV Unplugged	latin unplugged
23		2007	Alien Alright	Howard Good's Radio Sessions	acoustic acoustic guitar acoustic rock unplugged	acoustic guitar # 46
24		2007	Soda Stereo	Comfort y Música Para Volar	alternative rock
36		2007	Denisse Malebrán	Maleza	folk rock unplugged
60		2007	Korn	MTV Unplugged	acoustic
91		2007-11-16	Hey	MTV Unplugged	unplugged rock
45		2008	Ely Guerra	Plug And Play	acoustic rock en espanol spanish unplugged world	rock en espanol # 20
48		2008	Christina Stürmer	Lautlos	austria pop unplugged	austria # 85
47		2008-04-04	Christina Stürmer	Laut-LOS	austria pop unplugged	austria # 84
81		2008-06-10	Julieta Venegas	MTV Unplugged	acoustic pop unplugged
86		2009	Various Artists	The Very Best Of MTV Unplugged	unplugged
3		2009-05-22	Sportfreunde Stiller	MTV Unplugged In New York
43		2009-11-13	Katy Perry	MTV Unplugged	pop rock
89		2010-01-11	All Time Low	Mtv Unplugged	unplugged
59		2010-11-22	Kult	MTV Unplugged	unplugged
53		2010-11-26	Panda	mtv unplugged	unplugged
19		2011	Engenheiros Do Hawaii	Acústico	rock nacional brazilian rock	brazilian # 11 brazil # 24 brazilian rock # 46 rock nacional # 98
39		2011	Udo Lindenberg	MTV Unplugged (Live Aus Dem Hotel Atlantic)	hamburg pop unplugged	hamburg # 89
84		2011-07-22	Hindi Zahra	Until The Next Journey	acoustic alternative female vocalists folk french indie soul unplugged	french indie # 97
98		2012	Florence + the Machine	MTV Presents Unplugged: Florence + the Machine	unplugged alternative female vocalists
32		2013	Scorpions	MTV Unplugged	hard rock
83		2013	Nirvana	Unplugged	unplugged
26		2015	Hey	HEY w Filharmonii. Szczecin Unplugged [LIVE]	unplugged
90		2015	Hey	Hey MTV Unplugged	unplugged
92		2015	Hey	Hey MTV: Unplugged	unplugged
17		2015-04-01	Björk	MTV Unplugged	unplugged
35		2016	Steel Panther	Live from Lexxi's Mom's Garage	acoustic glam metal glam rock hair metal unplugged	glam metal # 4 hair metal # 18
22		2017-06-09	Miley Cyrus	MTV Unplugged	unplugged
1		2017-10-17	Fifth Harmony	Juntos (Acoustic) - EP	latin latin pop pop latino spanish unplugged	pop latino # 36
87		2018	Los Auténticos Decadentes	Fiesta Nacional (MTV Unplugged)	argentina cumbia rock unplugged	argentina # 72 cumbia # 91
63		2020-12-21	Coldplay	Unplugged	alternative rock unplugged
28		2023	Jimmy Page and Robert Plant	No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded	acoustic ethnic folk rock unplugged world fusion	world fusion # 12 ethnic # 36
6			Various Artists	Heaven 3 Plugged & Unplugged	unplugged
9			Various Artists	The Very Best of MTV Unplugged, Volume 2

Related genres

• acoustic
• rock
• folk
• pop
• alternative
• singer-songwriter
• german
• grunge
• female vocalists
• blues