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Shawn Mendes was barely of legal drinking age in his native Canada when he appeared on MTV Unplugged. By then, he’d topped Billboard’s US Adult Contemporary and US Adult Top 40 charts three times, debuted two albums atop the Billboard 200 and embarked on three headlining tours. In other words, he was a bona fide superstar when he recorded his MTV U...

Part of the fun of watching an established artist go on MTV Unplugged is the question of what surprises they might have in store. Are they going to just play the hits straight or are they going to have some fun with the formula? Bryan Adams’ MTV Unplugged performance swings to the latter. After opening with his beloved hit “Summer Of ’69,” Adams ro...

Neil Young wasn’t satisfied with his first MTV Unplugged performance, filmed in December 1992 (so much so that it never aired), so, just a few months later, he took another go at it. His second attempt was more successful, and was released as Unplugged a few months later. The hits are few and far between: there’s Buffalo Springfield’s “Mr. Soul,” C...

How does a band like KISS sound on acoustic instruments? Pretty good, apparently. KISS Unplugged is an exercise in fundamentals: even without the make-up, pyrotechnics and bone-crunching distortion, KISS’ Unplugged performance still delivered the irresistible guitar riffs and shout-along choruses that made the band such a commercial juggernaut. But...

Florence Welch has the kind of gale-force vocals that seem to fill whatever room she’s singing in, so it’s appropriate that her MTV Unplugged performance took place in what used to be a synagogue. (Also appropriate: Florence + The Machine were backed by a ten-person choir.) As a showcase for Welch’s abilities as a singer, MTV Unplugged is unparalle...

The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill remains Hill’s lone studio album. More than two decades later, the closest thing it has to a sequel is MTV Unplugged No.2.0. Hill’s appearance on MTV Unplugged is unique in that it’s the only one where the artist’s entire performance consisted of new material. Debuting a new radical new folk-indebted style, and inter...

Paul McCartney’s performance might have helped put MTV Unplugged on the map, but there’s a strong case to be made that Eric Clapton inspired classic rock compatriots like Neil Young and Bob Dylan to make their own appearances on the show. Unplugged didn’t just give Clapton’s career a shot in the arm, it’s legitimately one of the most successful alb...

This one might be cheating a bit, but part of what makes R.E.M.’s two MTV Unplugged shows so spectacular is how different they are. While both lean heavily on new material, R.E.M. throw older fan favorites into the setlist: “Perfect Circle” and “Fall On Me,” in 1991; “Cuyahoga” and “The One I Love,” in 2001. (“Losing My Religion,” of course, is the...

Led Zeppelin’s 1985 and 1988 reunions were unsatisfactory affairs, by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant’s own admissions. But when Page and Plant joined forces again in 1994, for No Quarter: Jimmy Page And Robert Plant Unledded, they recaptured the old magic. Much like Nirvana before them, Page and Plant took their Unpluggedsessions as an opportunity to ...