One of just three Unplugged performances in 2015 came from Placebo, who had peaked in 1998 with a song that rhymed “weed” with “need” and “dawning” with “morning”. With Unplugged’s credibility now in tatters, anyone could appear on it. Is he being ironic? Trying to conceal his embarrassment? Why is he involved in this debacle? Has he been taken hostage? In 200 years’ time, when the mystifying Mona Lisa has perished beyond restoration and the public can no longer countenance tediously two-dimensional portraits, La Gioconda’s place in the Louvre will be taken up by a holographic ad infinitum loop of Smith repeating the words “I … I’m actually a big fan of Korn … they’re a phenomenal live band”. More fascinating is the interview snippet where Smith extols Korn’s virtues. At one point, Robert Smith mooches onstage resembling The Last Days of Elizabeth Taylor for a medley in which the Cure’s In Between Days segues into nu-metal turkey Make Me Bad. With Jonathan Davis’s whiny, whispered singing and his band’s lack of refinement starkly exposed, Korn: MTV Unplugged almost transgresses the boundaries of unintentional hilarity to become a masterpiece of a misstep.
Instead, they chose Incubus, Staind and, ropiest of all, Korn. Cafe Tacvba, was the first Latin rock group to ever record an MTV. Unplugged even neglected to book the superior nu-metal bands such as Deftones and Kittie. The most notorious Mexican alternative rock group, MTV Unplugged album recorded in 1995. Nu-metal was a genre less suited to acoustic reinterpretation than Michael Bay is to direct Phantom Thread II. Taking the riffs and roars of metal, adding the scratches and raps of hip-hop, and upping the misogyny quota of both, a scene was born wherein shorts were acceptable stagewear. Nirvana 1993 Arguably on the most legendary concerts of all time, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set is pretty unbelievable from the get go. Accenting Jay's bittersweet nostalgia with a roiling performance-when Jay says "take 'em to church" and Jaguar Wright belts, try not to feel it-an a touch of their typical creativity (the second verse features a seamless interpolation of Smif N' Wessun's "Sound Bwoy Buriell"), the Roots helped produce a cover that stands firmly on its own two feet.Poorer still were the next generation of angst-ridden white boys. Though hip-hop's finest live band breathed new life into Jay classics like "The Takeover" and "Hard Knock Life," the Roots and Wright the sampled soul of Kanye West's original Bobby "Blue" Bland-sampling beat on "Heart of the City" to new heights. A year after releasing his seminal album The Blueprint, Jay-Z took the stage of MTV's Unplugged with the legendary Roots crew and singer Jaguar Wright in tow. Even after all these years, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York remains unsurpassed. You will be blown away and moved by the performance There is an anniversary edition of the gig that you should snap up and keep.
Perhaps his greatest achievement in live performance, however, came well before he sold out a residency at his Brooklyn palace, the Barclays Center. Even if you were not around in 1993, just look on YouTube and see the videos. In the past few years-perhaps even dating back to his Fade to Black concert-Jay-Z has developed a deserved reputation as one of hip-hop's greatest showmen.
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